Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

1 HIM. i 17 PICTURES AND TMii PICTL'KF.G were hired thai mad.' mam 1 1 ->.;i [ilani s. while automobile trucks were continually running t<> and from the beach transporting seawei and other material necessary to give t i 1 • scene the realis <i demanded. In the construction of the rocky approach to the cave huge boulders had to be built i" rest on n superstructure strong enough to stage » battle between the three island castaways in the story and a hand of two hundred cannibals thai were intent on their capture. These boulders alone used up 17". barrel plaster It t. ok two tons of clay to • ion the original model. It is'ctimated thai the entire scene weighs nt twenty seven tons. The Foot and tbe Floor. SOME cmions accidents occur in" tin' making of moving pictures, but the following incident i surely the limit. While Romaiue Fielding was directing a scene in 7'/« Great Diride.he had occasion to stop to adjust something in the set which did not quite suit him. Tbe carpenter was called and told to li\ a strip of board in the floor. As he hammered a nail into the strip he suddenly keeled o\ er. " Well, "said Mr. Fielding, in his usual brisk manner, ".if you've finished, perhaps you wouldn't mind getting out of the way of the scene, and we will continue.'' ' 1 can't." groaned tbe poor carpenter ; '•l'\c nailed my foot to the floor! " "Don't Act Like Married Man." JOHN BARRYMORE, the Famous Players comedian, has received a letter of protest from a young miss who thinks that it is a perfect sham.' that he is a married man. She has just learned the striking news, and is horribly cut np about it. But with supreme scorn for her own sex the protesting one completes her plaint with, '•Any way. you don't act like a married man; you always seem to enjoy being funny:'' The comedy star was deeply touched by the tribute to his genius and was liarely restrained from writing the dear tiling an apology for marrying without her permission. Advice to Actors. EDGAR LEWIS, the director of big feature films, who has just taken charge of the producing-end of the new Lubin outfit in Philadelphia, has iu preparation a book entitled Advice to Attar*. He cites an actual incident in his own life, or in that of an actor friend to illustrate the truth of each bit of advice. Here is one of them: — '■Don't Act Off the Stage.— The average actor makes himself obnoxious to his lay friends by constantly acting off-stage. If he is telling a story of a man falling down, he must fall down to prove that the word means just that. If he is telling that a man was drunk, he must act as much like a drunken man as possible. Now, I don't drink anything stronger than buttermilk, but I went into a bar with a friend of mine, who is also a water-wagoner. We both wanted -i soft drink. He was telling me of a drunken scene he had played and as he told it he unconsciously tbe whole thing It was no realistic thai the young Iwrtei.'ler, after looking him over i n Kile, remarked i aside ' Fou can have a drink, but your friend can A Talk About Motion Pictures. Iinten iew w it h t he '/ / ' tnrt World, Cecil B De Jtilh the reasons why he left the production of legitimate dramas for "picturos." " It is particular!] fascinating when i are breaking ground for a new arl . w hen \ on are making grow an art where no ait flourished before, Nobody can -how . tbe way, there are no Old Masters, We usi as apt to !"■ the i Hd Masters as anybody else, That is one of tbe things thai fascinate me. Another is the thought of the wonderful audience, I thought as a dramatist of fifteen yes experience that I knew something about the American people, that 1 was to a certain extent in touch with them ; but I realise now that 1 have scarcely* scratched the surface of the American people. If I wrote a play that was seen bj i million anil a half pet ion 111 I it was a phenomenal su ■ 0 picture I forty mill In two veat Our I picture, like ' ire, will In two hundred million in I w " The-,' li of mine naked hi >w i hod the m i to desert t he t he it i > aftei Hft< • I told him it I di In t ' the nerve to desert t he audience My dramatic religion alway b tbe theatre is the people and uol I lion the audience thai mi the theatre t' me, and not the i lium arch. Now for the lirst time in hist 'i j a new art is being Iwrii thai far more democrat i ■ t ban the di and the drama alw ay li i • I n t be deraooral of i be arts, In ui\ ins form! to | his new arl we are reaching null of people w ho might n .i otherwise b a theatre in their neighbourhood for years to i le. I think this ia a justification for t be new art The Carmen picture referred to hy Mr De Mille i the wonderful Lasky pr< 'duet ii in, aliout » hieh mole later. • I. 11. TOZER. the new leading man of the Broadwcst Films. He lias jnst finished playing th • part of " Paul Westlakfi," the hero in their film adaptation of Mrs Stanley Wrench's novel, B"ntt Winqs.