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Show hjKV- mjy- Picture Diagram Illustrating 32 ;m? Sv a Few of the High Lights in LiLWmSF Mtss Gauntier's 30,000 Mile ' , ' Im Moving Picture Performance ; it ' ' . jjVp from New York to Holy Land. Br Sandstorms, Brigands, Dusky wbMm Wooers, Vive$ Camels, SJif Crocodiles and Donkeys Sy 50, 000 Mile Record , Gauntier Posing at Jerasa- tT f f ' em 83 's'vTour . Breaking Performance : f "The Prettiest Moving Picture Star" . '. I By Miss GENE GAUNTIER. (The Highest Salaried Moving-Picture Heroine in America). likoSlNG for tho "movies" la generally regarded, I Br believe, by those who are unfamiliar with tho mtf -work, as being a good deal of a sinecure. Tha ifcvlng-plcture queen Is supposed to have a very easy Una of it compared with the arduous work a Broadway JKr is compelled to put in. IKAs. a matter of fact, howorer, the situation la Just K, reverse, as may he very easily shown. RThe Broadway star learns her part and -uses it for Hatha at a stretch; thft moving-picture star learns hers Kjbut a single performance. The Broadway star lives Bbln taxlcab distance of her stage: tho movlug-pic-IBe queon may have to travel to the 'end of the world Hfind hers. The Broadway star travels in her motor Rto and from the thcatro: tho moving-picture quoon jKt avail herself of whatever vehicle the country lMwhen the final curtain Is rung down on the Broad-jft' Broad-jft' show ,the star may repair to restaurant or home in Hpcompany of her admirers and friends; when tho Hfs work Is over for the moving-picture star, sho may Hlhousands of miles from civilization. Hcrhese are but a few of the essential differences. Ey Impress me most strongly because I have just npleted a 30,000-mllo trip for tho "movies," and know En ten montbB I posed In twelvo countries, In three tinents. I travelled on boat, on foot, on camels, on Bkcys, on horses and in the various rickety convey-'.characteristic convey-'.characteristic of tho difTorent countries which I Hvhe principal mission of tho company of which I Kftho leading lady was to poso for the pictures in the Kjof Christ" series, the pictures being posed for in Hyery places whore tho original incidents occurred, .Hfly two thousand years ago. The difficulties wo had taking many of these pictures have already been v Hncprihrni in these pages, but there were a number KnuBual incidents in tho course of our trip which never been told. Bcforc. we .arrived at the Holy Land, we look a num-fKpf num-fKpf pictures in Europe. In Rome, after I had been PKlering for hours among some of the ancient ruins, VBllarizing myself with (be scenes in which I was to ; pAmorm and was making my way home to ray hotel, I FjPBencountered by a native, who I had noticed watch-'pe watch-'pe all the afternoon. was about 6 o'clock and duslr. In a quiet street rw-fellow suddenly fell on his knees beforo mo, and iKed mo to become the Contessa Somcthing-Or-Other, iuQMi' which, of course, I inferred that he was the Coun.t tvijwaB.never so embarrassed in my life. I knew the RVJRknB were supposed to be great lovomakers, but I jBr't awaro that they popped the question on the pub-RfBLlghway pub-RfBLlghway In this open manner. JJjJjSJB-explained to the man as well as I could that his 55p8ltlon was flattering but impossible, but ho pes-me pes-me during the remainder of my stay in Rome to ftiBldor my decision. VjBut that was uothlng to an experience I had in the -M& Libyan desert, where quite unintentionally I Tfced tho heart.strlngs of BoBtowic, a BIshareeu flK who Insisted that I should becomo his wife No. 4, A jed mo a desert throne and, when I refused, mado jral attempts to steal mc from my company, be little village over which Bostowie ruled was twelve miles from Luxor, where we stopped twelve fl. In making our frequent excursions Into the i: Ck11 desert, it was necessary to pass through Bob-J'Rs Bob-J'Rs village. That was how he came to know me. Itj jimfc village consisted of a series of reed huts, none vfrJjjMUch was fit to house a dog. I was so struck by tho AMjKlv9 appcaranco of tho settlement when I saw it J"H flrBt timo tnnt tbt flrst leIsuro day 1 eot 1 de jyrwPBtowie, tho sheik, misconstrued the purpose of my : -rZw' s truo tuat 1 Eun'ered no indignities at his y on the contrary, ho treated me with every con-jpBfttIon; con-jpBfttIon; but ho must certainly havo concluded that if Wfi as Bml-ten wItn n's manifold charms as he ovl- K WatJ whiit ho rogarded as mine. If Rthout consulting mo at all, ho had ouo of tho little ' Bpleared out for my reception, and made propara-pfor propara-pfor my reception. Ho evidently imagined that I fflHIppme to spend the rest of my days with him. iaW3 sun was beginning to go down when T intimated SPStowlo that I wanted my camel, as I hud to got 23 w?0 Luxor beforo dark. At tlrst he professed not ' .dcrBtand, and had hia own four camels brought fx 'pd.suld thoy wcro mine if I wanted them. m )B?!stcd tllJlt 1 liai to return to Luxor, and that It iff W Hi11'!- by Hiinset my party would como aftor I I If knew where I had gonu. MJt aKc Bl,clk angry. 1. bcllovo ho would have SfiljlHr ? hcn as reai,ilir riS lool lt mc' nut "o waB wlfflm' IleUclll,lt'j'' ll ordered my camel, and in half jHrUr or go I -was home safe. Bf Kaoitt, dy I receivod from the sheik a camol and f!DWy'. on'y two da's old, evidently as a peace oifor-, oifor-, 2x4r'Mter the day, the sheik himself made hl3 way yfK!01" aul sought me out. Through Amcon, our l-ViKoa,4 Dml0 a (iefinlte oKcr t0 me to uecomo ifl-ffiE.rlnnfe'lf0Ut,,,.T,at h WUfi onl? thIrt' yQara ifl UfWier of hia village. Ilin wealth consisted only of PHJd ' but hlB offlcial position gavo him tho .jflSBBtoa Sulhi0n?d HVi not to Iau8h at 1ne truest VfflWEii u ut WilitiuK t0 bear froin explained yygjpr 8daoiK that his proposition could not possibly be t'fcViWily fihcIk aPr"ed for a position in tho IOWa'n 0Ur d,rector readily gave him as t-q ItncludinJ I ,a"o"ward. while a small party AT ? BoBtowie. on camel back, wcro travera. fMitZ J, AmGri overheard a conversation be. e. "atlvcii whlch Indicated that an at-mkWk at-mkWk U al,duot me. ' Hardly had our dragoman communicated his suspicions sus-picions to the director of our party, when a huge cloud of sand in the distance announced the approach of a band of natives on camel-back, and they rodo so fast that beforo we knew it we wcro completoly surrounded. As had been plannod, before any hostile step could b5 taken by the invaders our director covorod Bos-towla. Bos-towla. with his automatic, and directed Amoon to explain ex-plain to him that unless he at once dismissed his band ho would be shot. Bostowlo protested hi3 Innocence, but couldn't explain ex-plain the invasion of his band. With a few words .-spoken in his native tongue lit dismissed his followers, and we were not again molested during tho trip back. Prom that time, however, you may bo sure I was particularly par-ticularly careful never to get too far away from my party while in tho vicinity of Bostowie. While at Luxor I had a wonderful experience on ramel-back. Tho animal was a racer. I had started for a short, trip alone. In somo way T iudicated to tho brute that I wanted him to show what he could do and he did. With nothing to hang on to but mv faith' lor there were no stirrups and the guide-rope was but a thin cord tied to one of the animal's nostrils, I was carried across the desert at what seemed llko'a bun-'-re;l mlirs an hour! Ameen followed mo on an Arabian steed, hat I don't think he would ever have caught me had tho camel not voluntarily slackened his speed. But perhaps the most harrowing incident of the trln occurred during tho journey from Jerusalem to tho Sea of Galilee. This covers a distance of 246 miles We made it on donkeys in five days, .taking pictures ill he time. This is Just one-half tho timo required by the " tourists agencies. To accomplish tho feat thou eh had to travel at night, and tho trail through t ? mo,m tains was execrable and dangerous, for wo had bnnn warned that the region w-as infested by Bedouin baridUs Indeed, the Turkish Government insisted upon nro vid ng us with an armed guard, on account of the fSt D.M .-fvcra! tourists had recently been found 1 mur-dered mur-dered there. Foolishly enough, however, the director of tho com pany and I allowed ourselves to get nearly ti'o m i! ;:u ,. r tho party, and while we wcro j S ceeding In almost utter darkness, depending cntirX upon our sure-footed donkeys, two pistol shots ran out in our vicinity. railS "It is all right, Gene," said tho director "fnni iir this gun, and think you are 'filming' a western sceno'' Ho gave me a gun and got his own ready for a iinn We waited for the enemy. action. The minutes seemed like hours and we couldn't-the couldn't-the slightest sound of motion. Ten minutes elaSSS and then we heard the sound of hoofs. Wo crowdwi in among tho trees to leave the trail free, and waited As the stops approached, my companion sanir'oiif. "Who goes there?" and we waited breathlessly for th answer. uo You can Imagine how relieved we wore when wb found that it was our own party that was approaching Who fired the shots we had heard we woro never ablo to ascorlain. To got the films ready for production I niado a sne- f cial trip of 12,000 miles back to Now York with them ? I had prepared the scenarios and was tho only person familiar enough with tho work lo undertake this qp 4, of the matter. Thon I returned re-turned to Europe for more fi$l$!t& While In tho desert our party was caught in one of MP3?& the typical sandstorms. It was mk. :Ps& a most terrylfying experience, mijM. but did us no harm. ri'Wz Posing for tho "movies" "v is not by any j-t means tho sine- $Wyli&a y' euro it may ap- MliSTSIk--pear from the AMMPWXi ' 'k mi &. .v-'r il 9 Miss Gauntier, the Misa Gauntier and Her Bishareen King Who Insisted Upon Marrying Her. Miss Gauntier I ill Moving Picture Star Riding the Camel He Gave Her. J Whose Last "Per- ' . iil party was caught in one of MPfA formance" Made a the typical sandstorms. It was p ?oro,.a' 0f nnn a most terrylfying experience, liii Pf m 1UUUU but did us no harm. fill 0 Miles. Posing for tho "movies" is not by any j-t ''- means tho sine- Vn. . euro it may ap- iffm , 'Wi'v pear from the AMMPWXi '' Aims. yrwmwVnw 'Isk y: "Little camels make the oddest presents," Says Misa Gauntier. Here Is a Photograph of Her and tho Little Camel the Desert King Also Gave Her |