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THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY—
Voluptuous Luxury in "Devils Pass Key Scenes
"AH right, my dear, let the other hoof go till to-morrow" said Odera, Madam Malot proposed a scheme corxhining profit and revtnge.
■THE pleasure loving Romans of old had nothing on the French stage favorite of to-day when it comes to luxury in the matter of bathing facilities — at least if one is to believe a scene in Erich Von Stroheim's Jewel feature, "The Devil's Passkey," which is to be released early in the Fall. One of the scenes in the story shows Miss Mae Busch, in the role of a Spanish dancer named Odera, i n high favor on the Parisian stage, enjoying her morning bath. The word morning is used figuratively, for the lady in question does not begin her day till long after the noon-day hour.
Von Stroheim copied the bath room from a picture of the private natatorium of a Parisian stage favorite before the war, and it is the absolute essence of creature-comfort.
It was one of the most unusual orders the ' production department ever received and the specifications caused consternation. Tiled bathroom floors and walls were easy, though they had to be supplied in most unusual design, but a tiled bath tub and tiled bathroom furniture and a tiled fire-place were as unusual and hard to find as they were effective in the scene. But Von Stroheim usually gets what he wants and he finally had this voluptuous bath room rigged up to excite the envy of a Cleopatra.
This remarkable scene was considered so effective and so dramatic that it was chosen for one of the two lobby display oil paintings that will go out with the picture when it is released in the early Fall. The scene was also copied for one of the three-sheet posters.. The ultra sumptuousness of all
of the sets is one of the features of "The Devil's Pass Key." The richness o f all the furnishings and appointraents, as it were, the apartments of Odera, the Spanish dancer, in addition to the bath room above mentioned, the quiet richness of the apartment of an American multimillionaire in Paris the interior of a typical Parisi a n restaurant where Odera danced with swiftly changing lights playing over her swaying body, and an exact copy of a famous Paris opera house, with its unique boxes and the reception rooms back o f them, all are marvellously carried out and make "The Devil's Pass
a gorgeously opulent looking picture. Key" looks like a shiny new million dollar bill.
The action which takes place in this bath room, pictured
at the top of this page, is very important to the plot, because it is here that the plan is hatched which brings on the attempted extortion and the dramatic expose of the unique methods of this unusual modiste in collecting bills from beautiful but impecuneous patrons. It was a difficult thing to film, dilTicult to get the action which would be naturally registered by these two European ladies with the morals of female vultures, the modesty of the monkeys of the zoo and the luxurious ease of crocodiles basking in a Florida bayou: difficult to stay within the requirements of the censor board. Yet it was passed without a cut. But there is no doubt that several cameramen fought for the privilege of photographing this scene. The director and the cameraman are the only ones to get an uncensored look.