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JANUARY 1925
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Left : Leatrice Joy stormnvept twit <■ i« ' Ten Commandments' The first time Rod La Rocque mi tied her
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on a very dark ana very stormy night? nothing can save the hero, he is lyinghalf-stunned and the villain is bending over him gloating with ghastly glee, the audience gasps, can anything save the hero? Of course it can; a streak of lightning appears, a tree crashes down, crushes
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Above : Rehearsing the Red Sea Passage in " The Ten Commandments."
this he is probably correct, for there is something definitely awe-inspiring in the spectacle of warring elements.
It was the sight of Nature in a turmoil that, added to wonder at the mechanical genius / behind the scenes
made the division of the Red Sea in The Ten Commandments such a thrilling spectacle.
Another variety is the Storm Eliminative. This sometimes usurps the
(Contd. on p. 81).
Above : After Leatrice Joy's second "Ten Commandments " drenchi n g Richard Dix read burnin g passages from the bible to her. Right ■ The heroine ■who came prepared (Shirley Mason in "Very Truly Yours.") Left : When the elements b e haved like this i » " *» BWw WWWWWW W ■• ■■ "The Town
That Forgot God," goodness only knows what the Characters were going through.
tne villain to death and most obligingly misses the hero by a matter of inches. The hero gets up, feels himself all over and staggers off to the heroine, thanks to the friendly elements alive and in excellent health.
Then there is the Storm Suspensive. A very hardy annual this one. Who did not thrill to see Lillian Gish in Way Down East floating to a horrible
death on an ice floe with Richard Barthelmess frantically floundering to her rescue?
Who did not ' sit tighter ' when Carol Dempster in One Exciting Night was pinned to the ground and only one slender bough prevented an oak tree from falling on her? But then D.W.G. often calls in the elements in order to supply his famous ' suspense,' and in