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Show a Entire Hollywood Section Makes Exodus To Africa Edwina Booth, Native of Provo, Is Starred in Mammoth and Unique Production in Jungle; Strange Expedition. SI Provo residents will be interested to learn that Edwina Booth, who j will play the leading feminine role I in the talking picture "Trader Horn," is a native of that city. Edwina's real name is Connie Woodruff, and is xlie daughter of Dr. J. Lloyd and Josephine Booth Woodruff of Pasadena, Calif. She was born in Provo ; 21 years ago, and lived there for several years. ; The family moved to Salt Lake, where Connie attended school. Four years ago they moved to Pasadena. During the past three years Miss Woodruff has been engaged in motion mo-tion picture work, and has taken minor parts in numerous pictures. She is the granddaughter of the late Judge John E. Booth, and the great granddaughter of Wilford Woodruff, the third president of the L. D. S. church. NEW YORK, April 3 (NEA) The jungle may recover but it will never be the same. For an entire section of Hollywood Holly-wood is being moved into the heart of Africa. And because this involves the setting up of an electric plant for giant arc lights, all the newest sound equipment, radio devices, specially equipped "gas guns" and caravans of films, cameras and what-not, the most extraordinary cafari that jungleland has ever seen will start moving inland from the British East African coast sometime early in May. This pageant page-ant will resemble something halfway half-way between a circus parade and a military invasion. Advance Party Tlans Kouto The takeoff began when Director W. S. Van Dyke, with a company of three actors and a technical staff of 25, sailed from New York on the lie de France to make a film version vers-ion of "Trader Horn". The actors are Edwina Booth. Provo girl, and new film "find"' ; Harry Carey and Duncan Renaldo. Van Dyke, who has had nine scouts making preliminary plans in Africa, is well aware that he Continued on Page Four I PliOVO GIRL IN i "TRADER HORN" t (Continued From Pae:e One) faces physical problems hitherto unknown to the film industry. "One of my instructions is to catch, with the new talkie devices, the sounds of every beast and bird ; of the jungle," sighed Van Dyke. "They will be the only sounds in the picture, by the way. Of course, any number of picture people have taken wild animal life. But this is the first time an experiment has been made on the varied noises of the jungle. Take Heavy Equipment ' "Anyone who has had experience ! with the difficulties of sound pro- S duct ion under even ideal circum- ! stances must have some idea of j our problem. We are carrying every I conceivable item in sound equip- ' f ment for we must be prepared for ; any emergency." That is, however, but one item. Somehow a 90-ton electric generator genera-tor must be hauled through a vast country which is prepared only for light travel. Existing bridges cannot can-not possibly hold the weight. Roads will have to be cleared through the thick of the jungle. From this special spe-cial electrical unit will flare the tower arcs, which will turn great sections of darkness into daylight. r How the sudden illumination of ' their land will affect natives and 1 beasts, the director does not pre- ! tend to know. The results, he pre- sumes, will be startling, to say the i least. To Employ Thousands J ' Each member of the party will j ' have 50 natives. This will bring the party up to more than 1250,; ; without counting the armies of na- j j tive extras to be employed. Because of the unprecedented na- : i ture of the exploit, the documented j I approval of four governments has I been necessary. jj "The preliminary work has been i astounding," Van Dyke reported. ! "The governments not only have 1 had to give their consent, but to j give the aid of their experts so j j that this safari can move with as little unpleasant interruption as j , possible. The election of President : Hoover helped us a great deal, for the Belgian government had been a bit skeptical. But Mr. Hoover's i work in Belgium during the war 1 settled our difficulties. You see, ' our most important scenes must be tnken in the wildest parts of the Uganda country in the Belgium Congo. There we will have to use thousands of the native pigmies. I'lun to "Gas" Game "Also the Belgian government seeking to preserve its animal life, has great herds of elephants which have boon tamed and protected just as America has created a preserve pre-serve in the Yellowstone. This herd will be one of the animal groups employed. "We do not intend to kill the game, unless absolutely necessary. And so we are taking gas guns and gas bombs, such as were used in the war. When this gas is shot the animal will keel over and seem to be dead. And we may be able to get some very interesting shots of the animals when they come out of their stupor." All Comforts of Home Hollywood actors being what they are, all the comforts of home are to be provided wherever possible. pos-sible. Some of the de luxe features of this effort, which will require more than a year, are a complete electrical refrigeration system; an elaborate electric fan system to keep the performers cool white they work and sleep; a special spraying system to keep off the mosquitoes, flies and insects in general; a British Brit-ish medical expert on fevers, waters and tropical diseases; a medicine chest of vaccines and innoculations to ward off illness; special sleeping equipment and a thousand odds-and-ends which would tend to keep the stars in good humor. For with so terrific an expense entailed, any temperamental outburst out-burst or walk-out would be nothing short of disastrous. |