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C. Hale, Human U-Boat
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By 1. S. Sayford
O-never-mind that, it's a mere detail and nobody will ever notice; but I'm lure to remark that 1 got a letter from some girl away out West saying she had spotted me as '/'//,• Laughing Mask in • rhe lnui Claw' because 1 wore a Norfolk jacket 1 had worn previously in 'The Mysteries of Myra.' Beat that if you can. Audiences iir becoming all the time more and more critical, not only of detail hut of the whole woof and warp of a screen story; quick to sneer at improbabilities of plot, swift to jeer at frowsy workmanship in the studio, and correspondingly keen to praise real stuff. You can't get by with imitation. You'd better not try. The public will hook you."
When Creighton Hale was born his parents were acting on the English stage. He first entered pictures as an extra man at Fort Lee in the early days of Solax and
. tying with excessive care certain knots guaranteed to slip at a wiggle. And then they cast him into deep water. \ stopping to consider that wet knots, whether of silk or otherwise, don't slip worth a hang.
If C. Hale hadn't been a human U-boat he would have been neatly drowned like the harem lady who talked too much with her tongue and got a potato sack for a casket and the Bosphorus for a tomb, and the exploits of Elaine woodah haddah gettah 'nother 'ero. As it was, they fished C. Hale out and emptied him and dried him, and after awhile he became a little more alive than dead, and the picture proceeded.
Tt's a sweet life, the movies.
And you have to be so enormously care ful of details, Mr. Hale says. "Directors are all the time telling vou to
Hale in two of his pictures. The girl in each is Pearl White.
Eclaire, then returned to the speaking stage. He is now with the Frank Powell Productions.
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