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Stars
"Doubles" arc too often confused with "stunt men." When at all possible, stars will do their own stunts. But when the action requires a stunt to be performed by a minor player, a stunt man or woman, one willing to take great physical risks, is employed.
Dick Grace, a daring flyer, cannot remember how many planes he has crashed.
One of the most spectacular stunts on record was in Manslaughter. A player, dressed as a motorcycle officer and going fifty miles an hour, crashed into a standing automobile and was thrown over the motor onto pads. In the picture story he dies; but the stunt was figured so closely for safety precautions that he came out with only a wrenched shoulder. He went on to do hundreds of other similar stunts.
The life of a star on the screen is not as long as it would be on the stage. Too much familiarity dims the value of the star's face. The average life of a picture star is about seven years. In two decades on the stage it is estimated that the great Maude Adams did not appear before more than ten million people. Were Maude Adams a film star todav, twice that number would see her in a single evening.
This comparatively short life of a screen star once brought the heartfelt remark from a studio technician, "I'm glad I'm not a star."
He meant by this that in his own obscure place in the studio he did not earn any more than he would in the same profession outside, but he could without interruption earn his salarv — a good living wage, until he was sixty or seventy. He would be able to pursue a
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