The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-02-26
Fairbanks Next Picture a Most ElabOr-
ate Production.
Doug Has Not Overlooked
Single Trick to Make when
the Clouds Roll By"

The management of the Y. M. C
A. Theatre has had every assurance
fromAthe United Artists Corporation
that the next production made by
! Douglas Fairbanks to be shown here
March 8rd and 4th, is the most
elaborate, costly and stupendous pic
tnre he has ever turned out from his
California studio.
When Doug" began his picture,
Immediately after he had finished
his first United Artists release,
His Majesty, the American" he
called conference of all his associ
ates at his studio i'm Hollywood,
Cal, and told them his idea for the
next story. Everyone was astonished.
Doug" was absolutely determined
that he was going to do something
daring and with that he insisted that
everything from beginning to end
had to be of the most elaborate
order.
He went so far as to insist in his
story that an entire city such as may
be found throughout the middle
western section of the United States
be destroyed in providing one of the
spectacular punches i'm the produc-
ton. And the destruction was not
to be an ordinary destruction. 1t
had to be flood. The proposition
seemed almost impossible but to
Doug" there has never been any,
thing that he can't do when he
wants to. And food it was. He
spared no expense i'm reproducing
this particular community. the
smallest detail having been carefully
carried out so as to enable the pres
entation of the most genuine charac
ter of realism obtainable.
A location in the foothills of the
Cascade Mountains, Northern Call
iornia, about two square miles in
area, furnished the site for the CITY.
A hundred or more carpenters and
laborers, under the supervision of
Robert Fairbanks production mana
ger, were utilized in the construc-
ton work which covered period of
one month in necessary preparation.
With the use of four massive cleo
trio pumps, more than one million
gallons of water were drawn from
the Sacramento River and stored in
specially constructed reservoir at
the highest point of the new city.
Numerous SC enes were filmed i'm the
city, the final one being the spec
tacular destruction of the little
settlement bv the food. The huge
gates of the reservoir were raised
and the water. assisted by the steep
grade of the mountain, rushed into
the foothills carrying everything be-
fore it. Dwellings, churches, thea
tres, bridges snd railroad lines were
lifted from their foundations and all
piled up in masses of debris.
Not only in these scenes alone was
Doug granted opportunities
galore to do some wond clever
stunts, but all through the picture
he does new tricks that will give
many thrills to those who glory in
his red-blooded manner of working.
In number of the scenes of the
picture more than thousand extras
were used, which in itself will give
an idea of the .stupendous scope OF
the production.
A star like Fairbanks knows his
own qualifications best. This story
was conceived by Doug himself,
and he has put into it every con
ceivable thing he has ever dreamed
| of. With these things in mind a
slight idea of the action he puts into
this picture will be possible.
Adv.