Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-02-02 | Page 7 | Old Parrot Drawls for Film

Old Parrot Drawls W is For or Filmy Film Dr y JOHN JOAN TODD HOLLYWOOD INS It INS It has long ong been recorded that one of the best beat wa ways to l get et a break in pictures picture is Ia to have ha a brand of talent talent taint tal- tal ent nt possessed b by no other But proof of the point pops up In n the most moat unexpected ted ways way This Is called to mind by an Item tern brought to Hollywood from Phoenix Ariz about Bugle-Beak Bugle I a parrot Bugle-Beak Bugle Is In pictures or ort at t least leut one picture Sheltered I Lady which Gregory la 1 Cava Ca Is making for tor Universal just becauSe bc- bc ca cauSe ause cae e of ot that old exclusive talent angle He is 11 in the movies moyle because he heis hes is I. s a parrot that talks with a western west west- I ern m drawL It U seems that parrots I with a western drawl are a scarce Hes He wonderful La Cava declared declared de- de lared of ot the new find Hes He got gota a career In pictures This of course Is 18 all very gratifying gratifying gratl- gratl ying and might give IMp Inspiration Irati on onto to o others othera with talent not yet recognized recognized rec- rec were It not for one point Bugle Beak waited for his chance tar far ar beyond the ability of ot most human human luman beings to wait walt It U took the movies nearly 70 10 years yeara to discover discover dis- dis cover over him Even for a Baby Sandy andy the implications of ot that are re devastating Bugle-Beak's Bugle known history goes joes back to 1873 1813 when he was bought ought at a venders vender's stall in Havana Havana Ha- Ha vana ana by William Pomeroy an old desert esert prospector who has lived JIved near ear Phoenix for many years Nothing remarkable about it Pomeroy says of ot the parrots parrot's western drawl After Alter having me talk alk to him for close to 70 10 years how else should he talk 1 Bugle Beak is not the only un unusual unusual un- un n- n usual thing about Sheltered Lady which incidentally is a comedy about a balmy heiress Irene rene Dunne with a yen for gold mining The background against which the picture is being filmed is s something to talk about too At the foot toot of or legendary Superstition Super Super- mountain in Arizona La LaCava I Cava has assembled a new ghost town own The buildings were gathered gathered gath- gath ered from the various ghost towns to o be found throughout the Arizona Arizona Arizona Ari Ari- zona desert Altogether there are 14 buildings all in a splendid state of ot dilapidation None was built later ater than 1890 and some go back backo to o around 1860 1560