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Making a Million Dollar Picture
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ans. The swamps in the neighborhood of Kingston fairly swarm with alligators ; a score of them were to be obtained alive, which presented several difficulties. Nobody could be found who knew how to trap an alligator. Finally, however, Colonel Antonio Morales, a swarthy South American animal collector, arrived in Jamaica on a northbound steamer, with a collection of live animals and reptiles.
"Could he capture twenty alligators in the time before sailing?" He could — with proper help. That night — it was a bright m o on light one, and the best for the gallant colonel's work — the task began. The 'gators were roped as they came a-courting, for it was the breeding season, and then great blocks of wood were thrust into their ferocious jaws. In less time than it takes to tell, Mr. Brenon had his twenty saurians, and alive, too. He thought two hundred dollars each, the price specified by the colonel, was reasonable enough, considering the dangers. So did I — he'd have to pay me a million dollars to even go near one !
That night, at the hotel, I had the pleasure of meeting the other members of the company. Besides Miss Kellermann, Mr. Brenon, and Mr. Shay, there was Claire Whitney, Rhy Alexander, Violet Horner, Walter Miller,
Miss
Kellermann "cringing1 mands of
Hal de Forest, little Kathie, and Jane Lee, and Alice, the pretty little daughter of J. Allan Turner, and hundreds of good-looking chaps and girls who were just as beautiful in regular clothes as they were garbed as mermaids. They are a delightful crowd, more like one big family than a moving-picture company. Each one wishes success for the other, and all wish success for the picture. They did everything possible for me, while I was in Jamaica, and made
my stay more than pleasant. Later, I learned that this small army of talent was only a little part of the cast that will appear in this picture. T o get down to cold figures, figures that I know to be true, there were twelve hundred actors and actresses sent from Xew York ; there will appear in the picture thousands of Hindus interned in Jamaica since the completion of the Panama Canal; a thousand British cavalryman ; the English West Indian squadron of battleships ; and about five thousand additional people recruited among the native Jamaicans. Dazzling, isn't it?
Now, I'll let you read some more figures that will make you gasp : Last August, Mr. Brenon took down to Jamaica a boatload of people, including players, directors, technical men, and artists. The following ships of the
before the directorial com Mr. Brenon.