The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-27
BY GEORGE RAFT

Things w. w. Never Knew 'til Now
 About the Movies:
 Thlsa and Thata: There are Bibles In all the dressing rooms on the Warner lot There are more oewsreel theaters in the city of Lon- don than in the entire U. s. Asta the dog, has a clause in his con- tract which gives him top screen billing over any other animal actor .. !. George Bernard Shaw once saw e film which he disliked Sc much that he bawled out the the- ater, manager The manager now writes to Shaw and tells him which pictures to come to see and which to avoid Sheep are the most difficult animals to train for the movies Humphrey Bogart, the film bogeyman, is a member oi the California Sunshine and Flower Club"
 Taboos: Snakes, rats and mice are taboo as newsreel subjects be- cause of the bad effect on women . . No baby less than 10 days old can work in pictures. Babies from 10 to 30 days old mustn't be ex- posed to lights more than 90 seconds and their days work mustn't exceed 20 minutes. Moreover, the baby mustn't hang around the studio more than two hours The word "gigolo" can't be used in films shown in England Since the Hays office intervened, actresses are seldom kissed in bedrooms any, more. (The favorite indoor kissing spot is now the drawing room, and the kitchen next) Only &C., tors who have no hair on their chests are allowed to appear bare- chested on the screen Women can't be referred to as "dames" in movie dialogue.
 Tricks of the Trade: Marble in the moveis is made out of paper Bronze substitutes for red on the screen Gin black and white films), because red photographs grey :. To get the effect of frost on windoW-panes, a mixture of stale beer and Epson salts is used Movie snow is cleaned after each picture and put away for flu. ture use. Because it's made oi bleached cornflakes.) Old pa. per towels are used by the studios to make artificial trees Grape juice was used as a substitute foi blood in Each Dawn I Die" Meat used as props must be made lip just like the actors. (Wher 1t comes to the oven, 1t looks dull and artificial, unless 1t is properly colored and shaded for the camera Ginger ale substitutes fol champagne in pictures Soar in movies is really cheese, soar studs are really whipped cream, ano shaving lather is actually lemon meyingue Most movie trees are made out of cement.
 Tips to Movie Aspirants: A new. comers chances of crashing thu movies is 30,000 to one Tn. average persons chances of becom. ing Q movie star is 150,000 to one A>6ih n CNCo dk v bC6U SNAIVtl vic cameras. (Blue eyes are hare to photograph Tn love scenes movie directors prefer the actor no to be in love with the actress h, has to kiss. (Oddly enough, he kiss es more realistically if he isn't il love with her) Good movi legs are legs that are fairly slim yet shapely, with small ankles ant smoothly rounded knees Tn, first thing 8 casting director note when looking at screen test is thu actresses legs. Next is the set ol her head on her shoulders.
 Famous First: The first Hollywood preview was of Thomas H. Ince! "Custer's Fight" starring Franci! Ford. It was held in October, 1911 at the old Hymer theater, in Venice Cal. and the audience included Sarah Bernhardt, Jim Jeffries, Maj c. Goodwin and Ruth Roland The first newsreel stunt subject was a parachute jump from the Statue of Liberty by Rodman Law
 The first person ever to be signet to movie contract was James J ------------------------