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Show 15,000 ACTORS INTERVIEWED FOR DAVID COPPERFTELD To get the seventy or eighty characters who appear in "David Copperfield," the brilliant new photoplay coming to the Gaiety Theatre, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, more than 15,000 actors and actresses were interviewed, and some 2,000 screen tests were made! This fact gives some idea of the care which was taken to bring Dickens' favorite novel to the screen with fidelity to the original story. A "talent search" that encompassed en-compassed all of America, all of Canada, all of Great Britain and almost every other English-speaking colony on earth was carried on over a period of more than a year and all in order to select twenty-six stars and featured players for the principal roles, and some fifty , other 'favorites for supporting support-ing parts. In England alone, cash prizes were offered to motion picture fans who submitted the best lists of people to play the principal characters. This also was done in many parts of the United States. For more than six months the entire resources of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company, both in America and abroad, were concen trated. on a search for a ten-year-old boy to play the juvenile David. He was found, finally, in the person per-son of little Freddie Bartholomew, an English boy, who makes his screen debut in "David Copper-field," Copper-field," and is heralded as the juvenile juve-nile sensation of the talking screen. |