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THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY—
Stuart Paton in an off moment.
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T is generally acknowledged in filmdom that the production of a serial photoplay is about the most wearing and exhausting thing that a company of picture players can be called upon to put through. And if the experience is trying for the performers, how much more so for the director, who has to keep the whole thing in the hollow of his hand, never losing his perspective, never allowing the detail to confuse the main plot of the story. To be a successful serial director requires almost superhuman qualities. Above all, it requires a
limitless supply of patience. Yet Stuart Paton had no sooner completed "The Voice on the Wire" (one of the most successful of all Universal serials, by the way) than he declared himself ready to begin the production of "The Gray Ghost," its worthy successor. He set to work at once, without even a day's breathing space, on the scenario, which he made from the oiiginal story which ran in the Saturday Evening Post, and was written by Arthur Somers Roche, upon whom the mantle of Conan Doyle, as a teller of detective mysteries, seems to have fallen.
Paton has made his name widely
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known by his successful work plays for Universal. It was he triumph, "20,000 Leagues Under of Jules Verne's classic, which enj both Chicago and New York, a everywhere. This picture took The under-water scenes were m where Paton took his big com completed at Universal City, in constructed specially for it. B directing serial pictures even Voice on the Wire" set a high sta but "The Gray Ghost" is fully up Paton is a Scotchman by birth, his native place. He says that higoing souls, who attended three sf looked upon theatres as institution Paton was sent to Glasgow Unive paid as much attention to sports a graduated in high standing. Hp fact that he was "champion of running. He intended to beco of the stage was too strong, in position. He had some years of nies of such well-known players has traveled all over the world in ville which brought him to this coun before he found a more congenial director of pictures at the old Im: He produced some very good with Allen Holubar, Hobart Her Ham Welsh, Dorothy Phillips aru. of the original "stand bys" in the casts, am
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