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MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE
Tucson they can work for from 275 to 300 days, making deductions for Sundays and weather not of the best. The climate, dry and stimulating, is favorable to getting the best work from the players. Its altitude, 2,365 feet, while not so high as many places in the West, means quite a jump for a player just from New York City. In the free, outdoor life permitted, keeping in good health is an easy matter. It never gets too hot in Tucson to work; sunstrokes are never heard of ; hard work seems easy.
with which the finest photographic effects are obtainable.
Water is the one thing lacking, but there is a pond about nine miles from the city which is made to serve as a lake, a river and even as an ocean. In the mountains there are waterfalls and streams of great beauty and scenic value.
Within easy reach are cattle ranches, which furnish settings for the cowboy plays; and there are irrigated farms of the Santa Cruz Valley, offering settings for irriga
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Situated on a flat mesa in the Santa Cruz River Valley, there is found within a short radius every variety of setting typical of the West. You can find the grassy plains of New Mexico and Western Kansas; the barren mountains, clad with cacti and other desert vegetation, which are characteristic of New Mexico and parts of Texas; pine-clad mountains of the high divides, lofty and majestic, similar to the Rockies of Colorado. And, not least, there is the desert — that vast, mysterious solitude, clothed with a myriad of curious plants and shrubs, carpeted with white sands — a setting, according to the profession,
tion scenes. On the large acreages under irrigation almost any sort of a crop can be found, even cotton, generally thought of as peculiar to the South.
Farther away are sheep and goat ranches. Not only the angora is available, but also the spare milch goats of the Toggenburgh breed — the kind that are found in the Alps.
The city itself offers adobe buildings, characteristic of the Southwest, and with it the picturesque home life of the Mexican of humble station and of the Indian. In other parts of the city are fine residences built in the Mexican style and mission style, and