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EAVE ho, mates," laughed Dor-
lH otlly Dalton, taking a hitch
in her~well-wom overalls—
d flashing :1 glance from her lustrous
that belied the rough garb she
1re and tlle strident manner she en-
_ 170er to avnnle. -
“So you're :1 regular sailor, now!"
interviewer.
“Regular?” Miss Dalton dropped up-
thc upper step of the runway and
ining one arm about the post of the
' 'ling, leaned her head backward and
ed up quizzically. "Well, hardly
t," she added after a moment. “I'm
.i. iobably the worst sailor that ever
~ 1 lied.”
. “How so ?”
She laughed. a hit luguhriously.
Can‘t Stand It.
‘When a person is seasick every time
boat moves, you (211 hardly call hlm
regular sailor. now can you? Of
St: not. And I don't aspire to be.
further away I can remain from
ocean—I mean if being near it im—
being on it, the better I'm sat-
I
“That‘s too bad."
“Isn’t it? \‘Vell, when I learned that
Ind been cast to play the featured
of ‘Moran in George Melford's
uction for Paramount Pictures, .
can of the L'lu'y Letty,’ I said to
if if t!
the minds in their 'hands.”-Sy1'u.
l! l! 3‘
myself, well, here‘s where Dorothy has
a few weeks of mal dc mer. I got
some remedies but they didn't help
much. As soon as the ship began to
roll, the desire to be on dry land was
almost overpowering. But I stuck it
0111. I got better and we took a lot
of scenes. Then it started again. So
it went through the whole time we
were up around San Francisco, beat-
ing out of the Golden Gate and bat-
tling with trade winds and tides. Then
we game back to the studio—they had
cabin interiors to make and these were
built on rockers. So, Jinks I, here's
where I get sick again. But would you
believe it, it never bothered me a bit.
Some of the others ,complained that
they felt a bit squeamish but not I
Possibly it didn't rock as badly. and
then, too, I couldn't see any water ex-
cept in a pitcher for drinking purposes.
They say, if you dont look at the wa-
ter when you' re on a boat you don't
feel the useasickness so badly. But
when I was actually on the vessel off
the heads of the Frisco coast, I could
have been shut up in a dark room- -and
still experienced the Joys of the malady. -
Maybe it was mental. I knew I was
not on the water or really ,on ‘a ship,
‘and so I didn‘t get seasick?"
"It's rather a'striking part, isn't‘it—
Moran?"
.: , is 11 1c .
miyou were made-a motion pic~
’ More romorrow' and we're
loose in a studio with a com-
of actors and.a.ctresses entirely
-~ to you. :xcept possibly on the
« ? Would )rm know them much
~ after you'd finished the picture?
ignedepends, according to Pcnrylm
' -- we, the noted artist, who direct-
Bctty Compson. the Paramount star,
Sir James M.Ba_rri1.'s "The Little
'ster."
- of my cast," said hlr. Stan-
on his recent visit to New York,
as unknown to me personally as
«y I went to work. I
1- - ting is. business, and acting is
work. Of course you.sometimes
“to: acquainted between sets
ly if it's a comedy and you
Will Rowers or “falter“ Hicrs
"1 the Director Really .. 1
Know All His Players?
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around. ~But you’d be surprised~ to
know how formal the relations of ac-.
-, fascinationuabout Sam-F nciscop espe-
tor and director frequently are.
“I recall one 'player, a woman who
worked in one of my'pictures', whom
I 'haue never met formally. She came
to work in the morning and left at
night the same as any business wom-
an. i
“It is nothing unusual for, say, a
bank president not to know many of
‘his executives except in a business
<way. -It is frequently the same in pic-
tures."
Lorna Moon, author of "Don't Tell
Everything," 3 coming release with
Gloria Swanson, W’allace Reid, and
Elliott Dexter, and scenarist for “The
Husband's Trademark," Gloria Swanv
son's latest picture, written by Clara
anger, will ldve November I for
11.1 and. flexed her, muscles:
.tc'rview'er reflected—
- filled with
Miss Dalton laughed: “‘Strileing?‘ 11
you 'mean that literally, surely.‘_ I-had
several fights—-one 'with a lot of
Chinese s’mugglers arid another .with
Mr.. Rudolph Valentino, 11110 plays the
male lead. Striking? I should say so.
I can hit pretty hard too." '
. Look Out, Brother. _'
She curved her shapely build into a
The in-
~thiatflrhe_ wouldn’t
u,rc_for a straight jab from théro‘und-
ed but. muscular . right. arm of the
charming Miss Dalton.
-"We had a lot of fun; however," she '
went on, "D0111 think I‘m complaining. -
- wc. have to take things as they come in
this work and ,‘it’s, very-silly; of ' me to
be-subject to seasicknessu- We got to
be-lEke a big family before we left.the
porti'of ‘ San-Francisco 'for the- South-v
laud ..... Y ou know,: there's a wonderful
cially 'the ‘ terfront section. It seems
to breathe emnosphere that Steven—
son, Frank Norris and other: intro—
diced sc wonderfully. into their works.
Of course you know that ‘Moran’ is
one of Norris' stories. .Monte Kattcr- ..
john ‘adapted it—he’s done a 'good
many things-for me- in the past, Mr.
Katteriohn I luau—such - as ‘The
-Flame of :.the Yukon' and'others. Well
--San Francisco is; 2.3.1 say, a place
romance.- ‘ Meigg‘s’ Wharf
where we made some of. the shore
scenes, is-almost historic—and North
Beach,‘ with
perched on the steep sides of Tele-
~placer1nd~peoples -
"a good deal and I filee‘ stories of ad—
her home in ”Glaucoma, Scotland,
gnph, Hill;: Portsmouth Square, with
the Ship Monument " to -Steyenson;
Chinatown—iris a city with a char-
acter all its own. I know of no other
city save' New York- that has so much
atmosphere. You stand in the harbor
and vision the clipper ship, setting
forth for their
of;
the home of many men and women
past and present who have given to the
whole world- the fruits of- their genius."
”You're an- enthusiast Miss Dalton."
“Oh, 1121111131 that. Burl 'afn «111111- ’
siastic about the places and peoples of
the_ world where romance seemsJo
linger; where the glamour of advent
ture makes them: differentfrom other
Of “course, I read
venture so it is quite naturalthat such
'things- should appeal to me: .1 like to
thinly“ least, that I’mgifted with an
imagination—it is intensely valuable to
one in any artistic profession, don’ t you
think?" ‘ -
“Assurcdly. And do you think the
picture will be good?"
"How! can I doubt it Considering
the story, the producer, the company,
th immense amount of work put on it
—'—I don’t seg’how it can help being
interesting Understand, it is a picture
with real rod-blooded action in it;
there's nothing of the sugar coated;'
the quaint old houses-~wishy wash)‘; sentimenial style. The-
people are'rlargéely cmfioun is
m
journey around the .
1101,11. or visualize them coming in-
laden with rich treasures from the isles .- '
splee. It is the. port of adventure, ..
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MAGIC AND
K!!!
HE motion pictures themselves
I are as close an approach to
magic. as any one could con-
ceive, so it is no wonder that‘many of
those engaged in the profession of act-
ing for the screen are interested in the
art made famous by Kellar, Hermann
and others of like fame in the necro—
, mantic world.
Imagine what our forefathers would
have said had they seen a motion pic-
ture. It would have been no task to
convince them that it was pure black
art Sometimes the things done by
means of double and triple exposure
almost confound the senses of those not
familiar with the possibilities of trick-
cry by the camera:
Camera Better laglchli.
Conjuring on the screen can never be
popular because the camera itself is a
fitter’magician than anv who uses dex—
terity or illusions to produce effects and
the best work of a magician would be
discounted because anyone seeing it on
the screen would say: "Oh well that's
just a camera trick’ ’——11heth_er they
knew how it could be done or not.
But aside from this, actors and
. actréSses quite frequently find conjun—
ing a pastime. of intellectual quality.
W’allace Reid, the Paramount star, did
not find it difficult to become proficient
-, enough to do a difficult card trick be-
fore audiences while making personal
appearances in a number of large thca
ters some time ago. _ ,. .
The Unusual.
The unusual character of this per-_
formance delighted the fans“ Wally
THE MOVIES
\\.1r111r Baxter, formerly a stag fa-
vorite, performed a numllcr (1' cI-i1r
experiments in magic. Some-1x, 111?—
tcrmined to play a trick 1-11 the 1134-;-
stcr, bought a color—changing handbr—
chicf and presented it to the star. .\'1 1t
time Baxter began showing her a €1.11
in ledgerdemain, she calmly took time
red, white and blue handkerchief: .awl
stroking them caused them to champ 111
green, yellow and white. Hrr 119.3314}
man looked at her and blinked a 1‘1 11130
of times:
"You win, " he said and dcsistcd. >
‘11 Old Hand. ’
Edwin Stevens, one of the nth-<1
crimplished actors 011 the screen 11-13»,
who will soon be seen in the r101 of
the father‘of Lady Babble ill the Sim-
laws production for Paramount of "The
Little Minislcr' starring Betty C1111“;—
snn is a magician of genuine ~kill. fit
on: time, while appearing in C1 1121c
opera at the old Ti1ol'1 Theater in .5311 =
and
Francisco, he presented an entire
1eryc1aboratc act in magic with a crys-
tal setting that was beautiful and cost«
ly- .
“I had manv vaudelille offers," he
says. “to put the act out but it would
have cost a fortune in excess baggas€-'
It is film_ history, of course, how
Houdini, famous expert in extrication
and president of the Society of Amc1l~
can Magicians, made two star pictures
fcr Paramount. and astonished cur)-
one at the studio by his incomparal-c
skill, both in escape uork and sleight
of hand with cards and coins.- He ‘5
masculine, she is determined but yield— would “1“ a few cards from his on. of the few men “ho can b.1111:
mgwhen once she becomes submissive pocket and, illustrating the way his palm” a pack of cards
to I“glows—yon see, like- all women, she is
something of a paradox.” . .,
money diminished during the trip.
caused the cards to grow smaller and
and pro-dud:
them one at a time at his finger tips.
Showing his hand empty at any stage
"1 Sim“ be "‘3 “mm“ t° see the smaller till they 1anished altogether. 0f the proceedings
picture now you 've told me so much
about it. "
Enjoys the Role.
Miss Dalton smiledi .‘"I‘hat' 5 good—-
I don't think l'veltold you much, but
.I'vc’tried ‘tol‘give‘ -..11 impression of my LLco Ditrichsteiu’s
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part and 'of the thing in general.
least it is a .very éifiereut story and :1
difierent characterization. I bobbed
my- liair shorter than it was already members of the Los Angeles Society of lost its cunning.
'When he got home the star bought a
ltt of paraphernalia and amused his
friends by impromptu exhibitions of
sleight of hand.
T. Roy Barnes, shortly to appear in
role in "Is Matri-
'm'ony 3 Failure” {or Paramoulit, is an
expert at conjuring. He once did it
pro: essionally and recently startled the
Magic is a pursuit that comes and
goes, but is never altogether forgotlul
once a person has dabbled 111 it Harry
’Ke-lar, dun of American magicians, is
a visitor occasionally at the Lasky stu—
(lit), for he is retired and resides in
Los Angeles. He frequently exhibits
an impromptu trick for the studio
folk poviding that his hand has not
though its owner is
cut, to suit the role a. it was written Llag‘cians by a series of tricks which pas: .
for. me. I’ve worn men’s clothes till
I’ve grown used to them, I- expect
skirt Will be a nuisance when I have
to war them again all the time. I've
been in rough waters with peoples who dollar; .3th it into the palm of the the city of the angels.
at least looked like smugglers, mn-
tineers, bucko mates. pirates. and what
.pot—and I've enjoyed 56—4311 but 111‘
~muiclmecs. 91110111151161:me
aglrlwhobettlaherm whine:
proved his t: tie to artistry in the do-
mains. of pmstidigitatzon._ '
Ode of Dimes ' ‘Jest stunts is to place,
ahaudmluspocketand extractinga
other hand. repeating the ppoccss five
Quite often some of the studio peo-
ple drop in at a session of the Los
Angelcs Society of Magicians which
forcgathcrs at Thayers' Magic Shop in
and find enjoy-
ment'in- watching he adepts at the art
or air tuna. Fhrafiy,.he opens the display their newest inventions. -—Adam' _
:hand supposedly coutninnt‘hc =91“
vanished.
and h ,
its; in “gm“;
Hull Shirk
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Thomas Meighan is a great lover of
and magi rather act with ht:
Norwalk Chronicler