Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
THE PHOTOPLAY
SPENDTHRIFT
Millions in Money and Energy
Spent to Bring All the
World to Your Feet

would be the source within few months
OF wider education than the average
Cooks tourist CLEANS in a year of con-
slant travel. Trailing the atmospheric
detail and local color to their lair con-
sttutes a formidable effort on the part
of the men who stage the big movie
dramas one sees upon entering the Bijou
Dream, Idle Hour and Nickelodeon.
Any one who saw "Trilby'' must
have wondered how the night scenes OF
Paris were faxed. If they solved the
problem at all, they were wrong, for the
Equitable Company sent camera man
to Paris with credentials from the State
Department that secured him and his
camera permission to focus the princi-
pal boulevards during their busy hours.
The street and interior scenes in this
same picture, wherein Trilby and Sven
gall are supposedly in Ruamnia, were
taken on the plains of Staten Island.
with real denizens of Bleecker. Delan-
ceN and Mulberry streets as the princi-
pal decorative elements.
In 1.-The Fisher Girl" in which the
Equitable Corporation is offering Muriel
ostriche, two location experts went to
Block Island, where they spent two weeks
prevailing upon the local fisher folks to
take active part in the production. They
did so at SO per participation. which in
cluded the use of their families, huts
ana HShinS paraphernaIla.
Webster Cullison, one of the Equitable's
producing geniuses, is at Martinique, in
the French West Indies. where, on the
very edge of Mont Pelee, he win stage
many scenes in THE Labyrinth" in
which rugged coast lines, jagged rocks
and abysmal mountain pits are to blend
in with Gail Kane's romantic acting.
Charles Seay is in Washington taking
scenes in the halls of Congress, the Cap
itol. White House grounds, Federal,
Treasury and other buildings. These
scenes are backgrounds for THE Sem
ator," with Charles Ross playing the
title role, and which Triumph Films will
release early in December. 1t was neces-
sary for Equitable TO send a man, re-
ferred 10 by the office as "ixer." to
Washington in advance to arrange de-
tails and secure permits. When THE
Senator is finally seen ON the screen
residents of Boise, Idaho; Valdosta, Ga,
and other distant towns can take a per
I sonally conducted tour of the nations
capital and see modern drama for the
one price of admission.
When Thomas A Wise selected Paul
Armstrong; Blue Grass for his ap-
pcarancc on the screen, and half the pic
tUre was complete. the quandary of Sc
curing proper race track detail confronted
the director. The big summer meet was
on at Saratoga Springs and thither went
Wise and his thirty supporting players.
After due process of getting in good" a
race was run one morning at sunrise the
usual cloclSiHg hour. and Blue Grass. the
movie horse beat out some of the fore
most thoroughbreds at the track Result,
a perfectly good punch was gotten with
real race track atmosphere and true-to-
life types of touts, jockeys, exercising
boys and owners.
Eighteen principals and fifty extra
players, ali in evening dress wenied their
way TO Bayside, l.. l., several weeks ago.
and on the lawn of the palatial residence
Of Alfred a. Aarons. on Wright avenue. a
lawn fete was staged The entire lawn.
covering half a block, was hung and fes-
tooned with yari-cOored lanterns. Gorge
ously dressed women fitted from table
10 table serving crippled soldfers-num-
berleSs pTiyates and officers from Fort
Totten. 1t was 4 big scene in a picture
that Will b. released soon. 1t REQUIRED
four days o. work by Is builders to put
the lawn in proper shape. yet the scene
is shown on the screen but an instant
In The Fisher Girl" Charles Scav
bought, dynamited and scuttled a fishing
schooner that had lain in the harbor of
Block Island for two years il was past
its usefulness and was more Il nuisance
! than benefit to the COlony Yet when
Seay tried to rid the harbOr of it. the
former owner suddenly discovered that he
was going to use it again and demanded
payment in the stin of 500 before he
would permit OF its destruction
Walter Mcnamara, who staged Human
| Cargoes." engaged 1a tough looking char
acters from the east side for a mob scene.
and before he reached the scene where tho
big fight was to be staged. the gang had
fallen out over a game of cards and half
the gang had chased the other half off.
A train OF nine cars and an engine was
recently engaged for four hours from the
New York Central 10 be used in a SEN
sational railroad scene. John Ince who
directed the scene, made the arrange
ments himself with the railroad company.
The total bill read:
Nine private cars at $50. ---.....-.S $4,000
45 miles at 15c per mile edch........ co.'s
Victualing one diner. 1850