The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1919-03-21
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WASHINGTON,

The filmatization of this great nov
ell has been a year in the making
The author, Harold Bell Wright, wrote
the scenario for the pictures and has
directed every detail His associates,
consisting of actors, actresses, artists,
photographers, have numbered over
two hundred people, not to mention
the people shown in the mob scenes,
also there are large number of live
stock used. Horses, cattle, one hun
dred and fifty sheep, collie dogs,
birds, and what not. This company
has been together year. Sometimes
In California, other times in the Ozark
mountains of Missouri Mr.. Wright,
who is great stickler for detail, has
spared no expense in his efforts to
keep the ensemble as nearly like the
original as possible, throughout the
entire time it has taken to complete
the picture. For instance the flock
Of sheep was first secured in the
Ozarks. When the work was finished
there, 1t was thought that the sheep
would be left there. Here Mr.. Wright
voiced an objection. There was one
scene to be taken in California which
must have sheep for background
SO the original sheep actors had to
travel to California to appear in that
particular scene before they could h
dismissed. A very effective detail
and only one Of the multiture which
help to make the Shepherd of the
Hills" a truly great picture.
Few People know that Charles Ray
the Ince star in Paramount pictures
who is appearing in "The Girl Dodg
er" at the Murray theater today and
Saturday, is a fine draughtsman and
began life in an architects Office. He
is frequently able to make designs fol
his sets and is an extremely tasteful
interior decorator, whose advice is
often sought and made use of by the
studio technicians.
No attraction this season has en-
listed the widespread attention which
is just now being accorded to the
forthcoming engagement of Margaret
Anglin in her brilliant English comedy
"Billeted," which is announced fol
Saturday matinee and night. March
%, at the Murray. "Billeted' is th
work of F. Tennyson Jesse and H. N
Harwood 1t ran for upwards of g
year in London, and Miss Anglir
played a three months engagement
with it in New York where it might
have remained for a long period ha(
| it not been for Mrs. Anglin's previous
contracted booking in Chicago ant
Boston. 1t is only in the broadest
senseof the term that "Billeted" is tC
be regarded as war play, for the
shadow of the great struggle falls
| lightly upon it. 1t is essentially light
entertainment and deals with some as
poets of the war from the farcia
standpoint rather than the dramatic
1t is a brilliant comedy with a wal
| flavor added by way of spice. Th'
| billet in question lis at the home of &
|. woman whose husband had deserted
| her several years before the rise O
the curtain. The action of the story
passes in small English village ant
| the circumstances set the village
| tongues a wagging. The wanderin,
husband turns up as one of the Off
| GERS to be billeted, and then the com
plimations pile upon each other IL
/ rapid succession until the fall of thu
, final curtain, when the husband ant
| wife find themselves again in eacl
| others arms, and there is second re
nance in the household to make tn
| billeting thorough success.