Show United Artists Officials Visit May Make Male Film Two vo representatives from UnIted Un UnItt Itt tied Artists Moving Picture company com com- pany were in Moab three days this week and end while here made all the preliminary preparations for filming a period western- western type movie here around the mid die of ot October Joseph Newman director of the picture and Joseph Carello lo location lor lo- lo cation manager for fot the company r arrived Sunday evening and Monday spent the entire day vIsIting visiting vis vIs- vis- vis spots such as Fisher Towers Towers Tow Tow- Towers ers and Castle Valley the Arches national monument Dead Horse Point and the Sand Flats between Moab and the La Sal mountains Tuesday and Wednesday the two California men visited spots of I interest around Moab and contacted con con- I tatted persons in town relative to tt obtaining transportation housIng hous- hous Ing wranglers livestock and castIng casting cast cast- ing service for their company should they come In On leaving Wednesday Mr Newman told Stanley Peck Arches Arches Arches Ar Ar- ches cafe proprietor who would handle catering for the company I am sure we can make our picture out here The two men mm I seemed very pleased with what they found In the way of facilities facilities facil facil- In the Moab area and stated stated stated stat stat- ed that they were certain that I it would do very nicely for their company of eighty men In a meeting with the officials Monday evening It was learned that the picture they are going to to film with beginning shooting date of ot October 15 was a period western movie staged during the year 1870 It Is a Cavalry and Indian story Involving the struggles struggles struggles of an army unit attempting to get back to their post It was I stated that casting was now takIng taking tak tak- Ing place in Hollywood for he film but It appeared certain that the male lead would be played by Joel McCrea There will be beno beno e i ino no female lead in the picture The two men stated that they had planned their visit to Moab after reading thoroughly the colored colored col cot ored movie book prepared by bythe bythe bythe the Moab Chamber of Commerce and presented to the moving picture pIcture picture pic pIc- ture companies In California last spring They stated that they were favorably Impressed with the contents con con- contents contents tents of ot the book and after their visit this week said that they I had found everything in Moab satisfactory They mentioned housing and catering as Important factors in locating a movie in ln any town as asfar asfar asfar far away from Hollywood as this and spent a good deal of ot time meeting with various local people peo- peo pie who would handle these services services services ser ser- ser ser- vices In the event they located here |