The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-05-28
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! Studying the habits of drug menus
!, is not a very edifying occupation, but
in order to give aStrue conception OF
. one of the four characters which she
viii portray in "Eyes of Youth" her
next big Offering, Clara kimball
Young has found. it necessary to
study intimately the ways and habits
of addicts to morphine, heroin and
other drugs.
In Eyes of Youth" the heroine,
in gazing thru q crystal into the
future. finds that If she marries one
of her suitors she will be later an
outcast and gradually forced into the
lower levels of society, finally becom-
ing q drug user. In the play, this
descent into the life of the slums Is
shown with Miss Young In the lead
ing role, but as the time approached
for the portrayal Of the scenes 1t was
found that no one about the carson
Studios, where the play is being film
ed, numbered a drug addict among
his list of acquaintances, and there
fore it would have been matter
OF more or less guess work as to just
how an unfortunate would behave.
Albert Parker, directing the Eyes
OF Youth" was busily securing the
city in search of a drug user who
would come to the front and give the
proper information when Miss Young
decided that the best way to find out
would be to study drug users at first
hand. To that end the services OF
Detectice O'Brien, probably the best
known expert on the drug traffic In
California, were enlisted and, with
Miss Young, several Of the most no.
torious drug users in Los Angeles
were visited, including men and wo-
men In all walks Of life, with the
result that when Miss Young pOr-
trays this phase of the story "Eyes OF
Youth" her work will be educating
as we'll as enlightening, because it
will be based truthfully upon the
manners and customs of the unfort-
innate people she visited.
In one of the last scenes of Eyes
of YOUTH" an entire New York block
was built upon the twenty thousand
feet Of flooring space at the Carson
Studios, Inc. The Forty-sixth street
side of the Ritz-Carlton was produced
in the most infinite detail.
1t is that part of the story which
shows the heroine, who has been an
outcast by her husband and has be-
come drug addict, haunting the en-
trance of the big hotel and taking
peculiar delight in watching the
well-dressed women enter and leave
the cafe.
This great set was designed by
John NJ. Voshell, of the Carson stu
dios, and before the ponderous mas
onry was erected, it was necessary
to construct concrete supports be-
meath the stage to hold the tremen-,
dous weight upon it. An entire street
was laid and paved upon the stage,
with cement sidewalks, street lights,
even to the manholes in the side
walks being practical, and the corner
fire plugs. The designers worked
from several hundred dollars worth
of photographs taken of the Ritz
Carlton combined with practical
knowledge of its architecture. When
completed, the hotel front covered a
frontage Of more than four hundred
feet of practical stone facing and in
marquise of beautifully wrought iron.
The scene showed the arrival OF
guests at the hotel cafe during vio-
lent winter rain storm, the rain be-
ing driven at high pressure by high
wind At one time during the shoot
ing of the scene. more than twenty
automobiles and limousines were
tfraWn up in front Of the hotel, while
the occupants, clad in evening
~ h,,r ioA
downpour into the broad doorways.
The result, as will be shown in Eyes
of Youth" defes detection, and so
carefully has this big scene been
worked out that it is absolutely i'm
possible to tell that it was done upon
an interior stage in a California stu
do instead of on Forty-sixth street.
Miss Young makes her appearance