Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-19

Among the innumerable anecdotes tolo
in club, drawing room or hotel lobby Dy
| actors who took part In the making ol
"The Eternal City" in Rome last july
one of the funniest relates to the first
visit made by the Famous Players 10 the
suburban villa d'Este, in Tivoh.
"a Young man who conducted our bunch
IN the e,ilse OF interpreter" relates a di-
rector of the Famous Players, was also
booked to help us out In the picture. VIC
decided to use him as an army oIIicsi l,
So we decked him out in uniform raj
ment like the sun, before we started
Now IL all the world loves a lover, then
It is equally true that all Italy loves and,
I'm a measure, fears an army officer In re-
gala.
when therefore, we arrived at the
TivoIi railway station and climbed down
ont of the coaches, we noticed a tremen-
dpus kowtowing on the part of all the
minor railway officials. We couldn't
understand their obsequiesence. 1t
dnwned upon lis at last. Our interpreter
had taken the fancy to pretend to be
really the colonel of tho army he was
costumed 10 represent. He was carrying
off the bluff with tremendous eclat too.
Whatever he ordered was instantly forth
coming.
We'll, among many other things, we
had urgent need of the service of one
or two locomotives very much In action
and one or two incoming trains of cars.
Any one who has seen THE Eternal
City will recall the security of those
moving train scenes, with the escape
therefrom of Ross and the assassination
of Rocco. his faithful companion. We'd
been In quandary over them. Our in
terpreter, posing as the real officer he
was costumed to represent, merely or
dered the small army OF railway officials
to put the whole track system of the
Tivoli station at our immediate service.
Had he been the King of Italy, he
couldn't have done so with more mag
! doubt. too, whether even as
the King of Italy he would have been
better obeyed Incoming trains and To-
romotives in action were ours to COM
nand 1t was all the magic effect of
Uniform on the italian imagination, cou-
oled with the sublime hIstrionlc nerve of
IN underling interpreter, with about the
social status of a valet.
Yes, the Italians sure are natural born |
lctors," concluded the narrator
An Unrewarded Hero
Harry Dunkinson. Essanay actor, res
injury, and the woman demanded his ar
est for doing it. The woman, with a
mall boy, was standing at the corner OF
and Dearborn streets, Chicago.
The was far enough away from the car
rack to be safe on a straight track, but
he did not realize how far the trolley
wung out on the curve. Dunknson, who
las walking just behind the two, saw
er danger and grabbed both and drag
ed them to safety.
The woman was daZed and did not
ealize the danger she had been in. When
Policeman came running up she de-
landed Dunkinson's arrest. The officer,
ho saw what happened, tried to explain
the woman, but she only shook her
cad and walked away as though she
ad been much abused.
New Lubin Studio
The biggest artificial light studio In the
'untry was informally opened at the
ubin ranch in Betzwood, Pa. this week,
hen Director Edgar Jones began the
aklng of series of three-reel pictures
ere. This is tho third big studio to be
tilt at the ranch during the last few
ars. The new studio, which has just
EN- completed, Is equipped with every
odern scientific appliance for the maxi
g of photoplays. The Lubin engineers
we been working for many months on
@ big studio, and the system of arti-
lal lighting has been so designed and
ranged as to permit the ultimate taking
natural color motion pictures there.
Extensive improvements and additions J
We also been made to the laboratories
the ranch. These laboratories, de-
lred by experts to be the best in the
untry, are busy places these days, and
great deal of scientific work is being ,
rriP1 there nv Mr. TIIhin and his |
rps of assistants.