Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-30
very different type of woman who
is the vampire in real life"
At the Majestic.


II don't consider It strange on |
Fairbanks part, for believe he is |,
right when he asks me not to d.
vulge the whole story Of the Sec
ond big production he made for
the Big Four" said the manager
Of the Majestic theatre today when |
questioned regarding the telegram
he received to keep the story of
When the Clouds Roll By" Sc
cret.
you know that this is only the
second independently produced pic
ture that Fairbanks has made since
the inception Of United Artists, in
which he with Mary Pickford,
Charlie Chaplin and David Griffith
determined to make pictures that
would stand singly and solely on
their merits. From what he &C.
lcomplished in the first picture, and
from what he has tipped us OF to
in this one, it must undoubtedly be
the biggest, most strenuous and
most spectacular production he has
ever made"
When questioned further as to
what he had been tipped OF to. the
manager divulged just little of
the secret. There's one thing~I
know I'm not doing wrong in tell
ing and that is that the basic
theme of the picture is supersti-
ton. It always appeared to pro-
ducers to be a'particularly danger
Gus subject to tackle. but Doug
made up his mind, / understand,
that his second Big Four picture
was going to be out Of the ordin-
airy and he struck on that subject.
Moreover, he didn't 60 out and get
someone to write the story for
him. he did it. himself. and when
the finished article was handed to
his staff, they were astonished be-
yond words with the things he
wanted to do. Some we're so SEEM
,ingly impossible and others so
stupendous that they all said it
can't be done
We'll, Doug said it could be
done, and 1t was There wasn't a
stunt cut out, in fact some were
added as the story was in progress
of production, and the plan was
carried out on the most elaborate
scale that was ever conserved.
"Doug's story took him to a
; small town in the west for the fin
ishing touches, and when his
scouts couldn't find the kind OF
town he wanted he demanded that
they build one. And they built a
whole town. two miles square
along the side of hill, on the tor
of which they were compelled to
build a reservoir into which was
pumped over a million gallons Of
water.
"It all seemed SO idiotic at first
that some Of his staff believed that
Doug was going too far, but when
he explained that he had left the
finish of the story untold to his a.
sociates, because he didn't want to
scare them before they came to it
: he announced with glee one day
; that the dam was to burst and the
town was to be flooded. And so il
was. OF the more than a thousand
. people who were working in the
1scenes at that time. hundreds hat
narrow escapes. Just those two
, things alone have convinced mt
| that this will be Doug's Creates
, production, and I'm only too happy
r that it is to come to my theatre.
r Superstition interests every one
and that fact alone makes the pos
) sibilities Of this picture far above
5 what strenuous Doug has evel
done. The picture will be shown IL
my theatre tonight and Wednes
! day."
At the Black Hawk.
Elsie Ferguson, the beautiful
1 Aircraft star, will be seen as ,
! Partisan newspaper reporter in hel
latest photoplay, His Partisan
;. Wife," which will be shown at thu
: Black Hawk theatre tonight. Thil
4 Is a delightful story adapted b!