The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18
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Claire Trevor DOdgeS Into 'Dead End"
 To Shake Off Her Fame As GlamOr Girl
RH PAUL HARRISON

NEA Service SGafI COFrcspVnueuS Holiywood.-Movies in the mak- ing: Claire Trevor's part in Dead End" is merely a bit. But Miss Trevor. who has been starred in 22 pictures in the past four years, IS pinning her acting hopes on It.. She thinks 1t may do for her what the waitress role in "Of Human Bondage" did for Bette Davis.
 Miss Trevor worked only a day and a half for G0Oldwyn. She walked down dirty street. spoke to Allen Jenkins, stepped into an alley and faced Humphrey BOgart for a few moments, speaking about ten lines of diaIOg. Then she hurried away.
 That was all. Her role is that of Francey, gangster's childhood sweetheart who now has sunk even lower. Bogart hasn't seen her for a long time, and for a mo- ment in the dim light of the alley he fails to recognize her for what she is.
 Then she moves out of the shadow into the sunlight and
 cries: Look at me good you've been looking at me the way I used to be-"
 Even the way writers have toned it down to make it acceptable 10 all, "Dead End" remains pretty bit ter fare for the screen. This is all right with the cast, and especially all right with Miss Trevor. She's sick of playing glannor girls, sick of being a heroine.
 "At last I'll have chance Ot do something besides wear clothes and smiIe," she said.
 q was tired of doing routine heroines in routine romances. needed something to give me kreak, and I think Francey is the answer. Of course it may type me just as the other parts have typed me.
 After Dead End they may want me to play only women oi the streets. Well, Columbus took a chance. So did Bob Montgomery when he changed over from a play boy comedian to a psychopathlc murderer.
 Symphony of Illusion For one sequence in "ArtlstS ana Models" the camera will enter what seems to be huge theater and will approach the stage as the orchestra begins the overture and the pit rises majestically to the level of the stage. The leader, at least by his motions and his mop of hair, looks like Leo- poid Stokowski.
 But as the camera hears the stage it shows that the instruments ln the orchestra seem to be playing them selves
 The violins, bass viOlS, horns,
 harp, pianos, banjOs and drums
 have arms and legs. They wleld
 their own bows, finger their own
 keys and strings, and beat them
 selves with drumSticks.
 By the time this is evident, it also can be seen that the leader is not Stokowski, but puppet.
 The whole things in miniature, a spectacular trick of illusion. The proscenium arch is only about SIX feet high at the center. :,
 It all has been done by Russeh
 Patterson, the artist whose New
 York friends used to think he
 was crazy for dabbling with ami
 mated dolls. But his work has
 won him a nice contract now-as
 advisory assistant to Producer
 William Le Baron. For rehearsals of the disembodied symphony, Patterson first had a bunch of property men yanking the strings leading to the instruments But the f1esh-and-blood conductor Phil Boutelje, couldn't synchronlze them. So now the puppeteers are professional musicians.
 There are IA of them. Violin
 ists operate the cords which
 work the fiddle bows. Able
 drummers, by remote control