Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-02-28 | Page 20 | Power Takes Painting in 'Blood and Sand'

Power Takes Painting In Blood and Sand SandBy h By BURDETTE JAY HOLLY HOLLYWOOD HOOD NOOD INS Tyrone INS Tyrone Power takes a squirt paint ing a dozen times times' day just so a director Rouben Mamoulian may try tryout out an experiment in color I I Using reg regular ar spray guns Mam Mamoulian Ma- Ma m moulian ulian shoots all kinds of shades and tints on Tyrone's clothes and into his hair to give them the texture of ot an oil painting The paints soak through his costumes costumes costumes cos cos- of course and Ty has to spend a couple of hours each night scrubbing himself with turpentine He uses a potent solution that the makeup men concocted for a sham sham- poo pooI I feel like a walking palette I 11 the he told us dont don't mind turpentine baths b but t I hope Im I'm not bald by the time Mamoulian gets through The experiment Is for tor Blood Bood and Sand at Twentieth Century- Century Fox Color movies in th the past have been filmed the same as black and white ones said Laid Mamoulian Were trying now to paint a picture literally rather than photograph photograph photograph pho pho- it Whenever we start work on the set and I notice Ty or Linda Darnell wearing something that would photograph flat I get a aspray aspray spray gun and tint them That gives the film when its it's shown on the screen the oil oU texture of an anold anold anold old master Our other paints include boxes of ot drapes shawls mantillas ribbons ribbons ribbons rib rib- bons and odds and ends that are in every color of the spectrum I stop the filming quite often to add adda a n touch of either the players payers or orthe orthe r the background just the same as asa asa asa a painter would mix colors colors' on n the palette to get a shade that he wants Since Blood Bood and Sand Is a Spanish story Mamoulian is following following fol fo- fol- fol lowing both the o old and the modem modern modern mod mod- em ern Spanish masters for his coloring coloring color coor- ing and composition