The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-01-26


muplca,ed for hls oyef-seal Another
spent tiso.eo a. the task. ana Gailed.
nv. slevin succeeded because ne was
lactfnl Ingenious and persistent al
moat beyond comprehension. Az a
result 81 HE efforts Pope Piux X
posed for the pictures, and 100000
ooo catholics and others can see him
An the movlea How success nnaily
nst air. sievin's efforts Il described
IN the following passage taken from
the article. The reader should re-
member thss Mr.. sleyin had spent
eighteen months at the job when the
events described below happened
and a locked ae " failure were star
inf him IN the ace:
Finally. one day IN the early sum-
mcr 81 1919. the Ameriean called
upon Cardinal Merry del Val and am
nounced mis- departure for America.
Aud he beeged tho cardinal to accept
a little " which he desired 60
oRer 20 his holiness,
" There "a no need OF q souvenir
said the cardinal. you WIN be pleas
antiy remembered here.
The American Insisted. however.
that he wished 10 spare his holiness
future annoyance In connection with
motion picture exhibitions. and had
collected from various motion picture
companies In America n large num-
Der Of the hess films thai he could
md. on an suitable subjects. These
Aims tthey were worth thousands Of
dollara) he Was pussentlng 20 the
Vatican with gratitude for kindness
and honors. together with a very fine
projecting apparatus The pope could
now have his own motion picture en-
tertainments.
The cardinal was much pleased
with this generous gift and assured
his enlerprisIng friend that Il IL had
bean possible TO grant the motion
picture privilege to anyone Il would
have gone to slevin. whorenpon the
American expressed himself rs happy
at this mark Of confidence and with
crew.
" I had done All that / could think
Of for the moment explained slevin,
and " my Efforts had failed'-he
smiled eagerly suppose I should
have found some other way to set
those pictures.
"But his efforts DID no fail. A
few days later a note came saying
that II Mr. slevin would present him
self at a certain dOor 81 the Vatican
at a certain hour with his motion
picture apparatus u was possible
there would he developments OF a
nature that would much interest him
The Developments were hat he
was allowed 10 take a motion picture
of Plus X In an imposing ceremony.
And on subsequent occasions he was
given similar opportunities TO take
other scenes In the Vatican, other
motion pictures of his holiness In
other ceremonies. ard 20 AXE motion
pictures In 81. Peters and in the Sis
tine chapel, motion pictures OF the
pope addressing vas, audiences from
the balcony OF the Vatican, motion
pictures OF cardinals. archbishops.
royal chair-bearers. maee-bearers,
trumpeters. chamberlains Of the
sword and cape, also the famous
Swiss guard, marching and drilling
In IN papal court. In short. he was
allowed TO get the pictures that he
had come TO Rome 20 get and that
no one else had been able TO get.
4 don't know exactly how Il
lcame about. explained sleyin. You
might say hat / never had formal
permission 10 take those pictures. |
just went ahead and took them, and
no one objected or paid any atten-
,ion TO me. ! was never obtrusive
and I never asked for anything, but
things seemed TO happen In a on
derful way. Doors would open and
professions would come along and
the pops wouId appear. just as had
my picture machine ready. hin
they saw that I was sincere and they
felt the force OF my arguments, al
Though they could not say "a ofhcial'
y. and. summing Il an up guess
a was a case where you conquer by
%yieldins'