OCR Text |
Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSVILlE. UTAH . i Mm Or v : ANY million dol- . ;;. in motion picture studios in southern California. Climate and scenery there mwl A i Y ''"V'TTi s , c. U' v 'A " HCold .v': fV V ni l omy, timphcity t U A it , Y?u buy tha AlabMtinr In the color to Appy and quantities you reit ia miaed quire co J water In a pail arcord-In- a to Ilia directions on tlia ' . t a t - Permanent, r Economical,, O i V w Important to Alabatline nrebaaer W put a red wows and a t g on ea h red of Alaliaetin v 4 M V in Is t hair iul o It would ! aT fC 0 U Ideatlfe Alaltaelin when you aV fur and iai for lfci lt ymir protection VVUIyiHi itMtk for tb ml crtHwaml mi eirel oft tb dlalHMtlnsjroti buy! mo I JL frllhisf I f it I dd bff House of Representatives ' jckwr. liter i nohoitlnf water re- - rBeautiful I By J. C. LESSEN. HE first motion picture maker went to Los Angeles, Cat , jto soorre scenic or travelogue subjects, hav-inlearned from railroad folders of the beaitiful scenery there. That was not more than eight years ago. The scenic photographer the views desired and left, never once suspecting that the greater part of the. industry would later find California the best place to make pic- -' tures. About seven years ago another director discovered that government weather reports showed that full three hundred days of each year the sun shone brightly, and this man. Frank Boggs, induced' his employers, the Selig company; with producing plant then located in Chicago, to send a company to Los Angeles to open's studio. All effects of the company were packed in a small trunk. The first studio opened by the organization was on the roof of a downtown building. The first picture cost less than three hundred dollars and consisted of less than a thousand feet. Since that day the ve m 'Sanitary,! ' H Scene Reproduced. Yvl; bar-moti- 1 hC ew Cr.ad.dU Road Kafdi, Mich. Iool Needed Jb Apply r oerywfcer. 'i 4 JiTT Watt 7W TU Made and Ued for 35 Yeer What Alabeetweia AUbuhitne hue been uaed Alabaeline U a iteiw, dry, by humiiedaot thousand of aatutaryrSa te4iire,i j dee around to Impalpabla pltiiiiai a and decoratora by housekeepers and houn flnene.a Ihecolora and tints lor thirty-fiv- e la year it added and then put ownervmffaAicd with aucceta iu up paikageel. atenclla for border Spaclaf SMneil Offar Ordinarily deaisnacoat you Irom 50c to tl 00 each. Our free boob tell you how you can get the stencils you with practically free of charge. Our color schema caida supuemt colors that for your room. Write for them today. A l maUBASTINK jMrdMHwe deal&ruyvl$ er and point M I dacoiatws. qeired ; no flue to be added no tnneceery time. You ran eturehdee end tint that ere mrWuo with the Alabestinewey byconv biuiii tints to produce e new iade. You need not uee ceitain fthed color unleee you want to: and you can haeunaititic color at heme on our waiUenltreytHiruigw, Way af iateiior tha Alabadisa war Albtne k in the The Water Rwkjy v wonderful econjam of tha and effectivanrta ml let si tell ST'V , tiV 4t4Wk. As tT Kj in One4 Minute vithu S) Tf? , .Y , V, JmmeJiahjjy the filmed drama. ? Calm Slowbetter. Retort Courteous. a calm man, not easOn one occasion as hit ily upset. remarked the fresh barber. Yes, rejoined tbe victim in the motor car had come to a sudden stop chair, but if my head ever gets as he crawled underneath it to see what soft as yours I'll raise hair to sell. was the matter. Somehow or other some petrol Ignited. A fierce burst of flame and A GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT. smoke came forth, enveloping In the midst of the exciteMr. F, C. Case of Welcome Lake, ho walked to one side with hla ment 1 suffered with Back Pa., writes: ache and Kiduey. Trouble. My bead usual slow and regular step. Ills face was black, his eyebrows and eyelashes ached, my sleep was broken and were singed, and what was left of hla 1 felt and beard was a eight to behold. hair heavy and sleepy Someone brought a mirror, and he was after meals, at look 'himself. As usual, howa had nervoqs always and tired, had a ever, hetook matters philosophically., Well, he said, slowly and deliber-atelyrbitter taste Jn my Was needing a shave and my" was dizzy, mouth, hair cut, anyway. d floating pecks before- thy eyes, was always a bad thirsty, dragging sensation across my loins, difficulty In collecting my thoughts was and troubled with short ness of breath. Dodd Kidney Pills have cured me of these complaints. You are at liberty to publish this let- Look, Mother! If tongue if ter for the benefit of any sufferer who coated, give California doubts tbe merit of Dodda Kidney Pills." Syrup of Figs. Dodda Kidney Pills, 60c. per box at Children love this fruit laxative, your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co., and nothing else cleanses the tender Buffalo, N. Y. Dodds Dyspepsia Tab- stomach, liver and bowels so nicely. lets for Indigestion have been proved. A child simply will not stop playing 60c. per box. Adv. to empty the bowels, and the result le they become tightly clogged with Taking a Short Cut. waste, liver gets sluggish, stomach Tm perfectly willing to help you, sours, then your little one becomes said the practical philanthropist, but cross, feverish, dont eat, to help yourself when sleep or act naturally, breath Is bad. you ought the occasion presents Itself. system full of cold, bas sore throat The last tlmq I did that It got me stomach-achor diarrhoea. Listen, into a whole lot answered Mother! See If tongue Is coated, then In fact, I spent give a toespoonful of' California' the shabby visitor. some years in durance vile. Syrup of Figs, and In a few hours all What do you mean? the constipated waste, sour bile and I helped myself to tbe contents of undigested food passes out of the sysanother mans cash register. tem, and you have a well child again. Millions of mothers give California " Explaining Himself. Syrup of Figs because it Is perfectly Dont you think that woman's skirt harmless; children love It, and it never falls to act on the stomach, liver is er a trifle too high? That depends on the point of and bowels. bottle view. Ask at the store for a f California Syrup of Figs, which Oh, the poln of view Is eminently satisfactory, so far as I am concerned. bas full directions for babies, children f all ages and for grown-up- s I was Just speaking on general prlju plainly; clPe8printed on the bottle. Adv. Exchange. ' f I Sv eg You are getting quite bald, sir, Slowbetter-l- s Slow-lmlte- r. greatest 'motion picture the world has ever seen, costing more than a quar- ter million, was made but a short distance from the location of the first studio but hat is getting ahead., nt my.. story. Cutting cost in production was .so pleasing to this one manufacturer that he could not keep the secret of his success. The word reached his competitors, and they investigated statistics compiled by the government, and a few months later sent companies West Go. West," became the slogan of makers of canned amusement, and one after another established plants in or near Los Angeles. 1 Besides the advantageous climatic conditions there are other reasons for film producers going to California. Within a radius of fifty railed of Los Angeles practically any kind of a scene desired may be shot" It was not until during the last year or eighteen months that manufacturers came to realize fully that the producing end of the industry should be located in California, and now that some fully appreciate the economy of such a .move they are building expensive permanent plants. Before decisions for this move were reached, however, every excuse was offered for continuing In the East, and attempts' made to prove Jhe correctness of each .one of them; for a big expense is added when the selling department of a concern is located in New York city, three thousand miles from the manufacturing plant. New York city has always been, and, no doubt. will for years remain, the theatrical center of this contingent. There it is that all big theatrical producing organizations have their headquarters, has to a very great jand as the motion picture extent taken the place of legitimate stage drama, and musical shows, and is Conducted largely by former theatrical men, its headquarter?' should, the managers think, continue In this "" eastern metropolis. With the offices and selling force at one side of the continent and the manufacturing at the other additional expense Is caused by the need of each keeping In touch with the other. Pracgo by wire, and tically all of the communications some of companies exexpense the telegraphic In one or month. dollars per ceeds a thousand two Instances wires across the continent are leased from the telegraph companies and operators maintained at the New York office and the lease .studio, in the same wanner as newspapers has This materially received. news for wires lessened the expense and at the same time added of the comspeed and efficiency to the service comedy panies. the'eco-nomicAs the manufacturers come to realize makthe need of continuing permanently have California, in they ing of motion pictures there. their properties Improved gradually The first Universal producing company arrived manIn Los Angeles Thanksgiving, 1911. and the scenic artist ager. director, scenario writer, and property man. laboratory superintendent Actor AI. E Christie, with his band of thirty, leased a barn. To save the cost of buying muslin to use as cloths, that there would be no shadows in the pictures and all faces and images be plain, -- he caused the stage which consisted of a mere flat platform to be built in the north side of the barn where the players could work all day in the shade without the sun spoiling a single cene. From this very humble beginning hah grown exthe only ' municipality In the world devoted of motion pictures manufacture the to clusively Universal City, four miles north of Lxs Angeles. This mammoth plant consists of almost four hundred acres, contains a river, valleys, hills and picturesque nooks suitable for filming scenes. The grounds are divided into two sections, because of foot hills extending through the center. aide, rin lrcnt are the 'With fiat valleys al oo-eith- kvYJ 'v A vTV, . ideal for producing 'j & Y "! VI; Mbc v. 5 w ; wlS ,V $ s ' V-'-- lars are invested ftV Street Scene of Naples, Italy, During the Middle Ages Reproduced. ' ;V, of the three points of theTrlijiigle Enimcorpora-tion- , ahich Inaugurated in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, motion picture theater programs, where two dollars .was tharged for the best seats. The new plant will consist of twenty or more concrete rnd steel fireproof buildings, including nine separate inclosed with ground glass stages one for each producing organizaScotch Village Street Scene Reproduced administration buildings, a cafe with a capacity of serving one thousand people an hour; barber, manicuring, hair dressing and photography shops; the laboratories, where all film Is developed and a positive print made; a wardrobe department, where clothing for an army can be had at a minutes notice, no matter what nation the army is to represent. Here, too. will be found the dressing rooms of the five hundred players, tbe carpenter shop, scene painting studios and five mammoth stages with a? floor space equivalent to four acres. All buildings are cf concrete and steel. Beyond the foothills are other stages , and tbe zoo, which contains approximately two hundred wild animals trained to work in pictures. Across the road from this Is an s t horse and cattle corral and The big grounds are for the cowboys. clotted at all times with settings built for this or that production. On one side will be seen a coal mine, while a few feet away Is a reproduction from photographs of a street scene In Cairo, Egypt, or the Bowery of New York possibly a typical Scotch scene, or the native tuts of African savages. One of these sets, fifty to five hundred feet long is frequently erected at a cost-oseveral thousand dollars and torr down after the making of from one to three hundred feet of film that will require one to five minutes to show at the theater. It Is very seldom that the saine setting is used In more than one production. , The worlds greatest privately owned collection of wild animals is said to e that at tbe zoo of the Selig company, located near a public park on historic Mission road, leading Into Los Ange les from the famous San Gabriel missions. This big show place, built at an expense of more than two hundred thousand dollars, conacres thirty of which are taken tains thirty-eigh- t up in animal bouses and pens and beautiful lawns and groves. In all there are seven hundred or more specimens, including fifty lions, a herd of elephants, droves of ostrichs, scores of monkeys. and many rare animals, together with birds and reptiles from every part of the world. All are maintained for exclusive nse- In motion pictures. and that they may have homelike settings to work in, duplicates of their native haunts have been built on tbe grounds, each one strongly inclosed to prevent escape. Injuries or fataliWithin the Selig zoo were ties to employees. made all scenes for the fifteen episodes of the first serial motion picture. The Adventures of Kathlyn, which bad an East India locale, together with scores of other great anlma1 pictures. Here also was built and filmed the Alaskan village for The Spoilers, adapted from the story by Rex Beach, one of tbe two most profitable pictures made. w More than a quarter of a million dollars is being spent in tbe building of a mammoth studio at Culver City, a suburb of Los Angeles, by the New York Motion Picture corporation. Since 1910 this company bas leased a tract of ground consisting of 18.000 acres thirty miles southwest of Lo Angeles where cattle raising has been conducted in connection with the making of motion pictures. The reason for leasing this great tract was that the company intended making only western dramas. Later othe- - kinds ot stories were filmed, and recent'y the producing manager er director, Thomas It Ince, became one honest-to-good-ne- bunk-house- wiid-vts- f - 1 tion. The players will have every comfort. Including Individual dressing rooms, with rteam heat, electric fans, and hot and cold water, etc. Factories In connection with the plant will manufacture all aets, furniture and wardrobe needed. "The ranch studio will be maintained, and there two big organizations making western drama will be main- tained. T IS Every hamiet in the country has been invaded by Keystone comedies made in Los Angeles Four years ago the nucleus of this company, consisting of Mack Scnnett, Mabel Normand and Fred Mace, arrived there and rented a vacant lot. Now the Keystone studio occupies two city blocks, practically half of which space Is covered with stages, where fun making reigns, supreme. Padded bricks, billies an$ trick props of every nature, from a toy warship to an aeroplane, are on hand at every turn, and here are to be found the greatest collection of comedians the world has. even known Weber and Fields, 8am Bernard, Eddie Foy, Raymond Hitchcock, Roscoe Arbuckle, Chester Conklin, Charlie Murray of Murray and Mack fame, and scores of others who have graced tb comedy and vaudeville stage or tbe sawdust ring,- as headliners. Fun making Is here a serious proposition and the hundred odd players, writers and directors treat it as such-e- ven 1 the famous Keystone cops' The producing quarters of Ibe maker of the most profitablemotion picture ever filmed, The Birth of a Nation, adapted by David Mark Griffith from the book, The Clansman, consists of two city blocks at present one taken up with executive office buildings, stages and dressing I rooms, laboratories, and factories, and the other Greater London has about '2,000,060 block retained as a site for settings. Mr. Griffith came to Los Angeles In January, 1914, and more persons within Its limits than leased a lot containing a bungalow. Back of this Greater New York has. be built a stage and began work. Additions to half-sic- to-tr- y - e tbe producing made so frequently that no time could be given for future planning. Af j the result scores of buildings were erected as needed for workshops, developing ahd printing, .laboratories, dressing' rooms, etc., so that the studio now has a appearance, where about five hundred people are employed, fully two hundred being actors, actresses and writers In February, 1914. a livery stable In Hollywood, which had later been used for a garage, was leased by two men well known In the theatrical producing world, and they began making a motion picture along new lines. That their method was successful is proved by the fact that five times since they have found It necessary to lease additional grounds, and their plant now covers a block 350 by 700 feet, and the studio Is crowded. The men were Jesse L. Lasky, previously a vaudeville producer, and Cecil B. de Mllle, legitimate stage producer and playwright Their company became the Jesse L. Lasky Picture Play company, and they, during the last year, Introduced Americas greatest opera star. Geraldine Farrar, on the motion plcturdt screen. Miss Farrar worked at the studio twelve weeks in the roaklng'of three l subjects at a Salary of more than a dollar a minute. In a brief manner the foregoing describes the producing plants of the largest makers of motion pictures. There are many other studios In Los Angeles, with from one to four companies work-- It would be impossible to go from Ing at the center of the business district to the city limits in any direction withoVt coming upon one or more motion picture plants. ' staff-wer- five-ree- ej-c- h. , , . e 60-ce- 1 Would Need a Long Reach. Tbe average man is said to consume a thousand pounds of food a year. He 'couldn't do It at our boarding Green chauffeurs make fat repair bouse. hops. i Glean the Blood A HEW DISCOVERY search out Impure and poisonous matter and drive it from the system. Buy Discovery new In tablets or liquid. It will dissolve the poisonous accumulations and replace the bad blood it drives out. with rich, pure blood full of vital force. ' It will clear tbe skin; eczema, pimples, rash, blotches will dry up and disappear; bolls, carbuncles and other evidences of tainted blood will pass away, never to appear again. inflammation as backache, scalding urine 'and frequent urination, as well ae sediment in the nrine, or If uric acid In the blood has caused rheumatism, It Is simply wonderful how surely Anuric acts; and In gravel and gout, invariably the pains and stiffness rap, idly disappear. Go to your nearest drag store and Imply ask for a package of Anuric, or- - send Dr. Pierce 10c for trial pkg. An uric Is a recent discovery of Spring is the time of the year when we should put our house In order. Doctor Pierce, who ia head of the InWere run down after a hard winter-af- ter valids Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. Experigrip, colds, catarrh. Its time ments at Dr. Pierces Hospital for sevto take Dr. Plercee Golden Medical eral years proved that Anurjc is a Discovery, purely vegetable and free wonderful eliminator of uric acid. For from alcohol or narcotics It will those easily recognized symptoms of 60-ce- COLT DISTEMPER You can prevent- this loathsome disease from running throughn your stable and cur all the colta suffering with it wht you begin the treatment. No matter how young. SPOHNS la aafe to use on any colt. It ia wonderful how It prevents all distempers, no matter how colts or horses tnrf at any aga ara 'exposed." All good druggists and to ceo goods 1houses and manufacturers sell 8 POM VS atMPDICAJ a bottle; $5 and 110 a dosen. 8POHV and Aa CO, Chemists ss4 Bacteriologists, Uoohoa. lad, C. - , |