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-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY—
Why Carey Prizes Pete
By Marjorie Howard.
REAT preparations are on at "Careyville," as Harry Carey calls his ranch at Newhall. The house is full of paperhangers and painters, and there are gardeners hard at work in the grounds. And all this because the actor's
mother is coming on from New York to visit
him, and he has not seen her for two years. 'But I remember that mother simply can't enjoy herself if things are out of order," he says, "and so the place has got
K-'^-^'^-' -r to shine." Carey is the most prominent citizen of the little town of Newhall, and the other day he gave the natives a treat when he performed a sensational stunt for a picture called "The Soul Herder," in which he was directed by Jack Ford. "Harry Carey directed by Jack f-^ Ford"
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Scene from a coming Carey picture.
has a promising sound, and this promise is being fulfilled to the letter in the company which is producing pepful pictures for the program these days. When the Newhallites learned that the doctor was to jump from the top of a building onto h i s horse, and make a getaway from the men chasing him for the film story, business was suspended for the day, and the whole countryside flocked into town as if there were a circus.
"Pete," the other actor in the scene, i s nearly as famous as Carey himself in the
Harry Carey and "Pete."
neighborhood. He is the dapple-gray horse who appears with him in nearly all his pictures. When the crowd saw Pete lead in front of the building, they greeted him with applause. Then Carey was seen coming over the roof, and Ford cried "Camera!" Pete started, and at exactly the right moment, Carey came flying through the air, landed squarely in the saddle, and was away as his pursuers came after him, firing as they ran.
Every one broke into applause, but Carey, waving his hat, cried out: "It's lunchtime and I'm going home!" Then he galloped over to his own house, and when the others came up, he was placidly enjoying his meal. The picture on this page is a "still' posed afterward for the camera, and gives only a slight idea of the thrill in the original scene.
Carey and Pete have worked together so long that they thoroughly understand each other and Pete will do anything required of him with very little urging. Just before they started on this picture called by the working title of "The Soul Herder," the actor had been teaching his horse a new trick. In one of the scenes, Carey was to drop with his horse, when his pursuers make the animal their target. In order to give realism to the incident, he had been teaching Pete to stop suddenly as soon as he heard several shots, fall to his knees, and roll over. After Pete had earned a lot of sugar, the new stunt was performed with success. Later, "Cheyenne" preaches a long sermon to his congregation of cowpunchers, who go to sleep while he is doing so. He wakes them with a few well-placed shots. Pete was outside the set, waiting to be used later,
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