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Show VITAORAPH m 1 IS DARING ONE f ft Jewell Hunt Bound and J Gagged Is Laid on Railroad 1 Track Engine Picks 1 Her Up. I To lie, bound and gagged on a rail- It road track, underneath the cowcatcher m of a huge locomotive, while the engi- M neer carelessly handles levers in the $ cab, Ib an experience that would send m shudders down the spine of the most gg reckless and daring adventurer. Yet S little Jewel . Hunt of the Vltagraph m company went through with the or- M deal with a sang froid ag though risk- s Ing her life was a trifling incident in JS i a day'B work. She appeared quite as- p ' tonished after the Bcene was taken f when her director told her that he I i himself could not be paid to turn the - $ ' trick. . U Tho scene was taken in the wilds of J Jersey where Director Harry Daven- port obtained the use of a locomotive II j and several Pullmans. The action i . taken was supposed to represent the , fiendish scheme of a pair of villains 19 i to do away with the heroine, for no ' especial purpose except pure deviltry. I While the camera clicked merrily away, Miss Hunt struggled with tho ;A , desperadoes. They overcame her, tied i hor hands and with ghoulish glee laid j , her across the track, $ ! The locomotive chuffed into view ji ' and stopped before the camera's eye. , w i Miss Hunt was carried to tho cow- j ! catcher and shoved underneath, with 1m tho wheels on tho front truck almost touching her clothing. Hot oil dripped j on her clothing, and hissing steam j and snorts of the engine added to the terror of all the participants ex- J cept Miss Hunt She suffered some Inconvenience from the heat of tho I boiler. Whether she realized her dan- ger or not, she went through with the role with the nonchalance that any ac- "fl tress could, bound and laid across a - railroad track. ' "Since I have talked with others jj about my experience the other day," j said Miss Hunt yesterday, "it appears ffl; as though I did somethlug quite reck- less and unusual. My director told 'hi me he never expected" I would agree h . to place myself at the mercy of an a , engineer who might slip and pull his W ! throttle the wrong way. If he had, I a would never have known anything y about it, for I was right under the ! cowcatcher with the wheels touching me. "The heat from the engine bothered l and some greasy oil dropped on me. Jj I noticed that everybody around jy watched me closely and rather anx- Jfl iously, but I did not stop to think M of those things. I fixed my thoughts on the fact that a successful movie actress must have her mind on her II art, regardless of danger and risk." ja The engineer pulled the lever the f right way, however, or a story of $! tragedy might have been written here l instead. The camera photographed j? the scene backwards, so that when i the film is completed, it will look as though the engine dashed up from the i distance and stopped Just in time to I avoid running over the heroine. It is an effective piece of work when it is a' done properly. jj |