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I HAVE seen a million-dollar photo play in the making!
Knowing that the pick of the Fox Film Corporation is in Jamaica, British West Indies, making a marvelous motion picture featuring Annette Kellermann, and that the dramatic field and the film industry have been so prolific of exaggeration and the tales of big-salaried press agents, that really large motion-picture achievements are liable to fall under suspicion, the editor sent me to Jamaica to see what really was going on.
For over two weeks, I was the guest of Mr. Herbert Brenon, the director general, at the Osborne House, St. Ann's Bay, where the entire cast of principals are living, and I had the extreme pleasure of seeing part of the filming of this stupendous feature.
On my first morning there, I was taken in one of the fleet of motor cars to see the principal set — a magnificent Oriental city. For a time, I thought I had been whisked to the glories of ancient India. The city was gorgeous be
yond description. We entered slowly, so as to be able to examine the buildings, through the city gate. To the left were the troops' barracks, next came the bazaar, with multitudes of natives clothed as in so many rainbows, then a public market, and, opposite it. the slave market, an exact replica of the most famous institution of that kind in the world. Soon the barracks of the royal guard came into view ; facing it was a beautiful mosque, and then, in the background, surrounded by the most glorious vegetation, was the royal palace. Kingston harbor glistened through the apertures, and the branches of the trees. All was aglow with life and action, and the most thrilling and aweinspiring scenes were being enacted. The picture is to be a huge surprise to the public, and I am duty bound not to divulge the story.
But, to get back to the Oriental city — a city as opulent and colorful as Bagdad or Cairo. Few spectators of the Kellermann picture will credit the fact that this city was erected in its entiretv