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Making a Million Dollar Picture
Annette Kellermann, the star of the production, with the two "baby mermaids," Catherine
and Jane Lee.
in less than two months, but such is the fact, and I have Herbert Brenon's word for it. Its sidewalks are of brick and concrete, the buildings of stucco, built firmly to withstand the ravages of the tropical hurricanes, and every detail of construction carried out as might be the case with permanent structures. To give credit where credit is due, I will say that the work was carried out under the general direction of Mr. Brenon, assisted by Technical Director J. Allan Turner and George Fitch, and Scenic Chief Artist Joseph Braddon. It is constructed within the two-hundredand-fifty-year-old walls of Fort Augusta, some twenty miles from the capital of Jamaica.
The scenes, big as they were, that were being rehearsed in this film city, are minor ones in comparison to some that were taken before I reached Jamaica. This seemed hard to believe, until I saw parts of the earlier ones run off in the projection room, which Mr. Brenon has installed.
Next, we motored to the underwater city that has been constructed. Here,
I saw something that would turn a musical-comedy director green with envy. A bevy of beautiful girls, with fascinating figures, were swimming about, clad as mermaids. There were hundreds of them, and right in their midst I discerned little Kathie Lee, who made such a big hit as the baby mermaid in "Neptune's Daughter." This underwater city is a marvel of beauty, and, I am tempted to say, surpasses the Oriental city we had just motored from.
Here, I met Miss Kellermann. She was timidly gazing at a score of alligators, not one less than a dozen feet in length. Bill Shay, who is playing opposite the diving Venus in this feature, was joshing her about something, and Brenon, winking at me, said : "Not getting nervous, are you, Miss Kellermann?" "N-n-o," she answered; but her expression belied her words. I didn't blame her when I learned what they were talking about. A thrilling scene in this great motion-picture spectacle requires that Miss Kellermann, as an Oriental princess, be thrown into a watery den filled with immense sauri