The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-06

Gar<ford, Aug. 3. Pennington promises to achieve presently repu- tatien for something more than it's girls school that so often figures prominently on the society page, it's inn that is loved by by riders, its residence that 50 often housed Colonel Roosevelt and it's estate that fs the home of WincheIl Smith. Far 1a1ngton Is now in the movie zone.
 Some of Farmins,on knew this several days ago. By yesterday the whole town knew it. For during the nzfdd1e of last week, it was discovered tnat none other than D. w. Griffith, the internationally celebrated movie director, was to make a picture on tho banks of the Pennington river. It was further discovered that. the stArs were to be the same Dick" Bar<helmess, whose watch chain and vest front have advertised the Trinity College chapter of Kappa Beta Phi and the Beta Beta chapter of Psi Upsflon in movie houses throughout the inhabited earth, and the same Lillian Gish, who likewise is known wherever the movies are. In the apt words of the phrase distiller, the news flew; and, yesterday, crowds representative of the entire popula-
 
 the preparations, This will be the first big picture ever filmed in the general locality of Hartford.
 Preparations proceeded yesterday under the eye of MT. Griffith himself, and they involve not the sylvan scene of which the valley of the Ferming- ton at this season is so suggestive, but an ice foe. The picture, Tor which MT. Griffith said no name had hoa Ne,e, Ss, r. 1~ from a burlesque on Uncle Toms Cabin; and Eliza, personified by Lil- Han Gish, ds to cross the "ice'' with which MT. Grifiths workmen will fill the Pennington river just above W1nchell Smiths dam. It was the manufacture on the river bank of this lice" which drew so many spec tators yesterday.
 A couple of dozen workmen, mum rerous saw bucks, saws, boards, nails and all the other appurtenances of a carpenter shop; rolls of conventional | chicken wire, strips of unromantic burlap and small vats of cement pos sessed of startling powers of reflec- ton comprised the constituent ele- Gaents of this movie era icep lant. What the spectators saw was the cutting of boards into the various sizes taken by blocks of ice when whtrled hither and yon in a raging current and then piled up by the January blasts which make an Aeo- Han trombone of the whole outdoors Chicken wire twisted over the boards provided the necessary jagged edges. Over the wire burlap was stretched and nailed; and then the burlap was coated with the iridescent cement
 Right in the middle of the rivers channel a tall platform has been erected and on this, facing upstream, will stand the cameraman. The pres ence of MT. Griffith was quite un- necessary to make this plain to any bystander who might have had any doubts on the matter; for the specta- < tors embraced host of movie fans of both sexes and all ages who knew every inside angle connected with filming a picture. They admitted as much themselves; and there on the river bank, with the real thing going on around them. they were not slow to Haunt their Knowledge. They were, some of them. that rabid kind of movie fan which knows the life history of every star by heart-not connectedly; but they could, and did,