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Show Utah Girl's Experiences in Movies at Camp Cruze, Utah Editorial Note The following story was written es peels II y for The Telegram by Julia fUrhton. a Utah girl, who. with her mother, Mrs. M. Markus of BJchfleid. took part In "The Covered Wagon." which Is being-filmed being-filmed at Camp Cruse, Utah. A vivid pen picture of life In the movies lTlnrTney staleTnai movie lire is not all It's cracked up to bs, and advise anyone anxious to to Into the movies Just to try lu r Jtnjji iuchtom CAMP CRUZIC. Utah. Oct. II. If anyone trtee U find thf nains on ths snap of Utah they oould look tlU I doomi day and 'twould never be found. In fact Its existence Is of a most recent date and It will bs of but short duration. dura-tion. But. eh, how vivid! Snch places era but fairy tale spots and periods In tha lives of most people. Well, the secret must out. In tha lives of the guns' out there. It la but another movie location," called Camp Cruzs. In southern I 'tab. where "The Covered Wagon." the big pioneer story by K. M. Huff le being staged and filmed nsar Garrison, Utah. Imp Cruse la located eighty-five miles from the railroad. The construction con-struction man scouted around for months Just to find a particular place That would glvs the proper atmosphere for the play. The location found, everything bad to be hauled out In trucks, and In three weeks' time a tent city had been erected. Kleotric lights had been furnished, a meas ball, seat-Ins; seat-Ins; more than five hundred peopls was In ehtp-shspe, and the cooks furnished the best food obtainable. I P AT. A. M. Really, avsryone taking part In the p'ctures deserves the higheet admiration. admira-tion. It's no fun. getting up at 4 In the morning and oelng all f rosen through, trying to wash In Ice water, end then to breakfast at sevan. where even the hottest flapjacks and the hottest hot-test coffee Just freesss right on the Ice-cold plates and cups. Then at eight o'clock on location. That means to get the makeup on and In costume snd bs on ths spot where tha picture Is to be taken by eight balls. The gt-csse-paint Is like a lump of Ice, and you try to warm it ever the smelly little oil stove In your cold tent, snd H seems It never will get smooth. Ths costumes cos-tumes are put on right over clothes snd all. Goh. It's almost too cold to live, and ths hands are like a lump of Ire! But there's no warming or retting up. It's work. Just like any other Job a 1 erson might hold, and punct uallty la Jest as Important as In any other business. busi-ness. O MK ATIO. Then on location.' It seems the director di-rector snd his film editor, a very clever little woman, by the way. do most of ths work. Ths setting must be just right. Ths covered w aguna must be Just st the right snels; the rire of logs must be built at Just the right place. The furniture, the pioneers tin the picture pic-ture took with them, must be strewn shout In a "natural way." That done, the 'pioneers" are called t come Into the picture, stand about, walk about. cbat and juat act as thought they were living In those days. And really, one does live 1t. Forgotten Is the modern world of today, and surrounded by sll this ptoneertsh" paraphernalia, one does forget everything. The men are hardy plainsmen, and ths women are (he gantle. unaasumlng women of thoas early days. As all tha actors will tell you, most of the time Is spent In waiting. The scenes themselves, once all set. are quickly enough taken, and during the "setting" the actors and actrcases loll around just waiting, waiting. And so the work goes on from one location to another, or elae one scene Is taken over and over aaaln till It la satisfactory. From sight till five. Just aa In a business office. After working hours, and after the sun Is down and the air la again root-Ish, root-Ish, evwybodv hikes It ba k to their tcnte and is glad to get the greaite-ralnt greaite-ralnt off snd to get back Into "civilian clothes." TOW WOW AT DI!VRn TIMI1. Dinner at seven. Kverybodv together, togeth-er, always at sll meals. Actors snd the business staff. Indiana cowboys, farmers and their wivea. and all ari glad to get warm food and In a fairly warm place. Kveryone goes to bed early, It's too Cdd to stay up late. It Is a sight worth traveling miles to see. The Indiana are all in their war paint and feathers, the ls brightly bright-ly burning and casting weird lights' snd shsdows upon them. Home Just sit around and bent their tomtoms and all the most weird sounds. No words. It seems. Just sounds, and they crescendo and derrescetido, with the dancing accordingly, so that It gives one "the creepa" Tbe dancers keep slmost monotonous In their steps. They tco sing. And it Is tbe singing whb h wokrs them Into the wsr-frenzy In o'.rien days, one would Imagine. The "pflW wow' doesn't Isst mm h over sn hour and then to bed In the cold, cold trnts. It's ao cold that manv of tbe leople Just shiver through the night and their cheek and tiosea are Juat as blue when ths bugle sounds In the morning. People, mostly plainsmen, havs come from four states to tttke part In this picture. The men have one or more 01 teams and the wagons were easily mads over Into "covered wagons." Ths wives of thfse men, and also their children, take part In the picture as pioneer folk. The stars, used to t'sll-fornis t'sll-fornis s sunny clime, are getting mors shivers out of the making of the pic-! lure then thrills, but In spite of all the hardships, they are nil going, through with It. sa they expect this 1 picture to go down In history as a I landmark not only of olden dava. hut of what the motion Picture Industry la capable of in these latter days. In the ear l:2. |