Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-09-12
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SOCIETY FOLK IN MOVIES.
Society people of several large
American cities appear in the support
OF Emmy Wehlen in The Duchess
OF Doubt the fve-part Metro Won
derplay presented by B. A. Rolls and
directed by George D. Baker, to be
shown at the Dreamland Theatre on
Friday, Sept. IA. Many Of the scenes
for this comedy drama OF the screen
were made in famous winter resorts
of Florida, at Palm Beach, St. August
Inc and Jacksonville, and guests at
the fashionable hotels showed the
greatest interest in the production
Many OF them acted as extra peO-
ple' in the great ballroom scene, and
in other scenes where ensembles are
used. Mr.. Baker found them easy 20
direct, willing and anxious to obey in
structions, and they have added much
to the distinction Of many OF the
scenes in The Duchess OF Doubt"
Emmy Wehlen as Glover Ames in
this feature screen play is mistaken
for Duchess, and decides to enjoy
the attentions that a real Duchess
would receive. She has fashionable
society at her feet. One of her
Slaves" is young man who boldly
proclaims that he is nothing but
rlbbOn-clerk However, he isn't and
that fact forms the foundation for
one OF the most attractive screen
stories yet produced by Metro.
Two automobiles dash at hair-rais-
ing speed thru the streets of city
The smaller car, slightly in the lead,
contains young man and woman. The
pursuing, heavier car, is gaining rap
idly, and the four men who are rid.
Ing in it, fire at the fugitives from
time to time. So desperate are the
stakes that no thought is taken Of
the police. The cars round the street
corners at speed which threatens to
capsize them, but righting themselves
seemingly by miracle, they speed
on. They approach bridge. The
first machine speeds across, the driv-
er ignoring the guards who signal 10
Him to stop. AS the second car ap-
.'roaches the guards signal still more
furiously. 1t is a jack-knife bridge,
and the machinery has been started
to open the draw. Too late the occu-
pants OF the car see their danger. The
chauffeur jams on the brakes, but
either they fail to work, or the me-
chanism is destroyed by the momen-
tum. The draw is half open, but so
terrific is the speed that the incline
offers insufficient resistance. Like a
squirrel climbing tree, it shoots ur
~.-up-up. chorus of shouts The
rtge car dives off, and drops fifty feet
unto the water.
= What is it? An impossible piece Of
,>.fction? AS fiction it might seem i'm
possible, but Herbert Brenon, in hi:
Selznick4Pictures production, "The
Lone Wolf has shown that it is no
impossible. The identical scene, &C
ton for action, is shown in his scree1
version of Louis Joseph Vance's pop
ular romance. For Herbert Breno1
does not believe in taking anything
If photodrama calls for an episode
which is not humanity possible, tina
episode is struck out of the manu-
script
Zone of the things at which l ain
in producing photodrama,' says MI
Brenon, "is this-to make no seen
concerning which the audience wi
ask, How was that done?~I do NJ
want to shine as trick photographs
or rather an inventor of photograph
tricks. Every scene must be so rec
that it is above suspicion. There
<<,<but one way in which this can be a.
chmplished-that is by Photographic
only actualities, not dummies, mi!
iatures' or models
For example, l saw a picture ono
in which a swordsman appears to d
capitate an adversary with blow I
his weapon. l think this sent no shi
er down any of the thousands
spines which have been present
showings of the picture. Instea
whatever other reality there was
the production was Immediately d
strOyed, for the mind was immediat
ly warned, thru it's common sens
that the thing was preposterous,
after all, this was only picture.