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Show Mofiiinp BE T Fli Motion Picture to Cost 000 Will Contain History! M Dramatic Form. IH" i'T HUNDREDS IN THE Ci J Forty Prominent Actors jT Chief Parts; To Be Playij ft' I in Hills. ? j lnv Harry A. Kelly, president and- UI eral manager of the Elkiyc Motica1 : turo company of Los Angelc3, 'vii proposes to stage a remarkable pie story in and about this city tc he giQS titled "A Hundred Years of Mor ; ism," arrived in Salt Lake yestei 5 and was in conferenco during tho a jppl noon with the Mormon church off ii r The film will tell the story of ' monism from its inception to tho cut day. Forty of the most promt k actors in the motion picture bus! I-will I-will 1)0 brought hero to tako the : JT of leading characters in the gtcat i- lorical drama, and moro than 300 ! v men, women and children will bo yU5 ployed to fill lesser parts. President .loseph TP. Smith and o iftf officials of tho church may conset j appear before the camera in the la Slu. stago of tho production, which will!, 1U t tain to contemporaneous events in church. ij .' Will Have Approval. I- a"0' After the conference with the ! j,fl, mon authorities yestordav. Mr, 1 f said tho entiro film would have v' sanction, of the church beforo t );6ta put into circulation i- Mr. Kelly will begin immediately jjxtensivo preparations necessary , making tho film. Tie will deferi actual uao of tho picture taking' june chine until the latter part of the in"! or tho first of August, in order to '1 . advantage of tho clearer atraosp, 01 that prevails in this vicinity at ', period. Scores of oxen, mules, old-timo pri i.T wagons nnd other paraphernalia ni sary to the realism of the film are.1 being negotiated for. Contracts lA i roady have been made with the at Hm for the leading roles. - ? Story to Be Complete. Bine The story will begin with the 'td ing of the golden plates in tho wat Cumorau, as recounted in the jjnm traditions of the church. It will i . the original founder of tho chi " loseph Smith, from his bovhood l W1 the hour of his death at tho hanc fcnat( a mob in a Missouri jail. It wilH i' mv the growth of tho church from itlV fancy to the powerful organ izatiol"s is today, including- tho epochal exftf n from civilization, tho long tramp aofcthi the plains and tho founding of ,7 T empire beyond tho Ttocky mount . It will deal with the missionary p ii., the incidents of pioneer life, tha"; moil of territorial days, conclu i'r.r with an unbiased presentation of a r, conditions as thoy exist today. ' 1 To Cost $50,000. ' I y When complotod, tho film will 1 !aii cost about .JiiO.OaO. Fivo men ar j . work now on tho scenario. Thov mon who havo mado a thorough a "re of Mormon history, and aro possi mi of accurate data concerning facts'; 1 ftQf romantic incidents thereof. 'i V, Tho scenes will bo staged for4 most part in tho mountains ncur, J( city, presumably in Emigration caii th |