The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

— THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY -27 □n witk ''Xke Dragon s Net ' MARIE WALCAMP MAKES ATTRACTIVE FIGURE IN JAPANESE GARB JN the making of "The Dragon's Net," Director McRae utilized to the fuUest the many excellent opportunities for bringring actual Oriental typpes on the screen^ Many an obscure Japanese woman was lifted to dizzy heights of joy by a chance to do a "bit" in the production, and likewise many a prominent Oriental woman was Qfveijoyed at a chance to really act in the "movies." In fact, so multitudinous were the eager aspirants for movie honors that Director McRae was, often impeded in the progress of his production. During the course of the action Marie Walcamp's role often demands that she disguise herself as an Oriental, and it is then that the pretty star has an opportunity to show how attractive she can look in the strange garb of the Far East. The Oriental costumes fit her graceful and lithe figure admirably. It was not necessary for Miss Walcamp to take with her trunks full of gowns and frocks, as movie stars usually do, for her role in "The Dragen's net" is a daredevil and hazardous one, and when she is not wearing the garb of the Orient, demands that her clothes be simple, durable and easy to move about in, and we there fore usually find Marie in sport togs of plain but "nifty" cut. Clothes in this instance were the least concern of this serial-making band of travelers. What was more important to them was the outfit for the actual making of the film, and the company carried with it to the Orient a complete portable film laboratory with 168,000 feet of motion picture film. The expedition was equipp^ witii drying drums, film tanks and a printing machine, and carried in all one huncTfeH trunks. They occupied the larger part of a trans-Pacific boat leaving the City of Seattle for Yokohama. WADSWORTH HARRIS MEETS ODD EXPERIENCE IN JAPAN jy|EMBERS of the Universal company, with Marie Walcamp, who filmed "The Dragon's Net," a serial, in Japan, met with many surprises while visiting the Land of the Rising Sun, but none so great as that experienced by Wadsworth Harris, one of the Universal players, who accidentally came face to face in a hotel in Miyonoshita, Japan, with a cousin he had sought for many years. It had been twenty years since the two cousins had seen each other. It was some time before they could convince each other of their respective identities. The register of the Fujiya Hotel, where both were stopping, finally settled the matter. Miss Walcamp and a little Philippine friend. WALCAMP SERIAL COMPANY VISITS THE PHILIPPINES Marie Walcamp in disguise as a Japanese. [ILE the majority of the scenes in "The Dragon's Net," starring Marie Walcamp, "The Woman Who Knows No Fear," were shot in China and Japan, the company, under the direction of Henry McRae, also visited the Philippines. When they reached those islands Governor Harrison accorded them the heartiest of welcomes and every possible honor. He put a coast-guard vessel vnth a crew of forty-five men at the disposal of Mr. McRae and his party, and they skirted the islands of the Sultan of Sulu, the land of the fierce Moros, and went as far south as Jolo and Cebu, taking pictures everywhere. Miss Walcamp was delighted with the Philippine "kiddies" and made numerous friends among them, as is evinced by the picture shown above. The expedition had a very jolly time of it in the islands and was loathe to leave them. Wadsworth Harris, who plays the role of Dr. Redding in the serial, and who was formerly a Shakespearian actor, made himself immensely popular in the "Islands" by conducting some readings there for students ,of English. All the rest of the cast, which in addition to Miss Walcamp and Wadsworth Harris, included Harland Tucker, the leading man, and Otto Lederer, "the villain," mingled freely with the inhabitants and were cordially and enthusiastically received by them.