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Show Writer Learns ; How Touches of Realism Are Achieved in Pic- Wfi tures Made in Jg k Mixed-Up Fashion J$jM BY A. H. GXEBLER, Kt TF MOVING plcijres were not-mado !SB 3 ,a sucl' a icrkt manner If the dl- ioctor would J stage the scenca 'JUMt ; l,,at nko up the plays In the same order ?H sequence as theykro shown on the z5 : stnen, It vould bo Just as Inicrcsting I jo watch a movlg' being made aa It. is to watch the Plctury In the' theater after It lr PDfnpTe.tctf. ' ' ' ' i But moving pictures are not mado ; Out way. , . A scene In a ballroom may bo lol- luwcd by half a- dozen in a barn or a bank. In a kitchen or a castle, .and not two of thorn will seem to have any J relation to each other, to the casual unlookcr. For this reason the cOHuai i ' onlooker at a studio oftentimes B-Jts i 1 a ry hazy idea oi what Is going on. T7y I said aomotlilng to this effect to J. En D Hampton, manager of tl c J. Warren l(JH .. Kcnigan studio, which I visited lnot Y ,' wcelc when he Invited me to "come out TlMt l' Un lhU sta?0 anJ sce Ir- Kerrigan . -s'J ' work." Then Hampton sprung a now wrinkle on me by producing a llttlo J booklet containing a condensed version ' I of the play. ttr & ' Read this," ho said, "and you'll bo j t blo to follow tho story and IdcntKy i each accno anil place It In the narrative MC I' whero It belongs. You'll llnd every- a jjtfjjj; i - thing moro enjoyable and Interesting." ' r !; Little Book Helps a Lot i. TJA3tPTOX was right. I got so In- ! torcstcd that I stuck around the ; studio all afternoon. Tho llttlo book I holpcd a lot. When they staged a cccno with J. Wan en Kerrigan, Jay BolaMo and Jack Gilbert, seated around j. a tatlo, wearing evening clotlic3. silk hats and a mild state of alcoholic Jn- . . Nation, I know exactly what It meant, and Uiat the hilarious times tin f thrco J0U"C chaps AVOrc ,ndusinc ln ;, would bring them trouble later on. P f And when thoy moved ever to an- t clher scene that represented the In- i terlorof a lonely cabin, and Kerrigan T and Gllb-rt forcibly and with mxllco '! forethought deprived Stanhopo Wheat- croft of his trousers, I-wns not shocked - I nor grieved nor Mllcd with sympathy , .1 ; for "Whcatcroft, for I l.new from tho 9KW "ttlo book that ho was getting what AR . waa coming to him. OHt f Erest Warde. son of the noted trage- rvV I dian' Frclcrlck AV'arde, was tho dlrcc,-tor dlrcc,-tor JI explained to the three players ,)U 3Ust what was to ba done, -what was M? i cmlng off," to uoo studio slang. . Hut l 1 nold that he did not tell AVhcat- Uy ;' croft lhat he was to f-bcw anger, In- 01 i, d'DaUon and horror. I suppose ho ' I . :new that no actor would havo to W 1? lla Wiat ,Clnd r on,cUon hc vas t0 recbicr on tho occarlon of losing hli ; ; pants. r And 11 lhat way. I suppose there U , j 13 a aort ot Instinct that has como down ijW' us from tho days of bearskins and 7 ' fle leaves that macs a chap tight a &Jg. wildcat rather than be forcibly uri- 7g dresccd, whether In earnest or In play. 'M. Actor Must Have Pretty Level Head After that ccenc and while anothtr set i f was being mado rcidy 1 talked to J. i 3& "orrlgan ws born In Loullllc, IC.v. j f 'Us parents educated him with tho hope i Jig j lhat he wouid enter the Episcopal m'.n- Kg ;j Islry, but he chose tho stage Instead. 1 .51 K?rr!gnn was on the regular stage jj I j aL flrSt S00n 0Snd 5X0511 I l" procession that marched over to tho movies. ' ma first picture work was with tho Essanay Company In Chicago, soven years ago. Slnco that time his record has been one of unbroken popularity. popu-larity. Ho now heads his own company com-pany at his own studio and lawmaking, pictures according to his own Ideas of how pictures should bo made. Kerrigan is of the heroic type of actor, the kind of ohap that appeals to the romantic fancy of tho many millions of Mm followers all over the world tho kind of actor that iret.i m.mv iMr from girl3 asking him for signed photographs. photo-graphs. Many peoplo think lhat players of this typo aro cgotlstiqal and puffed up with their Importance, but ln most cases nothing Is further from the truth. An' actor to be a suacess for very long must bo possessed ofa level head as well as the ability to act. As a rule, the players who havo mado anything like a big success aro plain and simple everyday citizens, who regard re-gard their art ns a business or, a profession. pro-fession. KcrVlgan is no exception to tho rule. Ho Is a well set up, good-looking good-looking young man with a pleasing personality. per-sonality. The letters that aro ;wrltlen to tho players" by gushy girls - arc not' taken seriously by tho people In. tho illm-pro-fcsslon a indeed they should not" be. Girl.s Aside, ' Back to the Book - Whon an actor receives a letter from some girl or woman v who - expresses frank admiration, ho knows If ho Is a scnstblo person, and most of the sue-' ccssful players aro sensible persons that tho writer of the letter-Is not Infatuated In-fatuated with him, but with tho Ideal he represents. -Mazlo may go to tho picture show with Mike and see a godlike young horo who overcomes all obstacles llko a. knight of old, and then -rush home and write a letter to the actor who playod ' tho part, cxprosslng. a. great and even-mushy even-mushy admiration. . . But Mazlo does not mean this for the nctor as a man. Sho dooa'not think any Iho lcas of MIko cither; sho Is only expressing admiration for an ideal the kind of chap she would like Mike to bo. MhzIc understands It all, and- the actor who gots - the letter hax'-hts, ' secretary sign a nice photograph and friendly letter and understands ' It all; and even Mike understands If ho knows about It. and la not a bit Jealous. But to get back to the studio. Tho little book told mo jJI about the story of tho play, which -was about one Harold Har-old Cheater Wynlhrop Gordon, son of a rich man who Is turned out to shift for hlmsolf, and how he makes a man of himself and then starts a crude, but very cffcctlvo school of reformation, for other rich men's sons. avcirigun nnu jaci: Gilbert, who Is the brother of the girl young Gordon lovss, and who is also turned out by his father, start to go WNest apd get as far as Bec-vlHc. Bec-vlHc. X. J., whero they have to ask for work from a farmer in order to cat They get tho farm work, and decide that In every town there Is at least one rich man with a no-account, money-spending, money-spending, wine-drinking son that needs roformlng. and that slnco they have been Just that sort of sons themselves thoy aro the proper persons to do that reforming. Their first pupil I3 one Jefferson Hlg- . Kins, tho pampered pet of a smail town banker's family. Tho two reformers go to Jeff's father and tell hm their scheme, and he offers them a thousand dollars if they will make" a man of h3 son. And that Is what they were doing In tho scene where they took Stanhope Whcatcroft's trousers away from him. Whcatcroft was playing the part of Jefferson lllgglns. Thoy had another set ready by this time, and to lllustrato Just how movie scenes aro mixed-up in tho making,; the' scenes where the two young reformers mado the bargain with th small town banker, and then tho ono where they persuade his son to stay In the cabin by taking his clothes away from him, wore made before tho one 'where young Oordon was turned out by his father the action that startcdthe whole thing ln the first place. Tho scono was not- exciting, but it showed some clovor acting by Kerrigan as the spendthrift son. Charles French as the father and Pearl LovcI, who had the part ofa stenographer. The stenographer part was-afsmall -one-Just a "bit," as they say jn tho movlcs-but Miss Jovcl made It good by-tho things she didn't do rather. than- : mm i r ' by the things sho did do. For Instance. Miss Lovcl didn't chew gum. didn't stick her pencil In her hair and didn't talk out of the corner of her mouth when sho answered tho tolophonc., In other words, she acted like a well-behaved, sure-enough stenographer would havo acted and not at all like many playors some of whom wero stenographers stenogra-phers themselves before they got in the movies and ought to be would have us believe stenographers act. After this sceno was finished Warde moved his camera man over to a set of tho best room of a farmer's house tho farmer of Bccvillc, whore Kerrigan and Gilberl tui the scapegoats got their Job that lc5 to their reform. ' According to tho llttlo book, Gilbert, who has fallon Iilove with the farmer's daughter, comes hack to toll her good-by good-by and to show her his now uniform. Down to Battlefield vith the A ctor. The play winds up with the wholo gang of rcformctl . millionaires' sons Joining tho army. Loatrlce Joy was tho farmer's daughter and "Waller Perry' was the fannor, and hero was moro realism and true-to-llfe work. Perry was a real farmer. Ilj8 makeup make-up was thc best r have ever seen. There was no traco-of chin-whiskered, straw-chewing straw-chewing caricature Inflicted on a hclp-ldss hclp-ldss public by so many players who get their idea of rural types from cheap vaudoville and tho comic supplements. Perry was seated at a table, reading a pnpor. His daughter ran Into the ropn and cried breathlessly, "Jack Is hcrci' Perry did not say "by heck!" or "bgosh" or anything. . J.Io pushed, back his "specs" on his head, laid his ' cigar down very carefully anothcr'truo touch of realism here cigars are not common overyday events to farmers, and this Bcovllle farmer was not going to waste that cigar, no matter who was horc. By this time Jack was In tho room, resplendent In his new uniform. Miss Joy looked him over . proudly. Perry got up and 'shook hands with him and beamed on him. "Goin' to war. eh, Jack?" ho said. "Goln" to fight the Germans. Do 'you know that uniform brings back the days when I fought for my country ;" And hc started telling about a great battle and a peach tree On a battlefield that would havo sounded familiar to many an old veteran had he been there to hear 1L ' Perry was "ad-llb-Ing," that Is. making mak-ing up talk as he went along? but It was good talk, and tho -first thing I knew tho camera had faded away, and tho sound of stage carpenters sawing boards and driving nails not 'JO feet away died down, and I was right there with Ferry-on Ferry-on his battlefield. But Jack and his sweetheart wero not. Thoy had gonu over to one side and were busy malting love, and paying not the, least bit of atcntlou to the old man and his memories. Wardc gave Perry a word of direction. Ho turned and saw that his audlcnco had gone ho stopped ln the mlddlo of a word, carefully picked up his cigar. ot down with a shake of his head and an indulgent smile on his faco, Just the - . 4 .7,' f .1 T 0 III J.WARREN KERRIGAN, Hi JACK GILBERT, JAY BEUASCa "LESH HAVE ANOTHER Ll'L DRINK" If smllo that any old man would havo had' for youth and lovo that forgets all clso but Itself. Voted Into Picture in Alabama Contest yHAT chap Perry was great, and If iuiu iiul acem mm aucrwards will: his make-up off, ' I would " havo sworn he was Just as old as he seemed Jn tint set. And yet a mat: told mo tho other day that there was no realism in the movies that tho art was not progressing. progress-ing. I hope ho sees this play. rThat was the last scene. The only thing that kept the aftornoon from bo-ing bo-ing one of the best I have cvor had around a studio was that I did not get to' see Lois "Wilson, tho loading lady of the Kerrigan Company, In any of tho Fcenew. .She Is in the play, very much so, and sho was at tho studio, but It Jpst happened that she was not needed in any scene that particular day. Mire Wilson Is the girl who was voted! KiV'H into :ho pictures a few years ago. when BIm'S the people of Alabama declared by bal- IIhJR lot that she was the most bcautlXul, lha RH. u most popular, tho best natured and scv- .hli cral other nice things, Jn tho entire ly' Thcro have been a number of cases of Kfti this kind, where girls would have got a. W Hill contract In the pictures becauso of a KflPll vojilng contost, but In most Instances : very few of them have ever made any M Mm great progress. ft 'Ms Mlsg Wilson's case Is one of the happy R' (jj 8 exceptions. If not tho lone happy exeep- I tlon. She mado her way up very rapidly W w f and has been considered one of the most BJ fi ) nppoahng and capable leading ladles la jg j.gj the Industry' for a number of years. Wl ;,j She was Kerrigan's leading woman In v JL jjj all of his big pictures while hc was with K Universal, and when 1io organized an Hj Independent company sho was given a 9' ' 8 contract to play opposite him In his new JL' ventures. jjf ' , ftf i 1 1 |