South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-05-15
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70 forget the bitter troubles OF
her domestic life.
LUCINDA DRUCE. Fifth av society
rnatron. accepts an invitation 70
visit the film studio Of the famous
screen star
ALMA DALEY The visit is sug-
tested By
HARRY LONTAINE. who hopes TO
form a motion picture company
n California He n the husband
OF Lucinda's school girl chum.
+ FANNY LONTAINE on the trip
TO the studios on Ninth av. Lu-
cinda muses. over her break with
her husband.
+ BELLAMY Wealth. youth. beauty.
had failed 10 bring happiness 20
their Fifth av. home after five
years OF married life. Belamy's
+ heavy drinking and promiscuous
flirtatiOns had destroyed her early
love for him. And now
/ RICHARD DAUBENEY. her old
sweetheart. had returned 20 New
York. She tried 70 forget her
/ personal affairs watching King
Laughlin. the director. and Tom
/ my shannon. leading man. re-
I hearse a scene.
co ON WITH THE STORY.
"Oh. Tommy shannon" said Mr..
Lane equally" all right.
( he knows what he's doing. All you
I got 10 do is let Tommy shannon
alone and he'll ring the gong every
shot"
But II that's the case. why did
Mr.. Laughlin take so much trouble
20 show him"
We'll you see. It's this way" Mr..
Lane explained: Kings all right,
and Tommy's all right but if Tom
my don't see a scene the way King
shows him. and King starts 10 bawl
him out. why. Tommy'u just walk
off the lot And then where are
you? You can't finish your picture
without your leading man. can YOU ?
And there's maybe hundred
thousand dollars invested in this
/ proposition already. One of the
first things a directors got 10 learn
IN this game is how to handle ac-
tors"
Il see" said Lucinda thought
fully. The way to handle an actor
is to let him have his own way"
You got the idea Mr.. Lane APP
proved without smile.
But suppose she persisted
suppose the leading man insists or
doing something that Decent suit
The part he's supposed to play"
That's easy. What's your con
tinuity writer for ,"
DONE Lruorr-
see. don't even know what a con
tinuity writer is
Why he's the bird that dope.
out the continuity the director
works from-you know. the scene,
in a picture. the way they come out
on the screen: Scene One. Scene
Two and all like that. Well. yot
set your continuity writer. OF
course. and YOU have him make the
change"
You mean you change the story
20 please the actor?"
Sure; its the only thing 10 dc
when YOU got maybe a hundred and
I fifty or two hundred thousand oil
lars huns up i'm picture"
But doesn't that frequently spoil
the story"
"Oh. what's a story" Mr.. Lane
argued reasonably. People don
20 TO see a story when they take III
fn Alma Daley picture. They z,
because they know they &c. thel
moneys worth when they see a Ber
Culp production that's taken from
some big Broadway success an,
costs a hundred and fifty or mayb,
two hundred thousand dollars. Blu
Irincip' ". of course. they 60 to Sc
Alma Daley. because she's the mos
pop lar actress on the screen. an,
makes more money than Mar,
Pickford"
There was a sudden deluging q
the set with waves of artificial Hgh
Of a weird violet tint falling from
great metal troughs overhead an,
beating in horizontally from tn
metal stands or screens. which wer,
now seen 10 be banks OF incandes
cent tubes burning with a blindin.
glare.
Nor was this all: shafts and flood.
Of light Of normal hue were like
wise trained upon the scene from
dozen different points. until tn
blended rays lent almost .lifeHk,
coloring 10 the faces Of the actors
whose makeup had theretofor
seemed CHASTITY and unnatural {,
uninitiated eyes.
"Camerai'
The command came from Kin,
Iaughlin- Lucinda could just hea
a muffled clicking
Coached by Mr.. Iaughlin VIII,
danced nerfoUsly upon the sid
lines. the scene was enacted.
Now. Tommy. come on-slowl,
hold the door-look around
make sure the room is empty-hol,
it-now shut the door-up 70 tn
| Ja5le-don't forget where to pu
YOUR hat-'srigbt. splendid Nov
YOU look at the other door-listen-
show me that YOU don't hear any
thing-good Open the drawer
easy now. remember you're tryini
not 20 make a nOise-look for tn,
ers-show me YOU can't fin,
them My God, where can they be
! That's g. Now YOU hear a nois,
off ~ (Ready. AlmaO - shut tn,
drawer-start 10 pick up YOUR IA
too late! Come on. Amazon
on You don't see him YOU lool
out Of the window and sigh-let.
see YOU sigh Alma-beautifuI
beautiful Now. Tommy. YOU NOV,
she sees you-see him. Alma
>iowly-hold it-wonderfuli Nov
call 20 him. lma-Eghert, EE
BERTH
The little mans voice cracked
with the heart-brea king pathos n,
infused into that CRY. he continued
10 dance and bark directions az sta,
and leading man till the door closec