Hollywood Studio Magazine (May 1970)

adventure. I found myself recalling movies that had slipped into the dim reaches of my memory. When I set “Fit For The Chase,” down, I was still chuckling about the gone but not forgotten days of the silent movies. After work was completed on “Fit For The Chase,” Lee set to work with another film historian, Manuel Weltman to do the first authentic in-depth study of Pearl White. Now published under the title, “Pearl White, The Fearless, Peerless Girl,” the labors of Lee and Weltman is a charming introduction and study of the real life of Pearl which was just as exciting and heart breaking as her movies. After an unhappy childhood, Pearl was discovered by the movies and shot to fame as a helpless girl who found herself in such impossible situations it seemed as if she could never escape — yet in the first reel of the next adventure she managed to elude her captors and start a fresh bmsh with death. Picking up the theme of Pearl’s serials, the authors trace her career in scenario form, making each chapter a new serial in the unfolding story of this tragic figure. Going to primary sources, directors, friends, associates, the authors found little known facts that have been overlooked in the years since Pearl died a lonely death as an alcoholic. Each time I sit down to a new episode of Pearl and her friends at the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax, I do so with a new insight into the life and times of the screens first big female star. Her antics on the screen become a backdrop against which I now review the fascinating story of “Pearl White, The Peerless, Fearless Girl.” After completing these important projects, Lee decided it was time the story of movie animals was told and he set about researching the adventures of making movies with animals as actors. Calling his work “Not So Dumb,” Lee details the funny side of films where animals are concerned. Again his years of experience as both an actor and writer held him in good stead as he unfolds the little known tales of Elephants, pythons, liqns, dogs, cats, horses, rinos, tigers, and other creatures who made a contribution to the cinema. Pet lovers will enjoy reading about the problems and rewards of working with non-human actors. Famous actors and their pets are detailed, as well as the wild combinations of comics and pretty girls who somehow become tangled up with wild animals who have been carefully trained not to be dangerous — usually. Take the Hollywood animal casting THREE BOOK’S ON MOVIE HISTORY FEARLESS ACTRESS -As usual, Pearl White found herself knee-deep in problems in her famous serial episodes, “The Perils of Pauline ”. This time she is saved by Crane Wilbur. people like Jack Allman who ran a business called “Hollywood’s Noah’s Ark.” His ads ran something like this: One fifteen-foot snake, breed open, for gag business. One pig, stout who can wear light makeup for night work. A swarm of bees — not camera concious. One goat who can leam to butt backwards. One cat who can learn to swim any style. What was even more unusual than these odd requests was the fact Allman got what he was asking for. The creatures went to work in movies for Cecil B. DeMille and a host of other famous directors. Naturally no book on movie animals would be complete without Tarzan’s Cheetah, and Lee gives his readers plenty of fact-filled information about the most famous monkey of all time. In light of the fact Lee has a rich movie background himself, it seems likely he will sit down in front of a typewriter some day and do the story of his own life. Beginning with the days his mother took him to the D.W. Griffith Studios where she worked as a dress designer. Dorothy Gish noticed the youngster and pushed in front of the cameras, that was all it took. From 1915 to 1936 Lee was an actor in the movies with greats like Jackie Coogan, Tom Mix, the Gish sisters, and Charlie Chaplin. When he takes pen in hand to do this story, it is certain to be as much fun as the first three books he has just completed. GALPIN IS UP IN THE AIR OVER BEING SELECTED NUMBER 1 RETAILER OF THE YEAR! We’ve really taken off over being chosen Number 1 in the nation. Come on out and float with us. Galpin’s got it all! • The best in Quality Ford Cars. • The Roomiest Campers. • The Mightiest Ford Trucks. • The Finest Maintenance. • The Friendliest Staff. • Leases and Rentals. • and a Gourmet Restaurant. So come out and look us over. We always get inflated over satisfied customers. 15505 Roscoe Blvd. Sepulveda, Calif. 91343 telephone 787-3800 3A