Weekly journal-miner., 1917-06-06
MISS LITTLE IS SWIFT LEADING
 MOVIE LADY
SIGNS CONTRACT WITH LOCKWOOD CO. IN NEW YORK AND MAKES PRES corr, SCENE OF WORK IN FIVE DAYS.

QUARTER CIRCLE V. BAR RANCH, May 3l.-Fivc days after receiving an urgent telegraphic re- quest to come West to appear with Harold Lockwood in Under Handi- cap," Miss Anna Little had signed a contract, gathered her wardrobe in Los Angeles by telegrams and special messengers, journeyed from New York to the Quarter Circle V Bar ranch near Prescott, Arizona, and was in makeup and at work in the pie ture
 The day before the Yorke-Metro Company was to have left Los An gelcs for the locations in Arizona. Fred J. Balshofer, the president and director, found himself without a leading woman. He required for the picture beautiful and capable actress who was good rider. It looked easy; there should have been many with those qualities in Southern Cali fornia But the time for catching the train was 24 hours away and Balsho- fer and Lockwood had secured the motion picture colony in vain. Then someone glanced at picture on the wall in Balshofcr's office. The photo graph was one of Anna Little, the well known star in many Western pictures.
 Miss Little was in New York Calling her mother on the phone. Balshofer secured Miss Littlc's New York address and sent a telegram. The answer. accepting the contract. came an hour before train time. The company piled into the train and started for Arizona An hour later, Miss Little left New York, after send ing directions to Los Angeles for gathering her Western wardrobe.
 Arriving at Prescott, the Yorke- Metro players went out to the ranch of Charles Hooker, where they pitch cd camp. A day was spent making scenes ir which the leading woman did not appear. The next morning Miss Little arrived at camp from New York and the company was completed.
 Harold Lockwood, Balshofcr and the others of the company have been congratulating themselves ever since on having secured the ideal leading woman for Lockwood's support in this Western drama, which IS story of life on large cattle ranch in Ari- zona, and for which Miss Little's cx- pcricncc and ability is admirably suited. The leading woman is known as one of the best riders of the West, and in Under Handicap will be giv- en an opportunity to display this as we'll as her acting talents.
 Picturesque Camp.
 The Lockwood Company, is at present ideally situated in camp on the ranch of one of the largest cattle owners in the State of Arizona The players are quartcred in a dozen tents, pitched by the banks of a winding stream, lined on both sides by walnut and cottonwood trees, and surrounded by a thick growth of mesquite. The ranch house and barns are half mile distant and between them and the motion picture headquarters IS the camp of the rodeo, in which hundred have just rounded up several thousand head of cattle, which are used in the picture.
 The Lockwood Company has its own chuck-wagon and cook, whose efforts are greeted three times daily with wild enthusiasm. The food sup ply Is augmented by the guns of Bal shofcr, w. II. Bainbridge and Charlie Stallings, who are all crack shots and are fortunately in country abound ing in game of all kinds. The "old days" of Western motion pictures are recapitulated every evening around he camp fire by Balshofcr, Lockwood, James Youngdccr, Lester Cuneo, Bill Anna Little, Spencer and the cowpunchers who rode in the first