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Show sAGE-tSCREENRAUSO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) WHEN Columbia decided to film "The Tree of Lib- erty" they decided to give the public more than good value. Many of the scenes of the book are laid in Williamsburg, Williams-burg, Va., at the time of the Revolution and just afterward. after-ward. And since the Rockefellers Rocke-fellers have obligingly restored re-stored most of the buildings of the town so that they look as they did then, Columbia sent the company to Williamsburg. They also invited newspaper writers writ-ers down to see Cary Grant, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Carle and others working, under the very able direction of Frank Lloyd. Students from. William and Mary college acted as extras; in a scene made in wind and rain in front of Raleigh tavern you'll see them, dressed as students of the college were in the seventeen hundreds. The wind and rain were artificially produced on a beautiful spring evening. eve-ning. The next afternoon Grant was to . De pnotograpnea riaing up io uie door of a famous old plantation. The governor of Virginia and crowds of enthusiastic fans assembled to j watch. When you see that scene, imagine the governor and the rest CARY GRANT of us shivering in a chilly wind from the James river, waiting for the sun to come out, while Grant patiently rode his horse up and down until somebody pointed a candid camera at it at close range, making it so nervous that it ran away. Grant lost his hat and got his wig rumpled, and by the time order was restored the sky was too cloudy for any pictures pic-tures to be made. The following day a mob was to storm something or other, and a torchlight parade was to be held. So it rained. The picture people were patient; they're accustomed to that sort of thing. The newspaper people were not, so they went home. The only news was that the title had to be changed to "The Howards of Virginia," because the other one sounded too much like a Warner Brothers patriotic short, and that Martha Scott, instead of Joan Fontaine, Fon-taine, would play the lead. It's going to be a swell picture, one of Frank Lloyd's best that's recommendation enough for any movie. Director John Stahl, who has been connected with only two studios-Metro studios-Metro and Universal during the past 25 years, has broken away, along with such producers as Walter Wanger and Frank Capra, to enjoy the freedom of making his own picture pic-ture selections. You must remem-ber remem-ber his "Back Street," with Irene uime, ana "Uniy Yesterday," with Margaret Sullavan, to mention just a few of his successes. He's chosen "The Life of Daniel Webster" for his first free picture and has signed with James Roosevelt Roose-velt to direct "The Boy Grew Older" for him. Spike Jones, drummer in Oscar Bradley's orchestra on the CBS I Screen Guild Theater," refused an offer of S20e for . drum cd cently The oriffina, cost of drum head was only SlO-but it's HonZ Tli! Sna,u of famous Hollywood stars who have appeared on the program, from Shirley Tern-Pie Tern-Pie to Bette Davis. Lanny Ross was'recently nominat-ed nominat-ed as the perfect date by a groun of pretty girls who act as prltes sional fashion models. To show hf, appreciation, he invited I tour o, Lat T" S S Lanny who was selected as the per' whit"deowbh:secorhtU"- found that he e', 'XTk -bemuse he'd loft his waneTat Many commentators will air thr.- Edwin C. Hill "Am y ars aK0 porter," covered"1" S"-Roosevelt S"-Roosevelt convention J"10 e Teddy beca Pr J was rcierrod tn h ,h lclLn' Hill as "the JZr cabinet " Thi lutr of my .ovorVs o rcr r Proving Franklin De .,o R v runs for a third term |
