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The Ince Studios
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Willie Collier was working in a scene the day I visited Inceville, as was Billie Burke. Collier was the first of the two noted stars that I met. He was dressed in rags, had a "rough-and-tumble'' cap pulled down over his eyes, and — horrors ! — was standing at a dilapidated bar trying to convince the "bartender" that he should be given a drink on credit.
"You didn't look much like this when I saw you last in New York," I chided. "You were playing in 'Hello, Broadway/ and you were dressed up to kill."
"But I wasn't so happy," came the comedian's quick reply.
"Not so happy — and in New York!" I was amazed.
"Well, you see, this is real beer that I'm drinking, and to-morrow I have a restaurant scene in which I will have real food. Mr. Ince never has anything faked. I had to work for my living in
little old New York, but now " And
he lifted the stein gently and gazed at it for a brief instant. Then the director
foot of one of the neighboring hills. As I rounded the corner of the building that had shut the bonfire from my view, I saw what probably impressed me the more because I had not noticed it before. It w^as a whole encampment of Indians. This was an entirely new discovery for me, and I set out at once to learn all about them and their reason for being there. My investigations brought me the information that they are a full-blooded tribe of Sioux, and that they are to be used regularly from now on in Mr. Hart's Western plays, as Mr. Ince is convinced that the day has come for the public to appreciate the dramatic Indian play which is based upon fact and not of the "hair-raising" kind which was shown on the screens throughout the country a few years ago. The Indians live in their little village apart from the rest of the force, and follow out their own customs at their will. . They are in charge of Chief Two Lance, and he is the only one who is consulted by any
called "action," and
the scene continued.
I left the studio floor, attracted by a huge bonfire at the
Thomas H. Ince and C. Gardner Sullivan, his scenario chief, photographed in front of the capitol of the mythical city, which is the setting for the anti-war play now being filmed.
one w h o wishes to use the Indians for any purpose. The Ind i a n s still have their
do
teasts,
and a careful