The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-07
ALASKA MOVIE
 WITHOUT DANCE HALL SCENE

was in Cordova yesterday afternoon on his way to Seward, where he will spend several weeks filming the final scenes for his picture, Dor othy, a Daughter of Alaska" upon which Miss Dorothy Valleron, star, and company have worked for the past three years. They will then return here to finish the photopIay. This is to be a movie taken entirely in Alaska and portraying the no, th- land as it really is today. There will be no dance. hall scene, neither will there be any dance hall girls in the cast.
 They may have belonged to the old Alaska, but they don't belong to the new, and so they haven't a place in our play" declared Miss Valleron.
 We have to make the fight on the glacier this summer" said Mr. Lewis. Tt is the biggest scene of the picture and we want it to be the biggest scene of it's kind ever made"
 PLAYER AND DIRECTOR
 Lewis, who in addition to playing an important character in Dorothy, Daughter of Alaska" is directing the picture, has made fourteen trips to the north and has travelled 9O,0OO miles in the north. He was for merly lecturer and spoke in many parts of the United States and Alaska
 Lewis says that although he first planned an Alaska picture to be made in Alaska ten years ago, mo- tion picture producers are turning more and more to the northwest and to Alaska for new and fresh scenery and for interesting characters.
 "They used tao say that real pho- tography was impossible away from California" said Lewis, "but we have demonstrated that the finest pictures in the world can be made outdoors in Alaska"
 PLANNED TEN YEARS AGO
 T conceived the plan ten years ago. said he yesterday, "of produc- ing red Alaska picture minus the hokum ond flapdoodle of most Alaska motion pictures which have been made up of dance halls and canvas long cabins and completely lacking the real spice and flavor of Alaskan scenery and Alaskan folks. lis picture will be the first great photoplay produced entirely in Alas ka. There isn't canvas background Tn the picture and not a log cabin that isn't solid wood. We've en- deavored faithfully to portray mod ern-day life in the north and we have used Alaskans as characters wher- ever possible. Senator E. E. Cham berlin is a member of the company and there also is Raymond K. John- son, the leading man, Don Carlos BroWnell of Seward, Thomas John- son of Anchorage and Harry Els worth of Seward.
 WORKED ALL SUMMER
 The company worked all of the last summer in Alaska and complet ed the major portion of it's labors. It will finish the picture in six or seven weeks and it probably will be released in November, says Lewis.
 Last summer Miss Valleron mar rowly escaped death in glacier scene in which she was tossed into the icy water and rescued after con- siderable difficulty.
 The glacier fight will be staged this year on Spencer glacier, sev- enty-eight miles irony Seward.
 'The villain has stolen the sister of the leading woman,"> explained Lewis, Miss Valleron and I pursue them and catch them on the ice. I fight with the villain and kill him. He rolls down the glacier and over the edge of a precipice"
 All of which sounds interesting, and plus the superb scenery of the north should make, thinks Lewis. a worthwhile photoplay.
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