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mmmmmmmmmmmmmm BATTLE OF THE ELEMENTS USED IN MOVIE PLAY - iMAT?IEiWM.CAKJB-Sf ' No wonder the "movies" have grown and developed into the great est Industry on earth! The enter prise, push, energy, and daring with which picture folks are invested are enough to inject ginger into a dead elephant. A story has just come to light which will interest every lay man. Out in Universal City, California, the Bison Company, of which Henry McRae is director, was filming a big production, entitled "The Torrent" In one of the scenes it was necessary to use a dam. Said dam was built and ready for the "taking." On the day set for filming, clouds suddenly appeared in the sky, a frightful storm arose and the rain came in torrents. Instead of losing'his head, Director McRae sow the possibilities for tak ing a tremendous scene for his pic ture and called out to his players to , 1 remain and go through the direction which lie gave them. In a few miw ments the dam really burst and the most thrilling, realistic picture was1 made of the escape from sure deaths It resulted almost disastrously as? the impetus of the water threw sev eral of the women and it was only through the foresight of the men in,' the company that many fatal acci dents did not occur. As it was many were bruised and battered but the ex citement was the most intense ever experienced even at that exciting place. o o THE WAY MEN DIED The true mettle of man was tested in the Lusitania disaster. Charles Prohman went to his death smiling and unafraid, according to Miss Rita Jolivet the actress who was talking with him when the ship went down. "Why fear death, it is the most beautiful adventure in life," were Prohman's last words to Miss olivet. Then the ship sank. With the boat fast slipping into the sea, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, knowing he could get no other belt and that he could not swim, took off his lifebelt and put it around an old woman who was also drowned. Chas. T. Jeffery, of Chicagp and Kenosha, auto factory president, re fused to climb into a boat until he had rescued five floundering near him. H. W. Taylor, on honeymoon, tore his bride from his side and tossed her into a boat. He could not swim, but after the Lusitania went down he clung to wreckage until he become unconscious. He was hauled into a life boat and awakened to find him self in his wife's arms. Speaking of charmed lives, a sol dier in the English army, William Clark, not only went through the" South African war unscathed, but was serving as fireman on board both the Titanic and the 'Empress of Ire land when.those liners went down. MiiilAiiilM wLl- . .t ..., flBaaBMaBflaft