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CUDDEBACKVILLE 117
Griffith and his photographer, Mr. Bitzer, sitting in conference had decided upon a place up in the Orange Mountains called Cuddebackville. It had scenic possibilities, housing facilities, and lacked summer boarders. Through an engineering job — the construction of a dam at one end of the old D. L. and W. Canal, on whose placid waters in days gone by the elder Vanderbilt had towed coal to New York — Mr. Kennedy had become acquainted with Cuddebackville.
Unsuspecting sleepy little village, with your one small inn, your general store, and your few stray farms ! How famous on the map of movie locations you were to become! How famous in many lands your soft, green mountains, your gently purling streams, your fields of corn!
'The Mended Lute" would be Mr. Griffith's catchpenny. The beauties he had crowded in the little one-reeler should suffice to bowl over any unsuspecting President. So this "Cuddebackville Special,,, along with several others that had collected awaiting Mr. Kennedy's pleasure, was projected for the authorities. And David signed up for another year at an increase in salary and a doubling of his percentage. And he could go to Cuddebackville whenever he so desired.
Of course, the next time she went, and she had that "great automobile ride" that he was saving for her.
Joy, but didn't they become delirious, the actors slated for a Cuddebackville week. A week in the mountains in August, with no hotel bill, and pay checks every day ! Few there were so ultra modern that they would take no joy in the bleating of the lambs but would prefer their city third floor back.
Much preparation for such a week. We had to see