Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-20
WILLIAM FARNUM,
THE SCREEN STAR,
At THE PAsT|ME
This WeII-known and Popular
Actor, Who Takes a Leading
Part, Trained for Big Fist
Fight in THE PIunderet

/ Listen, you asplrants who yearn Tor
eminence In the motion-pictures; do
you realize what II means In hard
/ cold reality to be a great photo-play
actor? Read how william Farnum,
the $l00. 600 star of the Fox Film cor
poration. william Fox. president,
earns his stupendous salary and YOU
may suffer change Of heart and de-
eide that maybe the Office, counter
or factory is all right after all. In the
tirst place right after Mr.. Fox signed
up Mr.. Farnum (the first eminent
dramatic artist permanently TO for
sake the spoken for the silent stage)
he did what any business man would
do and proceeded 10 "cover his ln-
vestment." The actors face and body
were insured against injury or dis
figuring accident for 100000, the
same amount as his yearly stipend.
All of this sounds very important and
satisfactory; but, Just moment. To
begin with the policy, one Of the
wierdest pieces of insurance ever
written, prohibits Mr.. Farnum from
going anywhere unaccompanied by
physician; he may not drive his own
cars, sail his yacht, indulge In swim
ming or any other sport except IL
ufl llit ShDsIN AHlOi VI Ills iAiNNiN'rA
guard. Even his diet is prescribed for
him and the insurance company gets
a weekly report of his condition. The
old poet had il right when he said
uneasy lies the head that wears
crown
But that insurance policy Is not the
only thing now worrying Mr.. Far
mum. He is still talking of the two
months of rigorous training he was
put through for the great fight in
THE Plunderer." by Roy Norton, the
latest of the william Fox photo-plays
In which the most popular of all
Americas actors appears in real
Farnum part"
The fight in The Plunderer" is the
most thrilling bare-knuckled battle
ever filmed II is positively terrific in
its foreclosures. Farnum, single
handed. fights and bests a score of
drlnk-mad and hate-erazed western
miners He toys with the cnraged
physical giants like an aroused Titan,
as, with his bare knuckles he ham
mers them into insensibility, aVeng
ing the murder of his aged friend,
Old Bells Parks. To get the full real
ism of the part the actor conditioned
himself for eight weeks Just as rigor-
Ously as If he had been going after
the heavyweight championship. In
freezing weather he rose at $3.50 a.
M at his country place at Sag Har
Dor, l.. t. and under the stern eye of
trainer, logged ten miles over the
frozen roads while his mentor rode
at ease in an automobile. Then came
q swift dip in the icy waters Of the
harbor from tho dock of his estate
followed a brisk rundown and break I
fast. After n brief rest Mr.. Farnum
spent most of the morning in his
gymnasium, sparring and dallying
with the medicine ball In the after
noon came another jog over the roads
and then a very light dinner and bed
So when you see that battle upon the
screen in THE Plunderer'--and it is
the most heart quickenng, breath
catching flst-tight ever filmed--don't I
forget. as you sec the actor smash (
ing and slashing his foes, that, not
unnaturally 1t was some job to find
actors willing to face the Farnum (
fists.
The Plunderer" can be seen at the /
Pastime theater today and tomorrow.
Admission 10 cents, Time of shows;
!, 2;lO, $3.50, 1880, $40, $50, S, 81
and 10 o'clock