Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1926)

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Just to Entertain You! 29 Clara Bow went through this scene for "The Best Bad Man" five times! Miss Starke took off most of her clothing. The camera man was supplied with tall boots. But the little leading lady was given no such consideration. She got wet. She got mud in her shoes. She got sticks in her stockings. She got cold. And she didn't stay in long. She had added her bit to art ! All for your amusement ! It often has been said that a picture can tell a story better than printed words. I'd like to call attention to one printed here which I believe substantiates the declaration. Clara Bow is trying to say in the silent drama just how one feels when a few thousand gallons of city drinking water is suddenly dumped on her unsuspecting back. Clara knew the flood was coming but she did not know it had its origin in the melting snows. And she didn't know it was going to get so all fired intimate with her neck and ears and her marcel wave. They were making scenes in "The Best Bad Man" on the William Fox lot. John Ford was directing. "Now, Miss Bow," he said, "the torrent comes racing down this stream, sweeping you toward the falls. You are caught in the current and dashed boulder against that big where you Laura La Plante did some thrilling tree climbing after being chased by a long-horned steer in "The Beautiful Cheat. " momentarily to cling. Tom Mix, with a rope about his v/aist swings out to your rescue. Great stuff ! Now, be careful." They got everything ready and at a given signal, tons upon tons of water were loosed. It struck Miss Bow about every place at once and she went down the water toboggan. A lusty shriek went with her. She had others to spare. Slap, slam, bang, flop ! Then she got an Indian grip on the property rock. And she stuck ! But the water was cold — water that came from the melted snows in the Sierra. Madre Mountains. And it kept coming and getting colder every moment. When the hero finally rescued her, she looked like the proverbial wet hen and felt worse. "Very good, Miss Bow !" Director Ford said. "We'll take it again." "Do what?" "Take it again !" They took it five times. What did she say when the fifth was finished ? Tut ! tut ! The motion-picture actresses do a lot of strange things for art's sake. If these same things were attempted in everyday life, a lot of folks would be in jail. Take the case of Patsy Ruth Miller who played a featured role in "Hogan's Alley." Here Continued on pnge 98