Show Arlen Terry Now Feel Like Drips fly By jy PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD NEA All Allover Allver over ver the lot Richard Arlen and Phillip Terry play a a. sequence in int t Torpedo Boat for which they were vere scheduled to work two days I sopping Ing wet They got pretty tired of the prop man sloshing a bucket of water over them before each take and they al also o- o began to resent the ill concealed pleasure with which he did the dousing So after lunch on the second day as they we were e returning to the set in dry clothes Arlen said Lets Let's jump in the pool I never went swimming with a nice new suit on and this is a good chance So they did and proceeded shivering shivering shivering shiv shiv- ering and dripping to the sound stage When they told the prop man how they'd cheated him he howled finished all the dunking scenes except the close- close ups You guys would only have had to wet your faces and hair Charles Laughton and his wife Elsa KIsa Lanchester are appearing in one of the sequences of ot Tales of ol Manhattan and its it's their first American picture together Speaking of some of the pictures they did together in England England- Henry Vill VIII Rembrandt and The Beachcomber Laughton recalled that their first films were a series of H. H G. G Wells shorts In those Miss Lanchester was the star and Laughton played only walk-on walk bits Sam Wood who has been hav hay ing a tough time assembling the cast for For Whom the Bell Tolls described some troubles he has had with other pictures And for a contrasting example he mentioned mentioned mentioned men men- Goodbye Mr Chips which was made in England and which offers an indictment of ot the sighted short-sighted materialism of Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Hol Hol- lywood actors The director said he could not have cast that picture in Holly Holly- wood It dealt with four successive successive sive periods land and nd had to have an almost completely different set of actors for each part Consequently Consequent Consequent- ly the individual roles were small But in England actors dont don't count the ups close-ups they'll be given or orthe orthe orthe the number of lines they have to speak A prominent player will accept a line one C line e-line bit lit if its it's good |