Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1916)

224 The Centaur Studio here that I again saw Crane Wilbur, this time busy at work on "The Love Liar." Any one that has the impression that Wilbur is but a handsome, love-making matinee idol should have seen him at work that day ! A terrible fist fight was being staged between Wilbur and Roy Watson. There was no rehearsal whatsoever, the Finally, with a frightful swing of his badly gashed right arm, Wilbur hit his opponent in the face, and both men dropped from exhaustion. When he had recovered enough to talk, I spoke to Crane about the fight. "What was the use of you two fellows punishing one another so badly? Couldn't you have 'faked' it in some way ?" He looked at me and smiled. "Nothing would have been easier," was his reply, "but I want to give my admirers some men going at one another like the wild animals so close at hand. Chairs, tables, mirrors — in fact, every article in the "set," was used in their terrific struggle. Time and again blood would stream forth as first one, and then another, would land a telling blow. It was a combat that would have delighted the cruel populace of the Rome of old. thing worth while when they spend their money to see me act. I am not what you might call a 'stunt' actor, neither am I a fearless dare-devil who cares nothing for his life, but just the same it is realism with me, first, last, and all the time !" And with these words he limped into another "set" to continue his work. As Miss Gibson and I went into the yard again, I said: "Don't you get very nervous when playing with these animals?" "Well, just this morning I had a 'race-for-life' scene with old Monte,"