The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-09
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out by vigilant workmen. The action is for thrilling climax to Captain Courageous" and 1t is movie magic at its best.
 The boat is on pneumatic rock CTS in big tank three feet deep The wind is the product of air. plans-motor blowers, and the waves are caused by tons of wa ter rushing down 8 row of chutes Tracy hasn't suffered much from exposure. He wears rubber underwear which is watertight at neck, wrists, and ankles, and is lined with cotton.
 Also,. he has been protected from falling spars by @ steel cage built around him, but made to look like part of the scrambled rigging.
 The studio Is taking no chances with its valuable star. It wants him to die realistically, but it doesn't want him to get hurt. Knows His Chips
 Round-and- Round the little ball goes. Where it stops is in slot numbered 26. Dismay is written on the faces of Sally Eilers and David Niven as the frozen-faced croupier rakes in a large stock of the chips.
 But 1t isn't 50 bad as 1t appears The gambling is for a scene ir We Have Our Moments" and Miss Eilers and Niven will gel their chips back before the cam. era is moved to catch their emo. tions from another angle.
 The croupier looks exactly as Hollywood believes croupiel should look. He Is thin and semi bald, with pouched eyes and g peaked nose. His name is Andre Cheron, and he says he never operated a roulette wheel in real life.
 Eleven years ago he was 8 pros- porous cafe owner in Paris. Then he went broke and came to Hol- lywood with the idea of starting another restaurant.
 But here he had to work as 6 dress extra, then in several headwaiter roles. Finally he was cast a croupier, and now he is typed in the part and has played it in 20 pictures. Yes, he was the croupier in "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo"
 Cheron likes the work; finds it rather exicting even if the gam bling isn't for keeps. He can count out chips and rake them in with professional skill. And he can drone on and on in that peculiarly flat voice of Q gamekeeper: "Faites vos jeux i. Les jeux sont faits? Rien ne va plus ;"
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 Part of the action of Swing High, Swing Low" occurs at one of the locks of the Panama Canal In the picture you will see good deal of the canal, and Fred Mac Murray as doughboy helping to guard 1t.
 But MacMurray is doing his guard duty on the Paramount lot and on very tiny part of the lot, at that. He paces up and down beside 8 30-foot section of cog road that is just like the track along the canal.
 Also, there is small plot of artificial grass. And a ship in the canal is represented by a 10-foot square section of the side of a ves- sel. It contains a single porthole
 These backgrounds appear as- tonishingly inadequate when a visitor sees all the surrounding incongruities of a bustling movie lot.
 But they have been calculated to the inch, and the camera will see only what it is supposed to show. Then the shots of MacMur- ray and Carole Lombard will Es interspersed with atmosphere ans background shots actually filmed in Panama.
 Many fan will say, 'The stu dio certainly didn't build another Panama Canal. They couldn't have faked that stuff. Lombard and MacMurray/ must have trav- eled clear down there just for those sequences"