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Show oo - TRAMP SHAVES, ' SPGiLS EFFECT This Movie Director Signs No Merc Extr?.s Without Proper Reservations Director Charles Miller, f Mayflower May-flower Photoplay corporation, with his company, spent three months ln the Adirondacks filming "The Law of the Yukon," which Is coming to the Alhambra Sunday for a four-day run. He brought back the film and this story. The picture needed lots of extras ex-tras and when word went around that the shaggier they looked the better that city chap seemed to like them, all the farmers, village loafers and local bums flocked to the studio One da there appeared a gentle and diffident dif-fident tramp, who In spite of dirt and disarray bore a striking resemblcnce to the traditional pictures of Christ Mille.- registered ju and engaged the' man on the spot. Then he spent the better part of the tiny leaching the amateur actor how to perform before ihe camera without looking fearfully into the mutsle of the thinjj A few portrait "stills" were obtained, and Director Miller, having dismissed the tramp with the five dollar fee that eir:is earn, and a warning to be on true at the studio next morning, spent the night dreaming of the many effective effec-tive scenes in which h. could use his new extra. The tramp came bjick next morning, but he had spent his first day's wages on a liath, a haircut, hair-cut, a shave, and a nice clean shirt. Ch ii'iii-i ss may b . cry close to god-111,' god-111,' us, .niniits Mr Miller. Imt it's a long way off from art. Whiskers is whiskers, especially in Alaska, and next time when he engages a good crop he has a contract prohibiting shaves. |