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Show 'CAMP CRUZEint" by"bistcm I J. WARREN KERRIGAN AND LOIS WILSON LEND HAND IN SAVING TENTS FROM COLLAPSE -WORK IS PUSHED RAPIDLY By Adam Hull Shirk, Pub. Director Camp Cruze, via. Milford, Oct. 30 Sunshine has to some extent dissipated dissi-pated the somewhat sombre aspect of affairs here, following the heavy windstorm, which all but wrecked the tent .city erected for those engaged en-gaged in making the James Cruze Paramount picture, "The Covered Wagon," and which was followed by a snowfall that caused the mess, cook, property, wardrobe and: other tents to collapse. Through the strenuous efforts of Thos. B. Whit?, superintendent and James Cruze, with an able corps of assistants, order has now been re-f"re('. re-f"re('. and v erl- en the big film is progressing rapidly. When the wind came and threatened threat-ened to blow the tents off the map, the players, including Lois Wilson, lending woman; J. Warren Kerrigan, Alan Hale, Tully Marshall, Chas. Ogle and others went to work with a will" and helped to strengthen the supports and bring order from the chaos. Tn the event of a snow, which will block the none too easy road from Milford Mr. White proposes1 to import im-port aeroplanes to carry important messages to and fro, and even supplies sup-plies and passengers. The company will be at least a month longer at location before returning re-turning to Hollywood to finish work at the Paramount studio. "The Covered Wagon" is from Emerson Em-erson Hough's novel, dealing with the perilous trip of the pioneers of 1848 from Westport Landing,(now Kansas City) to Oregon and California. Califor-nia. For the film five hundred covered cov-ered wagons were bought or built; a big band of Indians brought from Wyoming, Arizona and elsewhere; Westport landing was built; two ferry fer-ry landings an Indian and a white man's constructed; ferry boats built; cables strung with a mile of steel cable to pull the boats acrosB the big lake which does duty as Kaw River. Among the big scenes are: the fording of the river; the great prairie prair-ie fire; the attack by Indians on the wagon train; etc. Upward of two thousand persons will work in the picture and a novel feature is the buffalo hunt, which was filmed on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. |