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Dallying with the Smoke Pots
PI 1L PROPS TUTS A 1 II II 1 PI P IN SOML FIRI Ml II AM) SI MAINS A Bl'NCII Ol AC I It > I i Hi HIS IWINS
By Kenneth McGaffey
P[PE me .inns— 1 got more boins on me than a bride learnin how to cook. De next time any of dese nut directors announce dej arc goin to do anj ol dis tire stuff, 1 am goin to resign an duck for de ocean. 1 got cni in de big fire scenes in de spectacle "Boined to Ashes," or "Choked by Smoke," or somethin like that. Dey hired a lot of guys to put out de tire dat couldn't put out dere cigarettes.
De big punch in dis hllum is de boinin of a ten-story buildin regardless of expense an de savin of de child by a desprit slide down a rope wid de hoses playin an de flames a-ftamin. Real fire engines an all dat.
()' course we don't build no ten-story buildins to be boined down — it was to be done regardless of expense if it didn't cost too much. We goes down town an wid a few smoke pots in a office buildin fake de long shots an den build a four-story affair for de close-up stuff.
De buildin is supposed to be crowded wid women an children, an de streets filled wid horrified spectators when de engines dash up an de brave fire laddies shin up de ladders. De walls is about to cave in when Handsome Clarence, who happens to be passin along de street — after a can o' beer, or sumpin — spies de woman he loves
awln&s by perched high on dc topmost
\\ . CALL, Jr. bough beyond de reach of all aid
or assistance. De boys in de blue shirts say dey are powerless to reach her an de coroner
is just lickin Ids chops when Clarence scampers up. grabs a coupla tousand feet oi [adder an through de flames an totterin
walls brings her to safety midst de cheers ol de multitude. When she is prone on de sidewalk wid her heart on Clarence's manly busom, she opens her eyes an says — "My hero!" an fade out on twenty feet of kiss.
Dats de way de rummy of a continuity writer wrote it — but was it de way it was took? — Not on your life ! , ,
We got a swell buildin up wid real glass in de windows at: de two upper floors built on rockers so de walls could swing out as if dey was fallin. It was a darn good dramatic picture, but it would of got more laughs if de good old Hanlon Brothers had a-played de leads. It needed acrobats.
In de foist place we was held up by not gettin de loan of de fire depart
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