Show fa r Jr I WANTS TO KNOW KNOW 7 4 U f How Big Is a a Leprechaun 11 f By gy PATRICIA CLARY i i HOLLYWOOD UP A UPI A riddle t t unanswerable as how high L is up hM been the plaguing plaguing the million- million dol dollar ar minds minds' Fox Century-Fox how chow big is II a makers ovle with ith such problems problems lems ems usually send en them to the reI re- re I earch department But no encyclopedias ency- ency cl reference books book or historical his- his torl tor leal al societies can answer the i- i question because nobody's nobody ever seen a leprechaun One of ot those fairy shoemakers of ot Irish folklore who keep pots pots' of or gold buried in tn the woods plays a atop atop atop top role In Leave It to the Irish He gave director He Henry ry Koster a knotty casting problem Leprechauns are are little fellows fellow about knee high actresses Maurine Maurine Maurine Mau- Mau rine OHara O'Hara a and d Geraldine Fitzgerald Fitzgerald Fitzgerald Fitz Fitz- gerald who believe in them assured Koster I II have friends who have friends who've seen seen cen them in the woods Miss OHara O'Hara Insisted ted Sometimes you almost step on them Koster thought about signing a a. midget or ora a child to play the part Then he considered using camera tricks to dwarf a size full actor Its all hearsay ea ay he decided Nobody ever really saw a 8 lepre chaun Nobody knows whether they're gnomes or giants So h he picked Cecil Kellaway one of ot Hollywoods Hollywood's od's finest actors and andone andone one ono of its IU biggest He stands stand six feet teet The Irish around the studio were horrified iby by a six foot t leprechaun They said Mid hed he'd never get grit away way with it people thought nobody cold play Santa Claus Glaus Koster r po pointed out and took look at Edmund Gwenn Kellaway is going to be to leprechauns leprechauns leprechauns lepre lepre- chauns what Gwenn has Kaa been to Santa cl Claus Glaus us Gwenn m won an academy y award for far playing Santa Cl Claus Glaus us in Mira Miracle cle cleon on Street Twentieth hopes I Kellaway ll W y cea nominee will ill do the same same samen next t yearl year Kellaway who is half halt Irish and has a little Killarney in his talk plays playa his l leprechaun stooped over ver with knees knees' sagging Ive been suffering from a Charley horse ever since the picture picture pic plc- ture started he said He wears elf elt shoes that turn up at the toes toeS' a 8 dirty green vest and baggy trousers a 8 rumpled peaked hat and a stringy artists artist's tie The makeup men have enlarged his ears They look a little like a donkeys donkey's donkeys donkey's donkeys donkey's don don- keys key's Im I'm afraid he said but I prefer to say they're like gnome-like or elfish r I vi r a r k y f f 1 rf st 4 r 4 r i J a yr i p r j r f ROMANTIC ON OR OFF STAGE Shirley Temple and John hn Agar arc are romantic on and off oft stage tage now They're in their first picture together now Its It's Fort Apache |