Show Y ng Is s Art I ITo To o Director By ERNEST FOSTER HOLLYWOOD UP UP ing ng may not be all right with the army but its it's an art to Movie I Director Sidney One scene in Co Columbia's Hes HesMy HesMy Hesly My ly Old Man calls for Actor GlennFord Glenn GlennFord GlennFord Ford to whistle at his leading lady ady Evelyn Keyes as she passes on n the street The youthful director director tor or an expert expert i in the art of attractIng attract attract- Ing ng feminine attention as carried out ut in rural America was dissatisfied fied led with the way Ford performed the he whistle and stopped the camras cam caIn eras ras Putting just the right lilt into a flirtatious whistle to a pretty girl firl is an art said Whistling Whistling Whis ling to a a. girl is a lot different from rom trying to whistle up a breeze on n a sailing ketch You might call it the Iowa version erslon of the mating call I mean its it's got to be e a a. combination of f and oomph Because Pat OBrien O'Brien is a a. very sentimental Irishman a a. piece of mood music that was a favorite with stars of early silent films will wili be heard for the first time timen on n the screen in a a. modern film drama rama During the silent era every director di di- rector ector in Hollywood used music to help inspire his actors in big emotional emotional emo- emo ional scenes in pictures With the he advent of talkies such music was transferred from sound stages to o film sound tracks to be heard by theatergoers as musical background background back back- ground for pictures So in recent years players on the he sets have had to do their emoting emot emot- ing ng in in silence without the stimulant stimulant lant ant of nostalgic melodies But for a key emotional scene in n a Columbia story in which OBrien O'Brien stands at the deck rail of a ship after saying good good-by to his son the star suggested a a. bit bitof bitof bitof of old time mood music might be appropriate Property man Stanley Dunn a former former ormer silent picture actor sat down at the piano and began playing play play- ing ng If I Had My Way When Producer B B. P. P saw aw the film he agreed th that t the song ong should be included in the completed com corn picture |