Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-15
FILM MAKING
NOT ALL FUN

GOOD story is told in regard


production featuring Omer l.. Lock.
lear, who performed many thrilling
stunts at the Nebraska State fair lasi
year.
During the filming of this produc
ton it.was necessary for Milton 5
Moore, camera man, TO gain occa'
sionally stationary positions while ii
the air in order to insure better pho
tography.
When the merits of the picture
lwcre being discussed recently among
members of the Concord club, there
were several who denied that such a
fea, of remaining stationary in the
all could be executed. The conver-
sation was waxing warm when 10
cal aviator stepped forward and said
that he had made flight only re
Gently over the city, and having con-
siderable time on his hands, he mau-
aged to gain position directly over
the steepie OF st. Mary Magdelenc
church at Nineteenth and Dodge
streets. and remained in fixed po-
s1tion for 40 minutes, in stiff
50-mile wind, not varying more than
| 10 feet in any direction.
| The truth of the aviators state
ment was verified when CommiS-
s;oner Dean Ringer remarked that
on a certain day recently he had re-
ccived several telephone calls IN re-
gard to an airplane that was above
the church OF st. Mary Magdelene.
| One excited resident i'll that district
Informed Dean Ringer that al avia-
tor, who had been i'll the air directly
ever his house for several minutes,
must have run out Of gas for he
could not come down.
Realizing the great possibilities
OF China, Prizma has made its lat
est release under the title OF The
Coolie,' which the Republic will
distribute.
China has very aptly been called
The Sleeping Giant OF the East,
With an unbrokcn history extending
back TO ancient Athens. Ninevah
and Tyre, it is the only one OF the
ancient countries to retain its lden-
tity today. Fettered by superstl-
ton, bound by foolish, but to them
sacred customs, it has only recently
succeeded in partially rousing from
slumber centuries long. The popu-
lation of China today is over 400
100000 and of this number more
than 100000 are coolies. This
lowly type performs all the laborlous
tasks Of country where horses,
motors and labor saving devices arc
almost unknown Their pay is only
4 cents day and, due to their rack
ing toll, their lives are comparative
ly short
"The Coolie" i. a most interesting
and intimate picture Of the Chinese
laborers engaged in their daily
work, along the water front or. in
streets Gathering with Oriental ac
tivity. It shows many OF their
strange methods and customs, as
well as the foreign sections OF the
great Oriental cities, such as Hong
Kong.
While Charles B. Cochran issues
statement after statement concern
ing plans to stage the Jack Demp-
sey-Georges Carpenter scrap, the
champion works on serenely out in
the sunshine of Los Angeles, max
ing movie for the Pathe company
that will show Jess Wizards con-
querer to the film fans as the super
six herb of l5-chapter serial called
Daredevil Jack"
Between times, when not busy
mauling the gang of villains, or be-
ing the little Romeo on the job to
the blond heroine, Jack has been
"paling' around with the kings and
queens Of the movies and reports
have it that he is having a "sweli'
time. At first Jack felt that the
world was all wrong, He felt as
much at ease as a Mexican at The
Hague when the director pilotcd
him into a big barn of building
with a glass roof and then issued
some orders about makeup that was
all Greek to Jack. But Jack picked
up his ears when he heard the di-
rector say cts going to be a long
shot, so make his eyes pretty black.
and he felt more groggy than Fred
Fulton after the big plasterer had
been in the ring with Dempsey IS
seconds, when a little brunette
walked up to him and started to
smear his eyebrows and eyelashes
with a black grease pencil.
But all that has been forgotten
now by Dempsey and they say he
walks up in front of the camera and
pulls a Douglas Fairbanks smile
without thinking twice about II.
And he even appears to feel lone
some when his face is not prettled
up with grease paint. He has also
learned to be a little more gentle
with the supers, so now it is not so
hard getting villains for his picture.
Through all the film heroism
Dempsey is reported to be keeping
in mind the fact that he is the cham
pion. He is working hard, gets up
early and reports to the studio and
is back hitting the hay every night
when the curfew rings at 10 o'clock,
When "The Forbidden Woman,"
Clara Kimball Young's next pro
duction is seen on the screen, pat
rons of houses at which this fea-
ture is shown, will have their first
glimpse OF what is technically
termed "quadruple" toning. That
IS, four colors blended on one
scene. Many of the scenes in this
picture called for expert hand tint
ing and toning, and the colorlng
process at the Los Angeles labora-
tories, while necessarily hard TO Sc
cure, have been accomplished and
show to extreme advantage in the
Triple toning is not rare,