Show M t IL L I 1 A AL A 4 oe 5 3 WN bom some a of the screen stars atar s risk death every y week in order kopro to provide s sensation ion lovers with thrills women V of film drama will y try any stunt stuat once 4 2 1 way of earning a living Is bv fat a jumping from one speeding train to another ua other by riding motor cycles off open drawbridges by running over moving freight trains only to clutch an overhead cable and to jiang hang suspended suspend ed in midair by grap alth oh an infuriated man in the scab cab of an 0 onrushing ng locomotive arid and in a hundred ways risking life andl and I 1 limb this is s what scores or of motion L picture actresses and actors do every day alth hardly the wink of an eyelash in the per torrance tor fori mance dance of the stunts it Is all ili n answer to the cry for realism in the 1 movies which has ha s recently been raised by directors realism Is now a watchword Abo above all the pro must be realistic the directors argue thattie that be public has become tired of faked dangers dande ra 7 and mechanical feats that make ordinary scenes appear hazardous the desire for realism may be all right forthe public andi and the dir director ector but it la Is hard on the performers k patrons of the pictures are so familiar famili nr will scenes depleting depicting rough riding descents of moun taju talu sides on horseback and leaps from dins cliffs in which e the rider falls clear blear of the mount moun i and in other other ways flirts with oth deah th that at they ahey never hever stop to th inkot 0 the real danger incurred by those actors who dart darn so much for the silent drama of course there arn am certain pictures in id which theli the danger dager Is faked but those pictures tire are almost equally balanced by the kind which depicts a real danger encountered to accomplish the desired result jumps from moving trains when I 1 first began to jump off moving trains said helen holmes when asked for her impressions A of dare devilling in the films 1 I must confess I 1 was ar somewhat timid but now I 1 take it as something X ZA which must be done to complete the picture in one picture in which I 1 worked about six months month sago ago I 1 went through the action with my heart in my mouth and for a moment at least I 1 felt like quitting it was a railroad picture in which r f I 1 was to drive a big engine across a bridge which was to be blown up as the engine reached the middle dl A A torpedo on the track about twenty feet from the spot where the dynamite charge was placed to wreck the bridge was to jo give me my signia signal to live dive from the cab to the river thirty feet below from the moment that the engine reached the wooden trestle I 1 kept kepi thinking what would happ happen n jf the torpedo did nat nota ja aff off and I 1 should be carried down into the v rea 6 Q the ine run of about 90 thirty yards seemed interminable but everything worked according to plans and I 1 made mad e the dive safely but I 1 was shaking like a I 1 1 leaf af when heft fished aroni the river I 1 was so frightened keep myself afloat but now chive I 1 have become so used to als risking king my neck fiek that chati I 1 a 1 as a matter of course it Is much like the case case of ati an aviator when he starts fly big aag at first lid he Is cautious and only makes slight accents ascents and safe def descents tents but robn soon the spirit of daring enters his soul and lie he la is looping the loop and doing spirals 2000 feet in the air an and dother other dangerous stunts i danger in the quicksand W J the there re was marlon marion swayne i who thought lf p pret etty tyAs crr hard wh when en she was called u upon conre rec enly ild allow herself to be resell rescued d from en at reachy rau s bit of af picturesque djs S r w not suffice to hn have e her burle buried in figle ua a 1 solid portion of the beach where W hai ah aj 0 u ad easily be extricated extricated without danger to li herself george rosier foster flat t wa directing the il biye y ere 1 I 1 ted tea cure ure entitled the net insisted th that attliO lie be best s t re sula suits could only be obtained by ha having aln g t st star ri caught in the real real quicksand 1 outside the fhe range range of the camera a group of men were ready with planks and rope to rescue rescue the actress in case the scene as planned miscarried and she should need other athe help than that offered by bert delaney the leading man nud and hero miss swayne wast was reluctant at first to try the scene seene but finally consented and timidly went out to the treacherous sandbar sand bar the feeling of helplessness that came ovi over arher her when her feet sank slowly from un under derher her without means of staying them alarmed the screen star aishe As she sank to the waist her features registered a genuine fear and at this point the camera man began shooting the scene while the gallant hero with a stout rope ropo lassoed her it required all his strength to drag her from the sands which were engulfing her when on solid ground again miss Sway swayne with a tremulous voice said bald 1 I suppose on the screen that will look easy but I 1 dont care to try it over again leap from high cliff wide publicity wa was gonce once given to a stunt picture in which a trained acrobat jumped a horse from a hilltop into arito a chasm 1 inflicting injuries upon himself and the animal tind and getting into trouble with the humane society officials this man was not a regular pember member of the picture company but was engaged at rl a big price to perform the daring ac act anna little litile had a somewhat similar experience although part of it was not done intentionally under the direction of frank Dom borzage fige a glutton for realism miss little was to slide silde down the side of a cliff some seventy feet high on horseback to escape a band of indians in pur pursuit sult the ride called for a skilled equestrienne unflinching courage and a sure suie footed horse it was impossible to rehearse rehearsed sd the scene because the director knew that after having gone through it once neither miss little nor the horse could be persuaded to r repeat the action this thid scene scenie was to be the big thrill in the picture much care was taken in preparing pie paring it three earn camera men were stationed to catch the slide from three different angles thus insuring a good picture efrom nt at le least astone one of the machines barely escaped death ca irig tract ioni had been given the actress and ad slie she on u the slide at first the horse borse i l 1 hesitated aut but urged on he fie braced ills his forefeet and prepared tp beach the bottom la safety E every very m 6 ed swiftly the camera men gro ground u iid their machines and the director shouted encouragement r through his big megaphone but about twenty feet from the bottom the horse caught his foot ina in n kocir fis fissure su ie stumbled bleil tind and hurled miss little ov over r his imd head she flew through the air head first landing anding i in a a clump of mesquite bushes more than ten yards alvay spectators rushed to td her side expecting to find her either dead or seriously injured but aside froni from the shock and fe n number of scratches she cs escaped unhurt the dumb actor in theT 06 scene was less fortunate suffering two broken legs and had bad to be shot this untoward toward incident in n mal making ing the scene caused a complete revision of the scenario i 5 miss gertrude Gert nide mccoyle known cs as another devil of the screen she glued a good account bt i herself in every branch oi athletics besides eind being a river driver of a motor conr miss mccoy d rives drives her own machine and ha has s used it to nd advantage vantage lit many of the pictures in which she ls Is starred her most recent exploits le been in connection with what is known in the movie vernacular as water atwater stuff strange as irmay it may seem the stunts in her latest picture do not show up with the same dangerous thrills that really characterized their making this Is often the case in motion pictures abat looks hard Is often easy foolhardiness meant injury ji A water waier stun stuff picture which almost put miss mccols mccoys life in jeopardy was taken tor foi the isle of love and was made near jacksonville fin in one of the early scenes of the photoplay the star yields to the temptation to go bathing lu lit s Z pool upon spona a rocky bitof bit of coast the shore at the point r Ji here ere the picture was taken happened to be made up of myriads of shells and pebbles compressed into a crumbling jagged stone formation the water moreover was far more moie shallow than miss mccoy suspected despite the warning of lier her director edwin middleton she jumped boldly into the water cutting her feet ankles and legs severely she was too good goad a picture player however lio wever to stop while the came camera was grinding Althou although gk suffering from a number of extremely painful cuts she bravely finished the scene this episode which certainly was not down on the program laid her up for nearly a week As ag afie 11 final nal punch of lost in the everglades which Is p part art of Ol glorias orlas romance the film serial in w which III gl i I 1 baille durke burke is appearing good s automobile Is driven straight out into fhe atlantic ocean off iff palm beach F fla ia this may be termed recklessness or pure extravagance accordi according g to one r s point of view needless to say the damage done to the car by its immersion in the salt water was was considerable to prove that the film manufacturers arent the the only people who can be reckless miss bu burke wore ti a luclle creation that had been specially design designed edi for her use in the picture and utterly regardless of t the he certain ruin of the frock she hopped out of the runaway auto As as it cleared the flie first line of breakers faunl herself up to her knees in the surf laug laughed bed gayly galy and then waded ashore auto jumps the gap in order to elli eliminate as much danger as possible this scene seene was carefully staked beforehand that Is everything was simplified A sloping eloping platform r a rm was erected atthe at the place where this leap was to io be madland ma made and well re enforced across some thirty or forty feet away a pile ile of brush woods wood had bein been placed to break the full fall as the ear car landed down a sloping piece of gro ground und approaching the ahe jumping off place miss kin king j came with lightning speed infiel in her little liftee machine and took the leap while the cameras ell eked shea she landed an ded mishap in the pile of brush and beyond a severe shaking up and a few bruises was none the worse for her experience its itji th the buts and is ifs connected with such stunts as these she remarked luter later that make the dangers gers undergone really greater than they sera to be it so something i n had gone wrong there might have been a very different story to tell but and here the but comes ln in 1 I suppose its all in the daya work so I 1 have nothing to complain of she cone con eluded with a laugh the ti dangers angers have leive also to be faced by the cambrai man an example Is the 0 recent experience of ea a news bews camera man in maxico A pictorial weekly representative hearing that villas body way being brought to chihuahua for identification hurried thither from the time I 1 crossed the border until I 1 rez returned lie said telling of his adventures 1 I was a constant target for mexican abuse it wai was not until 1 I 1 readied reached chihuahua however that any physical violence was offered then there ther ewas was EL a demonstration in the market place despite the fact that I 1 was under the protection of a mexican army amy officer shots were fired at roe me and I 1 was glud glad to get back to the good old U S A with a whole skin but I 1 got some borne pret pretty tygo good od pictures after all |