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Show AT THE LYRIC ' FRUND SAT. "I have got them stumped on two lines of parts I can not play," smiled Sessue Hayakawa, tho Jnpaneso star who will bo seen at tho Lyric theatre on Friday and Saturday, August Z and 4, in tho Lasky-Paramount production, pro-duction, "Jaguar's Claws," "and those are an Irish policeman and Swedish characters. I believe I havo Played every other nationality on tho map; I havo been Japanese, Chinese, East Indian, West Indian, Hawaiian, and now, in 'Jaguar's Claws,' I am Playing a Mexican not a nice Mexl- 8888888888b8 IB BBBBHflflflffV flflB Is K '1 $ BBBBBBBBniBBBBBH I1Sk5ueI1ayakavva ll IJJJiasicwaramountjtab Pggjg can, oither it Is a Mexican of tha Villa typo, and I am very cruel and I bloodthirsty. "Fortunatoly for tho story, however, how-ever, I got killed in tlmo for tho other pooplo to bo pprfnetly happy, "Heavy parts nrq my favorites, I can't say that I Hko bolng mean or that I liko being a villian, but I really real-ly think that vllllanoua roles rcqutro more dramatic expression and thnt a person has a greater opportunity to make something out of that part than nny other. I know I have fared equally as well In the roles I played in 'The Cheat' and in 'Each to His Kind' ns I did in 'Tho Honorable Friend,' 'Allen Souls' and 'The Dottlo Imp.' "However, If my role as a Mexican In 'Jaguar's Claws' will do anything towards showing how Mexicans are treating the Americans In Mexico, I will feel that I have done some-good. some-good. "Anyway, we had a lot of fun filming film-ing a number of tho scenes and many of them were shot in Mexico. We nearly caused serious international complications: we had our gang of nearly a hundred cowboys dash through one of the Mexican towns. We had hired the town and most of tho citizens for that day, but there were a few who did not quite grasp that the attack was merely for motion mo-tion pictures nnd when the cowboy3 camo galloping through, firing their revolvers, a number of the inhabitants inhabi-tants crawled under their beds and others seized rifles to attempt to quell the Invasion. Fortunately, however, there wero no serious ro-sults. ro-sults. In my next plcturo I go back to a Japanese role tho only vllllan-ous vllllan-ous thing I do Is drown the vllllan-css." |