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��used, it was necessary that these buildings be made of durable materials, owing to the destructiveness of the West Indian hurricanes. Thirty thousand dollars is the estimated cost of this city.

Another important fea- ture which will be unicjuc in film history is the storm- ing of the historic old fortress of Augusta. \W- fore reconstruction of this aged ruin could be attempt- ed, it was necessary to make the locality thorough- ly sanitary. For putting the fort in presentable shape several boatloads of concrete, stone and steel — all of ihestuif of which fortresses are made — were shipped down from New York. It has taken five months to complete the restora- tion.

Now that it has been rcljuik, I'ori Au- gusta is to be destroyed and the task of destruction falls to the lot of the West Indian squadron of the British na\y. Real powder and real shells will be em- ployed. Needless to say. it required sev- eral weeks of persuasion ])efore the per- mission to stage this battle could bo oli- tained. Before this issue of Poi'ilar Science Monthly will have reached the newsstands, the West Indian ficei with decks stripped as in actual battle, with gun crews stripped to the waist, with range finders perched in the con- ning towers, will be bombarding the for- tress — and Fort Augusta will lia\e again crumbled into ruins.

Quite as interesting as the construc- tion problems that have been involved is the number of players who will appear in the film. In addition to the twelve hundred actors and "mermaids." there are scheduled to appear ten thousand Hindus who have been held in Jamaica since the completion of the Panama ca- nal, five thousand British cavalrymen and more than five thousand native Ja- maicans who have been recruited for the various mob scenes.

The exact nature of the film has not yet been divulged, nor has a name been

���A section of the big stage floor, with the executive

offices at one side- A portion of a Moorish house may

be seen in the foreground

��decided upon. A few of the facts that are known is that besides the bombard- ment of Fort Augusta, and the use of a Moorish city, there will be a number of mermaid scenes ;. Trinidad asphalt lake will figure ; some of the scene's will take l)lacc in the heart of the jungle; and a submarined ship is included somewhere on the programme. Just how consistent the plot will be with all this array of the s[)ectacular, is something for time and the audience to decide.

A Transfer Solution

PklXTFD pictures from magazines, newspapers, folders, etc., may be transferred to paper, cloth, cardboard, glass or china with the following solu- tion :

< )ne bar of common soap is dissolved in a gallon of hot water, to which one- half pint of turpentine is added. After it has stood for a night, stir well and bottle. The solution is applied to the print with a soft brush or one's fingers, and the material to which it is to be transferred is placed upside down on it. 'I"he back of the material is then rubbed and the design is transferred.

A picture may be transferred to glass for the purpose of a lantern slide. In such a case the glass must be varnished with a perfectly transparent varnish be- fore transferring; then proceed as be- fore. Pictures are transferred to china in the same way.

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