"DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES" IN BAR HARBOR

Bar Harbor Times
July 28, 1920

MT. DESERT ISLAND AGAIN IN MOVIES

Vitagraph Players Here For Two Weeks

SCENES ON OCEAN DRIVE

Screen Actors and Actresses at the Newport - Will Film Weird Scene of "Dead Men Tell No Tales"

Again a leading motion picture company has come to Mount Desert Island to film a portion of an important production.  This time it is Vitagraph, whose location hunters scoured the entire Atlantic coast for rugged scenery and at last found on the Ocean Drive the caves and rock-bound coast that they had searched for and had hardly believed possible to find.  This coast with its background of mountains will be the setting for an important part of "Dead Men Tell No Tales,"  Horning's thrilling story, which is being adapted to the screen by Vitagraph.  The famous Spouting Horn is one of the important locations which was filmed several weeks ago by two Vitagraph cameramen and the film sent back to New York for the inspection of the director,  Tom Terris, who was more than delighted with what his representatives had found and at once chose this as the location.
J.G. Hullette, business manager for the company, arrived in Bar Harbor Monday and registered at the Newport.  A company of sixteen actors and actresses arrived this morning and work on the production will start tomorrow morning.  Mr. Hullette was in Southwest Harbor yesterday where he chartered a schooner for a week or more, the vessel to be used in his production.  He has been busy getting other properties together and has everything in readiness to begin work.  Spouting Horn and other well known points along the Ocean Drive will be used in the production.  The cave will feature in the film as the entrance of a tunnel leading to a haunted house.  In fact, haunted houses play rather an important part in the production as readers of the story, "Dead Men Tell No Tales"  may recollect, and those who have not read it may get something of the same idea from the title.  Earlier parts of the picture were filmed on a large estate on Long Island.  It is said that the house on this estate has been opened for twelve years prior to its use by the motion picture company.  The story is that the owner of the house committed suicide and that shortly after his wife was found murdered in the wine cellar.  Certainly such a story lends enough of spookiness to any production, even to one with the weird title of this latest Vitagraph film.

SPOUTING HORN - SCHOONER HEAD
BAR HARBOR, MAINE

"Dead Men Tell No Tales" is being put out with an all-star cast, every actor or actress having started in some big picture.  Miss Catherine Calvert is the leading lady and playing opposite her is Perry Marmont, a great grandson of Marshal Marmont,  Napoleon's great leader;  H.E. Herbert, who has stared in his productions in Europe as well as the United States, and Gustav Von Seyfferstitz, a peer of Hungary, who was brought to this country by Conreid, noted as the founder of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, also appear in leading parts.  They are supported by an unusually able cast in the persons of Roy Applegate, Walter James, Robert Gallord, Bernard Siegel, Miss India Wakara, Frank Mason and Hoaand Spothyerwood.
In the party also is Toni Terris, the director.  Mr. Hulkette, the business manager, the property man, and the two cameramen, Ernest and William Haller.  Ernest Haller is one of the best men at his hire.  He has photographed several important pictures, among which are "The Career Of Catherine Bush,"  and "Too Much Trouble."
Mr. Hullette was most enthusiastic in regard to scenery and conditions here, and also expressed his appreciation of the help where the Lafayette National Park office had so generously given him.