Arizona republican., 1918-01-06

anyone-and they wanted to put in a good song. They picked the death sceLe and then the almost corps paused long enough in snuff corpse paused long enough in snuff saying:
 Tn order to make this death scene more horrible we will now sing"
 This is truth, in this case literally stranger than fiction.
 Well. the Redmonds do hot quite drag the songs in by the heels that away but they have a hard time fitting them to the action once in while and this work is no mean part of the whole task.
 Artists are always tempermental Minor Reed is one of them. He paints all the scenery used, does specialties and takes parts in the show. There is just d Minor (Reed) touch in pie ture number : in the group. The spirit has at last moved him and he is at work. Sometimes he does not get busy until Friday before the show but he paints so fast that his work is always done. He paints scene over scene until the cloth will hold no more paint and then new cloth is tackled on the frames and the process starts all over again. In picture number the stage hands are shown ripping off cloth to free the frame for the doorway MT. Reed i is painting in the other view. This cloth is tackled on with the use of magnetic hammer. With q mouthful of Jacks, the striking end l of the hammer is inserted between l the lips, a tack is picked up by the magnetic hammer and in one stroke l driver. through the cloth into the l frame. A tack is driven at an ave rage of one a second and the cloth 1 is framed in a few minutes, ready l for MT. Reed and his busy brushes
 The actual painting is done upon a frame which hangs from the ceil i ing or grid, above the stage. Mr. Reed works from a balcony or i bridge at the side of the stage, a i balcony he reaches by means of a straight up and down ladder. The stuff he is painting is hauled up or down as he works and he can paint an entire drop that way in a few hours.
 Costumes are made complete fo.' the cast each week. Made if they cannot be purchased ready made. This means that three women are kept constantly busy under the di- rectior, of Mrs. Redmond, who buys all the material used in the shops of Phoenix. showing what varied stock there really is here. Mrs Redmond designs many of the cos tunes and copies others. The sew ing is done on portable sewing ma chimes such as those shown in group humber ?. It is the busy little sew ] n nf mond production is better done than the costuming and it is one of the big tasks of the week.
 Yes the chorus learns it's songs. though on first nights this seems a little doubtful at times but. then, the chorus is picked for looks ai-d dancing ability rather than for vocal l skill. They group themselves any way they like about the piano and sing, as shown in picture number > Sometimes they sit on chairs on the stage and sing At any rate they sit, for they get about all they want in the standing and dancing line and are glad to be able to sit for few minutes while they exercise their voices. Once they know theil soLgs they practice them. both danc- ing and singing at the same time.
 Making up is a real art and the principals are all skilled at it, they have to be. They know what lin, on the face here, and little color there, mean. In picture number 4 Miss Difgwall, the clever little actress and prima donna, is showr in her dressing room at this task Her dressing room, by the way i. papered in about a thousand diff ferent kinds of paper, for variety is the spice of life. It is quite com fortable, though, like all the other. l, in the old E,lks theater, it is be- heath the stage.
 : While all this is going otI, proper ties-props for short-have to bt gathered. They can borrow an auto