Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-01-23
BY A. H. GIEBLER.

~ glad that I'm alive to tell 1t
instead of being drowned In
the Pacific Ocean. This is
how it was
You see. Dave. II an actor don't stand up
for his rights he won't get 'em. I found this
out from an actor that's been out here six
months, and amt ever done anything but play
extra parts since he landed And it's all be-
cause the studios won't put him on, because
hes too good an actor You see, Dave, they've
got to have someone that's pretty good to play
the extra parts and If they get hold of real
good actor like this fellow, me- and he
never done nothing except play the regular
stage. while I've got diploma from that cor
respondence school OF how to be a movie actor
by mail. and II they won't put him because
he's such good actor that they want to keep
him playing extra parts, what will they do to
me. en- Dave?
After he explained all that to me made up
my mind wouldn't go playing extra parts
and be held down like this actor who sort of
had to. because he'd never done no acting
cept on the regular stage, and didn't have no
diploma like 1 had
But here's how I almost got drowned You
know how swim. Dave, but there's a lot
OF difference swimming in Emory's stock pond
and swimming in the Pacific Ocean. I don't
guess Emory's stock pond is more than two
or maybe three hundred feet across, and the
Pacific Ocean reaches clear to Japan You
the difference. don't you, Dave?
Well Dave, I thought I'd go down to that
place where / played the part of the rich man
that had to stand out in front of the bank
with lot more rich men and women who had
money in the bank and holler and want our
money back to when the picture going
to be released so that you and Mabel and Lafe
and Thorn could go down to the Dreamland
and see me actin in it, and when found the
assistant director he said I'VE had to cut
that scene out because some boob of extra
waved his hat and spoiled the scene"
That was me, Dave, but just said: We'll
he must have been a boob, sure enough"
Pretty slick eh. Dave?
And he said: Yes, I'd like to punch his
head"
And didn't say nothing, Dave because you
know how am when l get started, and be
sides, that guy would have had hard time
punching my head He'd had to stand upon
box or something. He's little bit OF a
runt, just about tall you are, Dave
So never said anything about him calling
me boob, but asked him II they wanted
any more extras. and he said yes. And I
thought, being they wanted me to help them
out SO bad all that, l wouldn't get sore
about bein' called boob, and I'd do some real
actin and show em | wasn't such a boob
after all. And he said:
SHOW up at the pier at 10 o'clock tomorrow
and you'll get chance to do some water
stuff"
in the Pacific Ocean, and If it hadn't been for
that little girl that mistook me for j. Warren
Kerrgan l guess l would be at the bottom of
the Pacific Ocean right now instead of writing
this letter to you, and Mabel would be cryin'
her eyes out and CROWN up to he an old maid
instead OF being movie actors wife some
day, which she will when she marries me-
WE'LL next morning I showed up al the pier
that's a kind OF sidewalk that sticks out in the
ocean, Dave And they'd got ship, a regu-
lar ship that you could the ocean in and
It's regular movie ship. When they want to
have some pirate sea robbing acting or a
lot OF people getting drowned from ship be-
cause It's on fire, they this ship
Well, the director said IAN OF you actors
that can swim get over on this side"
He called us all actors. but I'll bet there
wasn't many actors In that crowd outside OF
me- Dave, and l said could swim, and we all
got on the ship. l guess all would have had
to have done was to tell them I was movie
actor, and I'd a got to play the captain OF the
ship or one of the officers but ! didn't say
nothing, Dave, because l don't believe in butt.
ing In. But remembered what that actor tolo
me. and l thought l wouldn't let them find Out
what Kind OF actor ] was, with diploma a.
long as was just extra so they would
want to hold me down like they did him
Prstty slick. Ell. Dave?
So got the ship with the rest of then
extras that was goin to act like they was emf
grants coming over to this country. One o
the extras-there was about a hundred OF then
said: What did that director want to know
II we could swim for?" And little fellow will
kind o. long hair said: He wanted to know I
we could swim, because we've all got to juml
overheard when they fire the ship
Well, of course, that didn't bother me an,
because you know how good | can SWIM but
must have ate something for breakfast tina
didn't agree with me, my stomach felt awful
funny. I'll never eat sardines and bananas to
gether for breakfast again, Dave. And so a
I've heard that it wasn't a good thing to 60 i
swimming with full stomach. I thought L
tell the director that I was a regular actor wit
diploma from correspondence school. an
then they'd get me TO play OF the officer
OF the ship, maybe stand around and nc
jump overheard, but just kind o tell the ex
tras how to act
You'll this play down TO the Dreamlan
with me acting in 1t when it comes out Dav,
but this is the way it goes.
The ship is supposed to be filled with EN-
grants, and 1t takes fire and all the emigrant
jump overheard and get rescued on a raft an
land on desert isle. But that director didn
know his business, Dave Instead of takin' this
ship right close to the land and ettin' the eN
tras jump off of her into the water, and the
let them kinda squat down and act like the
was swimming and crawl out on the sand to II
desert ISLE they went far you couldn't s,
the land, and made 'em jump off and get rel
cued on to big raft that they had hitcht