Evening star., 1940-11-10

answer to a golf dubs prayer. But
when 1t reached that part of the
film where the dog was supposed to
find the golf ball in the rough-the
producer decided to could get big
ger laugh from the public by chang
ing the script.
5000, he cut out that scene
showing the dog pointing the ball.
He inserted closeup film strips that
made it appear the dog was pointing
crickets, bull frogs, old shoes and
just about everything except what
he was supposed to point-golf balls!
D.. The stunt, as expected, created
more laughs than the original ball
pointing idea
Fhony Sounds.
Silly sallies-MoSt movie flowers
are artificial. About the only
time real ones are used is when they
appear in outstanding closeup
scenes or when they are carried or
worn by some star. who'd think ar
tificial flowers incongruous to both
her makeup and emotion. Be
cause they have to be recorded in
side the studio, all sound effects you
hear in Walt Disney comic picture
are phonies. What appears in the
movies to be hardwood floors is
only Cornell board that can be in
stalled in 30 minutes, removed in Is.
Short snort-In filming Moon
Over Burma" the script called for
view of a huge map OF Burma.
Indo- China. Dutch East Indies and
India But due to unsettled con-
ditionS abroad, the studio delayed
shooting that scene until the very
last, to avoid possibility of having to
redo it. in the event those countries
changed hands.
Assorted asides-Plymouth Rock,
that storied marker on the MaSsa-
chusetts coast, may soon make its
debut in the movies. E. Permission
to photograph the Pilgrim shrine
for sequences in Legacy" has been
requested of the State Historical So
ciety at Boston. . Out here in this
land of glamour and other things,
''rancher" humorously is referred to
as guy who is paying the mortgage
on a station wagon.
To be entirely authentic, a COM
plete hydrotherapeutic installation,
identical to that used for infantile
paralysis treatment at President
RooSevelt's Warm Springs Founda-
ton, was obtained by M. G. M. Stu
dio for the latest DR.. Kildare pic
ture. Lionel Barrymore will use it
on Patient Bobs Watson.
Phony Sparks.
Orphaned oddity-Shortly after
State Safety Commission represen-
tative inspected electrical equipment
at Republic, a deputy nabbed the
studios electrical department head,
charging that he had constructed
and was operating certain electrical
apparatus. including switchboards,
in violation of prescribed safety
codes.
1t all looked pretty serious until
it developed the inspector had blum
dered into a maze of phony elec-
trical apparatus being used for a
movie. =. But it was only after the
studio produced photographs and
actual footage of the picture and
exhibited them before board Of
inquiry that the whole thing was
laughed off
Chitter chatter-Claudette Colbert
once supported herself by selling
dress designs for 50 each and Civ
ing French lessons for 81 an hour.
Andy Devine, that hulking man.
mountain heavy" with the high
pitched voice, plays the sissy role
of a clumsy valet to Cowboy Brod-
erick Crawford in Trail of the
vigilantes," and also has to give a
fluffy soap bath in a barrel to
sphinx-faced Mischa Auer, . Al
though she is only IS years old, Lois
Werner has appeared in more than so