New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-05
Palm Beach Folk Deter
mined Movie Fans Won't
Cape at Their Antics.
THRILLER GUARDED
FROM REEL PIRATES
Detectives Watch Booth as Hero,
Villain and Heroine Startle
S5-Per Audience.

Palm Beach, March 4.-The ALSO
ciety cast Of J. Alexander Leggett's
five-reel movie thriller, "The Isle Of
Happiness" saw itself on the screen
tonight. az the first, last and only
showing of the picture. Two thousand
other winter sojourners paid s. each
TO share the privilege.
After the final fadeout, alas and
alack the print which had been run
through the projecting machine and the
negative were ruthlessly destroyed But
the picture did not go to its bonfire
grave without leaving behind some
vivid recollections-Mr Gurnee Mum
perched high in a tropic tree, regis
tering sleep; James r. Hyde, the sport
shirted hero, racing against death In
a hydroplane, and Roger b. Hill plung-
ing overheard 10 a well deserved death
in Reel 8.
The precious film was guarded as be-
fitted the determination o. the actors
and actresses that the 5 and 10 cent
public should never see them as they
appeared before the camera II had
been rumored that various gentlemen
with deep Oriental eyee, said 70 be q
crew of film pirates determined that
/ the negative should be theirs, were on
the Job for the evening. Private detec-
tives guarded the projecting booth, and
not once was the film out Of their sight
up TO the moment it vanished in puff
/ of smoke
All-Society Cast.
/ Mrs. Mum was Lucille in the picture,
I q charming and necessarily athletic
/ heroine. Mr. Hyde, New Yorker
played opposite her as Jock Maitland.
Mr.. Hill was Neil Boyd, the villain, and
Mr.. and Mrs David X. Calhoun APP
peared as the father and mother of Lu-
! cile. Others prominent in the cast were
Miss Claire Bird, Miss Muriel Cakes,
Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs, Hermann DEL
richs, Russell G. Colt, Z. Clarence
Jones. John c. King and Charles and
Fred c. Inman, Of New York; Miss
Mary Brown Warburton and Miss Paul
, inc bisston, Of Philadelphia; Miss Eliz-
abeth NJ u. Bennett, Miss Margaret d.
Bennett and Miss Rosamond Lancas-
ter. Of Boston. Miss Elsie French Rice
and Miss Mildred G.. Rice. Of New York;
/ Miss Ethel Shields, of Bryn Mawr.
Penn. Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence II.
Armour, Of Chicago; Miss Margaret c:
Burgwin and Harry Darlington, OF
/ Pittsburgh, and Miss Margaret Han
cock.
Mr.. Leggett's scenario kept the actors
scramblng to keep up with the action
i. demanded. II Lucile's parents had
ever dreamed what terrible events
would ensue they probably would not
| have been so hasty about announcing
her engagement 20 Jock
Elope In Wheel Chair.
Lucille got it into her mind that she
really wasn't in love with Jock. She
didn't know Neil Boyd was a villain,
then, despite his prodigious appetite
for cigarettes, and so she eloped with
him in a whizzing wheel chair. The
soon-to- be- unhappy pair completed the
/ journey 70 the isle of Happiness" in
a practical aeroplane.
For awhile they lived on berries.
Maybe the diet disagreed, but. at any
rate, they had 2 perfectly awful quar-
rel. After that Lucille eloped by her
! self, projecting herself into the tree
roosting scene. Climbing down on what
was builetined 1.-THE Next Morning"
the heroine fell afoul Of snake. She
screamed and gave the villain a clew
/ 20 her whereabouts. Again he pursued
/ her.
Jock, who wasn't such a mush as
Lucille had thought him. turned up at
precisely the psychological moment.
/ lie threw his fist at the villain. and
while that gentleman was sdmiring
midday constellation he up and flew
away with his love in "Boyd's" own
aeroplane. a rakish motor boat-in
private life John c. Kings speedster,
+ the ipalong-was at hand. Boyd com
mandeered IL and started after the
/ plane. When the gasolene gave out
his disgust was so great that he lesped
into the sea, leaving behind only most
convincing flock Of air bubbles.
White Hall, Mrs. Henry Flagler's
villa, was the setting for the first reel,
and society folk were shown In all
their winter activities in such places as
/ the action was permitted TO lag.