The Washington times., 1915-07-01
NATIONAL BEAUTY
CAUGHT BY FILMS
Miss Ruth Purcell viii Soon Be
Seen on Screens in Hun
dreds of Theaters.
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thing to take pictures OF the Capitol.
II probably Is on ordinary occasions.
| rut y 'wasn't today. TIE Capitol IL
being painted. The result is that about
! every v Int Of vantage for n good pic
| with the internal arrangements of the
I District OF Columbia In the form ot
water ripe. red nnd yellow clay. md
host Of ditch dIsgers. @ ECst
Their was only one place where the
rnssive dome could he made 70 show
| above Miss Purcell:s head. This was
| neA- the corner OF First and streets
| n rthwest,
Go To White House.
| From the Capitol the cavaicade--ope
| taxicab with a tripod sticking out the
rear-sailed UP to the White House--and
trouble Nobody excepted disappointed
office seekers and motion picture oper-
aters have found trouble at the White
House in large quantities. 1t happens.
| however, that President Wilson was
much disturbed by some motion pic
tures that were made at the White
House once. and he gave orders that
no more were to be made until ne gave
special permission. D..
press agent Btuff knows what a lot OF
language he can use on occasion. This
was one of those occasions. And Van
Loans language was o ia diplomatic
kind that would make international
complications Impossible. He purred
gently into Secretary Forster's ear the
wonderful importance of the occasion,
the desirability of having the White
House and the nations most wnoderful
beauty figure In one and the same pic
ture
Mr.. Forster is only human. But he
also desires to retain his job for the
hn
impressed. and he said that he couldn't
do any more than let Mics Purcell walk
sedately down the steps Of the White
House office and out on Executive ave-
Tumulty.
To Secretary Tumulty Van Loan
transferred his diplomacy. But the
Secretary was ted hard and fast by the
couldn't do ANYTHING beyond what Sec
retarv Forster had suggested, and he
suggested this same thing again.
Blocks the Camera.
And SO the picturt made rather handl-
caps the Executive Mansions beauties,
as little Of them could be shown. How
ever. Miss Purcell was there, and the
chances are that none of the ptople
who see the picture will miss the White
House anyhow. At least. Van Loan.
who Travelled all the way across the
country and back again as the personal
guardian Of all the btauties. got so ex-
cited that he jumped right into the
middle of the picture as it was being
made. and II was necessary to take 1t
oyera again.
And then Boernstein had brilliant
idea. Besidts being camera man par
excellence he furnishes the Universal
company with lots of its brilliant ideas.
and 'doesn't charge a cent extra for
them. He suggested that Miss Purctll
and the whole Corcoran Gallery Of Art
barsaining and protesting, Miss Pur-
cell finally managed to get him down to
one bronze lion from the Corcoran Gal
ltry. i That was. therefore, the )" next
lery serves as the background.
Then M.ss Purcell happened to re-
member. that she had a luncheon en-
gagement. Since she has returned to
where she was proclaimed the only gem
uine national beauty, Miss Purcell has
been kept busy with luncheons and
dinners and dances and such things.
This particular luncheon was a private
affair at the home Of one of her best
friends and she was anxious to be
there.
She thought OF It while manicuring
the bronze paws OF the historic lion.
the picture was in the making ana
hurried to the taxicab. When she was
inside she remembered that she had
half an hour to get to the luncheoa.
And so she smiled on the camera peaplc
just a few more minutes before de-
parting.
This afternoon the procession started
again 10 round up the remaining beau
ties Of the Capital beginning with the
building Of the Pan-American Union.
The handsome gardens of that place
are being utilized for backgrounds and
then other sections OF the city are to
be visited.
Van Loan had little to say or do after
the White House picture. But he Is In
terested in the Monumtnt. He Is try
Ing to figure a way to get a photograph
Of the to2 Of the Monument and OF
Miss Purcell-a motion picture! He
declares that after having to care for
her some eight thousand miles OF
travel he has come to think that she
stacks up considerably higher than the
Washington Monument. And his wife
agrees with him!
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