Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-29

| thousand OF them inside the tent.
Only four hundred were on the COM
panys payroll.
The crowd moved about obedlent |
to the commands of the director
l often wonder why a movie d.
rector uses up so much voice. III
/ seems as tho he tries 10 get whole |
! lifetime OF vocal sound into one sem
! tence. He speaks thru u megaphone. !
He wears out great many mega |
phones during the course of one pic
| ture. Even when he wants to tell YOU
something confidentially, he puts the
large end of the megaphone next TO
your good ear and bawls at you. His
whisper Is like a nincty-mile gale thru
large mess of tight telephone wires
and when he speaks aloud, IL In n sub
dued voice, he can easily hail n Fifth
avenue bus away over on the other
side Of the Hudson. They are all
I alike. II these directors ever had to
stop directing movies and were set To
directing envelopes, l am quite sure
they would explode.
! Stars Double Stars.
|. The clowns performed and the
I trained animals performed, and then
came the piece e resistance. the star
riding bareback. This means that the
horse is barebacked. But the idea
goes both ways. The rider Is bare
backed. too. OF course. the whole
thing, the whole mess OF things all
over the state OF New Jersey, hinge
on this one scene, the girl riding the
horse.
She came out adorned in one OF
J those mosquito netting skirts which
was almost short enough to be stylish
on Fifth avenue; and they helped her
on the horse, and she skidoodled
} around the ring while Simon Legrec,
the ringmastor, cracked his whip and
the clowns cracked their jokes and
} the audience cracked its peanuts. But
there was catch In 1t.
Tho lady on the horse is not the
star at all, but her double. That is to
say. the lady of the horse had the
same kind OF knees that the star had.
They don't put million-dollar movie
stars on horses-not while the Rolls
Royces hold out. They hire IA double
for this stunt.
The double was not allowed to ex-
pose her face to the camera She must
, be looking off the other way, as tho
she was expecting the mail man to
come with a check from n magazine
publisher. She had to be a good
actress to do this-to express the i'm
possible anticipation.
Keep your face from the camera"
, commanded the director
IT was perfectly good face, too
, but 1t was out of the picture. The
, lady's back and her shins were need
ed, but her face was turned toward
the wall. That was done so the folks
out I'm Oshkosh won't know IL isn't the
star who is riding the horse when
, they pay their jitney to see the filum
at the Elite flicker theater.
, Clever stuff, all right.
, Then the lady who did the riding
jumped off the horse and turned to
face the camera. When she Jumped
off the horse she was the double.
When she faced the camera she was
the star, as natural as life and twice
as handsome. If the lady on the
: horse didn't get out OF the picture
/, quickly enough, they cut her out
chance on earth. If they forgot to
cut her out then and there, they could
, cut her out six months or six years
later.
This was the stars show. Nobody
was going to jump in and steal her
stuff or crab her act-While there was
a pair of shears left in the state OF
/, New Jersey
3 Neck Decorations Wasted.
t Then, after the stunt was all done
T and the cheering had died down, there
L NdS SOlItlHlnS WTOHG Wltn IL, ana IL
J had to be done all over again. They
used up enough celluloid in filming
l this scene to keep the states OF Kan
I sas and Iowa in celluloid collars for
} sixteen years.
Getting your back into the movies
is one thing. Getting your face into
the movies is another. They are as
far apart as Paris and Potsdam.
The street parade was filmed in
| m U1 q al ofr frh
looked sufficiently used up to fit the
rural setting of the drama. Houses
were marked, circus posters put up
and other changes made. An inno-
cent-looking residence was built the
year before Dobbs discovered his
famous ferry bore a sign, Hotel" a
former blacksmith shop masqueraded
as the Town Hail."
The crowd came just as i. does to
regular circus parade, and 1t was a
regular circus parade. The only diff
ference was that the parade lasted
from sunup to sundown. 1t had to
be shot time and time again.
Perhaps when 1t came down the
street the trained gorilla disregarded
instructions and looked into the cam
era. and the whole parade had to be
done over. The one objectionable sin
is looking into the camera. 1t is moth
allowed to do this but the star, and
the star doesn't attend parades The
double rode all parades. and when she
got within block of the camera she
began to turn her back, instinctively.
The double did lot Of work in this
picture. 1t Is task supreme for any
woman to turn her face away from
the camera. Few women can do 1t,
even under instructions. But the star
also did some heavy work. 1t was
some backbreaking job to carry that
salary home every Saturday night.
Some of Sousas Stripes.
Well, the parade came down the
street and genuine Italian ban/
seated on top Of a lemon meringue
bandwagon played a tune. II played a
rough sketch of The Stars and
Stripes Forever" Anybody could tell
at a glance that the band was playing
that tune. You could tell by the way