Evening star., 1923-05-13

self from her cloying burden. but Rod
held on like a limpet.
Wonderful scene" Bassett was
megaphoning ecstatically. Now.
Mcqueen, you begin to revive. Bob
up-high. That's 1t! You see Nora!
Oh. darling! Great! Now begin to
swim in. But the current is too
much for you. Nora. you give out.
Give out! Drat 1t. Nora-that's 1t,
Mcqueen. grab her! pull her under.
If you have to! Well. let her drown,
IL she won't play! That's bully!
Down fast, now! Heavens. there's
the dam! Nothing can save you!
Over you go! CUT Oh. a peach OF
a scene!"
He ran down the rocks. along the
edge Of the reservoir and into the
meadow below. Miss Norris. so angry
she was almost in tears. was drag
ging herself up on the shore. She
was disheveled, raging, half-drowned.
Between sobs and gasps she unlim-
bered a fairly adequate store of
strong and expressive words. which
she appeared to be using to describe
what she thought of Gerald Sisson's s
double. Rod Mcqueen, bland, child
like, and puzzled. withdrew modestly
out of range. The leading woman
turned her batteries on Duke Bas-
sett. Those who heard say that
Duke took an awful lashing. But
Miss Norris obstinately refused to
give any one an idea of what 1T was
all about.
It was a long hour before Bassett
finally brought the indignant woman
to the point where she would go on.
But when she did she was glum. and
stiff. still out OF patience and full of
spleen. Duke Bassett lost his pa
tience in the end and let her act the
part herself, in her own way.
lust before noon they came to the
y point where little Ann Lusk
again entered the story. She was the
mountain girl who had long been
| secretly and hopelessly in love with
the struggling young lumber king
played by Gerald Sisson. She had dis.
covered the plot to destroy the dam
which gave him power for his saw.
| mill; she had ridden hard to take the
| news to him, had found him gone, but
warned the villagers whose homes
| were supposed to be endangered and
had raced back to the dam. Bassett
tired and irritable outlined the
| scene.
You come on from the trees, Miss
Lusk." he cried. sharply. "Sisson and
Miss Norris are down center It's the
| first time you have ever seen them
| together. But you read your fate in
their love scene. See? Try 1t, now
And put a lot Of feeling in it,
The timid little girl in her rough
mountain clothes. shabby and mud
splashed from her supposed rescue
dash, came forward. Bassett yelled al
her.
mo! Go back! You look like a
sack of meal That's the man you
love over there. Show me something.
Let's see love on your face. Oh,
| thunder!"
| Ann Lusk went back: tried 1t once
| again. Bassett, exhausted with a long
morning when everything seemed to
have gone wrong, endeavored to be
patient. But the girl could not suit
| him. Finally. in some disgust, he
started the camera.
| "Ready-action-go Come on in
slowly. That's better. But you love
! that man. Love him, Oh
! There, splendid! Why didn't you dc
that before. What. are you crying:
Splendid! Keep on with those tears
On in-back of the tree-let's see
your face. Bully! Now, VOL
Nora! Look up. You don't see Miss
Lusk. Stoop and kiss him. Raise your
head, too, Gerald. Hold It, Hold it
(. Cut. Well. for Pete's sake