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Show uounced that she would play the whole episode herself and take the desperate chance of being drowned or attacked by sharks which not infrequently in-frequently find their way into Bis-cayne Bis-cayne Bay. Bettey mounted the aquaplane, thirty feet of line payed out and a life-saver was hidden in the speed boat so that he might attempt to save her in case of acciident. Needless Need-less to say. Betty went through with it. She clung on with both hands at first, then with only one and and she ACTED. It takes nerve to ride a narrow board behind a speed boav going forty miles an hour even it you can swim like a fish to fall off at that speed is a very painful experience but it takes a whale of a lot more nerve if yon can't swim I a stroke. It is being willing to cat! under such circumstances as thesa that has? put Betty Coinpson at the height of her profession. I "MIAMI." I During the filming of "Miami," toll great society drama playing at the Stnr theater Saturday Noveni-rbe Noveni-rbe 22, Betty Compson set a pace that few stars will try to match. The opening scenes of this elaborate picturization of John Lynch's story called for Bettey to ride an aquaplane aqua-plane while dangling in the boiling wake of a speed boat traveling forty miles an hour. That's where the author has it oil the stnr. All he has to do is to think up stunts. The star lias to do them. Betty can't swim a stroke. Having Hav-ing been one of the original Hollywood Holly-wood "bathing beauties" she was never allowed to go near the water. Obviously, the only tiling to do was to engage a double. This was clone, but Betty was far from satisfied with the result. She watched Ihe scenes being made and she didn't like it a bit. Finally she an- |