| Show THE AT THE KNEW richfield played part in preparing location for cicat picture the dincina theater is playing wednesday nel l day and thursday of this week the vanishing american a picture doubly interesting for richfield for two reasons first that it is one of the greatest and splendidly successful efforts in making an outstanding picture that I 1 is a mighty tribute to a great race and second Ri richfield clifield played a prominent part in finding the location where the picture was w a f limed filmed zane gley was in to write the Van vanishing evanishin ishin 1 american twelve years ago when he first visited the great painted desert of northern at arizona he wanted to waite the story immediately but instead waited nine years during which time lie he achieved great fame faine through the success i of his other stories stobie of arizona riders of the purple sage the U P trail and dozens of other stories depicting the beauty and ioni lomance ance of the west he visited the magic desert the desolate last retreat of the former for 1 I ner luler of the north american continent again and again obtaining more strong material on each visit hewa he was s moved sincerely to set forth the case of the red men this ragged remnant of the proud army of copper hued kings of yesteryear yeste and lie he became their friend the vanishing american was the result three years year ago lie completed the story anil and went to jesse L lasky first filst vice president of paramount in charge of production grey is the type of fighting man who would not permit his supreme achievement to be filmed in an ordinary way ivay to impress upon lasky the real worth of the story and its magnificent lie he took lasky lucien hubbard supervising ervi er ing editor of all zane gley productions production duct ions for paramount and 13 others as liis his guests on a four weeks trip into northern arizona and southern utah the locale of the drama they jacked cl over ti trails ails where no white man had ever been seen they killed all their own meat and cooked over a open fire with the cavajos navajos Nava jos the utes the apaches and the flutes richfield was the starting point cy mcmillan McA lillan was the trusty driver over almost impassable roads W B pace was one in the party and the christensen bros built the boats that took the party down clown the treacherous canyon one night in the sagi sag canyon by firelight miles from a railroad zane grey brought forth his manuscript and lasky sat there late into the night until he be had finished the last page froni from then until last summer when nhen hubbard anti and george B seitz who directed the picture led an army of players into the painted desert plans were being made for producing the story on the scale it deserved and received lasky knew he had been given an opportunity to help make screen history |
