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Show TIIE BULLETIN Air Raids Make Things 'Interesting' in London Made-to-Ord- By VIRGINIA VALE Rtlaawd by Western Mtwspapor Unloa. Howards of Vir- - er Miracles The advent ol television created quite a nifty set of headaches for that corpt of geniuses known in the radio world m$ "special effect" men. In radio work, it was m simple matter to simulate the explosion of a pistol by dropping a book flat upon a table. But in television the unseen audience" wants to SEE that pistol. These department tackles the fob. photos show how the "special-effects- " '"pHE ' girua has been re leased, and people are trying to concoct new bouquets to throw at it. One of New York's best film critics, Bosley Crow-the- r, wrote, "Never, to our recollection, has the screen pictured in more magnificent detail the period of American history preceding and including the Revolution." - spi rouPf ders at work. The mechani- 1 Mmsmmmmmiu MMkMBMAM um n nri si cal insects, controlled by the wires of the web, merrily spin their yarn on wheels. Even if American history doesn't xiean much to you, you'll want to wo the picture. Frank Lloyd has lone a masterful Job of directing, Martha Scott, Cary Grant, Sir Cedrie Hardwicke. and the rest of the cast 1 Left: Smoke without ' Fire. Special effects men built the miniature, ar- In the bnildinf below their feet, While the staff of the United States embassy to Louden works these members of the staff are assigned to the roof scanning the skies for Nasi planes. Should the planes come close, the warning Is f iven. Right: Biz men of the "Suicide Squad" bomb disposal unit of the Royal from the crater It caused when It plunged Into a West London street Engineers lift a hesvy time-bom- b Left: ranged the Australia Does Her Bit for Great Britain "explosion" with a rat-tra- p, and produced the smoke Rights Blitzkrieg! The bombing of a military munitions train. Charges were wired to the control board, where a tech MARTHA SCOTT nician's hand is shown setand excellent give performances, lhalifeof Colonial Virginia has been ting them off. Each light reproduced. magnificently from that cylinder in the corner. bulb controls There's an old saying In shew salvo of 4 business: "Always bo kind to the bombs." boss property boy. Be may be the tomorrow." To the ra Edward Arnold, Gary Cooper, dio audience Barbara Stanwyck and James Glea-so- n it looks real were reminiscing on Frank Capra's "Meet John Doe" set at enough. Warners'. Gleasoa told of starring W years ago In his father's company at the old Morocco and theaters. Then Capra Joined the group, and reminded them that among the players ia that company re Marjorlo Rambeau, Lewis Stone and others still prominent. 'Did you ever see them?" asked Gleasoa, m surprise. 'I should say I did," laughed Capra. "I saw them every night. I used to sell newspapers to them Bar-ba- nk ComLarge bombs for the royal Australian air force are pictured (left) being filled with explosives at the monwealth explosives factory In Maribyrong, Australia. They will be put to use against military objectives factory In Llthgow, Ausof Germany and Italy. Bight: Inspecting Vkkers machine gam at the small-arm-s British the empire. tralia, before shipping for distribution throughout Open Giant Boulder Dam Outlet Valves Six-Fo- ot Babe Left: William Eddy, NBCs special effects head, adjusting talking frog built for a tele vision production of "The Sleeping Beauty." The frog also rolls his eyes. The special effects department at Paramount could have been forgiven for going stark, staring mad recently when an order cam In for a flock of sheep that "look like Jack Benny." The sheep were needed for dream sequence in "Love Thy Neighbor," in which Fred Allen, Benny's mortal enemy, puts him self to sleep by counting sheep. Allen Insisted that finding the sheep should be easy. "An sheep look like Benny," ho insisted. "Benny looks like a sheep anyway, The sound man on Dorothy "Moon Over Burma" had problem too. He had to fake the sound of elephants crashing through forest It was simple enough to record the footsteps of Miss Lamour, Preston Foster, Robert Preston and group of natives, but the four-to- n pachyderms ran so quietly that the noise didn't register. However, movie audiences expect elephants to crash through Jungles, so these are going to crash, even though It's done artificially. For once the cast of a motion picture seems to be taking the title seriously. The title Is "This Thing Called Love," and It's influencing Rosalind Russell, BInnie Barnes and Gloria Dickson. Three days after the picture had gone Into production Miss Barnes announced her plan to marry Mike Frankovttch, radio commentator. Rumors circulated to the effect that Miss Dickson and her husband, Fere Westmore, would become recLa-mo- waterfall is shown spurting from the 11 tremendous outlet aires of the Boulder dam, In Nevada, creating a waterfall they sent blgber man Niagara. When engineers opened the valves, Colorado river. 38,000,100 gallons of water plunging into the mighty Twenty thousand tourists were there. "Lulubelle" shows off her youngster at the San Francisco boo. As excitement caused the death of her two previous babies, news of the birth was withheld for I days. Admiral Byrd Awarded Gold Star Educator Held A huge man-mad- e t six-fo- ot onciled. Nobody knows Right: In television rain must be seen to be believed. And here it is. A realistic shower falls on a miniature castle.' The rain is glass tinsel shaken through a wire screen. yet what will happen to Miss KusseJL but Just before the picture was begun she caught the bridal bouquet at her sister's wedding, and the day preceding that a fortune teller predicted that she'd be married within a year. EHery Queen, the famous detective of many books whose adventures have also made a successful radio series, is going to make bis screen debut He will be the hero of a series of pictures to bo produced by Larry Darmour for Columbia Pictures. Ralph Bellamy has the title role. Studio Battle Fleet . . . An ingenius and amazingly detailed miniature simulating a great harbor with a city in the background. In the harbor are a lighthouse and a squadron of battleships. The water, incidentally, is real. ODDS AND ENDS star to Rear Admiral Richard E. ef hi. DWingubhed Service M7dL for hlTreccnt achievement, in the Antarctic. Secretory ef the N.vy Frank Knox, show. FrSdent E. Byrd. and Rear Admiral Richard BrTrS iSi tLatS "rd uthT.u!p.U,n ribbon Rvelt. Dr. Frederick Aaghagca, German citisen anj former professor of languages at Columbia "U," who was arrested In Los Angeles and held fer the Dies committee. Werners' "The Phyllis Hamilton. lady With Red Hair,' to which tha ladies wear eottumti of the 90s, hat solved the buttle problem tarries her knitting in hers . . . Warners' swapped Betta Davis to Samuel Goldwyn, for "The Little Foxes," in return for Cart Cooper, lor "Sergeant York . . . Bing Crosby's brother Bob, whose orchestra you've heard on the sir, has kis fnt Urn had in RKVs . . . Tha cadets "Malvina Swings statioded at Randolph Field, Tent, chose Veronica Lake as the girl they would prefer to he hot with on a If suetotpnere Rif iu. The workshop of NBCs "special effects" department. |