Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-26
DELAWARE GAP SEES
NEAR MOVIE WRECK
Changing Station Sign Misleads
Engineer of Freight
Train
Rr the Photoplnn Editor

Many lives were endangered and sc
rious train wreck narrowly averted neal
Delaware Water Gap, Pa. when Director
Charles Horan, with a company OF Metro
players inadvertently neglected to remove
sign on railroad station which he had
| placed there. The players, headed by
Lionel Barrymore. were working in some
scenes being photographed there for THE
GUTTER" a forthcoming Metro photoplay
The story of THE Quitter" has some i'm
portant action that hinges around a railroad
station named paradise Gulch" mining
town laid near the Mexican border. The
sign was painted and placed over the regu
lar sign on a small railway station near
the Gap.
After making several scenes. the motion
picture actors rode over to a country hotel
for lunch. During their absence local
freight train came through The engineer
had orders to stop at the station, but on
seeing the place marked Paradise Gulch"
he went by the next stop before he realized
that there was something wrong. The en-
gineer was new to the division and had been
directed to take siding near the place he
saw marked Paradise Gulch" to make a
clear track for an upbound passenger train.
There was little time to lose and the en-
gineer hurried to the telegrapher's office,
where messages were sent along the line to
hold the passenger train. Then the freight
train was backed to the siding at the sta
tion marked Paradise Gulch."
Pauline Frederick plays her most sue
cessful role as a temptress in her own
kitchen when she makes ginger bread fiom
a New England recipe.
Burton Holmes has the most interesting
millinery shop in the world. II includes
DOnnptg niClInd N nd
of the globe while Mr.. Holmes was collect
ing material for the Travelogues and the
Paramount-B Burton Holmes Travel-Pictures
Unusual hats and interesting native cos
tunes are one of the travellers hobbies
Among others, he shows his visitors the
toque shape-popular among the Parsees of
India-the turban of the Javanese and the
wide-brlmmed shape preferred by the Ha-
waiians.
Moton-picture directors will go long
way these days to secure correct atrnos-
phere and detail for forthcoming produc-
tions. The day has passed when any old
thing would do for the movies. and particu-
larly In feature productions of historical
atmosphere no time nor expense Is spared
to have every detail correct. The Selig
Company is filming Winston Churchills
story of THE Crisis" and William N. Selig
sent to Washington, d. c., for certain
properties" to add local color to the pro-
duction. Old files of newspapers issued in
the Civil War period, old steel engravings
showing Abraham Lincoln during the var-
GUS stages of his career and the old dis
patch box carried by President Lincoln dur
ing Civil War times were loaned the Seig
Company by the Government The dispatch
box was presented to Lincoln by Colonel
Crook, his bodyguard, and later Colonel
Crook gave the box into the keeping of
WI. Marshall. Later II was stored among
historic White House relics. The box will
be carried IN "The Crisis" py the player
who impersonates Lincoln.
Adelaide Woods, we'll known among pa
irons of the screen through her effective
portrayal of character leads, has been en-
gagged by Pallas Pictures to appear in i'm
portant roles Miss Woods has appeared
on the screen some three years, having been
identified with Biograph for two years
After six months with Balboa she returned
to Biograph. where she remained until the
closing of the west coast studio of that
concern.