Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-02
Photoplay Features

a,-. - Ar<-"You cannot make
photop1ays as you make Shoes" de-
clares Albert Capellani. director gen.
eral OF the Clara Kimball Young Cor
poration.
There are too many motion picture
factories in America and too rev real
studios. Producing a motion picture Is
an art. not q job. You can't turn your
studio into a machine shop, your ae.o.s
into mill hands and your directors into
foremen and expect to produce artistic
and appcaIine creations that will ele-
vate the screen above the sordio anu
commonplace and put the motion PIC
ture where 1t belongs, on a plane WIN
Its allied arts-drama' literature anu
music"
Capellanl is an ardent advocate OF
the high-priced scenario to attract tne
really talented and experienced ~fiters
to screen writing.
ture the star is 80 per cent and the al.
rector 90" is the way the famous french
master Of screencraft sums up the
situation.
Annette Kellermann is without doubt
the greatest all-round swimmer OF her
sex At the age of fifteen she set up
new figures for ten miles. cover,ns 'he
few years later she swan thirteen ana
one-half miles in the Thames in hours
81 minutes and Is seconds. IN me
championship of France an eIsn aa to
the burly Paulus after q thriving neck
and-neck race with Burgess. One oi
her most superb feats was her 1wenty-
mile swim from Dover to Rafnssa'e III
4 hours and "a minutes.
That well known summer sport
swatting the f1y-has been drama.lIeu
in Earl Hurd's drawing Bobby Bumps
animated cartoons.
Kellermann's Daring Feats.-Anhee'e
Kellermann, the remarkapie
of "A Daughter of the COOS WIZ
liam Fox's million-dollar photopiay'
had adventures allotted to her In the
picture that will set new records Tor
daring in the film world.
Here is an incomplete inventory o ;n
her ten adventurous months spent IN
Jamaica, all of which, and more, are
found in the picture:
She is beaten back and forth by
waves and undertow against rasseu
coral headland while bound about by
heavy ropes. her arms entirely useless.
In another scene she swims almost
with the speed Of a train or motor
ahead of shark. whose fin races aions
the surface not ten feet beh1nd her.
H.,
dous sea and gains temporary maven
on a rocky ledge but two feet wide
only to be dashed off by gigantic
waves into the foaming waters.
An insane sultan orders that sne De
tossed into a pool filled with savage
alligators, which poke their noses TO
the surface She is held aloft over the
edge of the pool, the huge mouths Oh
the alligators poked out Of the water.
wide open. and she is dropped almost
int hair feofh-yaf
escapes.
She outswims hundred Jamaica ne
groes - the fastest swimmers in the
Caribbean country-after escaping from
a savage jailer and the pursuing sui
tan. who have her imprisoned in a
tower from which she leaps to the sea,
distance of 1913 feet.
In one of the beautiful gnome city
scenes-laid at the foot of cascade
that comes crashing down from the
mountains-she is stoned and beaten
with sticks by several hundred dwarfs,
who imagine her to be their enemy.
Mounted on horseback and clad in a
coat of mail and clanking armor. in
on the sea wall of the beieagured Moor
ish city, and when she receives a feign-
ed death blow. topples on horseback
into the sea Then she is seen divest-
died in the world of the mortals. she
enters the life Of the immortals and
swims out into the sea as a mermaid to
join her mates.
Wanted-Real Shakespeare.-Roland
Bottomley, the English movie star of
the Balboa group, tells of an experience
in the movies.
I'VE were doing Hamlet" he said,
land the ambitious director not only
wanted the play to get over but he
wanted the dialogue put acrost them,
as he phrased 1t.
The Ophelia mad scene was being
filmed. where Laertes finds Ophelia de-
mented Now. in this scene shouted
the director, throwing down his see
mario. I'VE want the real goods
Shakespeare-the real thing. You, La
rates. he continued. give us some
Shakespeare"
But Larates' seemed dense. He did
not know Shakespeare from Walt Ma
son.
Lord. Larates, don't look like that.
Don't you get me? When you see your
sister come on with straws in her hair