Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-01

Claire, Mary Pickford. Pauline Fred
erieks, Blanche Sweet, Elsie Janis.
George Faucet. Sam Bernard and
Myrtle Stedman. Looks like the Para
mount Company is spreading itself to
open up the new year.
Despite the fact that Marguerite
Clark's physical personality does not
measure over four feet two inches, the
Famous Players leading lady success
fully engaged huge bulldog IN con-
bat the other day. The bull made a
charge upon Marguerite's diminutive
s,Pekipese and while the other ladies
present shrieked helplessly, Miss
Clark knelt on the aggressor's head
and rescued her pet from his jaws
which goes to show that size isn't
everything in the stress of battle.
The Jesse L. Lasky organization has
well drilled fire company; and It was
called out the other day for the first
time to extiaguish a blaze in their
studio The firefighters were sttfFed
in patent leather helmets, red flannel
shirts, etc, and had no time to dress
for, the real occasion. Tho FIRE com
pany has a Observation-Disclosures brigade.
but ii is reported that someone. Dor
rowed the ladder, and sqeit only has
hook company nowsi, Actors are not
eligible for membership. I'M this:
branch Of the fire department.
Pauline Frederick, who appears at
the Liberty a week from next Thurs
day in Sold may possibly be, as
Harrison Fisher asserts, @America's
most beautiful actress but she>is sew
eraI large city blocks length from be.
ing Americas most delicate creature
Witness Vincent Serrano, who plays
Pauline's ruffanly husband in her
next production Disguised and en-.
ragged by his cowardly conduct, the
great Paramount star seizes Vincent
by the throat and attempts to- choke
him into manful state of being.
Three days after the scene Was Ken,
the Serfano neck stir wore the
bruises of the encounter 'hank
heaven, sighed the actor, that it was
i moving piotHre,,I should hate to
go through that scene eight times "a
week. Is It-any wonder. the. expo;
nents of tragedy are all saking the
speaking stage for the movies !? ,tfsz
sfnas Cllire. who made her Honolulu
debut int The. Wild Goose Chase
wilfs appear inext weekend IN The
Puppet Grown,,,sa rcmapee by Harold
lNcGrathJ This time she. will he sup
ported by man. who, holds the repu-
tation off being the handsomest man
rom the American stage-Carlyle Black
WELL The story is that, of beautiful
and fascinating European princess
who loses "a throne but wins an
AmericaH husband. Two more pleas.
| ing characters could not have been Sc
lected for the leads than are present
ed in this cast There is another
young star in the play, Marjorie Daw.
This little girl is but Is years of age,
When Geraldine Farrar was in Los
Angeles in preparation 1of Carmen"
little Marjorie was a FILL in, and Miss
/ Farrar recognized the genuine talent
and took her as her protege, the re-
suit being, in Forthcoming Lasky pro-
ductions, Miss Marjorie Daw carries
leading roles.
Colonel Heeza LIAR is to- be a
Paramount star Jsi1. sBFaS, origina.
| tor of the famous animated cartoon;
! In the Pathe Weekly pictorial, has re-
signed from that firm and VIII Draw
/ for the new Paramount weekly Aims
/ has a little industry all his own, and
has little industry al his own, sand
his exclusive patents eliminate, him
From, all compatitionr Seeing the
Paramount productions classed as the
cream OF the art, he resolved to- BIS
presented on. their program, but il, was
mot unit. the great. film corporation
established their weekly news pictures
that he found an opening. Although
he has been silent heretofore as to the
processes involved in making his cele
brated cartoons, his patents now pro
tect him, and he tells his own story
as follows:
"You see. my staff consists of si1
cartoonists. 20 assistant artists. am
four camera men, constantly at work
An idea of the work to be done ma.
be gained from the knowledge tina
There are 81 different processes to b,
undergone by each drawing and tina
there are at least 1000 of them t
every thousand feet of film. Subse
ouently, a weeks output involves 1876
900 different processes. | first make
BACKGROUND on a sheet of heavy pa
per, which is then transferred to man,
sheets of tracing paper. Wren thi
& is done, it is only necessary to draN
parts which are in motion on th
screen. The background remains all
solutely steady all through the scene
If ] have mani sfaRdiag stu for an
length of time, he does not have 3
be drawn again until he is supposed t
move. i make 10 OF more sketches g
the vital. parts OF the STORY, then y
real work .cor1menees. Althqf gh tn
artists do most Of the sskeeFhiug,
draw practically every movement
when the set of cartoons is complete
four expert cameramen photograp
them. The method of controlling tn
speed is important. If rapidity is n
quired, the picture is given only tw
exposures, and as the movement din
inishes in speed CORRESPONDENCE II
creased number of exposures IS given
Ever since her articles began
appear in the papers supplied by tn
Mcclure Syndicate, Mary Pickford hs