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It. Picture Diagram Illustrating * A "<».s a Few of the High Lights in * S jSfl I I '. ' • Miss Gauntier’s 30,000 Mile W / I S w h' W I ’’’■/X\ ? , '*' I ’ '. r ; // Moving Picture Performance 1 -- v ) L > U—</ '~t ~' I W. i J ■ \ *\ from New York to Holy Land. "| XtA ? A 'Sy » -yxr iBWL A\ jLai duke rn -wSmlgk i _ Pcto Poses J • IK «f*K <OSI * ■ ! ''*' ' ' £~. A __._ r— —< r s. > - n r- >s ¥ JjtW R\ ’W&M L.. jerusau?m ■ | r-X \ I .-< £"£> Jancfs/orms, Bnga/icfc.DtzsAy ™?“"T:'" 1" U ?\(0) fv C ■ ■? Wooers, Wives, Camels, I O b\»^/11 \j lS Wj/ WfcFj Crocodiles and Donkeys 1 a■■ '\ -, -/?// Mixed Up in This ( V; '-7 F~-\ 30,00(hMile Record* I v ' Miss Gauntier Posing at Jerusa- e * ' ■ ’ her from' /^*^> * ' lemM ‘savTour herof,hc Breaking “Performance ’ ' of “The Prettiest Moving Picture Star ’ <7 w By Miss GENE GAUNTIER. /“W A < (i-iiUit**-** ■- - T (The Highest Salaried Moving-Picture Heroine in America). POSING for the "movies" 1b generally regarded, 1 believe, by those who are unfamiliar with the work, as being a good deal of a sinecure. The moving-picture queen is supposed to have a very easy time of it compared with the arduous work a Broadway star is compelled to put In. As a matter of fact, however, the situation is Just the reverse, as may be very easily shown. The Broadway star learns her part and uses It for months at a stretch; the moving-picture star learns hers for but a single performance. The Broadway star lives within taxicab distance of her stage: the moving-pic ture queen may have to travel to the end of the world to find hers. The Broadway star travels In her motor car to and from the theatre: the moving-picture queen must avail herself of whatever vehicle the country affords. When the final curtain is rung down on the Broad way show ,the star may repair to restaurant or home In the company of her admirers and friends; when the day's work is over for the moving-picture star, she may be thousands of miles from civilization. These are but a few of the essential differences. They impress mo most strongly because I have just completed a 30,000-mile trip for the "movies.’’ and know whereof 1 speak. In ten months I posed in twelve countries, in three continents. I travelled on boat, on foot, on camels, on donkeys, oti horses and in the various rickety convey ances characteristic of the different countries which I visited. The principal mission of the company of which I was the leading lady was to pose for the pictures in the "Life of Christ” aeries, the pictures being posed for in the very places where the original incidents occurred, nearly two thousand years ago. The difficulties we had in taking many of these pictures have already been fully described in these pages, but there were a number of unusual Incidents tn the course of our trip which have never been told. Before we arrived at the Holy Land, we took a num ber of pictures in Europe. In Rome, after 1 had been wandering for hours among some of the ancient ruins, familiarizing myself with the scenes in which 1 was to jJerform and was making my way home to my hotel, I was encountered by a native, who I had noticed watch ed me all the afternoon. It was about 6 o’clock and dusk. In a quiet street this fellow suddenly fell on bis knees before me. and begged me to become the Contessa Something-Or-Other, from which, of course. I inferred that he was the Count. I was never so embarrassed in my life. I knew the Italians were supposed to be great lovetnakers, but I wasn’t aware that they popped the question on the pub lic highway in this open manner. 1 explained to the man as well us I could that his proposition was flattering but Impossible, but he pes tered me during the remainder of my stay in Romo to reconsider my decision. But that was nothing to an experience I had in the great Libyan desert, where quite unintentionally I touched the heart.strings of Bostowie, a Bishareen sheik, who insisted that 1 should become his wife No. 4, offered me a desert throne and, when I refused, made several attempts to steal me from my company. The little village over which Bostowie ruled was only twelve miles from Luxor, where we stopped twelve W'eeks. In making our frequent excursions into the Libyan desert, it was necessary to pass through Bos towie’s village. That was how he came to know me. The village consisted of a series of reed huts, none of which was fit to house a dog. 1 was so struck by the primitive appearance of the settlement when I saw it for the first time that thf first leisure day 1 got I de termined to pay a visit there alone. Bostowie. the sheik, misconstrued the purpose of my visit. It is true that I suffered no indignities at his hands: on the contrary, he treated me with every con sideration; but he must certainly havo concluded that J was as smitten with his manifold charms as he evi dently was with what he regarded as mine. Without consulting me at all, he had one of the little huts cleared out for my reception, and made prepara tions for my reception. He evidently imagined that I bad come to spend the rest of my days with him. The sun was beginning to go down when 1 intimated to Bostowie that I wanted my camel, as I had to get back to Luxor before dark. At first he professed not to understand, and had his own four camels brought out and said they were mine if I wanted them. I insisted that 1 had to return to Luxor, and that if I wasn't back by sunset my party would come after me, as they knew where I had gone. The sheik was angry. 1 believe he would have tilled me then as readily as look at me. but he was xiraid. Reluctantly he ordered my camel, and in half in hour or so I was home safe. The next day I received from he sheik a camel and ts baby, only two days old, evidently as a peace offer ing. Later in the day, the sheik himself made his way o Luxor and sought me out. Through Ameen, our dragoman, he made a definite offer to me to become wife No 4. He pointed out that he was only thirty vears .Id and ruler of his village. His wealth consisted onlv of many camels, but his official position gave him the prestige of a little king. Ameen cautioned me not to laugh at the earnest sheik, and. without waiting to hear from me, explained to the sheik mat his proposition could not possible ha accepted. J Then the wily sheik applied for a position tn the company, walch our director readily gave him as we needed all the supernumeraries we could get two or three days afterward, while a small party us. mdud ng Bostowie, on camel back, were travers ing the desert. Ameen overheard a conversation h. tween two of the natives which indicated that an at’ tempt was to be made to abduct me. dU at * « - " ----- '">' Tr~ ix PJ=X-?yr ♦ / I A ~ ‘ '*”’ Hardly had our dragoman communicated his sus picions to the director of our party, when a huge cloud of sand in the distance announced the approach of a band of natives on camel-back, and they rode so fast that before we knew It we were completely surrounded. As had been planned, before any hostile step could be taken by the invaders our director covered Bos towfe with his automatic, and directed Ameen to ex plain to him that unless he at once dismissed his band he would be shot. Bostowie protested his Innocence, but couldn't ex plain the invasion of his band. With a few words spoken 111 his native tongue he di-missed his followers, and we were not again molested during the trip back, brom that time, however, you may be sure I was par ticularly careful never to get too far away from my party while in the vicinity of Bostowie. While at Luxor I had a wonderful experience or. < a.ne, i hclc. Ihe animal was a racer. I had started for a short trip alone. In some way I indicated tn the brute that I wanted him to show what he could do and he did. With nothing to hang on to but mv faith' or there were no stirrups and the guide-rope was but > in cord tied to one of the animal’s nostrils I was carried across the desert at what seemed like'a hum »•' nv } ( hr’ Ameen followed tne on nn Arabian steed but 1 don t think he would ever have caught me had the camel not voluntarily slackened his speed. " But Perhaps the most harrowing incident of the trie oecurreo during the journey from Jerusalem to the Sea of Galilee. This covers a distance of 246 miles We made it on donkevs in five davs t-ikino. the time. This Is just one-half the time rfquired r by the tourists agencies. To accomplish the feat thoue-l’ ■ u travel at night, and the trail through' theTnomn tains was execrable and dangerous, for we hart hr, warned that the region was Infested bv Bed,mi, Indeed, the Turkish Government in' s- d ,? andi,S vidlng us with an armed guard. dered there. h ““ Foolishly enough, however, the director of h r pany and I allowed ourselves to get nearly two mfiTs ceedlng in almost utter darknesj "ut “nX v;^K ted do,,koys ’ “U nt s It is all right. Gene,” said tlie direct,,,- <•< this gun. and think you are ‘filming’ a western se'ne’’ He gave me a gun and got his own readv for We waited for the enemy. ’ Th o ”' lnutes seemed like hours and w u couldn’t h»— the slightest sound of motion. Ten minutes 11' ' a i and then we heard the sound of hoofs W" crow wT* among the trees to leave the trail free, and waited d •■urn ß th '* S n’ Pß *? pro * ched ' m J’ companion sang out- Who goes there? and we waited breathlessly for hL answer. 3 You can imagine how relieved we were when ("und that It was our own party that was approaching to ascJrmln ‘’ eard W<? Were Uever ab >® To get the films ready for production I made a sn» rial trip of 12 000 miles back to New York with them I had prepared the scenarios and was the only person ' familiar enough with the work to undertake this end of the matter. Then I re eno turned to Europe for more \\ hile in the desert our party was caught in one of the typical sandstorms. It was a most terryffylng experience, but did us no harm. Posing for the "movies’’ is not by any means the sine- cure it may ap. -ly L pear from the S & \ \ a *<!s&l3k \ / „ - 1? ■ \ > ; £ I r*te' v = > x i Mil ■■ wI I 1 Ft , WiA ■ jßz •> y 1 f .'"V MjjK \ - v j®/ t < w • ■<’*■» .W h wWw J JI • I MU . I I ■?■ } J V ft V W "' - I 1 ! jw&fr S&O $* A Z TS> fw|w “Little camels make the oddest presents,” Says Miss Gaunder. Here Is a Photograph of Her and the Little Camel the Desert Kin? Also Gave Her Tmance” Made a M ' crd of 30 < 000 > x object n / DESER.T Kin ff PRoeosex t, -Wr . ..5 Cot ■ J ' «T W■■tW ■ ■ * 1 ■PF ' ! Ww OP mL'H 1 (■ w®' IWCT*- i v a, •(. **- W* R oiy jB-.'f. JM Wfefe iwl w i 'f 1 Wv'i i • Ma I < 'WIM. ■ f laransHMK a ■■ini es Star M,ss Gauntier and Her Bishareen King Who Insisted Upon Marrying Her. Miss Gauntier 11 Whose Last “Per- Rld,ng the Came! He Gave Her ‘ Songs an Egyptian Princess Wrote 3,000 Years Ago THE already magnificent collec tion of Egyptian papyri in tiie British Museum has been still further enriched by the gift hy Mrs. Mary Greenfield of a splendid Theban version of the Book of the Dead of tne period of the New Empire, 1000 B. C. Os this work the Museum already pos sesses fine examples in the papyri of Ani, Nu, and Henefer, but the latest addition contains a number of hitherto unknown literary com positions, hymns, litanies, and services. Additional importance is attached to the papyrus in that it belongs to a period of great his torical importance, and the date of its composition can be fixed with certainty. The papyrus, which measures one hundred and twenty-three feet in length and about eighteen inches in width, was found between 1871 and 1881 in the hiding-place of the royal mummies at Deir-el-Baharl. The lady for. or by, whom the papyrus was written was named Nesi-ta-nebt Asheru, “She who be longs to the Lady of Asher," that is the goddess Mut of Thebes She was a princess, being the daughter of the last <-f the priest kings of the twenty-first dynasty, Painet chem 11., by his niece, the grand priestess queen Nesi-Khensu. a lady who held the highest sacred and secular offices. The mummified forms of Painet chem 11.. Nesi-Khensu and the lady of his papyrus can ail be seen in the royal salon of the x Cairo Museum, a t-.ct which has very personal interest to the document now described. The papyrus is beautifully written, in a small, but very clear hieratic script, and some of the chapters are given both in hieratic and hieroglyphic. ihe vignettes which accompany and illustrate the chapters and selections are so finely drawn and so pathetic in incident—such, for example, as the anxious figure of the princess, with her hair loose, watching the weighing of her heart, or standing before the Hal! o' Osiris—as to suggest compari son with the work of the best artists of Japan. The way in which ’ne author has selected the cnapte c from the olde’- Theban 'hnt 10 ' of ., lhe or ’ne Dead shows i thorough knowledge of the theology of th e period, and the beauty of the newly published hymns and iitanivs to Osiris, Atom and Harmachis show the mind of a pious and highly educated person. The whole of the huge papyrus is clearly in cue handwriting, a rather small feminine hand, and we le..rn from the papyrus that the lady held the title of "Worker or Maker of the Rolls (books) of Amen-Ra, King of the Gods." She was also a musician, being called' S'.nger of the Quarter of Mut Lady or Asher What manner of woman was this Turban authoress? This question can fortunately be answered, for her mummy at Cairo has been un rolled. and her face is well pre served. The face is small, with well-shaped f rehead: the hair is dark 'Town arid wavy, the eye lashes abundant, and the false eyes of dim brown, which replace th, real, are probably the same co'.o as those of her lifetime. From th' condition of the teeth she was a death betv een thirty-five and forty and about 5 feet 6 inches in height /Is to the merits of the literal': composition of this royal lady, io* ers of Oriental hymnology can hav little doubt. One very' beaut'.fi! composition is the Litany of P r ais sung to the Sun-god bv th" Hour as they follow him across the sk: to the west. The hours are divldet into quartets, and ths refrain o their song is. “I have followed the dweller on the two horizons to hit place of rest in the west of heaven I have sung praises to the dwellet on the two uorlzons, and havs guided him on the road to the west.’ The document belongs to a pertov of great religious controversy it Egypt. The priests of Amer, hac by every possible means sought tc elevate their divinity above all th® other gods, and .o obliterate much as possible the creed oi Osiris. In the papyrus of this lady’t mother, the Queen Nesi-Khensu. al’ the functions of Osiris are usurped by Amen. Here the authoress has been most diplomatic, and proved herself a theologian of no mean or der. She blends as t were Osiris and Amen. They become aspects at phases of each other, and so, as Dr Budge (keeper of the Egyptian department of the British Museum) says, she is able to believe that the “hidden” creative power which was materialized in Amen was only an other form of the new birth and resurrection which was typified by Osiris.