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Show Betty Compson to be Married in Beaver County-at Frisco The ghost of former glory which stalks the streets of Frisco, Utah, is about to materialize into a life-sized reality. j Salt Lake's own film star, Betty Compson, is responsible for the reawakening re-awakening being, planned for the sleepy deserted Frisco, relic of the gold rush clays. She and her fiance. James Cruze, producer-director, plan to be married in the main street of the village. Frisco stands today as It was abandoned aban-doned old-fashioned furniture still in place in homes, plush settees are under deep layers of dust. Jagged glass n window frames tells the battering bat-tering of the elements. An old frame saloon, the bar and its trappings still in place, stands askew, waiting for a gale to blow it down. A sign on a false-fronted building reads. "Sheriff's "Sher-iff's Office, " but there has been no law in Frisco for years. At the end of the town the desert sweeps away to purple distance and thp other end is still clotted with the funnels of projectors' diggings. Miss Compson was born in the town. Her father was a minpr. The family moved on when the "strike" gave out. and the house where the? livd stands as it was abandoned. When Cruze led his caravan into Utah for the filming of the "Covered Wagon " they passed the town an.", stopped' to inspect it. Later, after Cruze and Miss Compson became engaged, en-gaged, he learned it was her 'birthplace. 'birth-place. , I have always wanted to go back, she confessed. It was then that they made the romantic plan for their wedding. The date has not been set but probably prob-ably will be in the fall. A special car attached to one or the transcontinental flyers will carry car-ry a group of their intimate friends. The car will be sidetracked at Milford, Mil-ford, Utah, the nearest railroad point to the "ghost town.", automobiles witl convey the party to Frisco, where an aged justice of the peace, one of the picturesque "old-timers" whose autobiography would reveal a brilliant panorama of the west that was, will be waiting to marry them. The ceremony will he performed In the middle of the town's main s'reet. Later a westbound train will pick up the special and bring the party hacX o Los Angeles. Mis? Compson is at present in Florida, Flor-ida, being starred in a picture now in the making. She is expected to return re-turn to Hollywood late this mnth. Salt Lake Tribune. |
