Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-10


But the tunnel was repaired, and the thriller was
eventually pulled off.
No the hospital scene in the production of thriller
doesn't appear the screen. Every week the movie
camp hospitals busy In week the hospital OF
company operating in the West received seventy-ve
patients from its company Gunshot wounds,
broken arms and broken legs were some OF the penal
ties of frontier fight thriller.
QUICK death and a fearful one hovers above the
~ twentieth century movie thespian. He knows it,
and takes every precauton to avoid It. His company
takes every known precauton; but the unexpected IS
forever happening the unexpected that not planned
in the scenario.
Jimmy was the real handy man in the company when
it came making lions and tigers eat out of his hand
He had played the hero when the hon was about to
spring upon the bound and helpless heroine whom the
villain had cast into the beasts cage Jimmy
batted his eye when he dashed into the cage and kicked
that lion into its four corners. Therefore, when the
time came for real thriller with lion, Jimmy voted
the hero's job.
The scene represented the interior of great cave
1imnv.was PLAYING the role of powerful brave youth
Of biblical fame To show his absolute fearessness and
prodgous strength he to march into that cave and
with his own hands say the beast holding forth there
That beast in this instance happened to be lion,
magnificent male tnaC naQ HSu1eu III
more than thriller. He well trained, had never
turned cross ugly during the most humilating tam
perngs with his strength and dignity and to all intents
and purposes thoroughly trustworthy.
But Jimmy rehearsed the day after day; for
even he didn't enthuse the idea of gripping those
huge Jaws with his bare hands and actually killing the
brute Oh, yes, they had arranged to kill him right
there before the audience Jimmy was to begin his
wrestling with the lion, and then the camera was to be
stopped for an instant while the companys physician
stole up behind the animal and deity injected dose
of morphia through its hide with hypodermc needle
AS the drug took effect the lions play resistance would
grow weaker and weaker, until in the grand finale
Jimmy was to fling the sleeping brute from him-dead
Very WE'LL but the rehearsal of the hypoderrnc inec-
ton had never been attempted Therein lay the trouble
Jimmy entered the cave and the hon advanced to
meet him as it had done in fifty rehearsas. jimmy
promptly grabbed its jaw, as per rehearsal, and the
great struggle began, the beast submitting beautifully
while the camera man and the director chuckled with
glee over the success of the scene.
SAl right" called the director, moonng the camera
man to stop grinding and nodding to the physician.
GHold your pose, Jimmy! We're going to give him the
DOPE
Jimmy and the lion did they were told The
physician stepped behind the animal and jabbed IN the
needle There was sudden nervous culver that shook
the lions body and wrested its jaws from Jlmrny's
hands.
With deafening roar of pain and rage it bounded
backward full ten feet and crouched its tail tw1tchlng.
its burning eyes fastened on Jimmy.
aR,n, Jimmy rum" screamed dozen voices behind
the camera.
But Jimmy didn't. He couldn't. In a roaring flash