The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-13

ever, first and always the gentle
man he offered Miss Daley mag
unanimous gesture of oUtstretched
hands. Instantly the poor girls
face brig-t ,ned with a joyous
smile, a happy cry trem' d upon
her lips as she ran to his arms. He
EMBODIED her, with a fond hand
ground her features into the shout
der of his smoking jacket, ani
turned his own toward the camera,
working them into a cast of bitter
anguish.
Gently rescuing herself, Miss
Daley discovered Egbert's hat and
stick, turned TO him and looked him
up and down with damning horror,
audibly protesting: But, Egbert'
you are going OUT"
Evidently Miss Daley knew any
number of reasons why he ought 20
stay in, but she made the grave mis-
take of trying to hold him with af-
fection's bond, throwing herself
upon his neck and winding her
arms tightly around it. And that
was too much: Egbert made it
clear tat, while he'd stand for a
lot from a woman to whom he was
everything, there was such a thing
as piling it on too thick. And,
against her frenzi-d resistance, he
grasped her frail young wrists.
brutality broke her embrace, and
flung her from him. She fell
against the table, threw back her
head TO show the pretty lines of
her thr oat, clutched convulsively 1T
her collar bone, and subsidized upon
the floor in a fit of heartbroken
sobbing; while Egbert cailously
took his hat, clapped it on his head, |
and marched out by door in the
rear wall. his dignity but slightly
impaired by the fact that thu nat
was several sizes too large and
would have extinguished him COM
plenty if it hadn't been for his
noble ears.
Without pause Mr.. Laughlin
doubled round to the front of the
set, threw the waiting actor a !
brusque See, Tommy? Get what I !
mean?" and 1couraged Miss Daley
Mr.. Laughlin clapped gleeful
Now go on, right through sne
scene"
Miss Daley, lying in complete |
collapse, with her head to the cam
era, v--ithed up on an elbow,
planted her hands upon the floor
and by main strength pushed her
aving shoulders away from it,
keeping a tortured face turned 10
the camera throughout. Then she
got her second wind, caught hold
Of the edge of tie table. pulled her
self up, looked round wildly, real
lied that she was n deserted wom-
an, saw her hat by Tape hanging
on the back of a morris chair hx
Ludwig BaunLann, seized il, rushed
to the door by which Egbert had
escaped, and threw herself out in
pursuit
with That's wonderful, Alma, dear.
hands
Fine. Alma, wonderful! You're
simply marvellous today, dear. Now,
Tommy, run through it just once
with Alma, and then well shoot"
Mr.. Lane hustled about and
found chairs for Lucinda and her
friends, upon which they composed
themselves to atch Tommy inter-
pref Mr.. King Laughlin's tuition
IN the art OF actinng for the screen.
To the best of Lucindas judg-
ment, however, the greater part of
Mr.. Laughlfn's efforts had meant 10
Tommy precisely nothing at all. Be
yond the rudimentary mechanics IF
ceptible attempt to follow his pat
the physical action sketChed m Nv !
the director, Tommy made no per-
tern, and disregarding entirely It's
conventional but effective business.
embellished the scene instead with |
business which was, such as 1t was.
all his own, or more accurately that
of d -ad era of the speaking stage. |
And when Mr.. Laughlin tran
GULLY apprn-o1 Is performance
and announced that they w--li |
forthwith shoot it." Lucinda began
to wonder if there were possibly !
something wrong with her own
powers of observation.
But" she protested to Mr.. Lane, I
'he didn't play the scene as Mr.. !
Laughlin did,