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SEPTEMBER 1925
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Filming in the snows of Switzer land might be considered by some as an exhilarating experience, and one that affords a great deal of fun. It is one but not the other.
Murren, in Switzerland, is in the heart of the snow country. And it is reached after hours of arduous railway journeys.
I arrived in Murren a week after the company that was to produce Excelsior from the poem by Longfellow, the scenes of which are mostly laid in the snow clad peaks and mountain ranges where avalanches are not an unusual occurrence.
The sun w>as shining and everything was looking particularly bright for location work when it was discovered that the camera had not arrived. Bert Cann, that wonderful cameraman who has done so much beautiful work in British pictures, had to patiently await the arrival of his apparatus.
He and the rest of the company, which included Juliette Compton, the star, and several other actors whose names I do not know, and the producer H. B. Parkinson, spent the week in snow sports, and the storm they wire awaiting for the big scene arrived before the camera, much to the regret of everybody.
At the end of the week the entrance to the hotel was snowed up and it was dangerous for anyone to leave. Another four or five days had to be spent inside the hotel when only two or three magazines helped to relieve the monotony of nothing but snow and ice.
However, things went better after that. In weather below zero scenes were being shot in the great Swiss mountains with the aid of expert
Top left and left : varying views of Juliette Compton. B e I o u : Juliette C o m p t o n, Clive Brook, and Russell Tlwrndike in "Human Desires."