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Show I IE TWICE RISKED LIFE I IH FILMING "CIVILIZATION" JpH Ttie (Irmly set, determined mouth IppH of Thomas II. Inco, producer of IH "Civilization" at tho Lyric next week B Is a strong Indication of the perslst-H perslst-H enco of this director who less than B six years ago was earning $1.50 a BBJ day and Is today ono of the biggest BBf men In tho flint Industry. Nothing BBl could better Ulustrato tho determlna-BBs determlna-BBs tlon to accomplish what ho sets out BBc to do, at all hazards, than borne BBa circumstances surrounding tho pro-Si pro-Si ductlon of "Civilization." BBl Dining tho year and a half that Bfl this picture wan In tho mailing Mr. j Inco twlco nearly lo3t his llfo. Tho kA first timo wlilla speeding from Inco-ff Inco-ff vllle, his 18,000 aero lancho In the MB Santa Monica mountains, whero H most of his pictures aro taken, to B Hollywood, his home, Mr. Incc's car B turned turtle up a hill. llo had m been racing on tho way homo with jH ' ltnymund U. West, tho assistant H , director of "Chillzatlon," and when ftV Mr. West and his chauffeur lifted BV Mr. Inco from under his Mercedes BS they found his arm badly broken. B Ho van talccn at ouco to tho liospl- tal, whero he was laid up for six B weoks. During this timo of orTioro or his assistant directors called alls al-ls most dally, receiving their lnstruc-H lnstruc-H tlons from Mr. Inco regarding tho H progreE3 and changes In tho scenes H of "Civilization," thon being filmed. H It was shortly after hio recovery from this accident that tho big fire which partly destroyed Incevillo started In ono of tho cutting rooms whero Mr. Inco was engaged with eight of his men In working on 300,000 feet of "Civilization" film to the 11,000-odd feet which now composo tho picture. The gun cot- ton In the positive film exploded and Mr. Inco and three of his men were so badly burned that they had to bo removed to tho hospital Immediately. Immedi-ately. But as Mr. Inco had already lost through tho mishap In his auto six weeks' time, and now that tho ontlro posltlvo was destroyed, and ho knew that he must needs give considerable extra time to send for tho negative, which fortunately h-ad been kept at Kdendalo, to make a new positive and again reassemble and cut somo 300,000 feet of film, Kll tho doctors In California could not keep him In bod longer than ono day. The morning after tho flro found him strolling among the ' ruins with both arms and ono hand bandaged, directing his men. Tho task of again cutting his film and arranging captions and titles, would , havo been enough to discourage tho I averago man, but as Mr. Ince Is far from being an average man, he merely set hlR Jaw a little firmer together to-gether and went to work with more persistency than ever. |