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Show I The Real and the Reel Getting Married in the Movies! IM ( BY A. H. GIEBLER, 4 I J ' W" HE movie makers spend many J F fi; H thousands of dollars on somo of the scenes needed to work IJii out film plays. Large companies of ) ' 1 players aro sent thousands of miles' to 1,!, set the correct local color and atmos- ' t phere for a single hit of action. ', i Special "sets' that require the seiv- I j Jces of expert architects and skilled , .artisans to construct are used cvciy , l day in the week at many studios, an-1 . ( -while a great many people who go 10 ' ,i the picture shows aro grateful and a,) ' ' predate the time, trouble and expense ( I ' taken for their benefit and cntcrtaln- j jnent, there arc many who take more ' 1L pleasure from a scene of the character ) ; ; vsuch as is shown on this page than f . ,in the most expensive and unusual , ;sceno the producers can devise. ' They aro the people who arc matc- I trlallsts when it comes to romance the ! i. .people who want to see their love h; i stories finished and rounded off, as a !: ;-J lovo story should ho finished and ' ,;) ' rounded off with a wedding at the end. 1 ' i Tho strongest and most dramatic iiii i; 'I jplot ever evolved, where the girl is ' parted from her lover on board a ship as it is passing through the Suez i , ' j iCanal, and they arc reunited whetc- ; tho waters come down at Lodore, with i j i : j i the intervening action staged in tho I . ? istrects of Bombay, in the tropics, 'n ' ; ' , tho frozen North, the antipodes, ,, i'; Greenland's icy mountains, Indla-s , ,lr: coral strand, or any of the way sta-i tho scone at the psychological moment. mo-ment. And nevor a word Is heard from the self-appointed censors of the eternal fitness of things. But let a bridgroom wear tho wrong kind of gloves, forget to rcmovo his spats, or try to make the matrimonial jump In a four-in-hand tic, and a storm of letters will come in baw.-ing baw.-ing somebody out because of the grlc?. ous wrong. ' Justices of the peace in reality can only try cases of a civil naturo or those involving petty larceny, but in the movies country squires preside and pass pudgement where it should take a Supreme Court decision to settle set-tle matters and never a peep from tho letter writers. But if a girl about to be marri-d walks down the aislo when sho "hadn't ought to" or has her veil pinned pin-ned up a little too high, or carries ln-.r flowers in the wrong hand, or deos any of the things not set down in tha complete book on a bride's behavior, the scratching of pens of the nuptial notlccrs can be heard from Hollywood, Gal., to Fort Lee, N. J. Marriages are stumbling blocks to many studios, and some of the best i know inarrlers of the movleB make many mistakes In technique and etiquette along this line. Errors of a denominational nature arc common, George, who is engaged to Gertrude, is sent out to China or Timbuctoo by his firm, and must leave on the next boat. He writes her a hasty note to meet him at St. George's or some other church with an Episcopalian Epis-copalian flavor to its title for a hurried hur-ried wedding", and when the marriage scene is shown the officiating clergyman clergy-man is not garbed in the regulation Church of England costume, and a howl of cpistlatory criticism goes up from all over the land. Gretna Green weddings are sad stumbling blocks.. In some states any civil officer,, including justices of tiic peace, judges and alderman, may perform per-form marriage ceremonies, but if the wedding takes placo in a town or cl'jr that has been identified to be one where the practice is allowed, some ono will notice it and waste a stamp tolling somebody connected with tho production end about it. Another mistake is made in elopement elope-ment matches by having tho partlc-3 tied up by a priest after a long journey. jour-ney. This is not possible in tho Cathu-lio Cathu-lio Church without a special permission permis-sion from tho bishop of tho diocese whero tho contracting parties originated. origi-nated. Another mistake that is often made is to have non-Catholics or a couple whore only one of them is of that faith married in a church of that denomination. denomi-nation. Non members may be married in the priest's residence but never In tho church. Many players have learned a lot about marrying since the movies came along, thanks to tho cupid critics. L. is very hard to catch them napping on nuptial matters and mistakes arc getting get-ting fewer and fewer all the time. Many players havo been led to tno altar in so many plays that they have lost count. Mary Martin of the Fox studio has been a movie bride so often that not long ago she went to a jewelry store and bought a real wedding ring. Mtes Martin says It saves a lot of time and trouble in waiting for the property man to produce a plain gold ring just when it is wanted. It would seem that since the players play-ers havojiad so much practice and so much free advice and criticism on wed- 1 dings that when they come to "step reel weddings arc as (h) altar any as tho veriest amateurs at their own real nuptials. Thero are stories going around the studios of heroes of 100 matrimonial scenes who forgot the ring and went through tho paln-ul search of their twenty-seven pockets in a frantic endeavor to find it, forgot to take their gloves off, tried to wa'.k up the aisle in front of tho bride to be, attempted to tip tho preacher, and many other embarrassing and confusing con-fusing things. I' , I 1 tlons and locations of, the world, that F onds with him giving her a "nothintj- , . shall-ever-part-us" look as the sole in- I I ' dication that they marry and live hap-pily hap-pily ever afterward, would not please ' Wi y' these people half so much as the . 1 j.v simplest story ever told, staged inside ! ' ' 4 I ' "tho four walls of a studio as long as 1 j. f It winds up by standing the principals ift I I', -up in front of a man. wearing a look i :j , of solemnity and a long tailed coat , Lj "who speaks words to them out of a : I pi liook with a limp cover. , f jjjj Maybe theso people arc right. We 'AS can. all remember tho time when all ', J !;', plays wound up with a scene that ) f reeked with bridal veils and orange ; I II 1 blossoms, and we can also all remcm t ber how much more satisfying it was 'i i to have "him" and "her" get married mi 1 .at the end instead of just coming to ' 1 ''iV'i a final clinch as the, curtain wear ! 1 1 1 11 down, with maybe the villlan standing I j..f' thero ready lo separate them some J, i ,. ' more, for all we knew. f M I i ' ' The moving picture producers take f 1 1' L1 a crcat deal of time and trouble wUh I t v' ij their weddings. They have to. They J , T do not spend as much money on them hi Ji as on almost any of the other scenes I H'ftip in a play, but they do devote a lot of 1 1' mc to detail and careful rehearsing. I . 1 i They have to do this because the ' I ; large body of people who take such , '' 1 , delight in weddings are also a large .'! ' body of self-appointed critics and ),'( ; 1 censors. They want weddings in their j J plays and they want them right, and . ! when they arc not right they do not J I-. M fail to point out the errors by writing v letters to the producers. ! I A great many people arc constantly r jjj I writing letters to the producers, cail- , ' j ' ing their attention to various errors ''jr'Jjl ? mado in staging tho pictures. Somi- 'l ' j J ,1 times these people are right and j M many times they are far wrong, and j ("iLj''' they often waste their own and ihe J 'jjll, producer's time over a trlval and un- 11 WV important little thing, while a bigger ljlj'jl and moro glaring error escapes their , f attention. b n I if ' Tncy seldom make a mistake on 1 J 'wedding technique, however, and no j 'jjll sin of omission or commission, how- H I f 1 ever trivial, of a nuptial nature, seems I lilt j escaPe their eaglo eyes and cari- 1 ful souls; I ill 1 11 Many mistakes aro made In th I j lljUi J haste incidental to turning out plc- I j jf , turcs as fast as the public demands I U J. 1 them. Incongruities of a legal natura I Pull!' ' aro very common. Police judges re- I 'il'l I 'lease men seemingly guilty of crlm5 H I ilii II ranging from malfeasance to murder I 9 if it 'u al1 of itj5 degrees on tho simple lllnll , 'Vi'ord oi Q heroine if she pops Into off" themselves they would be lettsr perfect in the art, but this Is not always al-ways the case. Actors who havo conducted themselves them-selves in an impeccable manner m It is said of ono thespian who had just finished a play where he was 10 abandon the bride at the altar In a picture that had to bo finished in order to allow him to get away on his honeymoon, that ho got so flabbergasted flab-bergasted ho started to desert his real bride in real movio style just as son as the words that mado them one were said. |