Show t. t 9 I I 9 4 T I The Senator I I Goes Hollywood 1 t By M H PARK 1 Ii t Special to The Record X I w I I I I I I I I I I I I Amazing things are being done dally daily on every studio lot by the carpenters and mechanics in building permanent and temporary sets liets for filming but to me the stunts performed by the stage effects departments department's technicians are the tho I most amazing of all Their secrets are the most closely guarded of ot all aU with the possible exception of a feminine screen I stars star's age and It is only after great difficulty one is 15 permitted to enter the sacred portals of motion picture trick trick- dom I was allowed Inside because my sponsors felt secure acure in the knowledge that whatever what ver I saw being done I wouldn't understand And they were absolutely right In fact ns as far tar as the technical workings were concerned I knew less when I camo out than when I went in In Remember the picture picture The Crusader er Well I wonder how many of ot you noticed when phalanx after niter phalanx of ot Christian soldiers marched across the screen that every fourth man was the tho same man I didn't but he was And when cauldrons of ot boiling flaming laming oil oU were poured down upon the attackers It was only water when the action cam cam- cameras cameras cameras eras shot the scene And dont don't get too upset when you see horses and other animals apparently being slaughtered More extras are arc injured than animals usually If It you saw and remember the silent sll nt picture The Lost World when various arious breeds of prehistoric animals died in fn mortal combat and very gorily too it will give you some idea of what can be done by the stage effects magic magic- ans The greater portion of ot that picture was done in miniature On every studio lot there Is a village street Through the ingenuity ing of ot the stage effects technicians it is French Dutch Spanish Colonial Irish or what have you ou The cameraman takes in up to the line of ot the eaves and the trick photographers do the rest Usually they I Just put on a new roof root on the houses house The street scene built for tor The Big Parade is still Intact and has been used hundreds of ot times since Lest more disclosures of ot the tricks of the motion picture trade tend to rob you of your Illusions well we'll switch over o and chat about the t stars rs themselves Did IId You Know now That Bette Davis wears ears a bandana handkerchief handkerchief chief chiet over her head each time she ven ven- ventures ventures outdoors She does because of ot a recent experience with sunstroke It will be another month before George Brent can enjoy the luxury of ot ofa a haircut As long as there are scenes sc nes nesto to shoot for tor Gold Is Where You Find It he has to let his raven locks alone He told me that It was a good thing they didn't have to go out on location In my neck of the woods or he be might get shot for tor a buffalo Even the director cant can't tell teU the Mauch twins apart You remember they played together in The Prince and the Pau Pau- Pauper per They are making Penrod and His Twin Thin Brother at Warner Bros Dros and Billy was supposed to work But he came down suddenly with bronchitis and was confined to his home Rather than disrupt the production schedule Bobby assumed his role Director William McGann didn't know of ot the substitution until Bobbys Bobby's mother told him after the scenes were taken Forty-eight Forty hundred props were WE-re used to dress the three room Bannockburn setting for tor Warner Bros technicolor pro pro- production production Gold Is Where You Find It The Jewels Margot Grahame wears w rs for her role in The Buccaneer are valued at Cecil B D. DeMille who is di directing di- di directing directing the picture insisted on the real l thing Although Shirley Temples Temple's parents have ha turned down advertising endorse endorse- endorsements endorsements endorsements ments amounting to nearly they'll allow her picture to be used for tor fora tora a national child safety campaign gratis |