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120 When the Movies were Young
he would want to grab a couple of scenes if the light still held. The making up was not a quiet process. As the actors acquired brown grease paint and leather trappings, animal skins and tomahawks — what a pow-wow!
When the Cuddeback farmer first met the Biograph Indian, "Gad," thought he, "what was the world coming to anyhow ? Moving picture people ? Smart folks to have found their Cuddebackville. Who'd have believed it? New York City actors riding up and down their roads, and stopping off to do wicked stage acting right in front of their best apple tree."
"Hey there, Hiram, how'll five bucks suit you?"
Hiram was a bit deaf.
"No? Ten? All right, here she is."
Hiram we won completely. He hoped we'd come often. And the Big Farmer's "help" were with us heart and soul. We sometimes used them for "extras" and paid them five dollars. Back to the farm at five per week after that? No, they'd wait and loaf until the "picture people" came again. The picture people nearly demoralized the farming business in Cuddebackville and environs — got the labor situation in a terrible mess.
There was need for a stone house in "1776" or "The Hessian Renegades," and for "Leather Stocking" — a genuine pre-revolutionary stone house. Three saddle horses were also needed. For the moment we were stumped.
Toward late afternoon when the light began to fail us, we would utilize the time hunting the morrow's locations. This fading hour found Billy Bitzer, David, and myself (myself still in Janice Meredith costume and curls of "1776") enjoying the physical luxury of the "Red Devil,"