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The stunt worked to perfection from
the pictorial standpoint. When the
w ater got up to our necks, the director
turned loose scores and scores of ruts
which had been captured especially for
the occasion ai d threw them into the
w ater with us. As I swam around
there were re s everywhere, to the
j right of me, to the left of me, before
j me and behlnri me. Several climbed
1 up Into my hair, others clung to my
dress, some bit me in their frenzy.
However, I ha ! no other feeling suve
I anger at the little beasts, and did not
| mind It parti«- lurly, although one of
the other plaj >rs who was watching
I the taking of the scene, a beautiful
young girl, full ted dead away.
Another stunt I did caused much
new spaper comment, hut afforded me
really a most pleasunt time. The story
| culled for me to get iuto a captive bal-
, loon and while 1 was In the busket
| alone for the villain to come up and
cut the rope, thus sending me aw ay in
to the unknown. A balloon was hired
and anchored on the edge of the Puli-
sade8 on the New Jersey side of the
Hudson River. The aeronaut before
the taking of the scene instructed me
on how to use the ripping cord. Ev
erything went off to perfection. The
villain cut the rope, und the balloon
shot into the air, drifted over the
Hudson River, sailed m ajestically sev
eral thousand feet high above New
York, crossed the E ast River and then
w ent out over Long island. I was so
pleased with the beautiful view as
the balloon floated along, that I for
got all about the ripping cord until
I sighted the Atlantic Ocean and be
came conscious that if I did not quick
ly descend, I would soon he far out
the w ater. I pulled the cord
WHY I LIKE THE MOVIES over
and the balloon descended into a
Long Island m arsh only a few steps
By, PEARL WHITE
from the ocean. It was surely a nar
row escape. In no time at all the
From u very early age I have had roads were jammed with automobilists
a positive fondness for doing reck coming up at full tilt to see w hat it i
less things, and the more danger there was all about. In the meantim e my !
has been connected w ith them the director, Mr. Gasnier, was nearly era- j
more pleasure I have taken in them, zy with worry. lie wired to every !
I am not unique In this. I have m et point he could think of on Long Island
during my career a num ber of other asking for inform ation about me. In
persons who confessed to having the clue time he was notified of my sue- (
sam e strange tastes. Speaking for cessful descent and five or six hours |
myself, a hum-drum existence would later had joined me, making a record
bore me to distraction. I think I breaking trip by motor car from New
would sooner die. F or instance, when Jersey.
I was a child about five or six years old, Speaking of the balloon m akes me
despite the fact th at I received repeat think of another stunt we worked
ed warning from my father and moth w ith th at sam e balloon. It w as an
er, I used to delight In going out to chored on the edge of the Palisades
a rattlesnake den which was not fur again and they worked something In
ir< >m the house and teasing the rep to the script which made it im pera
tiles until they m ade repeated jum ps tive for me to go down the anchor
at me. My father caught me at this rope hand over hand. As the balloon
amusement one day, and decided that was a good many feet in the air, it
radical action was required. I will w as not a particularly nice stunt to
never forget the punishm ent th at I do, but, protecting my hands with I
got, but after th at I let rattlesnakes gloves, I made the trip w ithout acci
dent. The w orst thing about it was
alone.
way th at balloon swayed in the |
L ater on while still a mere slip of the
wind. It was continually swinging |
a girl, I joined a circus. The most back
and forth, as though I w as in |
dangerous end of the work seemed a giant’s
but my experience
to be that of the trapeze perform ers, as a trapeze swing,
proved helpful, and
so I begged until I was given a chance I kept my eyes artist
upward all the time.
at it. I made good at this from the In the “Exploits
Elaine” they had
start. My instructress, a ludy who me climb a church of steeple
had been doing “trap ” work for years, gle with the villain up near and the strug
very
told me that the reason for my suc
This w as very unpleasant as
cess was because I lacked the ele top.
feet, though encased in rubber
ment of fear. She said that in this my
shoes, would slip time and time
profession many were called, but few soled
again, and I 1 ad to save myself by
chosen, and those few persons were grabbing
all like me, utterly indifferent to dan connection. hold of the lightning rod
ger. I suppose this sounds ra th e rj I have several tim es been bound to
conceited to the reader, but I certain- I a railroad
track w ith an express train
ly don’t mean to make it so, because charging tow
me a t full speed. It
I am telling facts. I can claim no is necessary ard
for the player to have
credit for the dare-devil spirit, since absolute confidence
the director in
It was born in me. I was with the a case like this. in
me, each
circus several years, only leaving it tim e as I heard the As rails for click
under
because I was offered more money the wheels of the approaching train,
with a theatrical troupe. The com was serenely confident th at the direc I
pany I joined was not a well-known tor was looking after me. I believe
com pany; as a m atter of fact its ap th at the fearless person is usually
pearances were more or less confined a fatalist. I know th at I am, and each
to w hat are known in the theatrical stunt that I do I am absolutely confi
profession as “tank towns.” We play dent th at I am going through it suc
ed at popular prices, and did noth cessfully.
This feeling is absolutely
ing but one night stands. I found essential. W
ithout it, I know th at I
the life very tiresome. Hours of weary would have perished
long before now.
travel by railroad, then the same old
journey by bus to an Inferior hotel,
the sam e hurried and poorly cooked
dinner, the same old trip to the thea
tre, which usually was of the kind
known as the “Opera House.” After
the show, if we were lucky, we had a
few hours’ sleep in m iserable beds
before going on to the next town. If
unlucky, we left town the sam e night,
and picked up w hat slumber we could
on the train.
The nearest I came to encountering
danger in these peregrinations was
when our train ran into another, and
several persons were killed, so I de
cided after several years of this to
get into motion pictures, which then
had ju st started to “boom,” and se
cured an engagement with the Pathe
company. This was over three years
ago, and I have stuck to the work
faithfully, not merely because I get
a good salary, but because the life
fascinates me.
The first of the long line of “thrill
ers” in which I have appeared was
the “Perils of Pauline,” which Pathe
put out some two and a half years
ago. In this production for the first
tim e I fell in love w ith my work. The
various “stunts” which my director
called upon me to do offered to me
the most sincere pleasure. A brief
recital of some of the feats which I
did in “Pauline” may be cf interest.
The first was my experience with
the rats. I mention It first, not be
cause It Is the first In point of time, Florence Lulladle, the Thunhouser
but because most women, however star in Pathe Gold R ooster l ’lays, is
courageous, draw the line when It taking a vacation motoring in the
comes to close contact with rats or mountains, far from motion picture
mice. The villain, in order to encom theatres. When she left she swore
pass my death, was supposed to have she was going to forget all about
•hut me up In n cellar with the hero films ami siuli. But the first postcard
•m l then turn the w ater of a canal she sent back o the Thanhouser stu
into the cellar. As the house was dios bore this line: “H ere’s a photo
supposed to 1 > full of rats, naturally graph of a cliff near my hotel*
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Wouldn’t it be a dandy for a leap?”
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now____________________ 10c
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now____________________ 10c
Mens’ 75c and 85c Chambray Work
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were 85c now_____________69c
Child’s extra heavy hose supporters
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$1.00 now ______
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Ladies’ Galetea and Indi: n Head
Middy Blouses $1.25 and $1.50
Values now_______
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Splendid lot of Bath and hand towels
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