The New Movie Magazine (Jul-Dec 1931)

of HOLLYWOOD BY WILLIAM H. SWIGART months' period of illness. Olga the leopard woman, who handled the leopards throughout the production without a scratch, was recently clawed by similar beasts during a demonstration of her skill and was found to be in a serious condition. Among those who have met with matrimonial reverses where it reached a point of divorce are Dorothy Cumming, who played the part of Mary; Jacqueline Logan, who portrayed Mary Magdalene ; Joseph Schildkraut, who played the part of Judas, and Peverell Marley, the chief cameraman, recently divorced from Lina Basquette. All of the aforesaid divorcees are more or less inactive in the motion picture industry at the present time, while the same can be said of Julia Faye, who was Martha of Bethany; H. B. Warner, who played the part of Christ; Sam De Grasse, who did the Pharisee; guard captain, and Victor Varcon Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry in a scene of "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Brilliant success and sudden tragedy came to many of those concerned in the filming of this production. Only one or two active in its making are still prominent today in Hollywood. Theodore Kosloff, the i, who played the role "THE KING OF KINGS" Jesus, the Christ H. B. Warner Mary, the Mother Dorothy Cumming The Twelve Disciples — Peter, Ernest Torrence; Judas, Joseph Schildkraut; James, James Neill; John, Joseph Striker; Matthew, Robert Edeson; Thomas, Sidney D'Albrook; Andrew, David Imboden; Philip, Charles Belcher; Bartholomew, Clayton Packard; Simon, Robert Ellsworth; James, the Less, Charles Requa; Thaddeus, John T. Prince Mary Magdalene Jacqueline Logan Caiaphas, High Priest of Israel. .Rudolph Schildkraut The Pharisee Sam De Grasse The Scribe .Casson Ferguson Pontius Pilate, Governor of Judaea. . . .Victor Varconi Proculla, Wife of Pilate Majel Coleman The Roman Centurion .Montagu Love Simon of Cyrene William Boyd Mark M. Moore Malchus, Captain of Guard Theodore Kosloff Barabbas George Siegmann Martha Julia Faye Mary of Bethany Josephine Norman Lazarus Kenneth Thomson Satan Alan Brooks The Woman Taken in Adultery Viola Louie The Blind Girl Muriel MacCormac Dysmas, the Repentent Thief Clarence Burton Gestas, the Unrepentent Thief James Mason The Mother of Gestas May Robson A Maid Servant of Caiaphas Dot Farley The Imbecile Boy Leon Holmes The Galilean Carpenter Hector Sarno Guests of Mary Magdalene— Otto Lederer, Bryant Washburn, Lionel Belmore, Monte Collins, Sojin, Andre Cherron. of Pontius Pilate. There are others, however, who have survived this curse and are continuing to ride the crest of fame, such as Ernest Torrence and William Boyd, but this is a very small percentage compared to the number of people involved. What is the cause of it all ? Is it, as Hollywood whispers, because the Greater Power has taken offense at the depiction of his life for monetary gain, or is it just the regular course of fate? If so, then why has fate been so unkind to this group of people who, without malice in their hearts, contributed their art and efforts to this picture, made so that countless persons who have never read the Bible may get a more liberal conception of its contents, especially the life of Christ as presented by Cecil B. De Mille? These questions can only be answered to the satisfaction of the individual by the individual. As for "The Four Horsemen," we have a different picture, yet almost equally as tragic as "The King of Kings." The structure of Vicente Blasco Ibanez' novel barely touched on the religious side of the Bible, but more on the spiritual side of the soul that very few people take the trouble to understand. It strove to show the evils of war, the underlying motives that start the devastating machine mowing down human lives like the lawn mower cuts down blades of grass to make room for the younger blades growing up. The circumstances and elements involved in the making of this picture, however, are somewhat different from "The King of Kings." Different in the respect that it made more unknown people famous overnight than any other individual picture, yet there are but one or two out of the thousands that had anything to do with the production who amount to anything in the industry today. It was responsible for making Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry stars in their own name. It gave Rex Ingram a position in the motion picture directional firmament equivalent to that held by D. W. Griffith and 61