WINDSTORM DOWNS A MOVIE STREET.

Shannon News, 29 November 1921, Page 3

WINDSTORM DOWNS A MOVIE STREET.

Mistaking a California windstorm as its cue to tumble for an earthquake scene,, part of an Italian street at Metro Park, in the San Fernando Valley, collapsed, delaying the production “The Hope,” for two days, when that picture, showing on Wednesday at the Maoriland Theatre, was being made. When Herbert Blanche, the director, went on the location the next morning he found the side wall of a twostorey brick building wrecked. The entire company, including Jack Mulhall, Marguerite de la Motte, Ruth Stonehouse, Frank Elliot and 100 Italian actors waited two days w r hile the building was replaced. The earthquake promises to be a scene in “The Hope,” which A. S. Le Vino adapted from the great melodrama by Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton. Another episode in this colossaJ Metro production is a battle in Khyber Pass, India. Technicians worked two weeks building the street of an Italian city at Metro’s sixty-three acre park. Rain prevented filming the eai'thquake on the Saturday planned for the scene, and the following day wind caused one of the big walls to collapse.