Show inon6-- - — 011Er — — - -- - TIM SALT LAKE niBuTIE SUNDAY MQI1NING MArtcn — 1 '-- 20 1038 i C $ Jit —aroccrwoararwagairo — ''4 P I ' - i ' - - - ' " 4 Att0040000 i) ' - ' ' t — f I 000000°P1'"1 ' - t - I - t if( t s f ilf:140:4''Y or i ' i) -7 ' a l 1 - ' ' ' : f" ' 4 I - 't 4t1 - l'" (Ylk s' hi J- ' - i''sN I N- ( i 1 : 1 ''' ‘ S 1' — ' ''1 ' ' '' - ' i --- 1 ( i e A - 0' ----- d - 4 1 -- - - ' 1 I Wit Li FCtt I - : IL - - 4t ' ' d - - Sh d ' 13y Lucie Neville this town of Yes-Me- n but valiant band of thankless job is to tell everybody 1 IN - No-Gir- ls - ti 611a7:6t : Oe: IIOLLYWOOP there is a small - ' 0 - wrong" Studios call them script-girl- s What tent peramental actreues call them is nobody's busi est—and a lot they care After you've worted in a tiger's cage or on a scaffold in the middle of a cattle stampede you don't scare easily bunch of They're a nonchalant who aren't afraid women to speak young up to a director or a star and they have the maddening assurance of always being right "You have to be right" said Jean Raymond a "Only one big mistake requiring a lot of re takes and you're finished as e script-girt- " Al - many girls who want "ad there there as are who want to act" jobs script chimed in Dixie McCoy a sister veteran "Just' because they're good stenographers they I can think they'd make swell script-girl- s tell 'em it takes a lot more than just shorthand Why we don't even use it because our notes bays to be in shape for anybody to be able to read them"Both Miss Raymond and Miss McCoy are working on the same picture now Republic's "Hollywood Murder Mystery" Thin blond jean has the comparatively easyjob of checkThis entails veins an 'actor sticks ing dialog to his lines though some directors don't mind an occasional deviation The dialog girl also helps daring rehearsals and later gives cue li'nes and proopts when necessary This cells for a deal of nice timing and diplomacy for some actors are touchy bout being reminded orF pk6es (11P i I dielog is I cinch" to head speech anti action 6 smokeltrw - A ECOND detAil of the action-script-gi- in when theyart ''''": ' - - Ij - ' " "'' - ' - making boners 1 - every-da- - " ' ''' I ' '' 47 ': ' "' ' ' : - -04--- : ' - 'v ")' ) ' - 110 0 It Nst ' tp - ( t ''''' - - ' - - 1 - 1 -- -4 --- p Ar ' '- " t44040k‘L-- 0 'I I k - ' ' - - 9- Sik ' 1 - Actor Neil Hamilton gets a tina check from Script-Girl- s Jeer Raymond left and Dixie Mc- Coy Jean prompts Republicit star on his lines and Dixie makescertain ' 'v : perfect even to the flower :- - I i - f I ' II - t - report - k clothes are his ' ' - I Ckir - iv ' 1 ' Before second test take a e numbered slate is held before the camera and photographed to identify that takes At the same time the sound man numbers his film and the two numbers must match Camera angles lens numbers and other tech-nical details must bg included in the t - t work because the cutting must have a complete repor on all the shots—why one koM 1::'fl I ::: rd stenographic is matching action: difficult for her and Dixie explained this when the players alike Charles Bickford as one of the best' mentioning actors she had ever worked with "In one scene be had to pace back and forth in front of a jury box pounding the rail It ran at least two minutes A week later of the scene and he we made the close-up- s matched exery word and every slam on the 'didn't have to correct him once'" rail Costumes are properly 'the headache of the '( ” : 1 0" ' were needed for the dialogend cutter I 40 ( it'''''"': I it '' Brothers Warner at She has had offers of studic ' for two years—she has been employed by every major studio except but ' writing jobs prefers scrip — t i -- one—and said she learned more aboutt script - work—it's fun and it pays well work there than she ever did on the iet Last summer the Script She Girls' Guild was formed line got into the game while doing extra work and —1 its membership of I 10 is 10( -- -41011r on the singing on the radio—saw a script-giThere Ins cent a also are job and thoughtshe'd like it per Helen Parker veteran "No-G- ir 11' of 20th Century lox checks over lines of a scene She speaks casualry of w'orking in a cage the majority script-meat The stop watch hanging with a tiger and thinks her toughest picture Metro This studio's policy is wish lovely Annabellaperched on the arm of her chair r011 a cord around Miss Parker's neck is known as the "script-gtrl'- s lavaliere" was "Dawn Patrol" on which she worked to advance its own personnel 36 straight hours "The next morning Dick an executive explained and it Barthelrfiess came up to me and laid 'Jean Can't see a script-giis "pally a Bobs Hoagland of 20th'-Fo-x as a future executive having the script marked off after each take" 20th-Fodo you remember Both the girls working at Republic disagree n and 1 started bawling script-gifor heroine When the Coleman at sleigh carryMary I had a swell case of and 1 couldn't stop with this theory "Very few men are good three years calls "Ladies in Love"- her worst ing her to the "Call of the Wild" mountain — because she Howard Hawks came had location was'overturned she broke'a leg The watch on script" said Miss Raymond don't to princieight picturr "They veteran at the have the eye for detail that a woman has" over to see what was the matter and he caught pals lielen Parker a company was snowed in and Bobs was the it too work went on as usual after remains After we'd had a good cry we went Studio policy or no one script-gisame studio says her hardest job was on only script-girlo- o back and worked all day" "Seven Keys to Baldpate" because the film on the Metro lot and she's there at long as she amateurs had set the leg and fastened on Dixie McCoy enjoys location trips belittle- makeshift splints Florence Thomas etas heen - laboratory burned down and most of the piwInts to stay Week c: confess they can t reRose Steinberg Director Woodie VanDyke's right-han- d All of the on a yacht with another ture had to be retaken man mg a memorable member anything off the lot ' !'Wake me up picture where she worked three miles back in --- for nine years as script-gir- l and tectetary scripkgirl for seven years got a thrill out of iflT the an aqueduct tunnel a half-mil- e As to why she has lasted at a middle of the night and-- r can tell you underground working on the camera platform above the catShe was casting director for Christy from 1923 studios she said "Directors are like stars—if know aboUt the pkturi" tle stampede of "In Old Chieago":but anything you want-tair- her worst said Jean Raymond to '28 then had her own agency and produced of hipboots in "But don't ask me what they 'want something they get it' And Mr job was two r 1 in for When sound came in more girls a Hop play breakfast for "Murder done like Trinidad" certain wants a swamp a IA things war VanDyke Jean Raymond worked as 7 '0 assistant 1:4 ' '- 1 rl n rl r horse-draw- x rl - rhe-direct- six-ye- rl 7 7 No-Cul- s- -- r ' -- rl wardrobe department but the script-gir- l prudently checks each player's clothes every morning to see that every detail 'of every costume is identical with the previous days Everything each take as well is Leo Carrillo Roger Pryor Ramon NoVarrO Jimmy Cleason and Paul Muniare actors who for get approying reports from the script-girl- s accuracy in remembering long speeches and for attention to clothes details 'Among the acCarole Lombard tressev Myrna Loy and Norma Shearer are unanimously praised 'for their unfailing good humor as much as for their ability to concentrate In spite of eternal vigitancre mistdkes in watch-and-wa- four-in-ha- TeTreTkrivViggTr Both girls agree there ought to he a law against smoking animals and children in picanimals tures "Children and animals4r-we- ll twice" the Jean do same thing anyway—never said "The most trouble I ever had was trying to keep track of a camel" - I1‘‘- Jo sometimes set by girls but they illy the blame seldom is theirs Jean remembered an especially obvious bonet that occurred in a Dick Barthelmess picture that illustrsted her stand "Ha was celled back for retakes and they didn't call the script-gir- l' she said "So nobody noticed the! he was wearing a bow tie when he had worn a-in all the Then when the cutprevious shots ters pieced the shots together into continuous action they didn't notice it either and in the picture Dkk mysteriously changed ties every other minute Now that was the cuttinE room's fault and I'm not going tc take the rap for boners like that Anc don't you clo it either Dixie" she e admonished her friend inOther duties of the script-girl- s clude seeing that censorship cuts are made in time and that changes in plot and dialog are marked By the enclofthefirstweekthe scsipt— looks like a road map There is alsc the the plump brunet Dixie said enviously "That is unless the director 6Changes the script a lot or they write the story as they go along" On this picture she has the thousand-andon- e details of 'checking action "Hand props are very wearisome" she commented "and Every time a cigarets especially are terrible scene- -it shot—anct it --May befrotri ft to 6 times—the player's cigaret has to be the same brand the same length smoked held in the Lots of times I've saved myself same hand clays of worry by askintadirector who's a -- : r The scriptiirl may never be Famous but - 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