It was a Spanish picture. The studio was in Fort Lee [New Jersey], and we built a big Spanish set there—a big Spanish street. The day we started the thing, a blizzard hit New York, and it really was a blizzard. Well, Bill Fox [William Fox, studio executive] was a nice old fellow, and he said to me, “Raoul, what can we do?” I said, “Well, Mr. Fox, I think that if we put a few domes on that set, we can change it to a Russian picture.” He called all the people and he said, “Get the Spanish costumes the hell out of here and bring the Russian costumes in.”
