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Show "Patria" Thrill Don't Faze Mrs. Castle In making tho pictures for the romantic ro-mantic serial, "Patria," which Is to be shown at the Oak theatre again tonight, to-night, Mrs. Vernon Castle, who plays tho titlo role, la called upon to do things which a less Intrepid or capable capa-ble woman would, have refused or been unable to do. Tho heroine of "Patria," produced for the International Interna-tional and released by Pathe, Is an expert rider, swimmer, diver, denver, wrestler and dancer, equally at homo In driving a motor car or a motor boat, and familiar with aeroplanes and all their ways. Thoso who have known Mrs. Castlo best as a dancer, remember her as n slender, graceful creaturo, dainty an! svelte and fragile as a Dresden doll. Most people watching her movements, tho very embodiment of grace, received re-ceived the Impression that If she .should trip and fall she might break Into a thousand pieces. Well, none of this delicate, fragile and ethereal personality has been lost In "Patria," and yet she does snuch hair-raising, breath-taking, soul-gripping stunts in motion pictures as to fill tho beholder be-holder with amazement that one so fragile, frail and altogether feminine could do them and survive. "Employ a substitute for the dangerous dan-gerous stunts?" Not Mrs. Vernon Castle. "Why, I couldn't bear to think of letting anybody do all thoso things for me," she said. "It would have broken my heart. I've loved every minute of all thoso thrilling things and I wouldn't have missed doing them for vorlds." Sho is thrown from the back of a galloping horse; she dives headlong I from the deck of an ocean going j steamship and swims to a motor boat into which she climbs unassijf. ed; she is thrown from the upper deck of a Sound steamer and In the water divests horself of her superfluous superflu-ous clothing; she climbs the mast of a burning ship with tho flames lick-lng lick-lng tho shrouds and falls with the mast into tho water far below; she plunges over a. waterfall into the whirlpool; she races her motor against a railroad car loaded with dynamite; she flle3 an aeroplane; she operates a machine gun nnd doei many other strenuous things that wake you gasp. But never for a moment mo-ment does she lose her dainty, graceful, grace-ful, feminine charm that has made her famous on two continents. Above all, sho can act as her work In "Patria" abundantly proves. M |