Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 54, 14 January 1920 — Page 11

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, JAN 14, 1920.

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Famous actress leads the simple fife lor a month to get atmosphere for Picture, then rushes back to - New York's most expensive hotel

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Do you want to beat the high cost or living? It can be done. Anita Stewart did it, and she tells liow. She picked the land of beauitful women, bold men and fast horses. And ihe went way back in the mountains at that.

In order to get a perfect atmosphere ' for the picture, she led the simple life among the mountaineers of Kentucky! for a month. Miss Stewart says: "I wanted to live Just as near like the mountain folk as possible to learn their ways, bo I rented a log cabin, for which I paid $5 a month, or about 17 cents a day. , "I dressed as did mountaineers, and yes, most of the time I "went In my bare feet. I slept on rough bunk built Into the wall, and wrapped myself In blankets. I didn't sleep much for the first few nights, as those

boards were the hardest kind of wood, i got bruises every time I turned. But I soon got used to it and dldn'jt mind, though I think I prefer springs and a mattress. "The food at first seemed coarse I was eating Just what'hte mountain folk did. In fact, I couldn't get anything else as I was miles away from any city. I cooked It myself, too. It was mostly corn bread and corn cakes, with bacon and ham and pork and an occasional chicken. But after a day in the fresh air It tasted fine. "Of course, there were plenty of potatoes and greens of all kinds yes, and I had a dash of moonshine once just once. It was so fiery, I choked and went dizzy. No more for me. I am for the constitutional amendment. ' "The cost of my clothing was so ridiculous it would make you laugh. I paid 98 cents apiece for some glngt

ham gowns, and my whole outfit did

not cost as much as a pair of gloves on Broadway.

"1 believe I could live a year In the mountains of Kentucky for what it costs one day on Broadway, or at least

a week. After Miss Stewart had absorbed

the customs and .ways of the hill folk,

back she came to New York's most

expensive hotel.

It's a far cry from the little log

cabin to this hotel. Miss Stewart says

it is. And you can take her word for

it. She has tried both.

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"I engaged a suite of rooms, and the price was $25 a day, what I would have paid for my cabin for five months," said Miss Stewart "Why, my tips and my maid service In one day would pay for a month back In the hills. . "You see the people among whom I lived had very little cash, raising for themselves almost everything they ate and largely making their own dotting. It would have been incomprehensible to them. "But they were kindly folk and I loved them. I should like to go back there and live again In my log cabin and run barefooted. Maybe I shall, but who can tell." So you see It's easy to cut the cost of living, if you want to badly enough.

1 The question 1b, do you want to?

Old Southern Darky

Makes Love to Mammy

A quaint touch of humor is added

to the picture, "In .. Old Kentucky,

featuring Anita Stewart, which will be

shown at the Murrette Theatre begin

ning Thursday, Jan. 15, by an elderly colored couple spooning on the lawn. It is the night of the great ball In

celebration of the winning of the Ken

tucky Handicap. Their service In the

houBe over, the old couple slip out

while the white folks are dancing, for

their own amusement.

The couple who play the part are typical Southern darkles and carry out

their litle side play with the natural

nesB and simplicity of real life. Their

sincerity In their love making, the old negro's good-natured grin, and the shyness of the old negress, stir the

risibilities of all.

Anita Stewart takes a daring

risk to make scene in Picture realistic

Anita Stewart makes a startling leap on horseback over a broken

bridge above a chasm, taking great

risks, In a scene from the First National special feature, "In Old Ken-

tacky," in which she stars. This great

American classic will be shown at the Murrette Theatre beginning Thursday, Jan. 15. The bridge Is a draw over a ravine more than 100- feet deep. But the draw has been wrecked. In the story it is necessary for Miss Stewart to leap over this broken draw to reach a man who is lying unconscious In the road far 'beneath her, where the villain has placed a dynamite bomb beneath him.

The horse, upon which she Is mounted at first refuses to make the Jump, but she starts again, and spurring it t othe utmost speed, rides straight

for the broken bridge. The horse

rises to her spur and makes the Jump

But it reaches the opposite side by such a narrow margin that broken

bits of the bridge are kicked from beneath its feet into the chasm beneath. Miss Stewart admits that 'she was terribly frightened, but had every confidence In the horse, as it had

made greater leaps than the one taken in the picture, though never such a

dangerous one.

This thrilling scene is clearly shown

in this picture, which is the story of an untutored girl, who after risking

her life for her friends in the moun

tains, goes to the city where she wins

laurels for herself.

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Remember the Dates, the Place and Watch for the Big Street Parade Thursday

The Greatest ot Great Productions

THIS MASTER MOVIE Starts ThMrsday, Jan, 15th DOORS OPEN AT 1:30 SHOW8 CONTINUOUS

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HAS DONE THE STUPENDOUS THING. HE HAS OUTDONE THE DRAMATIC STAGE PLAY THAT HAS THRILLED AMERICAN AUDIENCES FOR TWENTY YEARS AND HAS CREATED IN ANITA STEWART, , THE WHIMSICAL "MADG&" THE LOVING,

HARD RIDING WAIF OF THE KENTUCKY HILLS, IN A STORY OF THE PICTURESQUE OLD SOUTHLAND OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, FAST HORSES, BOLD FIGHTING MEN AND TENDER ROM ACES IT IS A STORY OF NIGHT RIDERS, OF GREAT FEUDAL BATTLES AND MOONSHINERS' GUN FIGHTS; IT IS THE STORY OF STATELY BALLS, of villainy, of great "race Scenes and blue GRASS HORSES, OF THRILLING FOX HUNTS, OF THE COLONEL'S FAMOUS MINT JULEP AND OLD SAMBO'S LOVE MAKING.

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THE SMILING PICKANINNIES OF THE FAMOUS SOUTHLAND. THEY KNOW HOW TO WORK, HOW TO PLAY, BUT MOST OF ALL THEY KNOW HOW TO MAKE MUSIC, THAT STARTS YOUR BLOOD RACING, DANCING, TINGLING, YOUR BODY SWAYING, YOUR EYES GLANCING, YOUR FEET TAPPING. ANITA STEWART BRINGS WITH HER STRAIGHT FROM THE SUNNY SOUTH A PICKAMNNY BAND FULL OF OLD SOUTHERN MELODY, SNAPPY JAZZ AND SWINGING RHYTHM. They Will Parade the Streets WATCH FOR THEM SPECIAL MUSICAL PROGRAM

PRICES Adults 50c, Children's Special Matinee Every Afternoon 25c

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