Show g y Rave nave you ever seen an outdoor movie set 1 They are so make make- believe that It doesn't seem possible possible pos pea sible they can look so real on the screen We visited the set for Greatest Great Greatest est Story Ever Told near the Utah border near Page Ariz It was quite an experience The Walls Walts of Jericho are right out Inthe in inthe inthe the desert This country looks look the way you Imagine the Biblical lands There Is le the desert and great gnat rock looming up ev eve It la II desolate and forlorn but the big movie out out- fits fila are aro spending millions million to I I transform the tho area Into an oasis I They were Just unloading the trees date palms and eucalyptus and others They ha has haa been cut cutoff cutoff cutoff off at the base base like a Christmas tree and had the same kind of ot supports With no roots we wondered won won- dered how the leaves would retain their color Even If they spray the leaves with green paint wont won't they fall of off ft Visible for miles mUes la Is s the Great Wall Itself It swarms with work work- men From the front It looks almost real From the back or from either end it shows Itself as asa asa asa a mere shell aheU It n la II at least four at stories high yards yard long And It Is f. not more mo than 20 feet thick Special composition blocks block which look like stone atone but are aro really very light make up the construction i I I Scattered about were the shells of ot several tiny buildings A AI Alent tent lent city Is growing to to house the actors Leading men and women women wo wOo men will live in luxurious trailers trailers trail trail- ers era John Wayne and Carlton Heston Reston are in the cast Its It's an unlimited budget job Southern Utah is agog with interest interest in in- terest In the demands for people for tor mob scenes Kanab 60 miles away has t been the base for tor a number of ot movies in the past but they are trying hard to raise a i couple hundred people especially especially I children They must have dark dark I I eyes Ii i I IThe IThe The Tho country la is too hot for summer ummer work to so they have to l I I shoot In n the fall And school it Is on But Dut how you ou going golo to turn turndown turndown turndown down 1200 a day one hot heL meal I and transportation all for just jutt standing landing tandl ng around r Problem l' l The tour of ot the Olen Glen CanyonDam Canyon CanyonDam Dam Is la tremendous Its Ita Just too big to comprehend I Ithe The trip Included a walk across the swinging pedestrian bridge and ba back k This bridge Is Ls perfectly perfect perfect- ly Iy safe with heavy steel netting underfoot and waist high Only trouble Is you can see down and the thing sways Mill 1 and several leveral others other didn't even leave the but bus I 1 started out bravely enough glanced down and there was feet of space pace right under my feet My ly stomach dropped Into the teat seat of my pants pant 1 made It back to the bank alive but not well Fifteen men have been killed In the construction they said said sald- largely through their own care care- The way men swarm around gigantic moving machine cry the number could be higher Only three or four have fallen From the cliff walls This will wUl not include me I wont won't next time even get close enough to peek over Mac |