Pictures and the Picturegoer (Jan-Dec 1924)

38 Picture s and Pichj^e $oer OCTOBER 1924 Capfcaji\ Blood Sabatini's fast-moving romance of effectively kinematised It is an interesting and somewhat difficult task to catch up with a motion picture star of such magnitude as Jack Warren Kerrigan when he is not in the midst of actual work. But to find him on location when in the filming of a picture and to get an interview is to accomplish the almost impossible. Lady Luck must have been at my right elbow for not only did I find him at work but gained the much sought for interview. Mr. Kerrigan was in character for the name part that he is now playing in Sabatini's Captain Blood for the Vitagraph Company. Director David Smith graciously loaned Above : " Captain Blood " in dress, and ^elow), undress uniform. f\Celluloic Colonial and sea life in America. has been picture that would interest a star as a vehicle upon which to ride to fame once again. In true kinema fashion Mr. Kerrigan runs the gamut of roles in his new picture. It is a new departure, so he •explained as he had tried character parts but once and then eight years ago in Samson. From the gentleman of 1685, with the attendant foibles of dress and manner, to an abject slave is a great span to carry by make-up, and then the regeneration through the career of the romantic pirate chieftain to the position of Governor of Jamaica are all to be taken in this part and found within his ability. I found him a slave. his star to me tor questioning. Jack Kerrigan has been away from the screen for some four years and has but just lately returned to his old-time popularity. This picture is the third that he has acted since his return and gives promise to be the best in his entire long career. V- Sabatini's Captain Blood is a fast moving story of colonial life and sea romance that stirred IF the English world in the ./ later 17th Century. The / beginning of the story is / laid in England during the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth and travels with Captain Blood to the Antilles, where from a slave market he becomes the most famed of all the pirates of that time. Love interest and the inherent love to be a worthy man in the eyes of a maid make Captain Blood supreme, with his tempered sense of justice he is admirably fitted to the abilities of Mr. Kerrigan. The above digression about a book which has been read by nearly everyone may not seem necessary and is dwelt on solely to show the type of th (left), Warren Kerrigan and Director discussing " Captain Blood." Director David Smith pointed to a group of unshaven, dirty individuals in torn garments and said, " There's Mr. Kerrigan, and if you will just wait a moment he will be free." jV/Tr. Kerrigan !" I gasped. Which one of those dejected fellows was he? I had always pictured him in mind as my hero of romance, and there I saw nothing but vagabonds. A sun arc sputtered behind us and as the light flooded the faces of the line of slaves Mr. Kerrigan became a personality. There was no mistaking him. He stood out from among his fellow companions in misery. Wan and marked of face, brow beaten in mien, with eyes that held the slumbering fires of rebellion only partly hidden by a quality of compassion for his captors — still there was no denying the broad intellectual forehead, patrician nose and the bearing of an artist. My questions came fast when the opportunity presented itself and, I