The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-09-15
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know is just what read in the
papers. Been prowling around quite
bit lately away up in the noun
tains working on a Movie. Its the
first time we have been on location
since we made "Lightnin." Well
this time we are making the old
silent picture that made twenty
years ago called "Jubilo". It is a
tramp picture and everyone that
sees me in my street clothes say
that I excel in tramp parts. like
to play tramps. There is something
about an old tramp that kinder
hits me, especially kind of a good
natured one that don't take things
too seriously.
Did you ever see a picture COM
pany on Location? Well now that
we have to carry all that sound
equipment and men with it, why it
looks like Barnums Circus coming.
We have a very small cast about
five. Yet bet there is about so of
us. 1t takes lots of folks to make
these things, even if when you see
EN- sometimes you think they amt
so hot. And the funny part about
it is that a bad one takes just as
much work as good one, for we
have never find anyone that can
tell when it's going to be bad. What
I mean is that we don't make EN-
purposely. They sometimes look
like we did, but we don't.
It's kind of a cuckoo business, but
| trains have been full for twenty
years of so called smart people that
were coming out here to fix the
movies, and they have all gone
back. There is things that look
like they out to be changed, but
the wise one cant seem able to
think of anything to improve on.
It's sorter like our Government. Its
the cokeyedest run thing, we some
times think, but darn it we keep
living under it and nobody can
scare up anything any different.
+ Like the other day at the Studio
they was talking about a story. fhid
it had to be changed lot, that the
old idea of the mortgage on the old
farm was all out of date, that the
william robbing the train and hiding
the money was all the hooey. They
claimed that all stories had to be
made modern and up to date. So I
told EN-, say listen there never was
a time in our lives WREN the fore
closing of a mortgage was as time
ly as it is today. It almost comes
under the heading Of standard
equipment with most homes and
farms and for Williams being up to
date, why Williams are getting as
thick as college degrees, and some
| times on the same fellow. No sir,
there is no new situations. Wives
are leaving husbands, husbands are
leaving wives. Robberies where
they used to take your horse, and
if they was caught they got hung
for it, now they take your car and
if they are caught it's miracle, and
they will perhaps have the incon-
venience Of having to go to court
and explain. The old horse If the
horse thief ever let him loose or
give him half chance he would
So1hC. ouI Outo111OUllCS uOlI SIdy at
home long enough to know where
homes are, even if they could get
back. So your movies wont be
changed much more than your
morals, or your taxes or any other
Of the things that you think should
be remodeled.
There is one epidemic now that I
think could be discontinued. I
haven't got any kick with my friend
Bill Hayes, but you sometimes do
wonder If its absolutely necessary
before a picture is released that it
have the word "Help' in the title.
Looks like If they had to have it.
But its the old stuff. It comes
from the Preachers. Take any old
preacher that is having a time
drafting anybody to listen to him,
and he announces that his sermon
next Sunday night will be on Hell
and Damnation," or IT am going to
skin the Devil alive and show up
He'll. Well that was just lot of
hooey like these titles are, but he
knew that that title would catch
on. He knew that he couldent give
(, the devil any more of a skinning if
his title had been, 1.-THE Outcome
of Life Without Christ But he
was looking for something SEN
sational, and that's where the NOV.
les got the idea. Both of EN- ought
to be made to cut it out. A picture
that cant draw without hell in the
title amt much picture, and
preacher that cant preach without
hell in the title is just as weak as
the movie. Why don't they Just for
a change use the word Dam" in
stead Of hell? It don't sound near
as bad and its much more of a
novelty. Instead Of calling this pic
ture "Tramping Through HELP, I
want to call 1t, "a dam Tough viii
lain, Dam fine gal and a pretty
dam fair kind Of a tramp"