Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-11-17
MOCK DRAMA
TOO REALISTIC
Delegate Armijo Is Shocked
at Domestic Troubles
Portrayed
WAS FOR MOVING PICTURES
And the Hen-Pecked Husband
Soon Regains His
Composure.

NOIiipOSuEC (.
Although moving pictures are CON
sideTed very realistic, the real thing,
the drama or comedy-drama or ira
gedy from which the pictures are
taken. is still more real. This was
discovered by Delegate Isidoro Armijo
of Las Cruces, Dona Ana county, who
vas riding in the eastern part of the
city this morning with George ArmlJo,
clerk Of the convention. Mr.. Isidoro
Armijo was admiring the mountain
scenery until suddenly his eye was
attracted to the back porch of house
where a man was seen dragged by the
hair to a wash tub and made do wash
ing as his wife. of athletic figure, bOs-
sed him around Finally she lost all
patience with her husband whom she
pushed into the foamy suds and then
poured a gallon or more of other soap
water over him.
This is frightful" said Mr.. Armijo
to George Armijo, and stop ought to
be put to such a wrangle." George
was somewhat puzzled himself but re-
membering he read in the New Mex
lean last night that a moving picture
company was in the city he took a
/ long guess that the domestic drama
enacted was "a play to the galleries.
1t was, indeed lots of fun. Having
enacted the first two acts of the west
ern romance at Mr.. COrbett's ranch
yesterday afternoon, the hero winning
the girl and escaping on horseback
to the Parsons, Mr.. Beal the pro
ducer" of the western company Of
the American Film Manufacturing
Company this morning staged the final
act. II was dated several years later.
/ He selected a house in the eastern
part of the city and there the hero,
Mr.. Pollard and the heroine, Miss
time they twinkled over wash tub"
landscape. Miss Fischer has been
married two years and although she
has strong arms she does not take
kindly to washing, task she leaves
to her husband. He at first resents
the idea but she grabs lock of his
jett black hair and leads him to the
slaughter Then the two ranchers,
who were disappointed in love, show
up on the scene and they jeer at their
successful rival, saying we are glad
we were losers, Bill" And so the
comedy continues until the climax is
reached, with the pushing of the husb-
and into a tub of water and pouring
another tub of water over him, makes
the grand finale The head douche
and sitz bath make our. hero shiver.
1t was at this juncture that Mr.. Isl
doro Armijo drove by and thought
the affair altogether too realistic to
be anything but first class A No. 1
family row of Herculean proportions.
Have Vocal Eyes.
a newspaper HAL was present DIT
the scene and learnt many new things
about moving pictures. The actors
and actresses actually talk while they
perform. but of course they rely more
on facial expression than on elocu-
ton. They do lots of work with their
eyes, which have to be quite vocal"
tp mako a cuccpcc of III , ufntrra h,,c;
ness. Great care is exercised in stag
ing the picture to have the actors and
actresses stay within certain lines,
otherwise the moving machine will
not catch them. Manager Beal drew
lines on the ground in front of the
porch and these served as a guide
Can Stop the Machine.
+. If anything should go wrong in the
picture, the manipulator can instantly
/ stop it, and then resume without any
interference in the portraying of the
scenes. This in invaluable in pro-
ducing "trick" pictures, which are
the great success of Pathe Freres, of
/ Paris. One of the actors this morn
ing explained that many of the mar
yellous feats performed in moving
pictures are done with the aid of
wires and stopping the machine after
each motion, then when the entire
picture or series of pictures is finish
ed, there is string of events" which
deceive the eye and surprise the
brain.
But he admitted there are certain
/ secrets possessed by the French in
making these marvellous pictures that
are still mysteries
Mr.. James, the manager Of the com.
| pany, stated that he was somewhat
disappointed finding the weather here
rather cool as he had hoped some pic
| lures could be taken in which sleeves
would be rolled up and semi-tropical
garb used by the men in portraying
certain southwest scenes. With the
thermom lowering around % this
! was not just the ideal climatic con-
dition.
| The company will spend several
weeks in New Mexico and a week or
more here, perhaps. Mayor Seligman
has offered them the privileges of the
city for making moving pictures and
the members of the Santa Fe Board
of Trade have extended the moving
picture company all the courtesies n