Film Fun (Jan - Dec 1919)

31 Making the Movies Dry (Continued from page 11) their dupes. Or maybe they'll hypnotize their victims and get drunk with excitement. Oh, there are lots of things they can do and be as bad as ever. We won't miss the Demon Rum — not a-tall!" Tom Mix pooh-poohed the idea that Western pictures couldn't be made without the aid of Tom and Jerry, John Barleycorn and the rest of the Souse Familee. "Say, that's a hobby of mine. Don't get me started, ' ' he warned. ' ' I preach to the boys so much about the effects of liquor that ever so often they put a placard on my dressing-room door that says, 'Rev. Thomas Mix, Temperance Lecturer and Evangelist. ' I won't have a man in my company who drinks, and very few of my pictures have barroom scenes in them. The new condition of things will mean that there will be more realism in Western pictures, for, as a matter of fact, cow-punchers didn't hit the booze to any great extent. Their very lives depended on their having clear heads, and as for the bad men — say, I never saw one of those fellows even intoxicated ! Of course, the miners had a great thirst; but even a mining story doesn't have to revolve around booze, and take it from me, the dirtiest schemes I ever saw hatched had no drink back of them at all, just a wild desire for land, money, revenge or a woman. Scenario writers will do well to cut out that dance-hall stuff from Western pictures. I never saw a dance hall where they had the short skirted girls farther south than Nevada. They had them, of course, in Alaska and the Yukon, but not in the Southwest, so maybe this change will make for a little much needed realism in pictures." I found Dustin Farnum out on the lot, and he obligingly posed by a long sinceshot thirst emporium, the "Red Dog" saloon, with two empty bottles in his hands — the said bottles having been dug out of the paint shop, the rest of the studio being barren of liquid refreshments. ' ' This old shack is historic, ' ' he said, grinning. "It's the last barroom set that I expect to use for some time — in fact, until the dry amendment is amended or we put on a picture of the ancient vintage of 1918, before saloons were changed into soda-water fountains and hot-dog foundries. If people want Demon Rum to get out of the country, I reckon he'd better hoof it from the pictures, too. The new generation growing up will come to look on drinking not as something common or to be countenanced, but as a drug that produces a certain effect and which should be shunned. That is bound to change the type of pictures put on, and it will spur writers to produce a substitute — Lord only knows what it will be! But as far as my experience goes, drink isn't essential to a Western picture. The one I just finished didn't have a drink in it from reel one to five, and there were some thrilling plots and fights in it, too. I've found that the meanest man isn't the drunk man; it's the man that's corrupt or just plain vicious. Fights can start from other things besides whiskey, and bad men can put together just as dastardly a plot over a ham sandwich as they can over a bottle of gin!" I went to the Demon Rum and told him that there was no hope, not even in Western pictures. "They can get along without you," I said, ' ' and only a few seem to regret your going." He sobbed damply and handed me a slip of paper. ' ' If the films find they can't get along without me," he gurgled, "they can send for me at that address. I'll be there indefinitely." The slip bore, in large and scraggly letters : "D. Rum. Temporary address, NOWHERE!" Mechanical April Showers (Continued from page Ik) feet of the storm, but the results of sloshing around in a muddy country road which the director himself had made that way because there hadn't been a rain recently. 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