The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-30
BY DAN THOMAS

BY DAN THOMAS
 NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 Lake Tahoe, Calif.. Here's a new one for the movie annals. I've bee, here with the Rose Marie" con- pany for two days and the weather has been so good they couldn't shoot a single scene!
 There have been innumerable instances of film companies being unable to shoot location scenes because of bad weather. But never before have I known of them be- ing stopped by good weather.
 The whole troupe went high into the mountains behind the lake, an hour and a half horse- back ride, to shoot some scenes of Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy plodding along a mountain trail. At 5 o'clock in the morn- ing technicians and laborers were busy loading cameras, sound ap- paratus and other equipment on pack horses, the only method of hauling it up the steep trail.
 At 7:30 Director w. s. Van Dyke and the principals mounted their horses and started up the trail. Two hours later everything was ready to shoot. But the sun beat down out of spotless blue sky. So the gang made them selves as comfortable as possible on the rocks and waited for some clouds.
 A few clouds are necessary to give depth and beauty to noun tain scenery. A clear sky photo- graphs very flat, making the dis tant mountain ranges look like a painted backdrop.
 Romance Still Intact
 Jeanette and Bob Ritchie, her manager and fiance, went into a huddle on a large flat rock and talked about-well, lots of things At least they certainly gave the lie to reports that have been cir culated recently about their TO- nance breaking up.
 Van Dyke sat in his chair and slept. Eddy tried without much success to catch a few winks OH a none too comfortable rock. And the other members of the com pany either slept or collected in small groups for "gabfestS."
 The one bright spot of the day came when lunch was served the lunch consisting mainly of delicious baked beans which had been prepared by Miss MacDon- aids cook nd brought up from Hollywood the day be fore by Ritchie. No Cloud. No Breeze
 After lunch the waiting was resumed, still without trace of cloud in the sky. However, the afternoon wasn't entirely wasted. The still man took ad- vantage of the delay and had Jeanette and Nelson pose all over the place for portraits.
 The next day 1t was the same story. Only this time breeze was missing. The sky being per- fectly clear again, activities were transferred to the lake shore for the sequence in which Nelson sings Rose Marie" to Jeanette while paddling along in canoe.
 This scene is supposed to take place at night-day being turned into night for the movie simply by using filters on the camera. It was necessary, however, to have slight ripple on the lake, to get the proper effect of sparkling moon light" on the water. A perfectly smooth surface won't give that ef- feet.
 And there wasn't even a sug- gestion of breeze all day long 1! Place for Background
 Photographically Rose Marie" should be one of the most beauti- full films ever brought to the screen. it would be difficult ti find natural beauty in greater quantities than it is here. And it has been used. Scenes have been filmed at Emerald Bay and Carnelian Bay Cat oppo- site ends of the lake), Five Lakes, Ia group of five small lakes high in the mountains), Cascade Falls and various other scenic places through hte mountains.
 Across State Line
 Van Dyke has been the first one away from location every day after dismissing the troupe. Although the company is quar-