The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-15
Big Response When Call Was
Issued for Volunteers.
SHOOT new SCENES TONIGHT
"The Beach of Dreams viii Be
Screened Today.
Real Money Contained in En-
yelopes Distributed Free.

$1,000 ~-~-
feminine extras had no one to dance |
with in the party scene he was stag |
ing as a part of THE Girl From To- |
peka" He called for volunteers and |
as usual got a response but the re-
spouse was not big enough. so he had |
to walk down into one of the boxes
where he drafted the other dancing |
man needed.
After the screen, on which Home |
Keeping Hearts had been shown, was |
lifted from the stage, the curtain arose |
and Topeka for the first time saw
what a set in a motion picture |
studio really looks like. Then Di- |
| rector LIE Witt sprang a surprise on |
| the gang out front. He turned the |
brilliant lights across the footlights |
Land the camera man cranked a few |
| turns of his crank getting a complete |
picture of every one of the audience
and the house was packed at that.
All Enjoyed the Movies.
Perhaps the persons most at ease
during the hour that followed, were
| those out front, but there was scarce
a one of them but either audibly or
| to himself envied those on the stage,
as self conscious and embarrassed as
| the latter appeared and must have
been. With a jazz orchestra. furnish
ing the atmosphere, thirty couples of
TOpeka'S best dancers, Whirled and
| grated before the tense of the camera
and soon all were at home, just as
| much as if they had been on the ball
room floor of the Country club-or at
| SteinbergS 1t was then that Director
LIE Witt began shooting his stuff. First
several hundred feet of the dancing
were taken and then little individual
| episodes of the dance were rehearsed
and shot.
Virginia Miller and Henry Anton,
| once stepped out of the crowd. How
| hot it is, pantomimed, Henry. YES"
| isn't it, agreed Virginia with en-
phatic mods. "See that nice little nook
| over there, let's sit this next one OUT
| says Henry, and, Virginia agreeing,
| they walk off gaily engaged in each
| others conversation.
I. j. Henry came elbowing his way
out of the press of dancers. Thank
| goodness I got rid of that old battle
| AK he declared to the eye of the
| camera, and he expressed his disgust
| most emphatically. Just then Lillian
Malmstrom, also breaks away from
| the crowd. She is the Battle AK" She
tries to make hit with Mr.. Henry.
| but he repulses her and goes off dis
| gustedly, trailed by his imam hunter"
Virgil Lawrence and Margaret
Morns halt their dancing. Virgil also
has noticed how hot it IS, his actions
tell you. In addition his pantomime
| indicates that he has discovered what
a lot of Topekans would like to know.
He suggests that Margaret go with
| him where he will purchase tall
| one" She laughs and wriggles her
| shoulders. He tries to stop it but the
shoulder provocatively continues wrig-
CLING and he follows her off the stage,
| whether to further investigate the
shoulder or to guide it toward that
| tall one the audience is left to guess
until the next episode"
All Film Is Used.
Just then the camera man discov-
/ q a
| his camera and a halt is called until
| he can refill the machine. During the
| intermission, the other camera man
| discovers that something is the matter
/ with the scene in which Henry Anton
| and Virginia Miller appeared. This
| is retaken, just as scenes are retaken
/ time and time again out in Hollywood.
/ Then Director LIE Witt discovers that
| it is nearly time for Home Keeping
| Hearts to take the screen and the
| shooting is postponed for period and
an enthusiastic audience leaves the
| theater, making way for another just
| as large that wants to get in on the
fun. I
Oh, that is only a part of what
| went on. 1t is the little incidents, the
| unrehearsed things that make the fun
| for all. Before last nights first ses-
sion was over, every one in the build
ing. felt that he was helping in the
making of Topeka'S first movie play.
The crowd out front and the crowd
| on the stage were working together
and each enjoying the others mis-
takes and enthusiasm. They'll all be
back again tonight and maybe there
/ friends whom they have told of the
fun to be had, so it's a safe bet that
they will all come early.
New Show Every Night.
"Home Keeping Hearts" the fea-
ture picture shown last night. will not
be shown again. The Kiwanis club
! that is putting this affair on for the
/ benefit of the Provident Association,
wants every one to see new show ev-
cry time he goes. This afternoon ana
tonight, 1.-The Beach of Dreams" one
of the successes of the year, will be
taking their rests. Wednesday after
noon and night the very latest and
best of Corrine Griffith's pictures,
| moral Fiber will be the feature.
So as to be sure that everyone who
attends and assists in making the fund
for the Provident association as large
as possible, the Kiwanians, are max
ing it worth while to attend every
performance. The distribution of
$4,000 in merchandise coupons, be-
gan with yesterday afternoons mat
inee To the surprise of even the
Kiwanians, some of the coupons found
in the envelopes the customers
picked out of the basket a the door
1
received a >oupon good for less than
ten cents and there were twenty-four
persons who picked out envelopes in
which were 81 bills. The latter had
been put into the basket by the XII
wanians. A new batch of these en-
velopes will be put into the basket
for every matinee performance this
week.
Those Who Received 81 Bills.
/ Those who received the dollar bills
| at yesterdays show were as follows:
D. W. Harold, 1143 Lane; Mrs. Walter
Wilson, 1919 Tyler; Jessie Watt. 1929
| Polk: Arlene Baker. 119 East Eighth
Reba Whitehair, Sixth Avenue hotel:
Mrs. W. Burruss, 40 East Fourteenth;
Lena Carper. 1000 Grand avenue.
DauT PENNINGTON Ta95 NTadieo,,. ~