Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-04-28

from the street with geranium borderet
walk leading to the porch.
Its interesting on the inside, too sale
Joe. Lets go in" We stepped firmly III
to the porch, opened the front door and
were confronted by--nothing. That is
there were timbers propping UP the walls
of the house; otherwise merely stubbly
open space. The house was carefully
built and painted shell. The two large
trees that gave it shade--sycamores,
think-had been brought from miles away
The geraniums were in buried pots. The
lawn was transplanted sod. The brown
house was a set built in few hours for
Rupert Hughes play, "The Old Nest
The village of which it was part had been
peopled for a day. Grass was now growing
in the streets. The studio spaces of Cali
fornia are filled with deserted villages. 1t
surprised me that they were allowed to
stand after their mission was accomplished.
but I was told that with a little change
here and there most of them can be used
again and again for other pictures.
Beyond this melancholy Main Street we
came upon high arched wall and turret
with window and balcony. 1t was here
that Will Rogers doubled for Romeo. He
jumped backward from the balcony to
landing net. then from the landing net
to the ground With the film reversed and
the landing net cut out he seemed in the
picture to spring from the ground to the
balcony to greet his Juliet.
Next we traversed a street in Pekin
constructed for Gouverneur Morriss photo.
play, "A Tale of Two Worlds" For Boxer
ahaJe bu Cht.
nese were hired at $3.50 a day-the high
cost of Chinese being one of the reasons
why it takes so much money to make a
movie spectacle. Nearby was Mississippi
River town. created for "The Sin Flood"
A stroll along the levee brought us to the
Five Points of New York as that spot ap-
peared in 1869, reconstructed with the help
of old prints for the Gertrude Anterior
picture, Don't Neglect Your Wife" Its
crazy groggeries, drunken lampposts and
rounded cobbles were all made on the lot.
Thence we passed into a street of New
York's East Side, which even the Hon.
Louis Zeltner would o. X. The Yiddish
shop signs were authenticated by rabbi
from Los Angeles. This street was utilized
in Hungry Hearts," There are twenty or
thirty acres of these strangely neighbor.
ing communities-al1 the world and Its
fantasies In Goldwyns back yard. They
are much more fascinating to the stranger
than Coney Island, the only trouble being
that the stranger can't get in any more
than he can get behind the scenes. in a
theater.
10000 Actors Rest
In Card Catalogue
A glance into the casting Office completed
our visit to the Goldwyn establishment.
There they let us look into filing cabinets
where 10000 men, women and children are
card indexed, each with photograph of
the subject in his most alluring pose.
These are the persons registered for en-
ployment in the pictures as players Of
parts, bit people or extras.
The next stop on the grand tour was
Charley Chaplin's studio in Hollywood.
On the way we passed several others, in.
Guiding the massive colonial mansion of
Thomas H. Ince and the steep rooted, many
colored, many angled, moated old mill Of
Irving Willat. This curious structure is
said to be the House that Jack Built. II