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Show WAY DOWN EAST PLAYERS RISK LIVES 111 RIVER SCENES The dangers of the scenes on the ce In the D W. Orlfflth production of "Way Down East'' were ical not only) Immediate througu llkellhi.od of drowning In a raging torrent of Jcy water, but also through tho probability probabil-ity of colds and pneumonia In fact a number of tho helpers who worked so that the rescue spectacle that will thrill every onlooker at tho Orpheum at a special performance, Sunday night February 6. should be successful, acquired ac-quired severe colds and several were down with pneumonia. Mr. Griffith himself fell on tho Ice and cul his cheek so badly that he had to give up directing for several days and Lillian Gtsh, who Is seen floating on an ice floe, to destruction over a fall, was frostbitten on her cheeks through exposure ex-posure to a blizzard. "We worked tor n lorn? time In the snow and Ice scenes," said Mla Glsh several days ago. as she sat at the Forty-fourth street Theatre, New York ! looking at Way Down East." Most! of the time we worked alone, for the weather was tcrrlflclully cold When there was something of mildness In j the air, the country side, turned out to observe us. Mr. Orlfflth spurred us j on and he did not iLsk anyone to do aythlng that he would not himself do. Mr. Barthletaess eras v.trm enough in hi . heaV) fur coat and I think he was too warm when he had to carry me about My garments v ere llu-lucr, they wero so of necessity, because of the part Uf course that way of lying on the Ice with my hand In thi water was anything but a Joy. We W 'jld get through with the scenes as quickly as possible and there would be some one on the bank lo give mc- a heavy wrap i and to serve hot coffee. Tho onl) way I could get my hands warm was to Krasp mechanical hand-warmers and to thrust them In my pockets. Struggling through the blizzard was tho moat exhausting pari of my work Wo coilldn't photograph every day, but woro obliged to wait until conditions were Just right. Every snow Btorm would be greeted with delight de-light and we bundled up at once to go out Into the storm. We wore In New England and there were some truly frigid days and nights. But when the spring camo and we had finished ! with the anow and Ico, wo were back in Mamaroneck finishing the picture! and getting those beautiful vernal glimpses that aro so greatly admired In the picture. We had a great deal to do and we kept steadily at It. No one relaxed In effort anil wo could feel that Mr. Griffith was creating a ! masterpiece Then came the completed work after ten months of effort and a real hit, Now I am having a. llttlo leisure before I begin under independent independ-ent management as a picture star " And while she Is waiting for a new-role new-role Miss Glsh Is enjoying life In her customary quiet fashion. she likes her home so much that she is usually there of evenings and the theatre or the- picture house scarcely knows her Adv oo |
