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Show Uncle Tom's Cabin Coming To Alhambra Theatre Sunday, Monday, Tuesday In 1913 Carl Laemmle made a super special 'Jewel production of "Uncla Tom's Cabin" which cost the staggering stagger-ing sum of $15,000. It was considered excellent screen fare in its day and it is rather difficult to understand why the 1926 version of the same famous story should cost nearly $2,-000,000, $2,-000,000, or more than 100 times a much. Let Harry Pollard, who played play-ed Uncle Tom in this Irst production and is the director of the second, explain: ex-plain: "When the first picture was mada an adaptation was written, each player play-er was given a copy to read and tho shooting started two days later. In the present one before a single foot of film was used, we spent eight I months' time in research work alone. A dozen men, experienced in their line, traveled throughout the South seeking sometimes for weeks for a small 'prop' that would be used maybe may-be half a minute in the picture. By 'prop' I mean some small object such as a candle holder that wlas in vague in the South 100 years ago. Thousands of people, in the motion mo-tion picture industry and out of it, have agreed that it was no mistake to spend so much money for Uncle Tom's Cabin. |