Bisbee daily review., 1915-05-12
.LUBIN COMPANY IS BRANCHING OUT WITH
 PHOENIX AS STUDIO
Romaine Fielding, Producer for Lubin Western Company, Buys Property for Use as Studio in Making Western Plays.


 Making Western Plays. | PHOENIX, May 11-As another in- dication that Romaine Fielding in tends that Phoenix shall remain his permanent postoffice address, an | nouncement was made yesterday that the popular Lubin star mad company manager has purchased a substantial tract of land immediately adjoining his beautiful residence property at l Eleventh and Culver streets and will erect thereon a small but most com 1 plete moving picture city. The wo properties gives him something more than an acre Of ground in one of the most beautiful sections of the city. The versatility and ingenuity of the producing star will be brought out in a thousand ways in the construction of a studio to replace the temporary state fair grounds and i'm the beauufy
 ng of the grounds surrounding both the big residence and the studio prop. 9r, just as his own ideas have been worked out and materialized in the reconstruction of the big house and he broad grounds that now serve as 1is home, his offices and his breathing spot.
 Romaine Fielding is not an actor He is just natural Fielding His sue cess comes not from aHectation but from genuineness. He has won his Iaurels on the so-called legitimate stage. but he has overwhelmingly add ed to them in the broader field of nov ing pictures. He brought ideas Co tho screen and he has worked them out He has ideas as to what should De lone in not only the Identification O. the grounds but in utilizing to the bes' advantage every bit of space for tho mechanical needs of moving picture production. and he will work them out
 On the ground just purchased vii be erected first a great stage and glass studio, 60 feet by 40 feet. Here vii be worked out before the movine picture camera the indoor" scenes of the pictured stories of the Phoeni, Lubin company. Then there will Dc a series of adobe huts so arranged as to represent Mexican street. anoth ar series of log cabins. and still an other of palm-thatched lean-tOs These will be arranged so as to form patio nearly surrounding the ive-rom dwell ing which was included in the more recent purchase. This dwelling is tc utilized as a property house and camera rooms.
 Another feature planned for early construction is gigantic swimming pool that will serve the double pur pose of providing a recreation spot foI members of the Lubin company anC the maens of working out some feat ures that on the screen will appear as , truly wonderful To describe the de tails of the construction of this pool would be to give away some of the secrets Of trick" movie photography for there are times when trickery must be resorted to in producing nat lral effects.
 The broad and well kept lawns O the Fielding home stand today a reve- lation of what the art of one man and the labors of a score of others can accomplish. Tine perfume of the ole ander, the honeysuckle and the rose draw one to the spot as 1t does the busy bee and the fitting hummine bird
 And Romaine Fielding has come to stay although this summer he will journey overland to Northern Arizona. penetrate to the depths of hte Grand Canyon, finger among the pines in the vicinity of Flagstaff, camp in the painted desert and the petrifed for ests and make his way back to Phoe- nix and the Fielding home and work shop to resume here the work that must be temporarily displaced by the journey to the natural beauty spots of the northern district
 And in this trip is given another oD- portunity for a display of the versa tility and ingenuity of Fnediug For the purpose of the trip. Fielding has just purchased two additional Mitch ! ell cars through oscar Irwin, and is having fitted up a truck equipped with a complete electrical generating plant which will be utilized ont only in the production of night pictures en route. . but in furnishing light and heat for camp purposes
 Fielding now has twenty nine mem bers of his company They are just now engaged in completing "A Desert l Honeymoon, ." which Fielding believes ! will rank as one of his masterpieces. l "Mr Carson of Arizona the first of l the Phoenix produced pictures has just been released and will be shown ! in this city in the near futuer