Pathe' Producers Get Studio Site at Ithaca, N.Y.

[Terry Harbin]

Pathe' Producers Get Studio Site at Ithaca, N.Y.

Wharton, Inc., Lease Forty-Five Acres, Renwick Park, a Well-Known Lakeside Resort
in Northern Part of State- Sylvan Spots Adapted to Their Pictures

The Pathe' producers, Wharton, Inc., announce that they have leased with an option of purchase Renwick Park, a well known lakeside resort at Ithaca N.Y.

The property has been used as an amusement resort for some years, and it comprises forty-five acres of land situated at the head of beautiful Cayuga Lake and lying between the lake and the city. A city trolley line runs into the park and furnishes excellent service.

A number of large buildings, such as auditoriums, pavilions etc., on the place need only a little remodeling to make them very well adapted to picture work. There are frontier settlement streets, log cabins- all the locations necessary to western work, as well as a four hundred-foot pier extending into the lake.

Equally beautiful locations would be difficult to find anywhere in the East. Winding streams, waterfalls, tiny lakes and a virgin forest of the most magnificent trees are a few of the attractions.

The park is widely known for the extraordinary number of variety of the birds to be found there. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, the well known ornithologist, uses the place as his study ground so remarkably rich is it in bird life. It is said at some time or other during the year every species of bird known in North Eastern America visits the park.

Theodore Wharton is adding to the already long list of valuable contributions to science shown in different episodes of Pathe's "The Exploits of Elaine" in the fourth installment of the new "Exploits" he shows a microscopic view of the African tick which causes the dreaded "Sleeping Sickness" so fatal to the natives in certain portions of Africa. This view is followed by others showing the microbes 0f the disease greatly enlarged.

Mr. Wharton secured these remarkable pictures with great difficulty. He learned that there was a certain scientist in this country who had made a study of the disease, and persuaded him to lend his great skill and unique data to the making of the motion pictures.