| Show Name o of Director Dick Rosson Synonym for or orBy Action in Movies By ROBERT COO COONS S HOLLYWOOD WP Consider R-Consider Consider today th the strange case of Richard lichard Rosson the time one symphony ony fiddler who lives on danger dang anger In Hollywood the name of or Dick Rosson losson is a a. synonym for action You can thank Dick Rosson for many great thrill scenes scenes scenes-on on water water wa- wa ter er on land in the air at a home bome and arid in far places that places that have made the he screen exciting He Is Is' a director without great glory flory Nobody speaks in awe of Rosson touches But when a touch director wants the McCoy McCoy Mc- Mc Coy Toy in action and thrills he be tries tries for or Rosson If hes he's in luck Rosson may nay be available More than likely likely likey like- like ly y he h will be off on some new movie adventure Howard Hawks has las him now His assignment To ride a corvette convoy to Europe Eu Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope to photograph the action for or Hawks' Hawks new picture Corvettes Cor ettes In Action TNT on Foam The corvette dating bac back to Lord Nelsons Nelson's time in its modem modem mod- mod em m form torm is dynamite riding the foam and oam and death to submarines Being loaded with depth bombs It is no ivied tower of ot safety on the he waves Corvettes seldom sink but ut they do blow up Its It's as simple simples as s that Dick Rosson Is looking forward orward to his trip Dick is not the type physically for tor or his bis role He looks nothing like Errol Flynn Clark Gable or George Brent He is bantam bantam size size weighs pounds lean wiry and solid olid A casting director or might pass ass him as the type for a fiddler For 17 years that was Dicks Dick's profession For two years he was wasa a violinist with the Boston Symphony Sym- Sym phony hony He gravitated to movies by y preparing scores scores music music cues for for the silent lent pictures His was what anybody would call a quiet almost cloistered life lite But 15 years ago Allan APan Dwan the lie director took him to the Swiss wiss Alps to help make a Gloria Swanson wanson movie Rosson got some thrill stuff in the snow snow and and some personal thrills He put away his fIddle iddle Other ther Ad Adventures This adventure led to others down own the years He lIe took camera camera camera cam cam- era troupes to the South seas He went into the jungles of Dutch Guiana and filmed fUmed the forbidden fire ire dance of ot the Djuka Indians for Too Hot to Handle He went to the Galapagos islands for Tiger Shark He has been Inthe in inthe inthe the air 2400 hours much hours much of the thrill stuff in Test Pilot was his He photographed the auto speed classic in Indianapolis for The Crowd Roars and he the Valentine day massacre in Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago for Scarface For Eskimo Eskimo Es IDs kimo he experienced below 57 weather in the Arctic He has made three trips round-trips to Europe in convoys and in course of one had the unexpected thrill of ot being present at the Roosevelt-Churchill Roosevelt meeting at sea aboard the Prince of ot Wales It was Ross Rosson n who made the film record of or the meeting But his convoyed trips all have been fast Hes He's looking for a slow one the kind that are being attacked I have to be on a corvette that thatis is attacked he explains matter- matter factly of-factly and adds wryly I hope they miss |
