The Coconino sun., 1919-02-14
Tom Mir and
 Company and
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Tom Mix and his company of Fox Film players are busily at work on the production, "The Wilderness Trail" About forty men and women, some twenty horses, a half dozen mal- amute dogs comprise the party that came from Hollywood. And we al most forget the bear, "Theda Bara." The bear and the dogs have attracted the children from far end near and at all hours, when they are at Bennett's barn and not out on location, the kids of the town are lined up along the fence, reminding one of the day when the circus came to town.
 The local governmental labor agen- cy, under George Timberlake, has furnished the players with common labor, carpenters and men with teams. There is world of work connected with the making of the picture and the old Empress theatre, Bennett's barn and the Commercial hotel are daily scenes of activity that attract attention. And the kiddies are not the only ones to be seen on the out skirts of the crowd when the picture people are at work at something on | In6 uUWHIOWH SlTttlS. HTOWn IOlhS up to sixty hang around and get a glimpse and a thorough working knowledge of the entire picture busi- ness in about twenty minutes.
 Manager Prochnow of the Com mercial hotel, where the company is staying, has turned his dining room over to the players and practically | the entire hotel belongs to them, not mentioning the town and the good will of the citizens. The leading lady, Miss Colleen Moore, and Mir. Tom Mix, who is largely the whole show, make new friends every day and aside from the fact that they are bringing to Flagstaff a part of the most inter esting business of the age, are well comed for their own sakes.
 The staging of the picture here ne- cessitated the bringing of world of properties and mechanical contrivan- ces of every description to the town. A snow making machine, sleds of the far north. real cowboys (tho our moving picture magazine tells us cow boys are not props). all kinds of un- usual and odd things fill the town and the interest of large part of the people. The snow making machine has so far proven useless as the board of trade ordered the snow when. it was known Mix was coming and it ar rived on time. Mir Mix should feel highly honored for his interests were given precedence over other import ant interests. The government air planes and flyers which the town is | 4,.xy f<, hara do at snow at all as it makes tbe landing more difficult and if carried to an ex treme. impossible. So the board of trade had to have snow and please MT. Mix, or not have snow and please the aviators. They met and discussed the 1 matter and after due consideration de- cided in favor of Mir. Mix-hence the snow with which we have been fsv- ored all week.
 | The Greenlaw ranch. east of town. and the house there, has been used to represent trading post in the far north Suitable signs, little additions and alterations here and there and the natural and usual phyical conditions of the place made the job of trans ferring it some thousands of miles to the north an easy one. MT. Mix is well pleased with the scenery around Flagstaff and with the assistance off, fered him as well as with the spirit of cordialitv with which he has met on every side.
 The work on the one picture will take about three weeks longer, if everything goes right, and it is not at all unlikely that this or other com panies could be persuaded to use the surrounding territory often in the fu- ture.