Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-22

como these pages from the diary of De VOL
| Hopper, toho jourreyed there several
mouths months ago under contract 70 Ddvtd W.
| GrtDith to act Don outrote, FdIstoG Cub
| Huer and other characters Of Hterdture be-
fore the camera. One Of his netoest. the
old actor IN "strdnded," toiI DO on vietc al
the Arcadia Monday. The Hopper Of ,,p-
'nerous drst-ni0ht curtain speeches and
| dJter.dtrner talks ts recognized IN these ran.
dom remarks on ntoVie mdtia1.
| Monday, Morning.
Arrives big man at the gate Of the Grif-
| nth studio. Gateman doing in the frecixiY
sunshine under the trees.
Name. pleaseT demands the gateman-
"Just say De Wolf Hopper, u s.. A." ro-
spends the big man, and ia conducted back
| to the studio stage.
Appear Douglas Fairbanks and othss
| friends, all of whom the big man Rreets
| like long-lost brothers and sisters.
Hello. Dough My Gawd, man. what's the
| matter7"
why. I'm all right"
But your color You can't be all right
and be that color"
That's the makeup"
Then you haven't got tho jaundics7 But
say, old boy. II have to go around looking
that color 1 shall just pine away and die
from suggestion. Hello. Miss wara
CTo Helen Ware) You look charming. You,
at least, are clothed in your right mind
you wouldn't have thought SO yesterday.
when I was cast up on a desert island In
Griffith Park, and went about clad in
cheesecloth and confusion"
To orrin Johnson: Hello Orrin, whas
are you in for7"
"oh, about six weeks, on this picture,
guess. Maybe you'll think It ought to be
a life sentence when you've seen the pio-
ture."
well. good-by until tomorrow. BY the
bye my baby will be out here in a couple
of weeks. He's the very greatest kid In
the world. II do say 30. Learned TO sag
dada after only one rehearsal"
Tuesday.
My Gawd, how long win It take me 70
get used to these livery looking actors,
wonder! How do feel? Wei, not the
way look, promise you that. II did
wouldn't be here.
And the hours I get up at 6. Didn't
know there were such hours. You Just begin
to wake UP and feel like working. you
know, when you find it's all over and you've
finished for the day. There's only one sat-
'sfaction-you can go down at night and see
yourself act
Yes, like Don ouixote all right. In
fact. love him. But don't you ever fancy
he had easy time fitting windmills
tilted n windmill today. IL was a very
obstinate windmill tenacious OF its rights.
Did you ever have windmill in good health
fly up and hit your Tho reason people
laugh at Don Quixote is because they never
tried to stop windmill when IL was on its
way. Every windmill In the world can go
on press-agenting the weather after this for
all OF me. Take my advice. Don't you
ever hit a windmill first. If you ever Bet
peeved at a windmill. try kindness ana
diplomacy-or slow poison-because wind
mill in full blast has more advantages in
Its favor than Jack Johnson spanking Q
pickaninny.
Wednesday.
Yes. we did some foliow-up scenes today.
The director told me to go over and hit q
man. what for?" asked. We've just
finished an amicabIe lunch of apple pie ana
certified milk. and we're like brothers.
can't so up and hit man I've Just been
drinking innocent milk with. My Gawd this
is cold-blooded business" But you were
angry at him yesterday" persisted the d.
rector. We'll am still mad? I don't feel
mad. but II you say am"
The motion pictures work in q mysterious
way their wonders to perform. Yesterday
out on location what do you think sawf
Another company was doing something bib
licaL Up drove sumptuous Fiat and out
hoped couple of Pharisees. Next fol-
lowed a humble Ford. 1t stopped and Joha
the Baptist alighted
Thursday.
Getting the props for these pictures Il
helmet today, not real helmet. but some
thing that would be funny in the pictures.
I told the property man what wanted, ana
asked him to bring me a Bridget's Delight
He smiled and went away. After hunting
all day one OF his men came back and said
he couldn't find what I wanted anywhere
In town. "oh. never mind" ! said. '.just
bring me a little dishpan.s
Got letter from william Juniors mother
today. and she says he's coming out to ina
out II ! really do get up in the morning or
send my double over to work.
Monday.
Out on location at Santa Barbara Start
ID TO work at s o'clock this morning ana
was shot at sundown. No reflection on my
work, the director said.
Have discovered that the fog up here runs
,n schedule Consult the weather man every
lay, and II md the fog Is not due TO de-
part until IL o'clock 1 bury my alarm clock
md stay in bed. Went back to bed IN my
makeup one morning. II was before /
ound out about the schedule. and the cham
'ermaid thought had gone. She came Ia.
'ausht one glimpse OF my awful face,
hought was dead and mortified. and ran
tut yelling for doctor.
BY the bye. the director asked ms this
morning whether ! wanted a double. Yea
told him. every morning from to 10"