Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-24
Pretty Girl and Brave Man
Snapped by Moving Picture
Machine as They Struggle in
Waters Near Diamond Head
BY'LACRENCE REDINGTON

A pretty girl stood balanced in th'
bow of tiny skiff swaying perilOuslI
to the lift of the spiteful swells. Sh'
held the painter coiled ready to cast
and as a trim, white sChooner-yach
! bore down on her, dozen cage
hands were ready to seize and make
il fast. Just as the yacht came III
into the wind, a sea. larger and more
angry than its fellows, caught thu
skiff broadside on, almost capSiZing it
and sending a wall of green water
over the gunwale. The girl fell back
wards in. the half-filled boat, the line
dropped short, and with the crack and
rattle of canvas and cordage the yacht
paid off and drew away.
I'll get her."
The words were spoken by one OF
the men at the yachts rail, who had
leaned far out in desperate effort to
catch the futilely-flung line, but in
his case thought and action were sc
closely allied that the her" ended in
a liquid gurgle, the speaker flashing
overheard. fully clothed, before the
others had even grasped his inten-
ton. He came up yards astern of the
yacht, \and, battling his way to the
toy boat with powerful strokes, drew
himself drippingly over the stern, and
fell desperately to bailing.
All this happened Sunday after
noon just outside the harbor. The girl
in the skiff was Miss Virginia Brissac,
and the man who went to, her aid by
the chilly sea-water route was Jim
Blaisdell. The occasion was the &C
ton of a photoplay, but this rescue
scene was outside the camera" to
use the professional term, and was a
genuine succor of beauty in distress.
Probably Miss Brissac was in no
great danger, but she was wet through
and bobbing round on a very lively
ocean in half-filled boat, and, what
more, had failed in a second attempt
to regain the yacht That was enough
incentive for 'Blaisdell, and from the
expression of relief on Miss Brissac' S
face, the sudden appearance of a
dripping gallant was by no means I'M
welcome. ..-....
How "MOFies', Are Made.
If the thousands of Honolulans who
regularly attend the movies" had
been aboard the yacht Hawaii Sun
day, to see how real photoplay ! is
staged and acted, they would sit in
front of the screen with vastly more
appreciation in future. The work of
transferring a lively action piece to
the film is fraught with real thrills
and fair amount Of danger, and
keeps. actors, operators, and certainly
spectators, keyed up to high tension
from start to finish. There are no
dull moments while the movies" are
being made, and a vast amount of time
and preparation is required to pre-
pare length of film that clicks off
the reel in few minutes at most.
The canning industry is we'll deyel-
been aboard the yacht Hawaii yester-
first time that drama had been canned
on the islands. Motion pictures have
often been taken here, and some of
the local work has, been crowned with
splendid success, but never before
have regularly employed actors play
ed against a Hawaiian background
before the camera. AS the result of
the work that was started so success
fully yesterday, the bold outlines of
old Diamond Head will be seen by
hundreds of thousands of picture play
goers, and the feathery palms of Ka-
piolani Park will sway. on thousands
of screens, while the undulating and
sinuous hula will become more than a
mere name to people who can, never
hope to see it danced in Hawaii mel
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Curiously enough, $Hawaii's first
photoplay is being acted by a COM
rsriy that is facing the camera for the
first time. The Worlds Fair Stock
Co., of which Miss BirsSac is leading
lady, is being initiated into the mys-
ter:es of motion picture acting, the
scenes on the yacht being
Miss Brissac's debut in this we'll rec
ognized field, while James Dillon,
who acted opposite her, was also d
novitiate.
Besides giving their evenings to Ho-
nolulu audiences, the Worlds Fair
players are giving their days. to pho:o-
plays that arc being made BY the In
Film Mandatory, of Los
Angeles. With rehearsals of both the
legitimate and canned drama thrown
IT,. the men and women of the com.
pany will have their hands full dur
rg their six weeks engagement here,
if yesterday was any test of the work
hat is expected of them in the photo
field.
The first play, several scenes of
which were made Sunday is called
The Heart of a Kanaka," the scena-
10 of which has been sketchilly writ |
en- by Charles Inslee, the photoplay
director. In brief, girl and a man
,card the latter,s yacht and go for
| sail. There is a lovers quarrel, |
which ends in the man going off by
himself in a huff, white the gnl, |
)lqued by his action. gets into the |
;kiff that is being towed. and casts |
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