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Show ART OF KEEPING A CHILD HAPPY ON A MOVIE SET Parents could take a few tips on handling their children from John Robertson, the director, who put Mitzi Green and little five-year-old Buster Phelps through scenes of "Little Orphan Annie." Robertson declared that intelligent instruction and a light hand are the best ways to a child's heart and behavior. And he should know because he worked weeks with not only his five-year-old leading "man" and eleven-year-old leading "Woman" but with about three dozen youngsters young-sters besides. All are playing roles in the screen dramatization of the famous comic strip. "Mitzi is old enough to know I what it is all about," Director Rob-' Rob-' ertson said. "But little Buster pres-! pres-! ently comes so weJ acquainted with everyone on the set he lost some of the first zest that made him lively in everything demanded of him. So we got around this by gentle handling, tact and the introduction in-troduction of new items of interest. "Also, when we showed him his nursery in the new home in which the story places him, he couldn't be still for an entire morning. It was like a new heaven to him." Besides Mitzi and .Buster, other principals in the cast of this RKO-Radio RKO-Radio Picture are May Robson, Edgar Ed-gar Kennedy, Lillian West, Matt Moore and Kate Lawson. |