Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-02-10 | Page 9 | Osculation Record Contender

1 OSCULATION OS RECORD CONTENDER I 0 w P r c I w S I w I t Martha Raye She's due for a sixty second screen kiss Director Plans Marathon Kiss liss HOLLYWOOD Feb 10 INS Director J. J T. T Reed after arduous arduous ous mental calisthenics thinks he has evolved a method of getting getting get get- ting a minute 60 kiss on the screen something which hasn't been done since W Will Hays began saying I Thou shall and thou shall not some years back Hays feels under under un un- un- un r der ordinary circumstances 20 seconds should be the absolute limit and if the scene is torrid even that's too long Reed doesn't intend to offend anyone's sensibilities but he wants to have Martha Raye and Tito Guizar lr go into a clinging embrace for fora a scene in Paramount's Paramount's Paramount's Para- Para mounts mount's Tropic Holiday Bob Burns is supposed to look on in anguish Martha and Guizar will b be shown kissing for a few seconds and then the dismayed Burns will appear on the screen in a close up By interspersing these shots several times the kiss will last more than a minute The point is there is just one kiss no matter how many times it flashes on and off the screen the pioneering director beamed