Picturegoer (1922)

JUNE 1922 THE PICTUR&GOE-R 63 CROOKS, COMRDIRS AM) CHOPIN. i • yon prefer). Lights were focussed, Walter pulled up Ins D'Artagnan bool bops, the producer rehearsed, and then the silence of the studio was broken l>v a thunderstorm earthquake-hurri cane rolled into one. The buc< aneer gentleman roared like a mad hull when he caught one of the crooks (who proved to be his accomplice) on 1 he head with a valuable jar instead of Walter, whilst he (Walter) smiled serenely over the top of one of the doors, outed the buccaneer with a lampshade, and made his escape. They (the buccaneer, with cloak a-rlying, and the three crooks) chased Walter for fully fifty feet of film, then Walter rescued the heroine in Iter harem dress — and the scene was finished. It had been a breathless ten minutes. Lights were switched ofl, the producer sorted out the artistes he recpiired for the next scene, and the scene-shifters got to work. Meanwhile the crooks, Walter and the buccaneer (1 moved carefully out of his way as he approached) took breath and repaired their damaged make-up. After a few moments' hammering, there suddenly stole across the studio from an adjoining set, strains of sweet music a piano being played not onlv well, but with feeling. I left the set to look after itself, and made mv wav to the piano. Imagine my surprise when I discovered a very beau tiful Spanish lady (in a ravishing mantilla, and with eyelashes that surely came out of a make-up box), perched atop the piano, meanwhile she hummed the tune played by the pianiste— Pauline Peters can sing ! Rut life always has a further surprise in store, and I had two handed to me in quick succession. Scarcely had I recovered from the fact that Pol lie was playing comedy, than I discovered that the talented pianiste was one of the crooks ! Then I realised I had seen him in the wrong light -I isaw through his make up, and he almost sprouted wings whilst T watched. Put back to Pollie. What are you doing here ? " 1 queried, knowing that she has recently played several highly dramatic parts. Singing," came the quick reply, whilst the scene is being made •early for me to smash more plates I pet ween us we smashed five hundred md eight v nine to claw" "Hut you in comedy ? " r gasped. Well it was like this," she explained, " Walter and I were at a dinner part\ last, weejc, and he heard me say I could not be funny no matter how hard I tried." "'I bet you'd be funny if you pi. lyed in one of my films,' he challenged. " 'That reminds me. I've got a line comedy vamp in mv next Walter's Trying Frolii s.' But I don't vamp," 1 replied. " ' 1 bet you ten pounds you could vamp, and you could be funny if you tried.' " So the deal was closed. " So here I am, and here's what I bought with some of the ten pounds which Walter paid up after he had seen the first shots in the film," and she showed me a little silver stiletto which she has now adopted is a mascot. " But whatever you do." added Pollie, "don't tell anyone I'm being funny, else they'll think 1 can't be anything else ! " Pollie ! " shouted Walter from the set we had just left, " we're ready." I watched Pollie walk arm-in-arm with Walter on to the set, and then five minutes later she was threatening his life, and they looked at each other (they were man and wife in the film) as if they had discovered the finest and biggest hate with a capital " H " in the world. I'm glad"! know Pollie or I might not have liked her ever again. She treats her film husbands abominably. She was still ill treating him — backed up by those villainouslooking crooks when I left. Outside the studio all was dark, and a cold wind was blowing. 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