Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-02

Has Had the Experfe
Harry Short. the Columbia comedian,
who is tall. despite tho short" like
wise good looking. and. incidentally.
unmarried says:
IF you have never been an actor and
sat in your dressing room making up
some night and had some one knock at
your door and ask what you were
doing, and when you told them have
them say: Making up? What for? The
shows busted-if you haven't been.
YOU can know what's worse than see
ing some other fellow shot"
Mr.. Short has seen several kinds OF
show life, long before the days when
he plaved THE Yankee Consul" or ap-
reared with Eva Tanguay in The
Sarbo Girl" or Mile Champagne" His
first stage appearance was without
stage he SAYS II was a sawdust floor
in a medicine show tent. where Short
was the medicine show and the man
ager OF the show was the medicine
man
There is nothing like tho hardship
of the medicine show business to mako
man out of q boy" he said
Then you don't agree with Anna
Held that the stage Is bad place. he
was asked
There is no better school In the
world for a boy" he said THE life is
hard for a girl and there are many
temptations. but II she withstands
boy who tries his luck with busted
shows grows to he A bigger man and
usually bigger actor
Yes, I've had much experiences, he
said. Il am fine at doubling. Once 1
played the king in Three Musketeers."
and between the acts doubled with
Boniface in a black-face song and
dance.
IT'S all good experience and helps
to make the man. But let me tell
you," he said. Its much harder being
funny than 1t is to be serious. You
can't help being serious most any time
in the show business, but to be really
funny-oh, dear"
Progress of Kinemaeolor Pho
tography-By courtesy of Charles
Urban, who has sent a duplicate set
of his famous kinemacolor war films
direct from the Scala Theater, London,
they will be shown at the Belasco
Theater this week
Mr.. Urban is an American by birth,
a native of Cincinnati, and was one of
the pioneers of the motion picture
most of the films came from abroad,
SO he accepted an offer to go to Lon
don and manage a large exchange.
There he became interested in the ex-
periments of Joseph Smith toward
making natural-color. films, and backed
him financially. But even after the in
ventor succeeded in producing natural
colors upon the picture screen, by
means of an ingenious color filter"
which photographed the three prima-
ries separately and then projected
them SO rapidly that they merged in all
the shades of the spectrum upon the
screen, the inventor lost faith in the
commercial possibilities of his idea.
Not so Charles Urban. American en-
terprfse came to the front and saved
kinemacolor from being merely a sci
entific toy. The first London exhibition
of natural-color photographs of flow
ers, fruits and a few familiar objects
had attracted popular attention and
even the patronage of some of the
royal family, when King Edward VII
died.
ture a great royal pageant that would
attract the eyes of the world. Accord
ingly. he applied for and received per-
mission to photograph the funeral of
the king. Mr.. Smith baked at this
daring enterprise of his American part
ner. SO Mr.. Urban promptly bought his
interest in the patents and carried it
out alone. The first manufactured
motion pictures. though far from reach
ing the perfection they have since at
ish public.
Mr. Urban was rewarded with a roy
al command to photograph the stately
ceremonies attending the coronation
of King George V. and carried out the
commission with such artistic success
that he was included in the royal ex-
cursion to India. to photograph the
still more gorgeous pageantry OF the
durbar at Delhi
The making of the Panama canal was
the next great event of worldwide in
-erest to be photographed in the nat
iIral colors, and about that time the
Balkan war broke out. Mr.. Urban at
once dispatche a small army of cam
era men, under command Of the veteran
war correspondent and artist, Chevalter
Frederic Nilliers.
Kinenla color had previously proved
It's power to reproduce parades and
pageants; now In the field and as near
10 the firing line as II Is possible for
A camera to venture without being
blown TO pieces again the natural-color
process showed its superiority In re-
cordtng realistic scenes.
Accordingly. when the present titanic
European struggle began MIR. Urban
cent trained men to all the various ma
,tors involved. Their work was more
dIfEcult More and more restrictions
we're laid upon them. But little by lit
lie and scene by scene, wherever OPP
,ortunity offered, Einemacolor has Pho
fcgIaphed the wonderful series of war
I,ic,ures entitled with the Fighting
Forces Of Europe" which has been ex-
hibited at the Scala Theater In London
for the past six months.
Has n Purpose. - Referring 10 MIS-
Wentworrh's pIaylet. NaZimova says.
This play is like rejuvenator to me
IL offers me a renewal OF LIE. ] had
decided upon and arranged for series
Of Ibsen plays, primarily for my own
good because ! felt that l needed the
stimulus Of q repertoire. but this War
i:rldes' has come TO me Ike a blessing
rom heaven. and while ! am loyal as
ever 70 Ibsen- ] feel that do not want
30 stop playing War Brides TIL every
nan md woman in the land. in the world
: would say, has seen IL and has It's
,sson it's plea for peace, driven home.
"a Already she continued ! have re-
,etved letters from sunragettes. and from
Wotaen AT the head Of other big move
snents. Offering me their support and en-
o.rr.teenlent and assuring me that War
Brides will do more for the cause. both
of wona and OF peace. than their COM
bned efforts could hope to accomplish
a.. 80 Won see, this little one-act tragedy
u conflict, besides being crngeniai to
ne has a deeper. more serious and more
far-reach'ng purpose than the mere
representation Of haif-hours enter