The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-12
MuRRETTE

While you're praising Charles Ray
for the remarkably true-to-life small
town atmosphere of Red Hot Dol
lars" his new picture at the Murrette
Theatre this week, don't forget Julien
Josephson, who wrote the story.
Mr.. Josephson is genial jack-of-all-
trades who drifted into motion pic
lures by mere chance. He knows coun-
try villages like book. because he
has lived in one most Of his life. He
started as a rural merchant, conduct
ing the general store in his native
town in southern Oregon. In that way
he earned enough to put himself
through Stanford University. Gradu-
ating. he took up store-keeping again,
but tried to inject into it some of the
ultra-modern features that he had
picked up in college. The result was
financial failure.
A flyer in politics shortly afterward
proved oliver and Mr. Josephson
journeyed to San Francisco and got
a job as clerk in a shoe store. All the
while he had been dabbling in Htera-
ture, though with little success, chiefly
because he was writing about faraway
people and things. He finally reyers-
ed his tactics and tried a story about
the folks he knew back in Oregon.
Some one read it and suggested Thorn
as H. Ince as a possible buyer MIR.
Ince accepted it instantly as vehicle
for Charles Ray and shortly afterward
Mr.. Josephson joined the Ince staff,
turning out such Ray stories as THE
Egg Crate Wallop," Crooked Straight"
and Red Hot Dollars
MURRAY
A subterranograph, an indicator on
the principle of the seismograph, with
a needle that wavers in registering
foot shocks instead Of tracing line
on a chart, was installed in an under
ground cellar at Bayside, l.. l., in order
to take certain important scenes in
"The Flaming Clue" which Is showing
at the Murray theater.
The ground around the old Taylor
estate was threaded with a network
Of fine wires, which recorded the foot
step shocks of person walking about
the place. 1t was an expensive pro-
position, but Vitagraph believes in
carrying out every detail with &C
curacy that films may be instructive
as well as entertaining
In connection with this 1t might be
added that the underground cellar was
constructed according to a description
of famous coupterfeiters' den found
in police archives. The director con-
stanuy consulted detective in order
that real atmosphere might be injected
into the production, and the results
are pronounced by police officials as
the most realistic ever filmed.
Harry It. Morey, who plays the stel-
lar role, equipped himself for the part
by apprenticing himself to a detect
i've for period Of "a hours. After that
experience Mr.. Morey declared that
he had lost all desire to become a de-
tective.
WASHINGTON.
"The Woman and the Puppet,"
adapted from the stage success by the
celebrated French authors, Pierre
Louys and Pierre Frandaie, is Geral-
dine Farrar's latest Goldwyn starring
vehicle. This picture will be shown at
the Washington Theatre, beginning
Sunday. The plot is laid in Spain and
centers around Concha, a beautiful
and wilful Spanish cigarette girl. A
rich man brides her mother and en-
deavors to use Concha as a toy for
his whims, but the girl uses her own
initiative and leaves her home to
dance in a wharf cafe. When the rich
man at length discovers her, it is to
find her dancing, half dressed, for
some English travelling gentleman. Don
Mateo can no longer believe her to
his advances. She convinces him that
his suspicion Is wrong and unwar-
ranted. Jealousies, quarrels and tricks