The Washington times., 1916-01-24
Hero-in3 AS Steady
Job Has a Lot Of
DiScOn1fortS, Say
Screen Stars.

What docs tho handsome hero Of
the photuplay do when he is not
hcro-inS?
RESTS from the pains and mlsior-
tunes Of being 4 h"r",'
The answer H. a chorus. 1t comes
from Francis y. Iiushman. William
Faruum. Henry Walthall, Harold
Lockwood. carlyle Blackwell, Wal
lace Reid, ana all the rest of them.
Tn" only person in tn" world who
suffers more from being a hero is
the heroine and most of the trOu-
Dlcs Of the hero are caused by res
CUing tn" heroine. OF course, it al
ends happily, but, the selected bunch
of heroes to whom The Times photo
play editor has addressed the uueS-
ton from time TO time point out.
look at the tToublc-rcal active trou-
blc--thcN are compelled to get them
selves INTO, in order to make tn"
last TWO or thrc" hundred feet of
iIlm send the audience home in a
happy fran" of mind. And look at
III" t"lrthi" things the villains do
to the heroes,
All of which points to difference
between the business OF being a hero
on the stage and in motion pictures.
Quite a lot of action in Il stage play
can be "fakcd.' because the show
must 20 on every day and no man
ag"r VIII take chance of injuring
an actor who has big role in a
production. The contrary holds in
motion pictures. The hero is only
compelled to be the hero of any one
particular play but once. and direct
tors urge their heroes to get all the
realism possible into their work.
The and arrows Of ant
rageous hero-ing would form the
burden of the soliloquy of a modern
Hamlet William Farnum points to
sundrY scars on his person, souvenirs
of the famous fight ne had with
Tom Santschi in the production of
''Thr SpOilcrS"-thc while Tom
SantChi is pointing To sundry scars
on his person that are mcmcntoS in
the same encounter. But Farnum
considers the weeks he spent in cot
ton, wool and lint recovering from
his encounter with poison oak in
'Th" Broken Law, as even more
irkSOmr.
Putting oneself deliberately in
front of tho advancing fist OF one
James }. J"ffrcS. without permit
ting the extreme dClibcratiOn of the
operation to be apparent on the
screen. Francis y. BuShman con-
sidcrs one of tn" most uncomfortable
moments Ol MS career. lie dld TINS IN
"PcnningtonS Choicc.' Bushman
also wishes to remark that the fist
and his jaw met without any de
liberation at all, and that he felt
wobblY for Il week aftorward.
Harold LOCkwood's handsome feH-
lures illuminc the screen of about
5000 theatcrs in Mutual Master
pieces every week. out on a 'loCa-
ton" in the making OF the coming
American release. "ThC Sorry Scheme
Of Things" Lockwood had to be
sunk into a Uuagmir" and quick
sand by painful, thrilling inches
while the camera recorded the play
Of his emotions. His "lincS' on this
occasion and Immediately aft"rward
would hc unpleasant to the most
hardened car.
Dick Neil, of the Fox forces. had
the same sort Of au cNpCrionc" as
Lockwood in a QUaSmirc in "Thc
Brokrn Law" where h" played tn"
heavy role opposite Farnum. only
in Neil's case the mirc was filled with
lecChcs which insisted on attach
ing themselves to him. But, of
course, not being Il hero, he simply
got what was coming To him.
IICAry Walthall considers his
gr, atcSt task was that Of digging
tho famous trench in his first motion
picture. lIc doesn't even remember