Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1918 — AT THE PRINCESS [ARTICLE]

AT THE PRINCESS

Stories are frequently told of a horse rescuing a man from drowning, but very rarely is a man called upon to jump into the water to save the life of a drowning horse. However, an incident of this kind occurred during the filming of Geraldine Farrar’s Artcraft production of “The Woman God Forgot,’’ which will be seen at the New Princess Theatre on Saturday, March 16. During the action of the story a Spaniard dashes through the private garden of Montezuma’s daughter, and leaps with his horse into the pool, where the royal Aztec maidens were wont to swim. The people on the bank watched the animal go under the water, rise to the surface and go under again, three times. One of the members of the organization then realized the horse was drowning. He dived into the pool, caught the bridle of the animal, swam with it to a runaway at one side of the pool, held the horse’s head on his knee while a sling was placed around its body, and towed it to a place where it could be led ashore.