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Sons of the Musketeers
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O'Hara was called upon to display unusual versatility bi RKO Radio's "Rons of the Murkcleats". She im- perschated a bay In early sequences ako a French bar mald, and later dia- guised herself as a reyal courter, likewise as one of the muskeleers who comes to the ald of the Quecu of France.
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Before Dawn"
Sue Dawson
Says...
Decision after the show: One of America's best war films.
No Hollywood frame up, this; it is shot in Westem Germany, the real background to such episodes of the crumbling Third Relch. The film preserves in its backdrops a mute testament to those world-wrecking years, for It could not be shot there again Ruins have been tened out, cities rebullt; Germany is entering upon a new ета.
But at the time when "Happy" -Oskar Werner----WAS taken prisoner, the Americans steadily gaining European
vic
were
01
and
tories; they were the days when a few prisoners of war realised that by working with the Allies
would
hasten the end they their country's destruction the coming
rewer of peace, and a stili realized that they would he contributing towards freedom from fear the right to say and do what they wanted and bow to no-one.
IT'S GOT ME DAFFY L. YOU'RE JUST YOU MEAN YOU HOUT DO YOU FIGURE") DUMB,PUNGRY, KNOW HOW IT, HORSEFACET
IT WAS DONE,
HORSEFACE
†
By Lee Fall and Phil Davis
1 BEEN THINKIN. HORSEFACE KNOWS? OUR FIRST I GOT A PRETTY REAL CIDE? I'VE GOT TO GET OUT. GOOD IDEA--BUT OF THISCELL
I AIN'T TALKIN
YET.
INTO HIS -- WITHOUT MAKING HIM SUSPICIOUS!
"The Eyes" Arrives In London
7:00
A reception for the glamorous Maria Toren, the Swedish film star, known as "The Eyes" in Hollywood, was held at the Savoy Hotel, London, on her arrival in England. She will co-star with Claude Rtalas in a new Technicolour Blm "The Man Who Watched The Trains Go By-London Express.
956,000
"THINGS" ARE USED
IN THE MAKING OF MOVIES
By MELROSE GOWER
come," the
*The time has
prop man said, To talk of many things,
Or chairs and shoes and rues
and beds,
or pletares, books
rings."
wig pins, 750 hair nets and 30,- desired newspaper of any date, 000 hair pins.
all the way back to the arst Whence came all these head edition of the Boston News- adornments and hirsute neces- Letter of April 10, 1775, alties? They came from D If you want to read the ex- and Hollywood milion-dollar com- clusive story of Faul Revere's pany founded by the Inte Max ride, wa'h editorial comment, Factor, once a movie make-up write to Earl S, Hayes! man who quit his studio retail job long years back to go whole- sale.
WITH. FEELING "Happy", as the Amoricans christened him, was one of these. Oskar Wernier, a blonde quietly young Viennese, acts and with great feeling his
.And then Darrell Silvera, decision to turn traitor and the hoo
head of the RKO Radio Proper painful scenes when he been
his ty
own
parachuted Into country to spy for what were and are no longer to him 'the enemy",
Q
Hildegarde Neft, a German girl who was finally picked after eight others had been tried opposito Werner, plays her part in this tragedy in a way
not forgotten
easily It is
from story taken George Howe's prize-winning "Call It Treason", about men of whom Gary Merrill, the Ameri- can commander, says in his lines from Viertel's manuscript "In a war, to save lives you use whom The trouble is, you you can, always lose, the best ones, because it's always the best ones who are willing to take a rick."
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FLAMING OUT OF A GREAT BEST SELLER AND THE VAST AFRICANEDESERTU
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Department, began taking inventory. Two weeks later he totfed up the total and reported that the department housed 950,000 "things" used in the making of movies.
Over in the lonely mountain and desert lands around Sedona, Arizona, the same company making "Sons of the Mus- "keteers" has in production a
spectacular technicolour "The Half-Breed."
Knows Something About Smoke
Hollywood-A carbon he murmured, "we
"But," need more. We're fresh out of old newspapers, ships, stage coaches, wigs and wall paper."
There are 10 major studios in Hollywood. Silvera's inventory, accordingly, indicates there are 0,500,000 Items approximately
combined pro- stored in their perty rooms,
Alm,
from an are light went bad and filled the set of Gabriel Pascal's RKO Radio production, "Androcles FANS WONDER
and the Lion, with dense Chestor smoke. When director Robert Young and Jack Buctel Erskino called for stage doors outfitted for their to be opened to let fresh air in, have been starring roles by the studio ward-comedienne
Lanchester robe and properly departments. quipped: But the ten-gallon Mtersons, Stetsons,
THE NE
a' group of
"You must be the high-heeled boots, the Levis, Sounds plenty, eh? Yet every the shirts worn by the sup- sisales. There isn't half as much one of these studios could con- porting players and army of smoke
last In here as in the ceivably wind up in bankruptcy extras
vast night club in whloh I worked,” the
came from
if it had to purchase outright stores of the Western Costume And maintain perennially all Company-a mammoth organisa- the "many things" necessary to lon today which started from the production of feature films, hole in the wall store 36 years
OTHER LINKS
-
ago!
:
Twice this article has made Wherefore the motion picture reference to technicolour. Many Industry is linked indissolubly film fans wonder, perhaps, why with a host of other enterprise more movies are not nimed in
and individuals this medium. companies from whom the studios rent millions of "properties
· The answer is simple: No nually.
studio owns, a technicolour At this writing there's a 76-foot camera. These intricate machines Ashing trawler riding at anchor must be leased from the Techni- Monterey, California, with colour Motion Picture Corpora-
tion, und
musi every studio Paul Douglas emoting on Sta decks, in its cabin and fo'c'sle. It wait its turn. was rented by Benton Roberts to RKO for pivotal scenes in the Jerry Wald-Norman Krasna drama, "Clash By Night".
off
For 20 years stocky, weather- beaten Benton Roberts has, alip plied motion picture studios with boats and marine equipment. It his three-storey building on the Los
Angeles waterfront are stores valued at more than $250,- 000.
There are only El Umited number of technicolour cameras and, because of the length of time required to load them, two auch cameras are needed for every production, The Techni- colour Corporation also pro- ceases all the technicolour film shot by the studios.
"FATS" JONES & CO.
"The Half-Breed? 'being an Just a telephone call from unumially large Western, ob- Hollywood and he can deliver viously uses many horses, stage African war canoco, New End coaches, buggies and other roll- Innd dories, Eskimo kayaks, ing stock. These are furnished French longboats, South Amer by a firm headed by one "Fais" can dugouts, American racing shells, sampans. English punt, Chinese junks, dinghies or up to-the-minute cabin cruisers.
Jones and his son-in-law, very shrowd and money-wise young movie star...
The latter is that rip-rourin' ridin man Ben Johnson, who
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Tolks? Well, buckles his gallant way into the just one more illustration then heart of Maureen O'Hara, To an item about Ear S, Hayes, make this technicolour period who has been specialising in May feature the production staff re- printing for movies since 1918. quired 120 wigs, 26plusters of will delivos do any studio any
At the dron el a of
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