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Making a Million Dollar Picture
Players with Mr. Brenon's "million-dollar company" resting on the lawn.
up in her seat. The instant the car left dry land, she jumped oft to one side and plunged into the waters below. For an instant, her body was not visible, then it appeared, and swiftly and adeptly she swam to the shore, where she was met by Herbert Brenon, who, at the wheel of his ninety-horse-power racing Simplex, had followed her. Eagerly and anxiously, he asked her if she were hurt. "No," she replied; "but wasn't it an awful shame no camera man was on the job?''
Miss Kellermann, one night at a dance in Kingston, told me that Herbert Brenon had written the scenario, himself, for this unusual spectacle. It is obvious that he "wrote his own ticket" for trouble when he laid out the large tasks he has to perform.
It is hardly too much to say that, on a far less scale, of course, he faced much the same situation that confronted Colonel Gorgas when he was sent to Panama to clean up the Isthmus.
There were many lengthy discussions between Gorgas and Brenon before the latter departed for Kingston, with the vanguard of the hosts to follow.
Entering theharbor of Kingston, the director's eye spied the picturesquely grim walls of ancient Fort Augusta, stormed a score of times by pirates of the Spanish Main, and set amid olivecolored and drab mangrove swamps denizened by crocodiles of immense size, and other tropical reptiles. Flamingos of gorgeous hue were visible in every direction.
"Splendid!" shouted Brenon to Miss Kellermann, who was standing by his side on the captain's bridge. "Just what I want for some of the battle scenes !"
"Humph !" said Captain Smith, of the Carrillo. "I'd give Fort Augusta a wide berth — it's the worst fever hole on the island."
The director said nothing, but the day after the ship docked, he took a launch to Fort Augusta, there being no other