Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-08
DIRECTS ACTORS
ON OCEAN BED.


nounced last night. At San Pedro
Harbor, Cal, Mr.. Tourneur de-
scended in diving suit to the bot
tom of the Pacific to direct battle
between divers in search of a chest
on sunken wreck through approx
imately 900 feet of film, in his new
picture, THE White Heather" News
] o. the startling feat was Suppressed
until Photographic experts had pro-
nounced successful the pictures TAX
en- by camera men inside the Will
Hanson submarine tube.
My presence during the taking of
the underwater scenes was abso-
lutely essential" said Mr.. Tourneur.
II. would be impoI pie to explain
action lasting an entire reel to the
cast on the surface of the water and
I expect them to carry it out under
extraordinary conditions on the sea
bottom. 1t was far simpler for me
to stay with them and stop the
action where necessary to explain
what was needed by gestures-or,
in many cases, by ordering every
one back to the surface for a talk.
The brilliant light rays from the
bell enabled the camera men to CO.
operate perfectly and saved US from
disturbing fish shadows-also from
attertion by stray sharks.
A director must stay with his
cast wherever the picture is taken
on land, on sea or in the air, as
the treaties say. 1t is the only way
to secure coordinate action on the
! part of all characters"
The chief difficulty in the taking
of this long piece of action under
water was the impossibility of carry
ing or reading the directors script
on the ocean floor. 1t is essential
that the director follow his scenario
to the minutest detail, especially in
prolonged action, SO that Mr.. Tour
neur was forced to memorize his
notes word for word before descend
ing. His success in the undertaking
preludes the probable production of
u,.der water pictures of all types
varying from fanciful mermaid
scenes to spectacular U-boat battles.
Norma Talmadge has become so
imbued with Russian atmosphere
since she finished her latest Select
picture, "The New Moon" Russian
story, in which she is presented by
Joseph NJ Schenck, that she has
taken to the Russian ballet and is
now studying classical dancing and
Russian ballet with Adolf Bolm.
Mr.. Bolm came to this country
with the Serge Diagheleff Ballet
Russo and remained here after Nj
jinski and the others went to Aus
tralia. to produce several operas at
i the metropolitan opera house.
Miss Talmadge is at present TAX
ing two lessons a week, and as soon
AS she is far enough advanced in
her bar work, will form little class,
Including her sister Constance, Anita
Loos and Mercita Esmonde, known
ia private life as Mrs. Harry North
rup, which will take four lessons
week Miss Talmadge insists it is
not a fad and says that ever since
she played the part of the youthful
dancer in former Select picture,
The Safety Curtain" she has been
determined to make serious study
OF the dance and now that the OPP
portunity affords itself. she is going
to take advantage of it,
THE New Moon" will be seen to-
day at the Strand theater.
Wallace Reery, The well-known
motion picture actor who appears
in "The objectionable SIM" prom
inent il: the support Of Blanche
Sweet, will remember his engage
nent II, the picture for long time
land for very practical reasons.
In order that he might "look the
part" he was called upon to play,
Mr.. Beery found it. advisable to
manufacture a scar about six inches
.ong on his left cheek. The "manu-
'acturing' was done with the aid
~ the homely frst-aid preparation
known IS Nu-Skin, the cheek being
pulled into a quicker" to represent
The scar. and held in that position
by the sticky collodion substance
which dries tightly enough to re
semble liquid glue.
The scar was a wonderful success
from the standpoint Of the director,
and Berry screened perfectly or
the part. 1t so happened, however,
that the filming of the Berry scenes
required such long time that when
the actor tried to get back to his
normal cast OF countenance he
found it,-and is still finding tex
trcmely difficult. For days at a
time Mr.. Berry slept with the NJ
Skin on his face. finding it easier to
Eeep the makeup on than to put it
on a-fresh each morning, and when
the time came that he wanted to be
without the scar to secure another
engagement, where comedy face
would fit better than dishgured
enc. the scar" had been so we'll
wrinkled in that it refused to come
cut. AS recently as week ago,
Mr. Beery was making daily trips
to beauty specialist, la Lillian
Russell. to have his beauty ironed."
THE objectionable Sim" has
played with great success at the
Boyd all the past week. and on ac-
count Of the many calls for seats for
the coming week the management
Of the picture has decided to hold
il over for another complete weeks
engagement, starting today.
OF special interest to the public
IS the Typhoon Ocean Breeze"
plant that Ledoux and LeMarquand
ire nov installing at the Empress
.heater in osder to keep their pa
irons cool and comfortable during
the hot weather. This cooling plant
consists of four eight-foot Typhoon
twin blowers and four six foot
Typhoon twin blowers.
These large blowers are being liz
stalled On the roof of the Empress
heater and will be operated by four
Is horsepower variable speed mo-
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