Accidental Fall Makes Perfect Film Scene

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 175, 27 July 1938, Page 11

Accidental Fall Makes Perfect Film Scene

Louis Hayward sustained a badly wrenched knee, little Shirley Coates did some fine acting that wasn’t acting and RKO Radio inadvertently got an un-

scheduled scene recently when, in “The Saint in New York,” Louis Hayward, roscuing Shirley from kidnappers, slipped at the top of a flight of stairs and tumbled down the steps. Striving to shield Shirley from the bumps, Hayward wrenched his knee painfully. Shirley wasn’t hurt and Director Ben Holmes decided to leave the scene in for two reasons: (1) Hayward was too lame to repeat the sequence and (2) Shirley’s real alarm as they fell was too good to hope to capture again.

Small fortunes have been made by men portraying Abraham Lincoln, mosi of the fame going to Frank McGlynn for his portrayal. Lincoln was starred lin the picture bearing his name, pro-

duced and directed by David Griffiti'i. In fact, he came into pictorial existenca

in “The Birth of a Nation” and hai been revived since in pictures at the rate of one every six months. No pic-

ture of the Civil War era or even later, as ia the case of Paramount’§ “The Plainsman,” misses him.