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antipathy toward one of the actors and nearlycrushed him. Eleanor Boardman was bitten by a camel.
A double in a Goldwyn picture was required to make a motorcycle skid into a sandpit. He did ; fracturing both legs. They ran to give him aid but he waved them back and motioned to the cameramen to continue grinding.
Continuity once required that Helene Chadwick be grabbed by a husky, a la mailsack, from a railroad station platform aboard
a train, traveling at a 35 miles an hour clip, sions were recorded.
ft. In making "Souls fire in which a ;
For Sale," Rupert Hughes staged a circus tent umber of extras were hurt when the horses stampeded.
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"Crucificd" Extra Girls
hen Colonel Selig made Auction of Souls, a propaganda picture in behalf of Armenian relief work, here several years ago, the script called for a crucifixion of a number of Armenian girls. Extra girls were substituted, of course, and were lashed, nearly nude, to crosses. They endured the blistering California noon-day sun and the chill twilight. When cut down, the sequence completed, exposure and exhaustion took their toll. Several developed pneumonia.
One of the most recent joustings with death with a thrill as the prize, no matter the outcome, narrowly missed taking the life of a beautiful screen star.
Joan Lowell, star in an Associated Authors production, tilted with fate and escaped with serious injury, I am informed from reliable sources.
The scene required Miss Lowell, clutching a child in her
arms, to flee from pursuers, intent on her life, along the edge of cliff, bordering the sea.
A rope or a cable was stretched across her path.
The action called for her to look back at those, from whom she was trying to escape, as she ran and not glimpse the obstacle. It was to trip her and she was to plunge over the precipice.
Tripped on Cliff Edge
She obeyed her director. She was picked up unconscious after her fall.
Her gameness was lauded. It took courage to risk beauty and perhaps life itself for the sake of the picture. So it was said.
But to some it was foolhardy ; just sinister fencing with fate, inexorable fate which is not often cheated.
Burning a Circus Tent
his spring Rupert
Hughes, making Souls for Sale for Goldwyn on the local lot, burned down a circus tent which held a horde of extras as spectators as well as the customary dummies which double for humans in such crowd shots. The canvas crackled and roared. Flames licked hungrily at the oil-soaked fabric and cordage and lit up the midnight sky with an ominous glow.
The extras emoted, knowing full well what was expected of them but to the circus horses on the set the conflagration was ' realistic and terrifying. They stampeded. More than three score extras were hurt badly (Continued on p. 101)
fLAn interesting snapshot of some of the Amazon extras used by Holubar in "Men, W omen and Marriage." This ivas taken just before the charge in which many were hurt.
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