Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 29, 1923, Page 8

— re ls Pi F co hi At ay Ron in br ° * \ m \ bs eS th at ei] ¥; ar Xs w ot a th ; if in lg ct ce 4 7) . ni et fr ey or if ni f au in be 5 ft GROOP. | f AN CLCIZDIZ Vis ALE OD COE { i SLLLEL ZEALESA PORES ~~. ZBI LET WAUYLEL KUIDGEP LOX Ny LEIP ILL DEPT Ethel Wales as Aunt Matilda had which may have crept in despite the + to be up on cooking steak and fried care exercised. : i potatoes and proved she was a cul- Re-living the Past. ri “4 inary expert along these lines, The people of the picture lived The New York street scenes of th arts. lego they sang a ts 1885 presented a formidable prob- ae At theiye bait ied ad = Ra lem: Gas lamps, hansom cabs, the oe sone of y anid an wins an pt right kind of buildings, the queer *Pelling = maura) Nice iene Pr stores, the freakish costumes and a CTadle. ey became a - 2 (fy and purposes residents of Ganzey, P Pi) N. H., in 1885 and acted accordingly. 7 I Each had a home, even if he didn’t j . When a Play of a Certain Period Is aivalin Ielat ielepoleeen irae ase q within its doors, _ to Be Produced It Means Untold Saas waste ied daca etias 2 Research Work and Innumer- erent a Gld 35 ta senile | and Seth brought flowers to Aunt ° 5 able Details Which Must Matic} thay) Nad tad Wellner eiea t kind of nosegays. When she bi 0 % \ Be Taken Care of. doughnuts, they were the real old . fashioned kind. Even the cows had i id the pigs were of DDLY enough it ts considered But it entails endless work, espe- aC obaet Theo No fashionable - & much more difficult task to cially on the part of the research Persian cate appear—only the)good make a motion picture which department, the costumers and set old-fashioned tabbies of the rural & contains a story dated say 35 years designers, districts. ago than one which is laid in, say, A case in point is the Paramount ae ” o ‘ the seventeenth century. The rea- picture, “The Old Homestead,” which It “The aoe cargoes tee A ‘ son, however, is fairly obvious: fs lafd in 1885 in our own land and ecm RIOT NE eh - Except for possibly a few historl- which will be watched with avidity won't be the beri ainae’ thats ans, antiquarians, and others, there by the chronic flaw-finder. hed Sa ee cat acettha' esinealEe 7 re few people who can find flaws in When Mother Was Young. th ee — It is an intensely -| what may be called ancient costumes, ‘That's approximately 35 years ago. nee far with all the elements of a or scenes, While the producers of put what a lot of changes have come human interest: Alnoy Herta alive) igh-class films insist on accuracy, shout in those years! Changes in TS TOO INL QER EE SCAT T ere’s & laugh in ~ ; even in these things, and generally custom, in dress, in modes of living. AVLLVD) LELSALLIVES aD bee eerer pee “asa iiSeolayio > come as close as possible to mirror- erles: . Gj “a ; j tag’ tha “aations Taka Tago oneen aE Numberioss inventions “have been to watch their step to avold putting which had to be furnished if shown work on the houses and stores and do not care about the technicalities | olden * titan’ et ptaw “Minch roniane oe toate ey world since then, dis- in something which would be alto- closely, the stores which had to be barns, Others lald out the street of the period will be entertained, which mlghtialiplin wonldibe iaibie Seed eae, ats Alcan ane aeaen gether out of place. stocked—there was an orchard to be scenes and provided the lampposts made to laugh and cry and expend a AaiihalGeatou ealexperticnly, Sed Sd setful of the — «riis was rendered the more poss!- Planted, a hayfield to be provided, with oil lights, the pumps, the water- fund of human sympathy on the 4 When, ho ‘ th ubje t dat mat ea te mini ere! Cg ble by the fact that for the sereen the 878 and pig styes and chicken pens ing troughs, the farming implements, character whose lives are almost as m, however, the subject dates get to thinking at hey existed a by ¥ 4 back only to the time of our own always, but most of us will ren story had to be greatly enlarged, de- "74 corrals all to be built. The mad nore eg br phe ae Seg eer yaa nue Lesa nie early youth, or to a period casily re- when our own. parents looked ask- Veloped and elaborated. ‘The stage Streets had to be laid out, tho gardens department was as busy as a lot o peda ig ahodatn ea fi in the very iatk havea ivununhtathe Arann at the telebk * ~ version left much to the imagination. P/#nted with flowers or vegetables, beavers and the costume and charac- types that are bound up in 4 membered by our fathers an‘ moth- ance at the telephone anid are even The picture version will show the ®"4 0n top of all this, the whole ter wardrobe people uncovered vast heart and soul of American home ers, no slightes out will call yet, in some cases, disposed to re- 1 p Laer x he ‘ing had to be so constructed that stores of clothing worn in 1885—or life—the foundation of civilization.— i forth loud and satirical comment and gard the phonograph or wireless as things we had to imagine from the (5) 4 es comesiat of that type By Adam Hull Shirk. . the picture director and producer is almost magical in their functions, Pay. the fintsh, these houses, with'the’ ex Bustles and Carpet Bags. pretty touchy in such matters. He When Perley Poore Sheehan and he intimate Ife of the old home- cention of the old homestead itself, ACTORS MUST LEARN TO DO 1 dislikes being caught up and criti- Frank E. Woods adapted “The Old the structure itself and the There had to be the right kind of S GaianTuiie ° elsed for a blunder which a little Homestead” from the Denman village—covering several miles and mantled, and the floods of rain pro- ©@rpet bag for Uncle Josh, played by a care or research would have obviat- Thompson play and Jullen Joseph- containing forty houses—had to be yigeq, Theodore Roberts; the right kind of To be an actor, learn to pitch hay! ° ed, Therefore he redoubles his ef- son was given the task of writing correctly designed and built. It took 1 torm. dog for Happy Jack, the tram ie fort and if he is conscientious, the the continuity, they began to see the eight da to do this and a small A Bomediele y GE open TEES xolie toaNoee icked up if not correct were found has to provide sound, ‘The former |). ® tea: ; T ts sald that finding a pin in the comes up with a part no one else Cuyamaca Lake, San Diego county, must provide action—in brief, wind. Di0ved by Fritzl Ridgeway, and just and used. art beads Oe aw : center of a haystack would be can fill, And then comes the Sher- With a message to be ready to leave These machines are simply aero- Miss Bilgerey aiibeas ner marae Pee eee ere orenny weet eg ahi piles and feeding pigs are a Veinch” ‘compared with the jock Holmes part of it, Milton left With Gloria Swanson’s “I'he Impossi- plane propellers and motors, which row, trained and cut them te snow, Were HO safety bicycles in those days tnt part of the accomplishments ©& ! problems which sometimes arise In yoy un his Japaheue"pervant ble Mrs, Bellew’ company from Los blow a hurricane of dust, flaked as: just in the right degree, Rose, played —Ut the property department found necessary to properly portray such ———————— a Ee. AKG -~ 2 -> __ result is pretty likely to be flawless. innumerable places where they had Pee army of men, Aside from the houses, F inding Actors Is Often a Hard Task connection with the modern motion plcture. making of a “I want so and so,” says a director. “He's out of town,” answers the casting department. “Find him,” returns the director; “no one else will do.” “And we have to find him,” relates ed a square topped derby and Georgo - bs Lou M. Goodstadt, casting chief at fore gills left for Palm Springs, that they are liable to be called they terrible storm. Fawoett found one to fit, Lem Hol- pate ep ba alk re) here drrenrseetian se 7h } es Springs. vee Pe ana 1 itt ™m Ol- Angeles and fixed up with the prop- learned that before I became an the Paramount Studfo at Hollywood. «ana paging! I've had actors P closely In touch with us. And All, these things, however, were prook required a funny looking lid er signs and a team of mules hitched ” “You can substitute one brand of | oa iw hurry ; con. Ne they are working on a picture, comparatively simple—they have being something of a country sport, «5 Pca iupitaie ee ra cabare wanted in a hu paged every con- that of course is part of their regu- 1 olasses for another and no one r regu- been done before, though perhaps ’ % rin ane store Celvable way, I hired three different lar duty, and they leave us mi and James Mason was given several Graco church in New York is T- Roy Barnes says that while vis- 4 will know the difference, but actor y, y us minute not on quite such a great scale. varieties to pick from. Clarence iting Wallaco Reid he recently stood , are picked for the exactness with fishing launches to scour the waters details of thelr whereabouts, Director James Cruze surrounded’ Thomas, an expert on period sub- “20D and the cholr had to be inac- 9 tne iatter’s'home and { which their individual personalities near Cataline Island where Theodore “It {s the unexpected call between himself with a corps of experts. ‘The jects, helped much in these matters, Cotdance with the period, The exact passersby remarked: ‘ fit the requirements of a nchar- Roberts was seeking tuna, An air- pictures, the demand that comes out research department of the Lasky But Roy Diem and Ethel Chaffin of Size and dress of the latter was pase ted him! ‘That's Wally!” ‘7 acterization, And ‘someone just as plane observer found Wallace Reld of a clear sky when a player studio sent for photos of New Hamp- the wardrobe departments were kept established by research. “And,” observed the Paramount good’ won't do. for me hunting deer in the mountains thinks himself justified in going shire villages and dug up data on busy. Howard Wells, the property When the picture goes to the cut- ; “It often happens that just when a player has finished work in one pic- ture and left on vacation a story where he would be—but when I called to land him for the lead in ‘Borderland’ with Agnes Ayres, the Japanese had forgotten the message. I called twenty-six people, personal friends, grocery men, doctors, dent- ists—and, finally found a mechani- cian who had fixed his car just be- —forest rangers did the rest. “Only recently I paged Clarence Burton at noon out in the center of Angeles at 9 o'clock that night, And Los Angeles miles away! I know the 'phones of every hair-dresser, modiste and masseuse in Los Angeles —so that I can get any of our fem- inine players if they are needed sud- denly “When players have any {dea at all y that makes it necessary for the casting director to become a detec- could be unroofed or otherwise dis- Twenty wind-machines were used for the storm. A wind-machine in a studio is altogether different from the one used on the stage. The latter bestos for snow, drive the rain and otherwise tear up the surroundings. They never show themselves, but the effect is all that could be desired. It is left for the picture theater orches- tra and stage electricians to provide the sounds and other effects neces- sary to create fully tho effect of a other points of which there might be question, Art Director Max Parker gathered his staff and set them to played by T. Roy Barnes—remember that some of the breeds of canines common today were not known in América in 1885. There’ had to be the right kind of bangs for Ann, by Kathleen O'Connor had to have a dress with a bustle—several dresses, in fact. And she had to be supplied with just the proper sort of parasol. Reuben’s home-made clothing had to be built to order; Harrison Ford plays this part. Eph Holbrook need- chief, had a whole staff busy gather- ing up funny furniture and ‘hand props’ for the interior scones, Strew gladness on the paths of men; dozen and one things that would be @n old ordinary bicycle which is al- most an heirloom. The vehicles are remnants of a past age. biles, remember,—not ven golf caps. The New York policemen wore gray helmets. Horse cars were used for surface travel and one was No automo- ting and assembling rooms, Walter Woods, a real expert, will supervise and check against any possible flaws aware of their error.” LI Waa pte en pel eg ch in rural dramas of the screen, you've got to expect to know all about the art of farming, and Theodore Rob- erts, Harrison Ford and others in “The Old Homestead,” discovered roles as theirs, James Cruze, the director, didn’t expect them to be perfect at their farming work, but they had at least to seem familiar with it Ethel Wales did most of the cook ing as Aunt Matilda, comedian, “I prayed that my lucky star would keep Wally indoors till they’d gone, so as not to make them You will not pass this way again. -