Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-05-10
Manager and Star Of the
Phoenix Lubin Moving
Picture Company Clinches
His Residence in the Salt
River Valley
FOR MOVING
PICTURE Getty"
Work Will Begin at Once
on Erection Of Great Glass
Studio and Series of
Cabins, Huts and Other
Mechanical Necessities

! AS another indication that Ro-
maine Fielding intends that Phoenix
! shall remain his permanent postoffice
address, announcement was made yes
| terday that the popular Lubin star
and company manager has purchased
d substantial tract of land immedi-
ately adjoining his beautiful residence
property al Eleventh and Culver
streets and will erect thereon
small but most complete moving pic
ture city The two properties give
| him something more than an acre
of ground in one of the most beauti-
ful sections of the city. The versatil-
ity and ingenuity of the producing
star will be brought out in a thou
sand ways in the construction of a
studio to replace the temporary stage
at the state fair grounds and in the
beautifying of the grounds surround
ing both the big residence and the
studio proper, just as his own ideas
have been worked out and materialized
in the reconstruction of the big house
and the broad grounds that now serve
as his home, his offices and his
breathing spot.
Romaine Fielding is not an actor.
He is just natural, just Fielding. His
success comes NOT from affectation
but from genuineness. He has won
his laurels on me so-called legitimate
stage. but he has overwhelmingly
added to them in the broader field
of moving pictures He brought ideas
TO the screen and he has worked
them out He has ideas as to what
should be done in not only the beau
tification of the grounds but in utiliz-
ing to the best advantage every bit
of space for the mechanical needs of
moving picture production, and he
will work them out.
On the ground just purchased will
be erected first a great stage and
glass studio. 60 feet by 40 feet. Here
will be worked out before the moving
picture camera. the indoor scenes OF
the pictured stories of the Phoenix
Lubin company. Then there will be
a series of adobe huts So arranged as
to represent Mexican street, an
other series of log cabins, and still
another of palm -thatched lean-toS.
These viii he arranged so as to form
a patio nearly surrounding the five
room dwelling which was included in
the more recent purchase. This
dwelling is to he utilized as prop
erty' house and camera rooms.
Another feature planned for early
construction is a gigantic swimming
pool that will serve the double pur-
pose of providing a recreation spot
for members Of the Lubin company
and the means of working out some
features that on the screen will ap-
pear as truly wonderful. To de-
scribe the details of the construc-
tion of this pool would he to give
away" some of the secrets of trick
movie photography for there are times
when trickery must be resorted to
in producing natural effects.
The broad and well kept lawns of
the Fielding home stand today a reve-
lation of what the art of one man
and the labors of d score of others
can accomplish The perfume of the
oleander. the honeysuckle and the
rose draw one to the spot as it does
the busy bee and the fitting hum
mingbird.
And Romaine Fielding has come to
stay although this summer he will
journey overland to Northern Arizona
penetrate to the depths of the Grand
Canyon, linger among the pines in
the vicinity of Flagstaff. camp in the
painted desert and the petrified for
ests and make his way back to
Phoenix and the Fielding home and
workshop 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
opportunity for display of the versa
tility and ingenuity of Fielding. For
the purposes of the trip. Fielding has
just purchased two additional Mitchell
cars through Oscar irwin, and is hav-
ing fitted up a truck equipped with
complete electrical generating plant
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