The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-19
Carole WhoopS, Winninger Rhumbas, Director Gives Up and the Result Is Nothing Sacred
Fredric March Offers to Get a River to Make
 Ducking Scene Real
BY PAUE HARRISON Secretary, American Bridge League

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 Hollywood = There is nothing sacred in the picture called "Noth- ing Sacred" which they are shoot- ing out at David Selnick,s place.
 Doughty old Charles Winninger is perhaps the least sacred thing around the place, even in his bare <set, unless it's Director William Wellman, who habitually wears Q &ireman'sI helmet and a double breasted aura of gloom.
 Carole Lombard Is in the picture, too, and today she seems to have the whoops.
 When Miss Lombard is at her ebullient best you can hear her most confidential remarks three sound stages away. When she whOops, electricians fall off the catwalks overhead.
 Just now, Miss Lombard is sit- ting at her dressing table passing remarks which are none of your business and having her hair fixed and whooping. In the next scene she Is supposed to walk on the set soaking wet from fall in 8 river.
 The hairdresser is busy making her hair look damp and stringy, but attractive. Tn Hollywood a her- oine can be no more than fetchingly disheveled.
 Three More Fall
 Fredric March, who also is in the picture, sits and watches Miss Lombard fixediy as he describes how more fun and realism could be obtained by actually throwing her in river.
 He says, Nov if wellman would only walt few minutes until could go out and get a nice river"
 Miss Lombard says something, and three more electricians almost fall out of the rafters.
 Charles Winninger Is sitting around looking silly in Q night gown and an old bathrobe. In the next scene he is supposed to be found soaking his feet in tub of hot water.
 A prop boy asks Wellman whether there Is supposed to be a doorbell ringing in the scene.
 The director says, That's not the way we do things around here, son. We just leave a blank space on the film, and David Selznick can put in anything he thinks is cute-a dog barking, siren, one of Winninger's puns, or the voice of Rhett Butler"
 Tack Hunting
 There Is piano player on the set. He has nothing to do with the picture, but has been hired to play for the entertainment of the cast. He plays. Winninger, in his night gown, begins an elephantine rhum- ba.
 "I'd like to put that guy in a picture with Bill Fields" Wellman tells Miss Lombard. Then to Win ninaer. Hey, Charlie, have you seen Bill Fields since he went on the wagon?"
 'No, and don't want to-the dirty traitor!"
 T heard Bills Connie Bennett story" whoops Miss Lombard. "Bill says Connie is 6 very swell person because she gave Q blood transfusion to Q kid who was m an accident. So everybody asks whether the kid was saved, and Bill says no--he froze to death"
 Lets get startedl" yeils Well- man. Charlie, what the devil are you doing walking around bare- foot?" Looking for tacks," says win- ninger.
 DO you know that directing you is like trying to train Q dog? Now go stick your feet in that tub?" T won't stick my feet in that tub" whimpers Winninger. "It's another dastardly Hollywood trick. | The water is supposed to be nice and warm, so what do they do? They | put dry ice in the water to make 1t look like it's Steaming. So I put my feet in the tub and you'll make | me keep 'em there the rest of the day. You go stick your head in that"
 "Okay," agrees Wellman. But | you gotta stick 'em in at the last minute" The director stands and carefully adjusts his fireman's hel- met and begins shouting instruc- tions to everyone on the set.
 Tn the middle of his discourse he stops. overtaken by ennui or maybe a realization of the futility of every thing.
 Listen everybody turns and listens. DO you know that half that time I'm talking I haven't