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Hollywood Gets a Kick
Photo by Gene Kornman
Hollywood got a great kick out of the traffic jam created for scenes in Harold Lloyd's "Hot Water."
foolish election bet. Just around a turn in the road, an old-fashioned, onelung motor car suddenly came careening down a hill and ended with a suffocated gurgle in the Pacific Ocean. The surf rolled in and over the little flivver, sousing its two occupants with brine. Then Alice Terry and Lawson Butt emerged
therefrom and waded ashore while cameras were clicking.
Both the crowd on the scooters and
This amazing scene on a California dock turned out to be a shot for a Hal Roach comedy, with Charlie Chase.
the runaway flivver were photographed for scenes in "Any Woman," a Paramount production directed by Henry King. The passing Hollywoodite got a splendid kick from the incidents.
Two men fought on the girders of a building under construction, high above the busy Broadway tunnel in Los Angeles. Pedestrians stopped to gaze, awe-stricken for the moment, at the battle. The larger of the two men managed to encircle the throat of the other with his powerful fingers and bend him backward over the steel work. In a moment, it seemed, he would be hurled from his perilous position. The clothing of the combatants was being torn to shreds. The smaller of the two men managed to regain his feet and both grasped an overhead cable as they tore into each other with their disengaged hands.
Thrilling ? Why, a similar spectacle would not be encountered in a lifetime. Still, no officers came. No one endeavored to stop the fight. Presently, some one in the crowd discovered a motion-picture camera at a respectable distance to one
The bathing beauties always draw a crowd. Here is a group used in "The Night Club" to wave at outgoing steamers.