PICTURE THRILLS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 88, 12 May 1916, Page 1

PICTURE THRILLS.

People often yearn, to act for the pictures, little realising what hard-things a picture-actor has to do to earn his daily breads How would you, for instance, like to hang head downwards from the balcony of an tipper storey to catch in your arms and safely lower to the ground a young lady who has jumped from an opposite window 15ft away? How would you like to enter a- bull-ring just as the matadors Have baited the enraged bull beyond all endurance and left it for you, an amateur, to settle with? How would you like to mount a horse and ride it at full speed l over a bridge that you knew would break immediately you got to the centre and drop vou down into a cold 1 river 30ft below ? How would you like to be thrown off a train: that was going at a good speed, pick yourself up, mount it once more, only to be thrown, off again? How would yoit like to tear dowrc a railway track in a motor-car from which the tyres had Ixvn removed, overtake an express and make a flying jump on to one of the carriages? How would you like to remain under water for two full minutes to escape a crowd of soldiers who were hunting for you? How would you like to be pummelled, and bound hand and foot, and thrown about like a sack? How would you like to fight 10 people at once, with every-one of them trying hard 1 to get you down? Do-these little tasks appeal to you ? Probably they do not; and! yet every one jof the feats described above, together with a liost of | others just as ttondterful, is performed' by Eddi« Polo,'a leading actor.