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THE GRAND DUCHESS AND THE WAITER 151
self, Greta Nissen, and Bessie Love all went to New York at the company's expense. The rest of the cast was from Broadway and included Oscar Shaw, a musical-comedy favorite, and Carlotta Monterey, who later married Eugene O'Neill, the playwright.
The King was my first picture in which color photography was used. It was made by the Prizma process, as I remember, and was not so good. The final scene of the picture was shot by this process. The picture suddenly changed from black and white to color. The grass was a dismal green and everything was sort of fuzzy around the edges. It was just an experiment to see how the fans would like it. They thought it was terrible.
We did things in that picture that today seem fantastic because of the technical improvements that have since been achieved in picture making. There was a sequence in which the king went to Coney Island and had the time of his life going on all the rides. Most of these scenes were actually shot at Coney Island. In order to show me riding in a roller coaster Monta and James Wong Howe, the cameraman, strapped themselves and a camera in the first car of the coaster while the other actors and I sat in the second and third cars with the camera trained on us. We had to shoot the scene several times, and I got very fed up with roller-coaster riding; but Monta and the cameraman were still more unhappy because they had to ride backwards.
Today, in order to make a scene like that the cameraman would fasten his camera to the rear of a roller coaster and make one trip, shooting the moving background. Then the film would be brought to Hollywood and projected onto a transparent screen in the studio. In front of the screen the actors would sit in a stationary roller coaster while a camera photographed both them and the moving background. The scene could be shot 100 times, if necessary, and no one would ever have taken a ride in a roller coaster except the cameraman who made the process shot.
Another scene in the picture that we shot without faking was one in which the king's ship arrived in New York Harbor. The king was supposed to be a great admirer of beautiful women.