Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-04-25 | Page 11 | "Scuttlers" Scores at Broadway

Scores Broadway At The In which William Farnum opened yesterday at the Broadway Broad Broad- wa way theatre is an absorbing and sensational sensational sen- sen story of the sea William Fox ox the producer must have gone to grea great expense pense to put this story on the screen A foot ship Is used for most of the scenes and this vessel is sunk far out In the Pacific after a series of dramatic Incidents that are gripping in the tho ex ex- The The story Is that of a I. I man who Is hired to ship as a a. sailor In order to learn If U the captain is guilty as suspected I o of scuttling his ships for the Insurance To avoid suspicion Farnum as Jim Landers Lan Lan- ders allows himself to be shanghaied He finds himself himsel under a brutal first firs t mate and 1 the mate at once shows that tha t he dislikes Landers more than an anyone anyon one te e else on board Soon Erickson the mate beats teats a a. boy and Landers L. knocks hi him down for which Landers Is promptly put pul In fn Irons But his position is not so bad as It might be for the captains captain's daughter daugh daugh- ter Laura played by Miss Jackie Sanders San San- ders comes to his aid with food and a file After er Erickson son has scuttled the ship and as the water is pouring Into the hold hot Erickson discovers Landers A terrific fight tight ensues In the hold Erickson I Is s Killed and Landers escapes from th sinking vessel because Laura guides hi him to the lifeboat More thrills come while the survivors m are on a desert Island The is not only a a. very en en- picture but a very drama with a powerful actor as it HI hero Von Stroheim staged a fire scene 1 li il Foolish Wives at Universal City th other evening with such fine that two actors had to be taken to th hospital to be treated for severe burns burn The actors were stunt men engage l to ele leap from the e seventy foot tower o et the villa l when t the flames reached e i certain point Delay In stretching th net some five feet above the necessitated a moments moment's watt walt wit almost disastrous results Von Stroheim claims the photograph I effect attained was worth a a. doze burns Hoot Gibsons Gibson's latest Universal shor sho reel feature The Movie Trail J t which he is being directed by A A. T Ii Thompson will show an intimate glimps of Universal City The story takes th star Etar who appears as a Texas cowboy cOl from from the ranch to the worlds world's film cap fal l. l and is and is unique a among n Phot photoplays y r r. r L' L i