“DRUMS OF THE DESERT”
AN ARIZONA FILM The most unusual interruption on record for a motion picture tioupe i*.turning from location occurred when the “Drums of the Desert” company was on its way in motor-cars from the Arizona Navajo to Flagstaff, where they were to embark on the train lor Hollywood. When John Waters, the director, started home from the reservation location, he brought with him six Navajo Indians led by Chief Seginitso, head of the 15,000 western Navajos. As the cavalcade reached the Colorado River and started to cross the suspension bridge, Seginitso asked that the car containing the Indians be stopped. When the request had been complied with, all six of the Indians dismounted and scattered sacred corn meal on the waters of the river. When Waters asked the meaning of the ceremony, the chief explained that to the Navajos, the White Bead Women pray to her and make offerings of the sacred corn meal to her. The play was written by Zane Grey. White kid slippers adorned by small green leather shamrocks is the latest note introduced in spring footwear by Madge Bellamy, featured in the Fox attraction “Colleen,”-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 139, 2 September 1927, Page 15
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192“DRUMS OF THE DESERT” Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 139, 2 September 1927, Page 15
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