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JANUARY 1924
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Above: "The Eternal Struggle" Left Circle: Frank Mayo
and Dagmar Godozvsky in " Out of the Silent North." Left:
Nearing the end of the trail in " The Covered 11 agon.'
it sounds almost the North West represented by mushing" over
After this,
tame to talk of
Mounted, as
Tom Moore, the snow everywhere three or four feet deep, or of Lois Wilson and Warren Kerrigan sneaking away from location during the filming of The Covered Wagon to build a snow man — what time the camp ate stew — stew — and again stew for days on end because the terrific blizzards had cut them off from their supplies. It isn't pleasant either, when the day's work begins, to find your greasepaint frozen hard in your make-up box, while outside the electricians have discovered that Jack Frost has been interfering with the works, and that not a single engine will deign to start !
But the thing that turns a producer's hair grey is when the Frozen North turns out not to be frozen at all. That was what happened to Nell Shipman
Left Circle : Herbert Prior, Jane Novak, and Roy Stewart in Christmas Tree Land. Ben Deely, a villain z^'ho likes to do his dirty work amid snow and ice, witness " Kazan." Belozv : " Bess," and Tod Barker in " The Wolf of Tibet."
when she set out to film the snow scenes for Nccka of the Northlands. When the company arrived on location in full winter rig they found that something had gone wrong with the calendar and that they had struck summer by mistake. So they changed into summer flimsies, trekked four miles for a woodland setting and found — snowdrifts six feet deep, in which the cameramen had to work up to their necks ! But who would have guessed it from the finished film?
The Frozen North is a treacherous ally, as perilous as it is fascinating, and it is small wonder that many producers prefer the imitation to the real thing, and content themselves with snow storms safely manufactured in the studio, and with quickly congealing paraffin poured on the water to simullate a freeze-up. The dramatic Alpine scenes in Beyond the Rocks, for instance, are just as artificial as the frankly artificial snow ballet in A Fool's Paradise — and between ourselves they look it ! But they have not the disadvantage of holding up production for a couple of weeks while the weather makes up its mind what to do, nor of pinching the heroine's nose and giving chilblains to the North West Mounted.
Yet they all want to be Snow Kings and Queens, if it's only once in a lifetime. There was Alice Lake, deserting her silks and satins for a dog-team in Uncharted Seas— driving right through a blizzard too — oh, Alice. There was Corinne Griffith, a flexible young star who has never yet been given the chance she deserves, driving her team over miles and miles of untrodden snow in A Virgin's Sacrifice (one of Yita•.jraphs very best, by the way). And Renee Adorec who broke the trail to stardom in The Eternal Struggle, with Pat O'Mallcy and Barbara La Marr.
The latest converts to the North arc those confirmed old Westerners Buck