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Show HONOLULU POLICE TAKE INVOLUNTARY PART IN STAGING UNIVERSAL DRAMA How Miss Essie Fay Handles Savage Pets Editor Hans Enlisted by the Colonial "Meet Steamer Mongolia off harbor tomorrow morning Dangerous criminal crim-inal aboard. Wilder." This message forwarded by wireless from the Pacific Mail liner was received by the Honolulu police March 31, with the result that when the Mongolia arrived the next morning a score of detectives leaped over the steamboat's rail only to find that the message summoning sum-moning them was a ruse to bring them into the setting of a motion picture drama which had been acted during the voyage and Which came to a climax when the camera recorded them climb-inn climb-inn over the rail of the vessel. Judge A. A. Wilder, a candidate f Mr the office of supreme court justice, is , declared to be the author of the alarming alarm-ing message which threw the police de- ! 1 partmcnt into a furore. Judge Wilder I was a passenger aboard the Mongolia, 1 and during the passage he became acquainted with Universal Director Henry McRae. Mr McRae states that he will be in the Islands several months with his company and that a score of stirring dramas of Hawaiian life will be produced pro-duced and later released through the program of the I'niversal Film Manufacturing Manu-facturing Company, of New York. After the company of motion picture people have finished their work there :iie wrjll proceed to the Orient and pursue pur-sue their world-tour of picture-taking. Mr. McRae is the director of the famous 101 Bison dramas ( Universal ) and is well known in Honolulu, having visted there four years ago with his own company uf plavn The picture in which the Honolulu police figure as the result of the practical prac-tical joke is entitled "The Web of Diplomacy." The action in the drama begin; in Washington, D. C, and terminates ter-minates in Honolulu. It falls to the lot of few women to make it their pleasure to cultivate the friendship of such ferocious beasts as tigers and leopards. Miss Kssic F.iy, expert handler of wild beasts and accomplished ac-complished actress, who is employed at the Universal Pacific Coast studios, has been making love each day to six untrained un-trained leopards for the past two months. She takes pleasure in playing with fencious animals from which the average brave man would shrink in terror. After continual labor for two months, '. " of the six animals can be used in pictures without extreme danger to those who act with them. Miss Fay uses a large w ire-sided room in w hich to play with her pets. The only weapon of defense she uses is an ordinary horse whip. When the animals are turned in with her they arc somewhat sulky and do considerable roaring and showing of teeth. WHat follows is ver much like a scene between a mother and two .stub-horn .stub-horn children. She tingles them with her whip. They snarl, roar and possibly pos-sibly spring at her, but she is never taken unawares. The tingling process is continued con-tinued until one of. the beasts hangs its head, walk; sulkily to a corner, jumps upon a pedestal and stands upon its hind legs. She then compels the other animal to do likewise. After working with them for a couple of hours the animals arc as docile as two cats. The six spotted leopards arc in training for use in Universal animal stories. Motion pictures are making as heavy inroads upon the publishing world as Upon the stage. Many of the most distinguished dis-tinguished writers have already turned their talents toward the pictures and re-'centlv re-'centlv several of the best known magazine maga-zine editors have allied themselves with motion picture concerns. One of rhe latest recruits is Mr. I'r.-ctor W. If. m l former editor f "The Delineator." Mr Hansl who is secretary and manager of production for the Colonial Motion Picture I orporarioil, is a rirm beliecr in piepicturization of the novel. "The motion picture is essentially a narrative." ..,,d ur. Hans, "I is a story in picture form What better film subjects can there be. then, than the great works of fiction. Colonial productions pro-ductions are all of this type We are putting upen the screen the 'best sellers' of yesterday and today, such as Sir Gilbert Gil-bert Parker's 'The Seats of the Mighty, Booth Tarkington's 'The (ientleman from Indiana.' Margaret Deland's 'The Iron Woman.' F.mcrson Hough's '54-40 or Fight' and other novels of similar importance. These stories have bad hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of delighted readers. Produced with the aid of an eminent cat and upon a proper scale of elaborateness elab-orateness throughout, such pictures should have an even greater appeal than their originals had in book form. In the changing conditions of the market only the pictures with a real "punch' will get by and the way to get this result is to select subjects of proven literarv merit " |