Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-02-26
MOVIE STARS TWINKLE
At PORT HENRY, N. Y.
Pearl White and June Elvidge
to Thrill Millions with Ex-
PLOTS Performed 40 Miles
from Burlington-Rex Beach
Member of Movie Colony

Few IL any people In Burlington know
that famous moving picture stars are
enactng their thrilling exploits within
about 40 miles of this city," said Jack
Lynn yesterday to Free Press man. Mr..
and Mrs. Lynn left their stock company
at Port Henry, n. Y. and passed Sunday
with their relatives in this city. Jack"
has been playing with his stock company
NJ the Empire theatre N Port Henry and
while there made n 'close- up" acuuaint-
ance with movie stars whose names are
flashed in big letters on countless thou
sands of screens the world over
III few months when the days arc hot
Burlington movie patrons will sit In their
favorite show house and feel cool by sug-
Cestion while June Elvdge acts the lead
ing role in "The Law of the Yukon amid
arctic scenes with a background of snow
laden foliage. The arctic sledges drawn
by dogs and driven by stalwart son of
the north clad in macknaw and swapping
his whip al tho leaders Of the dog team,
the primitive log cabin, tho hilarious dance
hall and saloon with its nightly crowd
of miners and gaiiy decorated ''vamps''-
all the familiar features of the Yukon
drama will be there. And they were all
filmed just across the lake in Port Henry.
Then Pearl White will quicken the heart
heats of millions of screen gazers with
stunts that she did. not in far-off Cali
fornia or in some land of poetic fancy.
No. they took place right over in Port
Henry, N. Y.
Hero is the way it came about. Some
six years ago Charles w. Derry, proprie-
tor of the Empire theatre in Port Henry
N. Y. bought u tract of several hundred
acres of land a short distance from Port
L.,
literally forest primeval."
A big film corporation saw the possibil-
tiles Of this tract as location" Ed
ward Breese came up and directed the
production Of film which made a big
hit in moviedom.
Mr.. Derry then put up a studio to ac-
commodate the indoor photogra phic part
of film production. The lighting equip
1nent of this studio alone cost $35, 900, so it
is said.
The woodland tract was named Arctic
City" and both the outdoor location and
the studio have been in constant demand
by the big film producers. At present
about 200 people are constantly employed;
and it is stated that the owner receives
$500 week for rental of his property.
The local residents are freely used by
the movie people and are paid $500 per
day for furnishing local color to the Klon-
dyke picture now being made. Table girls
from the Lee House, the local hotel, ap-
pear as denizens Of the Yukon dance hall
and with Villagers in their everyday
clothes "larrup' through country dances
in a typical way. while In the foreground
the star. June Elvidge. inspires gasps Of
emotion by her personal beauty and su-
perb acting.
The Mayfiower company Is producing
THE Law of the Yukon" with June Ell
vidge in the leading role and the Fox
| Film corporation is using the indoor stu
do for filming THE Tiger" in which
| Pearl White enacts the leading part.
Miss White is under contract with the
! Paramount Film corporation and was Dor
rowed for the picture now being made
| by the Fox Film corporation.
| Rex Beach, the novelist and writer of
best sellers" joined the Port Henry
colony last week. He passes his time die
, tating manuscript and will later direct
the filming Of one of his stories which is
soon to appear in screen form.
| The stars of the silent drama look up
on their sojourn in the little northern New
! York town as a great lark and the picture
corporations do everything possible to
make their lives enjoyable. Most of them
are quartered at the Lee House and sew
eral automobiles are placed at their dis
posal with a corps of snow shovelers to
dig them out of the drifts when it is nee
essary.