Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-29

With the rage of beasts and the
/ strength of super men these life long
1 enemies continued their struggle un-
\ til 1t seemed as if neither could fight
| further until finally the miner Sc
cured hammerlock grip on his adj
Versary and finished by breaking the
! lawyers arm. Even then the wild
passion of the miner was not subdued
and he would have killed his adversary
with another death dealing clutch had
not the spectators rushed and prevent
ed a murder.
| Without a question the greatest
single picture ever staged before the
moving picture camera is the strug-
gle for supremacy between Glenister,
miner hero of The Spoilers" and Nc
Namara, the INSCRIPTIONS miner, who
sought to rob the Alaskan seekers for
gold of the fruits of their toll. The
fight and the entire film itself, now
famous in the moving picture world
have been witnessed by more persons
than any other screen production ever
| attracted and the film seems TO grow
in popularity as it continues it's UNI
precedented runs.
When The Spoilers" was dramatic
lied that it would indeed be difficult
to reproduce the fight as described by
Rex Beach, for the hand 10 hand bat
tie was SO terrific as almost to defy
reproduction. At that time Thomas
Santschi was the leading man of the
Selig company. producing the film, but
he was not considered fitted for the
leading role and William Farnum was
called in. SantGnhi fI,a
role of Mcnamara, the villain, who
opposed the hero. Glenister but nat
urally trifle piqued that he had not
been given the lead.
The men got along fairly we'll to-
gether, but when it came to staging
the fight for the camera such was
their enmity that held off in their
action, each fearing that he might
start real trouble with the other Five
different times the scene was rehears-
ed to the despair of the director and
the men at no time approached the di-
rector's idea of the struggle as 1t
should be filmed.
Finally Farnum and Santschi were
called aside ana told to stage a real
battle. The director limited to them
that he knew of their hidden i'll feel
ing for each other and that they might
as well have it out before the camera
as any place else.
The next time the men started the
scene the camera started to work for
1t was evident that the actors were IN
earnest this time. They went at each
other with such ferocity that the sup
porting members of the company, too,
knew that they were watching a real
struggle and instructions from the di-
rector for the time were unnecessary
They fought on and on Until it seem
ed as If both must drop until Far
mum at last secured his famous ham
merlock hold and actually broke his
opponents arm. Santchi was in the
hospital for two weeks after that fight !
while William Farnum was bruised
and sore and had to take u prolong ID
rest before the remainder of the pic |
ture could be produced.
This fight is only one of the many |
scenes which have made The Spoilers"
famous. Throughout the piece SAINT
schi injected all the venom of his ma
ture into the role of Mcnamara not |
only because of his appreciation of the |
role, but also for the intense hate he |
bore for Farnum at the same time. It |
seemed at times, as IL he really !
thought he nigh. beat Farnum in the |
finale, in spite of the fact that the !
story called for an entirely different |
ending.
The fight IN THE Spoilers" will go |
down in film history as the most real
istic scene ever staged, because 1t was |
in fact a real battle between these two |
physical giants.
-
Strand 1heafAr Todau and Inrnnrrn,.,