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Show Film Stars and Extras, Too, Whet Can Shoot and Ride Get Steady Work in Studios By BURDETTE JAY HOLLYWOOD (INS) If you crave steady work in motion pictures, pic-tures, learn to shoot a gun and ride a horse without closing your eyes. Both stars and extras who can play cowboy roles fare much better than the player who boasts a large wardrobe and appears in sports or evening clothes. The rough riders are always In demand de-mand because competent ones are comparatively few. The result is constant employment. employ-ment. Harry Sherman, who produces pro-duces the Hopalong Cassidy pictures pic-tures and the Zane Grey epics, has 30 or more of these daredevil riders rid-ers on his staff and they ride for him in picture after picture. Currently Cur-rently they are doing their stuff In "Gun Chores," a fast-moving ! western. They average at least 120 days a year at Paramount studio alone, and make anywhere Irora $1300 to $2500 a year. - Eddie Prinz is a patient soul but, according to his own admission, admis-sion, he went through one of the toughest times in his career when he put a chorus of beauteous young dancers through their paces In a banv amid hay, cows, chickens, geese'and goats, for a sequence in "The Fanner's Daughter." The animals got in the way, the geese nipped at the girls' legs, the chickens chick-ens squawked and the goats picked out several of the damsels for targets. tar-gets. In the melee,' some of the dancers stumbled snd faltered, and Prinz tore hi hair. "That' swell, just what I wanted," want-ed," grinned Director James Ho-gan. Ho-gan. "This Is a comedy." Prinz looked at him In disgust and replied: re-plied: "It may be funny, but It certainly Isn't dancing." Many critics and reviewer of stage and screen have agreed, from time to time, that only a skilled actor can deliver the three words, "I love you," in such a way that an audience will believe him and not giggle. Director Llpyd Bacon has found what he thinks Is an even more difficult acting job the delivery of good advice. "A man can advise another to go out and rob a bank," Bacon said, "and It will sound as though he meant It But when he tells a man leaving prison on parole how to stick to the right road in the future, he is apt to sound and self-conscious or to get an obviously ob-viously false note into his voice. Good advice Is difficult to take In real life," he added. "But It's doubly hard to give in a motion picture and not make the audience audi-ence rebellious." The good advice under,, discussion discus-sion was that delivered by Moroni Olson, as a prison warden, to George Raft, a paroled prisoner In the picture, "Invisible Stripes." Olson's sincere manner and easy delivery of more or lea exalted lines made the scene realistic and led Bacon Into the above soliloquy about lines that are difficult for an actor to deliver. rjust the same." said Raft, "It's not easy to say 1 love you' and not sound foolish. Try it In front of your mirror some time, Lloyd." A thrill camera has been perfected per-fected for use on the camera plane used In photographing thrill scenes for "20.000 Men a Year" and is expected to open an entire new field In aerial photography. The camera, which Is motor operated. Is attached to the under side of the fuselage and permits the photographing photo-graphing of take-offs and landings In a manner guaranteed by Ernest Palmer to raise any audience from Its seats. Paul Mantz. daredevil screen flier, took up the camera plane and did some tree and fence hopping that brought the camera itself within Inches of demolition. The new camera Is counted upon to record the perpendicular flight of a plane up the side of a cliff and the landing crack-up of another. an-other. Answering a rush call from the studio, Robert Coote was forced into the role of an aquatic hitchhiker hitch-hiker when the motor on the boat conveying him from Catalina Island "conked out" 12 mile from the California mainland. Coote was spending the week end at the Island resort when the studio phoned him that his current picture, pic-ture, "Vigil In the Night" was resuming shooting after a five-. I week lay-off due to an emergency : operation upon the star, Carole Lombard. A friend volunteered to ferry Coot over In a private boat and the motor accident followed fol-lowed la mid-channel, 1 |