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Show BURSTING DAM PICTURED IN SPLENDID FILM PRODUCTION All of the thrill and horror of the bursting of a great dam, with pent-up pent-up floods sweeping over the surrounding surround-ing country carrying everything before be-fore it in its destructive rush, is shown in "Fine Feathers," a Metro production of the highly . successful stage play by Eugene Walter, which will be shown at the Kinema Theatre Thursday. As it was manifestly impossible for such a tremendous calamity to be transferred to the screen from actual life. Maxwell Karger, who personally supervised the direction of this picture, pic-ture, was faced with the necessity of presenting this great catastrophe with all the realism of a natural occurrence. occur-rence. In the play Ihe big dam is supp-posed supp-posed to represent an engineering work on the Pecos River which has transferred a deep valley into a tremendous tre-mendous lake with its pent-up waters The exteriors for this dam and' spillway spill-way were taken on one of the great dams showing the gigantic nature of the engineering work. Then from speciolly taken photographs photo-graphs showing the wide spillway, the rock shores and the narrow valley val-ley with its entrance blocked by the great dam and the country spread out below it. To conform to the original every little block of masinry in the dam was plastered together so lo in sure realism when the flood waters started eating it away. The carefully constructed model was mounted on a large base with an outlet to carry off the water and two (ire hoses trained on the back of the model. With the camera man stationed station-ed close to the miniature the water was turned on and as the basin began be-gan to fill the camera registered the growing flood. With the filling of the deep valley the water started to sweep over the spillway and lap the sides with the same naturalness as in a regular dam and then a stronger stream was started through the big hoscv. Under the force of the water (he highly plastered masonry started to crumble and with a rush, just as the great dam. it was supposed to represent, the entire spillwav gave way, and masonry, trees, houses and everything every-thing in the path of Ihe water were swept away. Inci'ientally the camera man in this grat catastrophe reported report-ed the only casualty, the same being ia thoroughly drem-hed pair of trous- ! er j So !--alis'ic did the breaking ''own j ''cue work that the ru'n had all I tb :)" on). of wle.t !, ruins had the ai'.eai-a i of vl.;.i wo:H he lefi r- oni su.-h a dei 1 ru , ;-. f ,r, .,. ,( T'la.ie an 'v !;,.,. , v'-w of ; h trail of ' oinr left .y tie- nur.-tii'g r'atn. |