Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-11-17 | Page 20 | 'Your Horse, Podner, is Pretty and Smart'

Your Horse Is Pretty and Smart By John Todd HOLLYWOOD Its Its It's round up time at Par Paramount am 0 u n where they've started the third version tins this time In technicolor of ot Owen w we western a s t a ern r n The Vir Vir- ginian Rain has driven the company Indoors and Instead of oC working on location at Placenta canyon thirty mn miles from Hollywood Director Stuart Gilmore has decided decided de de- de to make an outdoor shot indoors It Is probably one of ot the most difficult shots ever made on a sound stage and shows a group of ot eight Ight horsemen riding into the scene then wheeling their mounts and riding out Its enough trouble lining up eight a act actors c t o 0 r s says sas Gilmore Now Ive I've got eight actors on eight horses Luckily Gilmore's actors in in- in elude clude Joel McCrea Brian Donlevy Donlevy Don Don- levy and others who have made many westerns and can handle the nags Only Sonny Tufts is isan isan isan an unknown equestrian quantity Its It's his first western and Gilmore turns Tufts over to Bill Hurley the veteran studio horse trainer to break In the actor Hurley takes Sonny over to his horse a n year old pinto named Joaquin who has made many more moro pictures than Tufts Is tills this a good horse 1 Sonny asks Innocently Is ho he good 1 echoes Hurley this horse Is smarter than most actors This with a meaningful glance at Tuffs Tufts I r I get it says nays Ys Sonny hastily He climbs up on the saddle and Hurley care carefully tully leads Joaquin into the set where Gilmore is s lining up the shot The director takes fifteen minutes to place the men and their mounts before rehearsing dialogue and action Finally after a hours hour's preparation Gilmore is satisfied and gives the order to roll the cameras r y k i ry Y a N r aY S iF p- p 1 ry kL w r y r 1 Sonny Tufts learns the Iho tho-q tho equestrians equestrian's sfia e s- s art th the r h hard i- i way