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Show Cameo Theatre Sunday v and Tuesday, November a,' "BOYS TOWN" TELLS THE STRANGER-THAN- FICTION STORY At least one out of every three lads who live at Boys Town, the community com-munity run by 200 lads of the Father Fath-er Flanagan's Boys home, would like to be in the motion picture business. I Not as actors, Director Norman : Taurog explained, although all of) the boys worked in "Boys Town" i with Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney and some of them are pretty ; good but as technicians and office '; workers. ! The approach of the older boys was something like this. They walked up to Taurog or Cameraman Sid Wagner, Assistant Director Horace Hor-ace Hough, O. O. Dull, the assistant producer, or Edward Ward, the musical director. "Could I talk with you a moment?" the boy asked. He and the film man walk away from the set. "Well, what can you do?" is the question in return. "Well, I've received a pretty good ground work in mechanics and carpentry car-pentry and I'm graduating from school here next year," is a typical answer. "I'd like to do something on the mechanical side or get a job as office boy." The picture men point out that these requests are not idle ones on the part of the boys. Father Flanagan Flan-agan urges them to choose careers. Because it has been brought close to them, motion pictures attract many of them. They are as well prepared as the average high school graduate from a good home as far as education educa-tion is concerned. There are many who would argue that from a standpoint stand-point of politeness, manners and the general quality of "being gentlemen" the Boys Town lads are considerably above that average standard. "Boys Town" will play at the |