Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-25
COMPANY
 IN DOUGLAS Lubin Outfit Will Pro- duce Scenes in the
 Shelter City
 for Time
SITE IS SELECTED

] udL llt ' udlhDeT or commerce and Mines is not only able to place Douglas on the transcontinental highway Of the automobile map but can accomplish other things, was demonstrated yesterday afternoon when the company of twenty-five players of the Lubin Motion Picture company arrived here. They were formerly located for the past six weeks at Fl Paso, but recently sui fered some very III treatment by the various officials of the two pOli- tical cliques. who are bitter enc mics. These officials issued them a permit to operate on the streets there and later arrested forty Mexi- cans and four of their company and threw them in jail on charges of vagrancy. This displeased the com pany and then came the friendly in- vitation from the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of this city setting forth the opportunities pre- sented here for their line of work and a copy of the Daily International Statehood-Industrial proved to Di- rector Melville that Douglas was the place for them.
 In speaKlng about the city Direc- tor Melville and Assistant Director Cullison said:
 "We made arrangements with Mir Webb and leased the Open Air Dime, where We will erect a large stage and make our headquarters there. The place is the best adapted for our purpose that We ever found in .f+ -F and protection from spectators. We work in privacy as much as possi- ble and the place affords all those opportunities.
 Douglas is remarkable city for its age and I believe that it is well adapted for our purpose from what saw this afternoon after making tour through it in an auto"
 Two special cars are required 10 haul the scenery and effects of inc company and they carry enough wardrobes to equip forty men as cowboys. soldiers, Mexicans or In- dians in addition 10 their regular company Fire arms for the bat tie scenes are also included Sad dies and brides and other horse paraphernalia are also carried to fit out fifteen horses and costumes for the outfitting of twenty-five women as COW girls. Mexicans. or Indians are included in the extensive ward robe.
 Carpenters started work this morn ing on the erection of a large stage in the Open Air Dime and tomorrow the company will stage the first pic ture here. They have not yet de- cided what the name of the picture shall be.
 The company is under the general direction of Wilbert Melville. who
 s accompanied by Mrs. Melville, Webster Culiison is the assistant di- rector; w. J. Wells is the superin- fendent; Harry A. Allrich. interpre ter: Bert l.. King. leading man; Romaine Fielding, heavy man; P Wangerman, character studies; Emi Berger, juvenile character; Harry Ellsky, light comedian; Arthur Buck" Taylor, hostler; Miss Edna Payne and Miss Belle Bennett, leads and ingenues; Miss Adele Lane. sou hrette and ingenue; Miss Lucie k llldf htdfS tAtdl dIttl -4AoS AANAdA' terty. Mrs. Mcguire and Mrs. Payne, character studies; O. O. Jascoby, stage carpenter: Dewey Crisp, prop erty man; P. F. McCafferty, photOg- rapher; Monsieur Latour. scenic ar tist and C. L. Burgess, assistant scenic artist Local people will be hired by them to assist whenever the occasion demands.
 The company will remain here att least two weeks and may stay from a month to six weeks.
 Just what the natures of the pic ture plays they will make they have not yet decided, but will largely he governed by the natural conditions that present themselves.
 The Lubin company operates s2,0O0.000 studio in Philadelphia and has nine companies making films of sensational sand industrial subjects to be later reproduced on the white curtain Of the moving picture houses.