The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 13, 1913, Page 6, Image 6
PERIL IN FILM POSING.
Real Tragedies That Mark the Product
of Moving Pictures.
Acting in front of the camera for
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moving pictures isu l quite wn. ^
job as people are apt to imagine.
Grave risks- have to be taken and
more or less serious accidents are
common. Sometimes these result
fatally.
The other day, for example, a man
named Bittner descended in a parachute
from the Column of Victory in
Berlin with a view to being cinematographed
as he was falling, but
something went wrong with his apparatus
and the parachutist was
dashed to death.
Similarly, a picture player named
Dunne was killed on the railway
while acting a part. The unfortunate
man was only supposed to be run
over by the approaching train, it be
ing tne lntennuii iu suumhuic a uunimy
at the last mbment. But the
rails were slippery, the driver was
unable to pull his engine in time and
the actor was mangled to death beneath
the wheels.
Not long ago an actor playing the
part of a cowboy in Chicago fell and
was killed during the rehearsal.
Miss Alice Hollister, whose face
and figure are familiar to frequenters
of picture shows, nearly lost her
life while rehearsing in Egypt. . Attired
in the voluminous draperies of
an Arab peasant woman, she was
seated on a primitive wooden wheel
which brought up from a deep well
water for irrigation purposes.
At a certain moment she had to
bring the camel which worked the
wheel to a halt and descend from her
seat. Unfortunately the camel resumed
its walk too soon, the wheel
started revolving again and Miss
Hollister was jerked into the well,
which was more than 100 feet in
depth.
Luckily her cumbersome garments
caught a projecting stone in the side,
and, being of athletic build, she
managed to hang on until she was
rescued by means of a rope in the
hands of her dragoman. But it was
a narrow escape.
No one viewing on the screen the
superb riding of Alice Joyce, exponent
of "cowgirl" parts in Western
drama, would suppose that any horse
could ever succeed in throwing her.
As a matter of fact, however, she has
met with several accidents.
Miss Gene Gauntler a moving picture
company's leading woman, has
been exceptionally unlucky. Only recently
she was attacked by Bedouins
in the Sahara and had to fight hard
to get away. In Florida she was
nearly engulfed in a quicksand. In
a battle scene she was kicked by a
horse and nearly killed. In another
war scene there was a premature explosion
of a caisson that hurled her
high in the air, and the fall made
her unconscious, but it made a great
picture.
Once when she was to be rescued
from a burning house, the company
bought an abandoned farm house in
the country and set it afire. The fire
burned more rapitlly than had been
provided for in the rehearsal, and
Miss Gauntler was unconscious and
almost dead when the rescuers
chopped a hole in the roof and pulled
her out. They had intended to take
her out through a window, but the
real thing made a much better picture.
A naval lieutenant is another picture
player who has had many narrow
escapes, his latest exploit in this
direction being a fall from a high
cliff near Brighton, England. Once,
too, he was badly wounded in a
sword duel with a picture player antagonist.
Of course, the injury was
quite unintentional and accidental..
Alfred Brighton, a young American
picture player, lost his life in
the Hudson river, a year ago. He
had to leap into the .water and rescue
a girl who was supposed to be
drowning. While swimming toward
her he was observed to throw up his
arms, sink once or twice, and struggle
frantically on coming to the sur
face.
The spectators on the bank apI'mnmninir
if fft Vio narf nf
piaUUCU) 1JLLLCI&1JUL1.L1? it tV U v Vthe
performance, and the operator
kept turning the handle of the machine,
while shouting to the drowning
man, "Keep it up!" Only when
he had sunk for the third and last
time did anybody suspect that anything
was wrong.?Chicago Tribune.
"Xo Pure Whiskey."
In an address to a men's meeting
in Chattanooga last Sunday the distinguished
Methodist Evangelist, Dr.
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a glass of pure whiskey in the United
States. "The time was," he said,
"v%-hen I was a boy, no matter how
hard a man drank, or how full he
got, he did not want to whip his wife
or mother, and then tear up the town.
He simply was everybody's laughing
stock until he got sober, and then
he was all right. That was because
he drank iure whiskey. But to-day
the whiskey is not fit for a dog to
drink."
FIRESHIPS IN SEA FIGHTS.
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Blazing Craft Caused Much Destruction
in Naval Battles.
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Nothing in the thrilling advent- j
ures of many old sea fights appeals
more strongly to the modern imagination
than the doings of the fireships,
says the London Globe.
"The idea of using incendiary
vessels for the destruction of a hostile
fleet was of great antiquity. They
are said to have been employed at
the siege of Tyre in 333 B. C. and
again by the Rhodians about a century
and a half later. By the English,
however, they were first used
in 1370, and two centuries later had
come to be looked upon as a legitimate
naval weapon, their attacks being
regarded and dreaded in much
the same way as are those of the P
torpedo craft and submarines at the
present time.
The explosion vessels, or "imfernals,"
invented by the Italian en
gineer Gianibelli, were the most formidable.
The designer procured
two vessels of about 80 tons each
and laid along their bottom a foundation
of brickwork. Upon this he
erected a marble chamber with fiveloft
walls containing 300 tons of
gunpowder, while on the top of this
chamber was a six-foot layer of
gravestones placed edgewise. A
marble roof rose over these, and upon
it was piled a quantity of round
shot, chain shot, millstones, blocks
of stone, iron shod beams and anything
heavy which would cause the
explosion to take a lateral effect. ,
The effect of this floating volcano
was appalling, for the masses of stone
and shot, disintegrated and flung
skyward by the explosion, fell and
destroyed all vessels, buildings or
men in the vicinity.
Three years later the Spanish armada
before Calais was attacked by
fireships prepared by the <Engnsn.
Eight vessels were selected, and so
great was the haste that not even
their guns or stores were removed.
They were ignited and launched, and,
with the wind and tide in their favor,
advanced straight for the centre
of the anchored armada. Ship
foiled ship, and the cries of terror
and the crash of falling spars, and,
though the Spaniards finally succeed- _
ed in getting to sea the fireship attack
completely disorganized and demoralized
them, and helped largely
to make the eventful Battle of
Gravellness the success it was. j
The most recent, and at the same
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time one of the most interesting fireship
exploits which ever took place, 0
was that carried out against the I
French fleet in Basque Roads in j
1809 by Lord Cochrane. His explo- ^
sion vessel, intended to destroy the
boom, behind which lay the French
fleet, was a truly awful contrivance.
Cochrane piloted the vessel and lit
the train at the last moment, and on
the evidence of a French captain,
whose ship was close by, it did its
work well, for the air was filled with
shells, grenades, and blazing debris,
while the explosion tore a huge rent
in the boom.
Weird Story of the Wires.
That is a weird story that a correspondent
has put on the wires
from Lafayette, Ind:, to the Eastern
papers. As a narrative runs, Evans
Jones, who is beginning to recove.*
from a cough that has made his life
miserable for the past two years, ,
says the cause was nothing less than _
a lizard three inches long.
Jones declared that he brought up
the reptile while out driving the other
day. He had a paroxysm of coughing
on the road. At the end of it he
choked, he said, and reached down
his throat for relief. He seized the
lizard and drew it to the light of day.
The lizard seemed to be as happy
as Jones to dissolve partnership and
was wriggling away as fast as it
could, when Jones decided he would
capture it and show it to his doctor,
Edgar Allen. The doctor dropped J
the wriggler in alcohol. ?!
Jones got the doctor's theory,
which was that Jones must have been
drinking at a well or spring and
taken a lizard's egg into his stomach.*
The grateful warmth hatched
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The agony of coughing that Jones
endured is ascribed to the frantic efforts
of the lizard to liberate itself.
?Augusta Chronicle.
When Whiskey Was Costly.
Best old whiskey at any price nowadays
is as cheap as dirt when you
come to think how high it used to be
down in the Corncracker country,
says the New York Press. One hundred
and thirty years ago a decree j fi
was passed in the court at Jefferson ,
county making the price of whiskey I
$15 a half pint. By the gallon it
went for $24 0, the lowest bargain
price. And a dollar was a dollar in ; j
those old days in Kentucky. j _
Usually a man's sense of humor T
goes lame when the joke is on him. j *
It is easy for a man with loose j I
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