Show She Faces Fates W Worse Than Death orse New Star Falls Old Od Serial Roles I By y FREDERICK C. C OTHMAN HOLLYWOOD UP UP-In UP In a permanent permanent per per- manent wave and buskin shorts which zippered up the front Miss liss Miss Frances Gifford Thursday stepped into the shoes of Pearl White and Ruth Roland and beame became became be- be came ame the first cinema cinema serial queen in 25 years It was movie making at its eyed and eyed and most profit- profit with able ble with Miss Gifford standing to o earn her employers better than I by suffering 14 fates worse vorse than death In the fifteenth I and nd final installment she falls in inthe i ithe the he arms of hero Tom Neal Fadeout Fadeout Fade- Fade out ut with dead savages littering the le countryside and the light of love ove kindling in Miss Gs G.'s big blue eyes yes Five hard working scenarists labored for months to produce a scrIpt about the size of the Manhattan Manhattan Man- Man hattan attan telephone directory which does oes these things to the badly bruised heroine 1 1 Traps her in ina ina a flooded tunnel 2 Sacrifices her to the jungle fire god 3 Bolls Boils her in oil 4 Buries her herin hern herin in n an avalanche 5 Sprays her with poison gas 6 Shoots her with a poisoned arrow 7 7 Catapults Catapults Cata- Cata her into space 8 Burns her in a forest fire 9 Plunges her in a bottomless pit 10 Puts her ler in the clutches of a man-eat- man ing ng gorilla 11 Ties her beneath beneatha a pile driver 12 Lures her into a lions' lions den 13 Crashes her in ina a flaming airplane 14 Ties herto her hero herto to o a stake in front of an automatic spear pear discharging machine Ouch Chases Wild Beasts I also fight crocodiles Miss Gilford Gifford said and chase elephants and wrestle pythons and little things like that so the interest wont won't lag Miss White and Miss Roland I both ol ot whom died a few years ago amassed substantial fortunes I suffering almost identical horrors for 15 harrowing weeks in movie theaters everywhere before the first World war wars When they re retired retired retired re- re tired to live on their hard-earned hard wealth the movie makers went wenton on producing serials at profits which made their eyes bulge but until today no other woman at attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted to emulate the Perils of Pauline The principal characters characters characters charac charac- always were men Whenever Miss Gifford is about to sizzle drown or otherwise turn into a grease spot one of her two directors always replaces her beautiful body with a facsimile of papier mache and lets the savages savages sav say ages do their worst Its It's a Tough Job So Im I'm never in any actual danger she said but being a jungle girl is no snap Our picture pic picture pie pie- ture runs 31 reels Its It's got 2100 scenes The average big feature has about And we work so hard and so so fast that we have to have two directors While Director Director Director tor William Whitney is working one day Director Jack English is at home asleep And so on every other day Only the actors dont don't get any days off This conversation took place in the South sea jungle on the Los Angeles river immediately behind Hollywoods Hollywood's most modern sound stage at Republic studios Miss Gifford was rubbing bruises inflicted during her escape from froma a tiger and was getting her breath before suffering fate worse than death No 9 Dont Don't bother to look it up it was the bottomless pit episode She took one look in the pit toppled over with every curl still in place and let out a scream that would have curdled your blood Finis See episode No 10 at this il C I same theater next week I II |