| Show e L IDES FEATURES the filming of serial pictures is regarded as the most hazardous type of picture making work but leatrice joy believes differently the charming cecil B demille actress asserts that appearing before the camera under mr mir De Milles direction puts to shame all serial thrills ever er experienced here are some of the hair raising demands that were made upon her by her role in manslaughter that comes to the th ides beater theater saturday to race with a speeding train attempting to cross in front of it skid onto the tracks and then escape by a matter of inches from annihilation to drive a cr crr at a speed in attempting to escape arrest for speed ing skid into a turn and cling to the wheel as the pursuing motorcycle officer crashes into her car and hurtles across it to his death to spend a week of working days seated between two full grown bengal tigers chained at her feet while the cameras recorded a lavish reproduction of a roman bacchanal to be tied by the wrists and dragged face down up a long flight of stone steps to suffer painful burns on the hands and arms in filming a series of scenes in a real kitchen while simulating kling ignorance of the science of cooking these were some of the thrills of the making of manslaughter the proceeding cecil B demille jemille production saturday night recorded miss bliss joy driving a roadster onto a trestle az and hanging suspended beneath it while a passing train crashed into the tailed car another series of scenes in the same picture depicted a thrilling tenement fire in which miss joy narrowly escaped death in their effort to give the people bigger and better productions some motion picture producers are now offering to the public featured players in all the important roles instead of ticking in players of mediocre ability ana depending on the star to satisfy the audiences picture patrons demanded convincing work from all the cast now they are getting it t more and more every day as its a result of the changed policy which gives the public good all round acting instead of having boving to look for it only in the star alice brady is starred deservedly in anna ascends a paramount picture pic ture which is to be the main attraction at the ides theater next tuesday and she is supported by a cast that thai contributes in no small degree to the success of the picture this can readily be understood when it is stated that david powell robert ellis and nita naldi are members of the cast they are buitte an impressive trio also there are edward durand and fredack burton veterans of stage and screen florence dixon and grace griswold the story taken from the successful play lay of the same name in which miss MI brady appeared as the star deals with the struggles struggle of an I 1 immigrant syrian girl to become an author in america starting as a waitress in a new york coffee house romance come comes to her and hand in hand with it the she goes admirably through her exciting adventures with a band of jewel smugglers aers miss bradys fa a mili arity with the story makes it particularly ticul arly suitable to her as a film vehicle |
