Billy Tummel — Go and Get It (1925) 🇺🇸
Billy Tummel, assistant to Victor Schertzinger, found himself confronted by two difficult problems when his chief began shooting scenes for The Golden Strain.
“I want you to get me the finest black mare in California,” Schertzinger said to Tummel, “but that isn’t all — I’ve got to have sixty women with long hair — and I don’t mean wigs. Now get out — I’m busy!”
“Busy!” Tummel echoed. “What do you think I’ll be — trying to cover that assignment?”
But moving picture directors must make things happen — and Billy was no exception.
“First, I’ll get the horse,” he decided, “for I’ll probably need that — riding all over the county looking for women with long hair.”
But this wasn’t as easy as it seemed. This horse had to be a jim-dandy — fit for a lovely creature such as Dixie Denniston, as portrayed by dainty Madge Bellamy. Billy found thousands of automobiles, and a few ordinary looking horses, but at the end of the day he was still searching — and then Hobart Bosworth helped him out. Bosworth, who rides horseback every day, told Tummel of a friend in Beverly who had a mare he could borrow.
The mare was ideal — and Billy was overjoyed until he thought of sixty women — “all wearing long hair.” Then he disappeared, and Schertzinger didn’t see him for 24 hours. When he returned he said:
“All right, sir! I have sixty-eight women coming in tomorrow, for that ballroom scene — but I’ve worn out ten telephones and exhausted the resources of every casting director in Hollywood and Culver City. How’s that?”
“Fine,” said Schertzinger. “Now get me sixty men with old-fashioned haircuts!”
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Henry B. Walthall, who plays an English Secret Service man, and Rupert Julian, who directed and played the ex-kaiser, in Three Faces East (Producers Dist. Corp.).
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Carol Dempster upsets past precedent by appearing as a snappy flapper in the title role of That Royle Girl, D. W. Griffith’s production for Paramount.
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Paul Sloane, directing Leatrice Joy in Made for Love (Producers Dist. Corp.), has a pair of fierce looking Nubian mosquito chasers on guard at his side.
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Bill Hart [William S. Hart], star of Tumbleweed for United Artists, proves that pinto ponies and mustangs are not the only “bosses” he can tame and ride.
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Attractiveness of both face and form won for Laura Lacaillade of New York City second prize in Pathé’s contest held in connection with Sunken Silver.
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Rin-Tin-Tin’s infant son is fortunate in having a highly trained father who is adept in the handling of the bottle — even though it’s nothing but milk which the Warner Bros, canine star is dispensing to his offspring.
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Shirley Mason had to learn the technique of the bow and arrow under Director Victor Fleming’s tutelage for her role in Lord Jim (Paramount).
Collection: Motion Picture News, November 1925