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Show .. -,,- ) .: ; ( - , , thk-roll- - , ing .They ' , 1 ! i , 1 ' e , 1 1 , 1 , field. i f r - t i 0' 0 0 f i i Ka-In- 1 - i , , Farm Animals Help -Farm animals became worth their weight in gold as "atmosphere." Many a family drew i pay than a rocky snore in movie farm could yield them in years. The movie industry was moving to Utah and Kanab 'was beginning to get national' renown as "Hollywood's Outdooi, Studio.". One of the first swashbucklers to be seen on the streets cl and Cedar City was Wal'lace Beery, who was "sold" on Utah after his first location trip on "Bad Man Of Brimstone." The silent films were the hey- day of the producers. One cerneraman grinding away with only lighting to worry ,about could wind up a picture in record time. Then came the "talkies" willing for tons of delicate recording equipment. Movie stories retreated into the protective walls of the sound stages. Gone was the gay camaraderie of the silent set when i n lines and going through; bursts of frantic pantomine,,' players could gossip to their hearts con- ,, tent. The warning red, wig-wa- g at the entrance of sound, stages was ' t , -. : ,z" ' tl) bmouthing --, .. - , ., , , , (1:-c- , ,, ? c 11 ''.,,,7"41' ' ' , ' ''' !!''''''',0 ", V i , ''' . ''' , : 1 , , -,- 4,,'", ,ri , t I ,, , ,, , . ,1): 4, .!1 ! k " . 1 - 11 ' '..,,:l :': . , .. . ' ,' , 4 , , , ,' ., ' ., - - ,. , loysiim, ipt.02, tilataaala Masa ,, ; - , I , , , ,,:l . . g ' f f . . '.. 1 ti ' - ..1 ,' i , , 11 :, , , i Alan Hale, J. Warren Kerrigan and Ernest Torsence, along with other cast members. The movie was made in 1929. Since then, scores of pictures have been produced in Utah, bringing state nationwide attention. Ir"r - .,: ,. ,, ,,,s , , ' 1 ' '.. 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' x 11:,,,,w , r, , , . , - " ... ha , open its doors to holiday crowds en Wednesday July 23 with the Technicolor mused and glamourized the Capitol will re- ical "1 Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now." and opened the Capitol as the installed which pumped one hun- Back seat.. ,Complete new floordred thousand cubic feet of air. ing has beert built and spaciouscity's leading movie palace. seats d o Fanchon prologues per minute to be ly placed new arm-cha- ir were popular for two years but and circulated. jt was the talk which slide back permitting peran event of the town. 1929, in February, sons to pass in front -without New which was to toll the knell of installed. But another innovation prom- disturbance, vaudeville took placethe first ises to add laurels to the re- lounges and furnishings promtalking picture was shown. The furbished showhousethe Push ises added comfort and luxury. Capitol became the home of the "big pictures." Ruth Chatterton became the dirst lady of the talking screen. Players like John Gilbert lost favor overnight. Silent pictures went the .way of all flesh. 61'. In -- 1930 the- - Capitol, took - a summer gt. heat bow by offering sufferers the coolest spot in town. A huge water-coole- d 'rA11:tes-.1system was A lona. A SALT LAKE LANDMARKThe Cap- Ito! Theater as it looked in 1927. Remodel- - I and-Marc- water-washe- "Buffalo Bill," "My Friend Flicka," "Thunderhead, Son of Flicka,", "Smoky," "Bob, Son of Battle: "My Darling Clemenand currently "Green tine , thohns a , taw is2czit. fool...41k Andy's Dinners pst2A ":4alaltruftt"'4 75c .473:zAtcovAtundar .n' ,, , DAYS crl(s AT1 0 , t. t f , -- f ..1 ,, 4 , , , z,, , day-to-d- ay kfag ' - , . - .. , , t.,,,,f A , er0, g , ,, , , - : . , . , . . . - , ' ' . . - . Nvidi , . iR t 6 ( , ...- 1 ,, - i k - vi - , . , il , ' , ,,' Ai ) I el '1 ,1 , , ' , DENVER ', VMS, aleS'A , "io (... t . . , , ' , 1, a Gran. 1. - RAILROAD , - - snmissION PRICES: Mee 'bests it , Children, Di la pears, ' , , , - , -- ' ' .. 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Anivo Denver' ot4 - 40t, ! fet, ,,,,....,, ' ,, , . ,,, , etc. Brahma bull chariot race. ,, - Herd ,' catnels. of, In colorful Indians re" New Mixican highly etc. 'Path teepees, , 'gas, for clowns:, ,,, , , . barrel Tntimparent plastic , Lynn and Linda in thrilling high act. ' ,., 7 , emanLHont.. ',,,,, Rodeo stock by R. R. Richter of 1 postwar appearance .as 'CY TAILLON in first ' ' , announcer. Champ riders of the world in competition for $15,000 -- -- , ,, NOW Some convenient ' '.. '' ..,",s itaA virtakalle. - ,, ' , ,. . 0;, ini il 5 major eventi, plus wild horse race, mad scramble, --- -- ,,,,,..,. ..: , I Jeattig4,4kVrit , ,i 4'4 . 1 ' . , ' - () z ,. -1 it ,..-- .0e,, ,,....40,o.,, - ,- -- . 1 , - 1 ., 0 - .. - 0 i , 4, DENVElti',, ,, ( k, ..,,,,, I I14, i , . ...,. - ' k., , - , - ' .,,C - of Wild West! a Century Climaxing . , 1 - 0 . 11010 , , ' 1 1 's, ' ,!..64 t ' . Bat W4, eattitiFViti oiloithicta 1 . EVERydslIGHT ,,,:. 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Nineteen hundred seats made it possible for thousands of vaudeville fans to enjoy their favorites. Great .Have Played There Across the great stage, largest in the West, passed every wellknowp performer of the day. If walls could speak, the Capitol would ring with the laughter inspired by famous clownsecho the voices of stars singing the loved ballads of many decades. That's why the selection of the technicolor 20th Century-Fo- x musical "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?" as the Capitol's reopening attracticm fitting. Dramatizing the life of Joe Howard, romantic troubadour. song writer and minstrel at the turn...of the century, the new picture's musical score lilts with old favorites such as "Goodbye My Lady Love." "Honeymoon," "Hello, Ma Baby." "Glow Worm" and "Love's Old Sweet , '1 ' ! I 1 f I , , ! '',.t ',' - , .. " ... ..6 r ,. . - t I pjoeerfoFrmrisceros were-nationa- ,, , - ..,,,t , ,,, Will Rogers, .:A',. tit wainthd , .. , .., . , ..... .... .,47(44,1"A41 , ,..., . , ::;, ,4 otat , ith ',41-- - , , , ' y- ' M; I, - : C . 0.,k :, ,.,,0:"-- 4, ; , ng , - ' - 4 ,..: ....,..,,,,-- ' ' - of setting, from the snows of Alta to the tropical Dixie try, has every reason to look forward to a continuance of an industry which, if not foreseen by the founders of the state still , Grass of Wyoming." Columbia Pictures moved into testifies to their Judgment in -Kanab "Desperadoes' naming it "THE PLACE and "Can't Help Singing" in technicolot Universal Pictures had a yen for the more exotic. Location scouts flying over the 440V414 area with repretsentatives of the (Continued from Page 4) state Department of Publicity , and Industrial 9.00AdaNAt Development, mensi disenvered a "lost" desert of most recent to recive great workis who and tion the became It currently coral pink sand. AfreJ. "else. awgisoka background for the adventures ing on several other hits; Arleen Song." -Blvd. 4621 Holladay and Whelan. who went to Broadway of Har For five years the Orpheum "wortsPA In Holladay Scheherazade and participating to be discovered by a movie scout circuit reigned supreme at the Kabablans gathered stories that working in "Doughgirls," and Capital, to be replaced in 19231 1402e2",4 Jvpheir.' rivaled the "Thousand and One who now is scoring spectacular by another famous vaudeville Famous For. Good Food A.44.4.4 Tales" of the "Arabian Nights," successes in Hollywood. chainAckerman-Harri- s. In 1927 Alaim.ustzt was the title of the ,picAlso. there's Gates, the late Louis Manus remodeled Utah'i state, goVernMent, which soon to be who has written Harvey ture. "Slave far in- -many script emerging from the throes, of the released, was Girl," another venture Leigh Harline, musical depression, was well aware of into colorful "Far East" set- movies: technical director for M,G-what i permanently established timts., It's ALWAYS and t Leonard Strong, whose many movie-makiindustry would COOL character parts includedKeya Delightfully mean to the state at large and Antelope Island Filmed of the Kingdom" and who playChicken'ffinners particularly to southern Utah. 'PhramOunt made scenes for , Funds were made available to "Union Pacific" in;the state and ed the role of a Japanese inliev- 11 tv the eral war; pictures during build roads to reach spectacu- moved up, to Salt Lake City to CHILDREN'S at It) 1 Cope, formerly with KSL,' tar scenery that soulthbe dupli- film the shores of Antelope Jetta DINNERS .. now sound technl, Hollywood cated in no other state. Island for "Wake Island." James ti.(0 dirt; Rival Arizona, sharing, the Fitzpatrick recorded the attrac- clan: Jean Sullivan of Logan, scenic glory of Monument, Val. tions of both the capital city and whose father was at. USAC, and The ideal soon ley with southeastern Utah, Zion and Bryce ,canyons for. his finally Marie Winsor. whorelease VACATION SPOT IlikEE PARK FREE - (1-'1'41-1 made equal bids for Hollywood travelogues. United Artists used will -oe seen in an mamas 02.51 Pet Day and Up AT ANDY'S DINE withO'Brien. Margaret .Kanab's westadvantage Monument Valley for the production. DINE Among the PINES was ber citizenry, long familiar ern classic "Stagecoach." Later . Stars Of Past ) WATE;Z, Sunday Dinner boat I P. M. with movie production and will- symphony conductor All Holidays and Werner Open Utah the In has been reppast, a on FIT:to to to work moment's backa go irig DANCE .TONIGMT Janssen, seeking natural Sunday- s-1 to 8:30 P. M. Gus Llobeit's notice. The Navajo Indians, ground to interpret Bach's "Toc- resented in the movie industry John the Week Days; 5:30 to 9 P. M. Gilbert, great idol; by 1 pf.tilmit having tasted greasepaint and cata and Fuge," selected Who appeared iii ask ?rival' Patties: its golden. returns, became ac- sock eathedrak; of Bryce Cattily-- Edwina Booth ' lot "Pinactost at Dial her Not which "Trader hurt Reservations Horn," Necessary tive in petitioning the governor, on for a memorable. 'musical lasigration CanyonIS Mlles Item 1,1 , career so tragically; Betty Comp-so- n. 14 CLOSED MONDAY 1st Squats for assistance . in bringing in Clod subject. Tasty) , .. .. a who comeback is making more motion picture companies. Enumg Ai Value of the stated foresight an.t the o, age of 50; Fay Wray and Signed with the thumbprint of to bringing the movies to Utah , , , every tribesman, the document 'Was demonstrated during war Margaret Livingston. t 't ., Those are only a few of the sent to the state capitol by the years when. tourist travel . kilF ' Hundreds of thousands Beehive State natives to win acIndian agent, focused the atten-- ; ItAful tion of Hollywood through trade of dollars a yea remained in the claim in the motion picture inGo le BAM$EGIR ftMRt 35t ,.., 1 , dustry now and in the. past. I -, seenic parks region which would I .pressstories. IPI I I I gi . 415ve had no other outside in- . There may . be others, but the , Technicolor , idea is that Utah has had a rep1Come. , ' ' -The response to Utah's aggres, Centennial year resentative somewhere in the inin ." f. the 4 '" .1 Today ' 111S4 it started. , ,., sive- campaign- almost,since a new challenge fates the state. dustry ' . ' . r I , has been gratifying. Faithful After looking at the beauties of Amilmir 7 , if ,A1 i . O. to Utah, 20th CentilryFox ptah scenery on their screens , 6.7, It A ' CEKTONIAt v' COUSSION 0IM 'A are filmed one of the Drat techni- for years, 4,,,011;1 1: g color outdoor spectacles, "Drums beginning to bid for Hollywood COI 11E013 4 !.. te.,. inroads Serious A, Along the Mohawk,", On Ce- production. 1471 , :f.' 1, Op ,, ' , , dar Mountain in colorful ,Gar- have, been made by New Mexi, Ab, ..k: tA , I field County. Technicolor pho--1 co, where scenery similar to that. '1 ,44A a made discovery. in Cedar Breaks has been put at - ' ,eto tographers IR 1A,,,.irronh movie-mak-: was Southern Utah admirably the dispcsal of the leL 10 . 0 114adapted to the filming,.of out-- 1 en at,Tio cost to them. Arizona ,,Ektfoiu 44,D 0 A .door color films. It was att area boasts ;that every modern con- -' warm -Enjoy healthy, of ever4tesent bluest of blue' venience is within reach of the , riftD, t . natural mineral water ,,, k ,Iskiesi- without .mist and ideal for, companies onlocation by short (,,) , r . working conditionsi hops. Many companies are , t 2301 BECKST. .o ,. A ,,' Cloud effects ' A turning4tio'Californies own wrm 49 I TAR opitirOles, (, E s .,4,... the beauty of the scenery. Oregoili was delighted ' ' )411oi North el Hoto1 Utah t 3" I 1 i . TV, ,t, 1 4 Later the same company con with the publicity brought to the A I firmed their appreciation of th state by Universal's teehnicolor, e-oUOwayft t, , , k ' .............. t e.,0 ',Canyon Passage" last year. backgrounde and Utah hospital. 4,. 171 , , Yet Utah, with every variety.,. , i Union,' ....,, ity by filming "Western , . . t4.,,,lir , 1 ,s0) - 0 .. I :4 : ., the death knell of extraneous sound. Producers took their drawing room dramas most seriously. That is, until pioneering 20th Century-Fo- x made the first outdoor "talkie," In Old Arig zona"in southern Utah- .New- - Demands - Met The whole movie World thrilled to the new emancipation action stories ,where stars .could not only talk but MOVE. But the problems of the silent days were insignificant compared with the demands made by the new art. Once more the Parry brothers, together with other interested southern Utahns, began planning means of moving the heavy equipment about. Roads had in-to be built. Electric generators stalled. ' , , t, t , - , , '" i, to , FILMMotion picture making has been going on In Utah for many years. k This early scene from reovered Wagon," part 'of which was made In. southern IUtah, shows Lois Wilson (left), a ' , ill ' .', INV 1vr,, "; IN EARLY UTAH Jr - ,. - . , A., ' , . ' I .. ' , '':. , JO ,t - ' , , ' ':' . '1: - ,., :'.........1.,:- ed . 1 0, : : ii, .4 k I, ., , , ' ', , , 1 ' ly refurnished in cerulean blui - and gray,,with rich copper-coldr, ,,. w draping bringing ,.; out the architectural beauty which has long made the theater a land- 1 . mark. , , Although a comparative youth ,-,b. ,,, among local buildings this anno domini 1947 when years are NNi 4' Ai bandied about in hundreds, the ,:c:7 , i n the Capitol has had entertainment history of a city ;,that, since its founding, has loved - : : ; - ''''' the theater. It began when the i Orpheum circuit, king of west- I ,1 ,,', ern vaudeville, opened the house ? i t:! in 1918. , , , t ,,i,. .., , , , was an era when- the week- i iikiet.unit shows ' ,' 1 t , i7 ,- .::1' i t t ,f,, c 'T ,e4. , ,, ,1' ,: , - i,.,i,,... t, , ' ,,,,,,t4:,, .1, a ; ,,, - A, 0,,, I , , ,, ,",' f t .. ,t ,,'s,,... t, ,, i .K,;: , , ,1,, :, ; t; , . . . ' ' 1 , , , t ..7.1,71.,:-C-- ...,4,,4, . ('. 1 '' , t,l, I 1,' . A.,i,... ,, l' ' kk ,,, "'. : .,, ikkh - !.41;11.1'.0;,.... 1:: ifit I riv I ,,,,,,,,,,,, Jtily 23, Salt Lake's Capitol- - Theaterstreamlined. glamorized and practically rebuilt, will reopen its doors to Centennial celebrants. Fans Will , ' .'! A , , 1 40 : 7 l'11111611 ; '',. -I ,::,' '. 4 Li-7;4- I . - ,72a, i k , - , i Reopen i:To ',:::Y': o, ib, i,, , Nt rr- - 14 , ,,,,t,. ' , '4, '',4,t t 1, 7 tT ' , , , , :16 ,,, ' ''' - ,. , , . 4 , ;1 ,,, '1 : ,, . AO .... "" e7:7r1) t 1,,,,,,,, ,, , .i.'' . . rn I , , ,,,,,,, , '..vi, :.:;' ,, ':: 4 :',' 1r '''-- - - Aro . if '-- i I St .:, - ,, . - .:(.- - Historic - ,., , ,,t4. i 45For , I. . Y' . -- 1 40''-,.- . ".. ..".1k 3 . , 1 llace . , vii;it 0 vs, r ---- ' 1 ,sool, ., f t , ' , , 1 ,,,o-4- :, ed . rii i - - . ,A$ r , I , By Helen Garrity The year 1847 was one of visionary thinking. Yet even the most pioneer could scarceboNkerfre viscriized - was to be a unique source-- B. wealth to the state many decades laterthe making of motion pictures in Utah. Brigham Young in Ids iviadom' well knew ,that the frontier needed the mellowing influence of cultural pursuits and his express encouragement of playMade the acting and play-goitheater an integral,part of every communityeven the remote wilderness that was to be known as Kanatrand Cedar Breaks. Little did the pioneers there realize that'one day plays would be photographed against the scenic beauty glimpsed daily from their lonely cabin windows. More than 50 years were to method of .filming pass before action was to be devised. And more many 'years before the infant art would shed its madand tiling clothes of peep-shonickelodeons to emerge as an exciting new form 'of entertainment with infinite variety in theme and expression. Westerns Early. Popular Long before the screen found Its voice or discovered the magic of technicolor, a type of screen play as popular thin as now, was coming into being. It was the action-packoutdoor drama-- the Western. The eyes of the world were on . the expanding Westone reason why the astute shoWman, Cecil B. De Mille, made his first movie, "The Squaw Man." But fans refused to be satisfied with westerns filmed against such placid s backgrounds-ahills of Hollywood, They wanted the 1: real ththg. , got it svhen Tom Mix moved into the Kanab country in 1922 to make .."Deadwood Dick." Chases through spectacular canyons, 'view' of immense open plains, weird rock forma-- . tons, were Utah. scenic bow to the movie-goin- g public. Hundreds , But it was not due to chance Ithat "Deadwood.Dick" was folI lowed by almost 200 other movies. The late Gronway Parry was sold on the beauties of Kanab and its envirorut. He spent months photographing e'v e r y likely movie location spot for a hundred miles' around. Holly- wood location scouts ,were definitely interested. But transportation was a problenvAccommodations an even greater one. So the Parry brothers, Chauncey snd Whit, made it, their job to assist Gronway in meeting every demand of the HIM prop duction companies.--,ThParry 1 Lodge was built. Townsfolk in Kanab proved that they were better actors than the synthetic kind in the film capital. They made it a point of honor to be available whenever there was a call for film extras, actors, riders. drivers or help in any other - - . , - 6THE DESERET NEWS, Saturday, ...Italy 19, 1947 - . l'2.' -- , . - , ed ..' - . .,e, .. I Utah Wilds , .---- ' - , . - ovies Find Films Are Made in - ''. k , . , - - , , .,, .,.,. . , --- - .. , . |
