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Freeze-Outs De Luxe
Well, Milner set out on his eleven-mile stroll over the drifts, and when he came back he had safel}^ '"canned" some of the most beautiful panoramic views of Yosemite Valley in winter that were ever taken.
But that was a night when Milner was mighty glad to tuck his feet under a regular dinner table, instead of sitting on a hard log by a camp fire, and to have all the season's dainties set before him instead of stowing away bacon and beans.
Every actor who has worked in Yosemite Valley has tender memories of those Yosemite meals. Something in the crisp air of the valley does amazing things to theatrical appetites, traditionally active, anyway. Even Hampton, who under ordinary circumstances "must be
careful, or " that threatening phrase of doctors, left
Yosemite a fatter and a happier man.
Civilization may furnish snowy table linen, polished silver, and steam-heated hotel rooms, but scenario writers have a habit of putting into their stories of the frozen North, rude, rough things like bears and wolves, to say nothing of dog teams. Yosemite has an extensive repertoire of wild life, and the Yosemite forest rangers have never yet been baffled by unexpected demands.
While the Hampton company was filming "The Cave Girl," it dawned upon the director that the cast was incomplete. He needed a bear, a large, shaggy, businesslike bear to meet the hero face to face on a narrow trail — whereupon the two were to stage a mutual flight in opposite directions. Chief Ranger Forrest S. Townsley was called into conference.
"Say, Townsley," pleaded the director, "we've got to have a bear, a regular honest-to-goodness bear. How about it?"
"Bear?" said Townsley. "Sure. When do you want him ?"
Of course, self-respecting bears are not supposed to be wandering abroad in the winter, but it may be that the lure of getting into the movies had penetrated into the depths of a nice warm cave and disturbed the winter's sleep of the candidate that Townsley brought in, but when the time came for the bear's scene, there was the bear.
Collaborating with an inexperienced bear on his native heath is fairly risky business, but this bear played his part like a veteran of the Kliegs. Bear and man met face to face, registered mutual alarm, and in a Continued on page 103