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INTO NATURE'S BATTLEFIELDS— III
♦ * . The men who made "Grass" and "Chang" are now in Hollywood using their very real experience in the productions of* studio-made adventure pictures* Read this vivid account of their breath-taking careers
(Above) Schoedsack giving pointers to Leslie Banks who has the leading role in "The Most Dangerous Came" which Schoedsack and Cooper are directing. (Below) Fay Wray and Joel McCrea are in it, too.
Leslie Banks, the English actor, whose sudden rise to fame on the New York stage won him a contract with RKO.
medium-sized chap, who had quitted the U. S. Naval Academy to ship before the mast in the merchant marine and who had successively become a newspaperman, a free lance writer, a soldier in the National Guard chasing Villa along the Rio Grande, an aviator in France, and then a colonel of aviation with the Polish Army. When they met Cooper was on his way to join an outfit of American fliers who had signed up with the Polish Army to fight the Red armies of Bolshevik Russia.
Schoedsack and Cooper found that they had much in common. But after two years spent in shooting the Reds, Schoedsack with a camera and Cooper with a machine gun, their companionship was interrupted. Cooper was captured by the Reds and held prisoner for ten months. This is one chapter of his career that he is reluctant to talk about. But I understand that he was slated to face a firing squad and the night before that party was to be held in his honor he managed to escape from prison and then to make his way out of Russia.
FROM Poland, Schoedsack was sent to picture the flare-up between Turkey and Greece. He filmed the burning of Smyrna, a satanic, a gorgeous spectacle, gorgeous for everyone but the unfortunate inhabitants of the blazing city. He was in Constantinople, or Istanbul as it is now known, during the Allied Occupation; and somewhere on the fringe of the Arabian Desert he filmed a scrap between desert tribes.
Meanwhile, Cooper, after his mysterious escape from Russia, had joined the Wisdom on its cruise around the world. Hearing that Schoedsack was in Paris he sent him a cablegram suggesting that he join the yachting party as cameraman. So at Jibuti, on the east coast of Africa, the two adventurers came together again. And now they ground out their reels of Abyssinian pictures.
When that was done the Wisdom left Jibuti and headed up toward the Red Sea. It was hotter than the proverbial hinges of Hades and everyone aboard stripped down to the barest essentials. Schoedsack wore gorgeous purple pajamas and Cooper sported around in a Malay sarong. The Red Sea is a tricky body of water, and while near Mocha, the ancient coffee port of Arabia, the Wis
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