The Washington times., 1937-06-12
Honeymoon
Fun Roges in
The Studio
BY HARRISON CARROLL
HOLLYWOOD, June 12.-Lights!

HOLLYWOOD, June 12.-Lights!
Camera! Action!
Gene Raymond is rushing to
get out of movie bridal suite
to keep a date with jeanette Mac.
Donald in real one.
The scene is for R-K-O's THE
Life of the Party" and the bridal
suite probably will top anything
that Gene and Jeanette will see
on their honeymoon.
Set designers have really gone
overheard. Twin beds with padded
satin backs, yards and yards OF
silk Grapes, a balcony overlooking
q garden, windows giving a vista
Of the sea.
In one of the twin beds is a
girl in pink pajamas, Harriet Hill
lard.
Gene and Harriet are not really
married in the picture. They
have pretended to be and are
caught In the old farce situation
of having to occupy the bridal
suite.
It is morning. Gene has slept
on a couch on the balcony with
out taking off his clothes. AS
movie heroes do after such a night,
he looks as fresh as daisy.
Director william Setter is now
ready to shoot for the scene. "Au
right, Gene" he says. Gene slips
into the room, leans over and
kisses the sleeping Harriet. He
is starting for the door when there
is a firm knock on its panels. Gene
ruSheS for the balcony, sees there
is no hiding place there and, in
sudden panic, dives into the other
twin bed. It collapses with q re-
sounding crash.
That is all. The scene is left
suspended, just as in a nightmare.
THE Life of the Party" has
been written in typical Hollywood
manner. It was originally a story
called Three on Latchkey." But
when they got into the script they
decided to eliminate the whole
sequence about the latchkey. So
they had to change the title of
the picture. Then they weren't
satisfied with having the story
take place in Budapest. So they
rewrote it as happening in Santa
Barbara.
It is the scenario writer's, not
the Lon Chaneys and the Boris
Karloffs, who are Hollywood's
real masters Of disguise.
The new Myrna Loy.William
Powell picture, Double Wedding"
will be another 'Libeled Lady,
the studio hopes.
Myrna is q super business
woman who likes to run her own
and everybody else's life with per-
feet precision. Bill is q Screwy
artist who runs around wearing
q raccoon coat.
Most of the dialogue is crazy.
We watch them shoot the first
scene of the picture.
Myrna's butler, Sidney Toler, is
serving breakfast. Myrna is sitting
at one end Of the table and her
niece, Florence Rice, at the other.
Florence reads from the paper:
Imagine! Louella Truelove and
Rodney Armitage have been mar
ried two months-and they have
O 6-year-old son."
Myrna, thinking about business
replies, absently: well, there is
such a difference of time between
here and California"
There is a bit of real drama in
this scene. Double Wedding" is
being directed by Richard Thorpe,
who came through so well in his
first big picture, Might Must Fall"
When Director Thorpe was nine
years old he used to distribute
hand bills for a stock company in
Wichita, Kan. One Of the leading
actors in the company was Sidney
Toler. whom Thorpe now tells how
to be q butler in Double Wedding"
Another new Hollywood director,
Gregory Ratoff, is more fun to
watch than the scenes he is direct
ing.
On the set Ratoff wears a yacht
ing cap, a brown coat and pants
rolled UP to his calves.
Everything everybody does is
transitional"
When we visit Lancer Spy" the
AoVoara '01savnp fS HYaiVA1 1HYn q Shnt If
George Saunders and Luther Adler,
English secret agents who are mas
querading as German officers.
Ratoff calls Adler over. I'm that
last shot," he says, you were san
sashional. Don't change a thing.
We are going to shoot it again.
Now, here is how I want you to
do I'll"
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