Select Pictures Magazine (1918)

SELECT PICTURES MAGAZINE / Page 9 CLIP THESE INTERESTING ITEMS Constance Talmadge Defies the Weather Man X N order to hasten the date of her departure for Cali- fornia, Constance Talmadge, Select star, has been working steadily through zero temperature in the lightest of summer apparel called for by “The Studio Girl.” This picture is set along the bleak Gloucester coast, and with time pressing fast on their heels, Miss Talmadge and her director, Charles Giblyn, rushed production ahead without waiting for warmer days. Saturday, word was received that an exceedingly fine spell of weather had descended on Gloucester, and the Constance Talmadge company took the night train to Boston. How- ever, the fickle temperature had dropped between sleeping and waking hours to 14 degrees and the players reached town in a snowstorm. Sunday was a day of gloom, but Monday the thermometer climbed from 16 degrees at seven o’clock in the morning, to 30 degrees at ten, and the day was saved. The final scenes were shot in record time and the entire party returned to New York that night. “The Studio Girl” also calls for several rain scenes and, of course, when Miss Talmadge was ready for them the weather man turned on the sunshine. In desperation at last, her director decided that the only thing left to do was to manufacture his own rain. Accordingly, his assistants turned the hose on the poor girl and drenched her thor- oughly from head to toe. Remember—this was in the bleak days of early December, and Constance was wearing a thin organdie dress. Being a movie star is not all it’s cracked to be—by a long shot. * * * * “The Studio Girl” will be shown here at the Theatre on ; it was adapted by Paul West from “La Gamine,” a comedy by P. Veber and H. de Gorsse, directed by Charles Giblyn, and distributed by Select Pic- tures. Her Chauffeur Arrested Constance Talmadge, who will appear here in “The Studio Girl,” to be shown at the Theatre on is going to have a hard time getting people to work for her unless her hoodoo breaks. While filming “The Honeymoon” at Niagara Falls her camera man was arrested for taking photographs in a barred military zone. A month later, when taking a few rain scenes for “The Studio Girl” in Jersey, Miss Talmadge and her party motored into Engle- wood for luncheon. As they emerged from the restaurant they saw that their automobile and the chauffeur had van- ished. A bystander informed them that the man had been ar- rested, and Giblyn sent his assistant to the police station to ascertain the charge. The latter, as soon as he set foot within the jail, was added to the chauffeur and the automo- bile, and his “S.O.S.” brought Giblyn on the scene. Here it was explained to the director that his automobile carried a 1915 license plate in the year 1917, which was not in ac- cordance with New Jersey standards. It took Giblyn all afternoon to convince the minions of the law that the car was being used in a scene which required a 1915 license, and that art and not crime was being served. Halted by the Sentry Most of “The Studio Girl,” starring Constance Talmadge, which will be shown at the Theatre next , was filmed at Marblehead, Massachusetts, to take in the tremendous cliffs which tower above the coast in that vicinity. Here again Miss Talmadge ran against the strong arm of the military, for on the topmost heights stands the laboratory of John Hays Hammond, Jr. This youthful wizard is now perfecting his invention for the wireless con- trol of submarines, which will be turned over on completion to the United States government. For obvious reasons, his workshop is surrounded by a fence of barbed wire and is patrolled by sentries who prevent all civilians from approach- ing the barred zone. Ignorant of this restriction, the young star left her direc- tor and camera man at the foot of the cliffs and climbed up to the top for a “telephoto shot,” i. e., long-distance photo- graphy. Her path led her to the barbed wire fence and she was halted by the inevitable sentry. Despite her protesta- tions of hundred per cent patriotism and her ardent pleas for the cinematic art, the stolid soldier insisted on carrying out his orders, and poor Miss Talmadge had to make the long climb down, her ascent having been in vain. She returned to the foot of the cliff just in time to re- assure her director and the rest of the company who were worried over her non-appearance at the summit, as sched- uled. She was hailed with joyous relief and the party tramped to another location where the strong arm of Mars would not interfere with Thespian plans.