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Show ! f SEEN BEHIND THE SCENES IN A MOVIE STUDIO 1 1 I Ijr A. H. GIEBLER a ROOM, miserably furnished ' ') ' Ok with a three-legged tablo and $ .' a broken-down chair; a tall, - . thin man, wearing a cloak, stands in lor, 6uch a way that his face cannot bo 3. "I He flicks tho ashes from his $ I cigarette, shrugs his cloaked shqai-tna shqai-tna dcrs at Intervals, and gives other 'signs lay i ; that brand him as tho "hea,vy" 0 the $j : piece to any regular rrrOvie fan, as lb ! liough the word ".yiilian" were writ- ! en on his back. r0r 5 i The door oflnc room opens. A tall ''13 ' voman enrs- Sne wears a look of 'M l deep anxiety on her fair face and Tvhite shoes on her rather generous- ifl filzeo ieeu '"Where is he?" she exclaims. "They 'Jlold me ho was hero. "Where is ho?" rt- 'it The tall man turns slowly, with 3 J great deliberation, and it can now bo ' ' $ i seen that in addition to the cloak he is 18 i ; wearing a small mustache pointed at J j the ends and a sardonic smile. 'i j Tho woman recoils in horror. ": J "You!" sho gasps. "You, Jack Dal-8 Dal-8 J;' ton!" 'fil Tbe vilIIan laughs and enjoys tho m lady's terror. Then he walks up close , M ' to ner as tn0l,Su ae were going to bite s acr and hisses. i: 'M "Yes, my prqud beautyl Me, Little f J J Me!" 'Jj "Where is he? Where is my hus- 'm hand?" demands tho woman. "They r M told me he was hurt that ho tried to jj butt a trolly car off the track that Suddenly, one of the misicians who had been playing for tho dancers comes from behind tho screen of tropical trop-ical plants that had half hidden htm, walkB to the center of the Toom, thrown "back the lapel of his coat, disclosing dis-closing a shining metal shield. A hush falls on tho scene. A distinguished dis-tinguished appearing man, who has been dancing with the bello of tho ball registers fright and' starts to leave In haste, but at the command of the man with the shield, who now displays a revolver ho surrenders and Is led handcuffed from the room. If the cameraman who "shot" scene C6 of "Love and Lunacy," a burlesque Of illA nld-tfmn mnlndmm'i nVi tVi mo described first; and then scene 33 of "The Spy Unmasked," a story of International Inter-national Intrigue, had turned his camera cam-era 2 Inches to the right when he was taking the first scene, he would have shown the husband of tho, woman who was seeking him in such a distracted manner sitting on a property staircaeo smoking a cigarette while sho was being be-ing mistreated, and waiting for the scene to be over so he could borrow the scoundrel's mustache to wear as the spy In the second scene. Behind the scenes in Screenland is one of the strangest, and at tho same time one of tho most interesting, places in tho world. When you go to" tho picture show and look at the films, you only seo that part of the studio the camera sees; and, of course, the directors and the realt You would see the actor In his natural nat-ural lair, and, excopt when he is in tho scone, without poso or pretence. You would seo great emotional tragediennes, trage-diennes, who had just torn passion to tatters in "big moment" scenes, making mak-ing savage attacks on a pork chop sandwich and other edibles. You would seo infamous villains looking softly at the fair young things whom they had Just got through persecuting per-secuting in a relentless manner, and tho aforsald fair young things giving a fair imitation of liking it, with none of the fear in their eyes they had shown for tho scroundrels a few mln- You would be surprised to see an emotional actress getting ready for a close-up that would afterwards make millions of women weep being fitted up with a complete set of tears by an assistant director, who used a bottle of glycerin and a medicine dropper for the purpose. You would sympathize with the mothers of positively tho most wonderful won-derful child actresses in the world in their attempts to get their Infant prodigies prod-igies to work when- the directors wanted them to Instead of when the tempermental "kids" wanted to. You would be shocked at the sight of a man sawing away on a fiddle while a woman lies dying, surroundt " by her sorrowing relatives. The mai with the fiddle would bo necessary however, as many of the players can D. W. Griffith at Work Directing a Picture. The Audience in Back arc Jnst Looking On. !:' he hafl been brought here to this Jroom!" "You will never see him alive ,j again," sneers tho tall man, twirling , the mustache and making tho smile ; more sardonlcky than over. He advances ad-vances toward the woman once more. , Sho recalls some more; but in spite -4 tho defiPerato struggle -which she ftwi puts up, he strips the jewels from her ar nec and arms, and makes her sign a paper that rob3 hor of the rlch-&t rlch-&t gold mino in Alaska. Ho walks out V-TM D e room leavIng her lying In a ifls aUQala heap on the floor, with hor jm . ?r Httle white shoes sticking up in ' air llko mniaturo scrows. ftsT Anotaer room. A whacking big IH room furnished with opulonco and a .JH mob of peoplo trying nobly to wear JH j evening clothes and look at home in $ them as they shufflo around the floor in an imitation of dancing. cameramen are careful to arrange it so that tho camera sees only what they want the publio to see. Somo day it is going to occur to an enterprising director to make a seriocomic serio-comic film, wihere, just at tho wrong time for tho sanity of the story, but just at tho right time lor tho fun o tho thing, ho will toll the camoraman to "panoram," which means to turn his machine to tho right and the left, and take a panoramic view of tho side lines, which is the "behind the scenes" of the studios. A film of this kind would glvo one a very illuminative insight into tho way films are mado. But what would bo more interesting would be for you to take an excursion Into that mysterious myster-ious and fascinating country, tho borderland bor-derland of screenland, which is found just on the other sldo of tho imaginary imagi-nary lino- that -divides tho reel from work better to the strain -of music The recent picture shows William Parnum of the Fox studios going through a scene to the accompaniment of an orchestra, which is Just far enough away to not got in the picture. You didn't think that of big, rough Bill Farnum, who is always slamming things around and whipping same-body, same-body, did you? An orchestra is not a temperamental temperamen-tal whim with Farnum. He is not bho least bit temperamental, but ho finds an orchestra a great help in his work and uses it. A most interesting bit of behind-the-scenes action was observed by the writer at a studio in Fort Lee, N. J., a few months ago. A scono showing tho children's ward In a charity hospital was being filmed. Ten littlo cots were ranged in a 'double row, each .with a little- child In it. A soft-footed, white-capped nurse waB in attendance, and there was a tall glass case of glittering instruments instru-ments in tho foreground. And, just a few feot away," a half dozen mothers watching tho scene with great anxiety. Tho surgeon oamo Into tho ward; ho walked down between tho little cots, followed by the nurse. He stopped at tho cot whero tho child who was the star of the scene was lying, looked down at the littlo ono and solemnly shook his head. It was so very real, and so very pathetic. pa-thetic. The only thing that kept it from being utterly so was the fact that the anxious mothers wore nearly all smiling and looked, vory happy. : " ; l ' -. .'; m I . They were .watching their little ones, each of whom represented a possible Mary Plckford or a Douglas Fairbanks to them. Bach mothor was armed with a toy of somo sort. One had a doll, one a drum, one a tin horn and another a bottle of milk. The only mother who did not have anything was a negress, and she was not armed, because her little brown future Bert Williams would not glvo up tho drum and had taken it to bed with him In his cot. The director and the boy's mother had ereat difficulty in keenlntr littlo Rastus from pounding, the life out of tho drum at the wrong momont, too. Of course theso mothers were on the aide lines and never showed up in the ipicturo that no doubt, will delight de-light many millions of people when it Is shown. |