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Two assistant directors sat on a snowbank and watched Eva Novak, bundled in furs, battle her way through the seven-foot snowdrifts — the beautiful heroine lost and despairing in the wilds of the frozen North. "Gosh," remarked one assistant director to the other. "I wish they'd finish that scene and call it a day. I've got my mind all made up for oysters on the half shell and chicken a la king for dinner, and there's going to be a dance to-night."
It's a strenuous life in the movies, but not for the Western players when they go to the Yosemite Valley. Location work for "Alaskan" scenes made there is very different from that done by members of Eastern companies who have to endure the rigors of "Arctic City."
Yosemite was designed, and the Sentinel Hotel was built long before studios started card indexing the scenery, but if it had been done with an eye to locations, it could not have been improved upon. Wilderness of the wildest and civiHzation of the most luxurious nestle cozily side by side. Does the combination appeal to screen actors? It does. Many a scene of the "trackless Northwest" has Yosemite for its home address. Camp life is all very well for summer location work, but in winter there is a certain appeal about being able to spend the day clambering over seven feet of snow and the evening in a comfortable hotel lobby.
However, there is plenty of strenuous work to be done to get those scenes full of crisp winter cold that flash so gratefully before the eyes of an audience in a summer-heated theater. In "The Cave Girl," a Jesse D. Hampton picture filmed in Yosemite last winter, there are a few scenes that only those who have visited the valley and climbed the eleven miles of trail to Glacier Point will be able to appreciate thoroughly. They are scenes without any actors at all, and the real hero never appears except in one brief line on the screen — -"Photography by Victor Milner."
From Glacier Point there is a superb view of the valley, miles on miles of glittering snow-covered slopes, dark patches of forest, huge cliffs shouldering through the snow, and the great Sierras beyond. The director knew how much itwould add to the scenic beauty of the picture; also he knew how much Bell-Howells weigh. He realized that it was a tough job, but