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Evening star., 1941-12-14

specifies "townspeople in the back
ground" TUNNEL and McGarry
have to visualize how many people.
The number would be placed on the
chart, later to be verified or changed
by Director Lubitsch. From their
breakdown the number of days re-
quired to film the picture is worked
out, and then at production meet
ings the actual cost of filming the
picture is determined in advance.
The importance of this work might
be more greatly appreciated if one
would realize that when a budget
for a picture is set, that is the
amount of money which is available
for the job. If the breakdown is
wrong, SO will be the budget, and
a budget suddenly discovered made
quate can be an embarrassing thing.
Paid for Waiting.
But the above work is just small
part of the assistant directors job
In the handling of the vast number
of players, varying from the big
stars on down through day players,
bit players, Stand-ins, dress extras,
ordinary extras and atmosphere
players, the assistant director must
know all the laws governing their
employment, as well as the rules
and regulations Of the Screen Ac-
tors Guild. Otherwise there would
be legal and union difficulties aris-
ing every day and trouble galore.
For example, they must know that
extras" can only be held for one
and a half hours for interviews or
else they have to be paid on the
basis of a one-quarter days pay
for each two hours they wait. So
when lot of extras are being called
for interviews the assistant has to
know how to call them so they can
all be interviewed without being
held for hours at great cost to the
producer.
They must know the rules and
regulations governing wardrobe fit-
tings, meal hours, overtime penalties,
rules covering transportation,
weather permitting" cslls and .
Evening star., 1941-12-14

Paulette Goddard-which would be
a good Change for any reporter if
ne could have half Rays luck in
meeting people.
A Coveted Role.
Going down the hall to the sports
Office, We find Spencer Tracy (edi-
tor Of that Department., making
love to Katherine Hepburn in
Woman of the Year" Not only
does the sports mugg make love to
Katie, but doggone if he doesn't
marry her. And she a highbrow
columnist with by-line on the
editorial page! That gives sports
editors something to shoot at.
Don't forget, too, that the life
of Mark Twain is coming to the
screen shortly. That will be a
newspaperman role that any Holly
wood actor would be justified in
grabbing, sans salary, for the glory
alone. Fredric March is leading
the race.
Another on the biographical side
is Uncle Clem's Boy" which is
the story of the beloved Will
Rogers. Will wasn't strictly a
newspaperman, but he did write
a column-a mighty snappy one.
too. Gary Cooper is out front for
this part-time newspaper romano
ing assignment.
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, IncD
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Bette Boosts
Competitor
For Role
Miss Davis Gets
Kings Row Part
For Betty Field
HOLLYWOOD.


The real story behind the selec-
ton of Betty Field for the highly
coveted role of Cassandra in Kings
Row" has finally been revealed by
Hal B. Wallis, Warner Bros ex-
ecutive producer. It's a story unique
in the history of Hollywood, where
competition is the fiercest in the
world.
Bette Davis, herself a candidate
for the part of Cassandra, was the
first to suggest Betty Field for the
role.
For a month Miss Davis actively
campaigned for the part. Warner
Bros, however, had other plans for
Hollywood's outstanding actress. re-
fused to permit her to play it. While
the debate was at its height Miss
Davis was bitten on the nose by a
pup. automatically removing her
from any further consideration.
With the picture two-thirds fin
ished and one of the leading parts
still uncast, the studio was really
on the spot. Thirty girls had been
tested, found not to be the type.
At this point Miss Davis persuad-
ed Wallis to see Betty Field in
Shepherd of the Hills" Followed
a test, in which Miss Field and
Robert Cummings played an emo
tional scene from Kings Row." a
test so perfect that Wallis ordered
the test footage used in the picture.
Bette Davis has given a boost to
film newcomers ere this. She was
responsible for getting Richard
Travis opposite her in The Man
Who Came to Dinner" and had a
hand in getting for the late James
Stephenson the part in THE Let
ter" which established him as a
star. Jane Bryan owed to Miss
Davis her chance at the career she
subsequently spurned for marriage.
But there's an angle to this new
est case that lifts it from mere gen.
erosity to the status of magnanimity.
It's generous to suggest that an
untried young actor be given a
leading mans part. Other actresses
have done that, and often. But it's
something else again to give a real
boost up the ladder of stardom to
the one girl who specializes in the
type of emotional role that has
made Miss Davis herself star.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Assistant Director Assists, but He Doesn't Direct

their job. If the wardrobe depart
ment delivers blue coats to $50 ex-
tras when they are supposed to be
brown coats trimmed with blue, it
is up to the assistant director to
catch the error. And, no matter
what the pressure may be, when
the director turns to call his as
sistant director he must be there.
Columns more could be devoted
to the various and sundry tasks of
these assistant directors, but the
above will give a faint idea of just
what an assistant director does.
Evening star., 1941-12-14

about the number OF stars that
could be crowded into one movie,
Boris Morros and S. P. Eagle (nee
Sam Speagle) got this idea: They
wanted to tell the tale of a dress
suit from tailoring shop to scare
crow. using not one or two stars.
but with Zig names in each sequence.
Friends laughed at Morros, one
time film musical director, and
Eagle, one time European movie
maker. No star, they were told,
would agree to appear in the first
IS minutes of a picture and then
pass out of the story, as they
planned. Or in the middle, just as
briefly, or anywhere else.
Became a Joke.
Morros and Eagle had no studio
connections. But they went ahead.
spending their own money on ex-
pensive writer's getting the story
into shape. They reasoned that if
they had an exceptional story the
stars would fall in line. And, need
ing jobs, they were sure they could
land them with a story and commit
ments from stars. The ridiculous
idea-so Hollywood said-became a
joke.
The would-be producers were Sc
rious. They had to have 10 big
names. Regular acting fees Of any
10 big names was out of the ques-
ton. So Morros and Eagle had to
get stars who would work briefly
and at reduced rates as well.
1t took them IA months to get
the people they wanted. With such
a story ben Hecht, Molnar, Donald
Ogden Stewart and Sam Hoffen-
stein are among the authors and
such a list of stars, Morros and
Eagle easily got jobs. goth Gen.
tury is financing
Rita Hayworth. Charles Boyer,
Charles Laughton. Ginger Rogers.
Henry Fonda, w. c. Fields, Edward
G. Robinson. Edward Arnold, Roch-
ester and Paul Robson are the
prominents who'll work part time
at special rates for the privilege Of
being in such an unusual picture.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
HOLLYWOOD.


Just what does an assistant di-
rector do during the filming of a
motion picture?
That is one of the rarest ques-
tions asked by visitors to a motion
picture studio. The reason 1t Is
rarely asked is because the general
public takes for granted the mis-
taken idea that an assistant direc-
tor assists the director in directing
But except for occasional mob"
scenes, where some one has to di-
rect the crowd while the director
handles the principals, an assistant
director doesn't assist in direction.
In reality the title of assistant di-
rector is a misnomer. According to
William TUNNEL and William Nc
Garry, first and second assistant
directors, respectively, for Ernst
Lubitsch in the filming of ITO Be
or Not to Be-" an assistant director
has to be a walking encyclopedia,
trouble shooter, mind reader, alarm
clock for the stars, buffer for the
director and front Office, lawyer,
casting expert, diplomat and the
person to be blamed for any and
every thing that goes wrong during
the making Of the picture.
Chart the Action.
Let's look at the work of these
two assistant directors in connec-
ton with the filming of ITO Be or
Not to Be-" Weeks prior to filming
was scheduled to start they were
handed a script Of the picture. 1t
was their job to first become thor
oughly familiar with the story and
then break the script down" scene
for scene and prepare a shooting
schedule to be followed during pro-
duction.
In other words, they had to chart
the number and description of every
individual setting and the action to
be played therein.
From this they laid out the chart
showing how many extras would be
used in each scene, the type of ex-
tras, all the properties to be used
and every one Of the countless other
incidentals.
II . scene Is written IN the script
Evening star., 1941-12-14

GROUNDS. A guard nrSC haQ TO know
her name before he could open the
gate. There was long drive from
the gate to the house, past a golf
course, tennis courts, waterfall
and acres of flowers and formal
gardens.
| The Lloyd girls, who met their
school chum in the patio, told her
she would have her picture taken
as she passed through the front
door, but that she couldn't know it,
Every one who goes through the
Lloyds' front door is photographed.
This is a precautionary measure,
presuming that robbers or kid
napers use the front entrance. My
informant didn't learn whether other
entrances were camera guarded.
"Prison Bars"
The little visitor thought it would
be nice to look upon the expansive
garden from Mildred's bedroom
She wondered how many flowers and
what other sights she'd see. She
was amazed to find the window COW
cred by large bars-"regular prison
bars" She didn't think she'd like
to sleep in that room.
When Mildred and Gloria 20 to
dancing parties in the evening, my
friend related, they are accompanied
by bodyguard as well as by their
dates" She didn't know what the
boys think of this chaperonage, but
wouldn't like it. So far as is known,
Lloyd's children never have been in
timated or threatened with kidnap-
| ing, but the worry is apparently
ever present.
Who's Mr.. Lloyd?
This girls father and I realized
we are getting old when she said,
''By the way, who is Harold Lloyd?
How did he make all that money!"
His home, one of the truly impress
sive places of Movieland, costs s1,500
a month in taxes alone.
When We told her that Lloyd was
movie star, and that that was
how he made his millions, she was
speechlesS. She wondered why she
never had seen one of his pictures.
Of course she's only II and has been
going to movies only for four or five
years. Lloyd has been in only two
pictures in the last five years and
he probably never will appear in an
other. He's producing them now.
Tale of a Dress Suit.
If you have the idea that the green
light is always on for fellows in
Movieland with ideas let me correct
that with the story behind Tales
of Manhattan"
From dinner table conversation
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Thar's Gold,
Only Not
For Brian
Defense Ores,
However, Interest
Mr.. Donlevy
By Vern Hangland,
Wide World News.
HOLLYWOOD.


Just like the rest of us, movie
actors dream of finding gold IN
them thar hills. Actors are notable
suckers for gold mines.
Hardly a movie hero or heroine
breatheS who has not been ap-
preached about gold UNNECESSARILY
by an extra who has friend who
has a sure thing. Many an actor
has backed a prospector or small
mine operator; few have seen the
investment pay dividends.
Brian Donlevy, too, has been Bit
ten by the gold bug. But he says
he has recovered, and though still
a miner at heart is interested now
only in the baser metals-particu-
larly those needed for national de-
fense.
Brian was bit annoyed the other
day because a change in a film
schedule forced him to cancel plans
for a trip to one of his mines in
the Panamint Range. Here he was.
in Army clothes on a movie set, in
stead of swinging pick-ax at
promising ore on some hillside.
"Vic McLaglen got me to grub
stake a prospector four years ago."
said Donlevy.
ut was the first time I ever got
interested in mining. The prospec-
tor kept getting into me more and
more. After while I found myself
the owner of a gold mine in the
Panamints near Death Valley.
II subscribed to a lot of mining
journals, and started reading up"
For the past two years, having
rellnquished his roster dreams, Don
levy has been interested more in the
so-called defense ores than in gold.
He has four mining properties. One
shows particularly good deposits of
antimony, he said. Another COM
prises a 10-acre hill of graphite ore
in which the Government has shown
an interest.
Altogether" he said, II make
about 81 200 year out of the mines.
but you can't call it profit. The
money goes right back into the
property"
Pleasant thing about mining, said
Donlevy, is that you can mine
proftably in widely different areas
lin the mountains, in the desert
North. South, East, West-one of the
first gold mines in this country, you
know, was in Georgia"
Evening star., 1941-12-14

NCUlllluueQ from rISL FdSeJ
its place on the list because of its
dramatic excellence up to the final
scenes. Few studies in psychopathy
have managed to be as suspenseful
entertainment as Alfred Hitchcock's S
adaptation of Frances lies popular
novel. Moreover, few pictures have
offered such superb principal per-
formances as those of Joan Fon-
taine and Cary Grant.
THE Maltese Falcon" with which
the list ends, was Actor Walter Hus-
tons son Johns first picture as a
director, notable addition to the
list of those which indicate that
the writer is a whale of a lot more
significant figure than he has been
regarded. 1t also was fine bit OF
sustained thriller entertainment.
Evening star., 1941-12-14

musical comedy. She's feet 7.
weighs 120 pounds, and her hair is
a reddish blond. Janis was born
and schooled in Cleveland and re-
ceived both a bachelor of arts and
bachelor of music degree at Western
Reserve University. She's lyric So
prano, screen-drafted from the cast
of Panama Hattie" To date she's
done little more than pose for pub
hcity stills, but these studies have
been luscious enough to make even
blase screenlanders do a double
take. After a bit in Cadet Girl"
M-G-M borrowed her for an i'm
portant role in Il Married an An
GEL" now in production. Janis is
81, unwed and was known to folks
back in Cleveland as Janis Dre-
mann.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Joan With Bower

Charles Boyer and Joan Fontaine
will co-star in The Constant
Nymph" for Warner Bros. The
screen version of the Margaret Ken
nedy novel, which was also the
basis of a highly successful stage
play, will be directed by Edmund
Goulding. 1t is slated to go into
production in January.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Musical Starts

Hal Roach has put "Cobana,' a
new musical with Latin American
background. into production. Mar
jorie Woodwork, Bill Marshall
former singer with Fred Waring' S
band and also on the Broadway
stage; George Givot, Claudia Drake,
Jane Hazard, Edward Gargan, Jerry
Bergen, Jane Kean and Rita Mon
toVa are featured.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Ida Won't Weep

Ida Lupino will star for Warner
Bros. in The Damned Don't Cry"
film adaptation of Harry Hervey's
novel of that name. James Cain,
himself a weu-known novelist, has
been signed by Warmers to write the
screen play based on the Hervey
story.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
On Life in a Gilded Gaze
Guest of Harold Lloyd's Daughters
Doesn't Think Shed Like 1t
By Hubbard Keavv,
By Hubbard Keavy,
Wide World News.


From young friend who afternoon evening
Harold Lloyd home idea
of what life is like gilded cage
friend
Gloria said
visit but she is certain she wouldn't
The
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Invasion of PressrOOms
On in Many New Films
Reporters Are Heroes of Number
Of Current and Forthcoming
Cinema Entertainments
nema Entertainments

HOLLYWOOD.
Editorial seconsciousy days-n fact their
inmates actually bshing In hadn't
the movies catching with the
and
After all these of dvng of John Public
Evening star., 1941-12-14

IN NEW PHASE-So says Martha Graha the noted exponent
of modern dancing her Dork 1t u.s. she reports out OF the
oolens period dances she and her
,uu present at Constitution Hall Thursday notable for their
dramatic and humorous quality
Evening star., 1941-12-14
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-01
Big-Piane Builders

The pioneer bTg-pfaHe makers,
ell Of whom are making bigger
planes than ever now for defense
and planning still bigger ones for
postwar peace are Martin.=BQe-
ing. Douglas, Consolidated and
Lockheed.
The air-cooled engines. which
are-the only ones with horse
power enough for such great ships
as are being built and planned,
are made by Pratt and Whitney
and by Wright Aeronautical. They
are both lacking up their horse
power as the plane builders are
constantly striving for bigger and
faster ships.
a survey Of these seven COM
panies, which because of military
secrecy and the rivalry OF com
mercial competition stop short OF
telling all, permits this rough
sketch of "he plane OF the fu-
ture." which should be common
place within a year after the war
Is over.
1t will carry between 80 and 100
passengers. besides mail. and the
likelihood is that the single wing
will be increased IN spread and
depth 10 permit passengers com
partments as well as fuel tanks
and engine repair shops and the
fuSelage Will be pulled IN toward
the center OF the ring.
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High Flying Palaces:
u. S. Drafts Plans
For Strato-Liners
Output of Fast, Luxurious Planes
Awaits Coming of Peace
BY w. w. CHAPLIN
Int'I News Service National Defense Expert

tastic, there is the testimony of
such hard-headed and practical
producers of big planes as Glenn
L. Martin, famous for giant bomb
ers and huge ocean clippers for a
generation.
When L asked for his views on
the postwar planes he wouldn't
give details because he didn't want
TO tip his hand TO competitors. but
he did say that he was planning
a mysterious new model for i'm
mediate production after the war
Surprise Airpiane
This company" he told me,
"will attack the world COM
mercial market with a surprise
airpIaRe that will mark a new
era I'm air transport"
The all-but-final steps in this
plan for postwar giants Of the air
surprising all planes of the past
have. in fact. already been taken.
President Jack Frye of Transcon-
tinental and Western Air, one of
The three great croSs-country
routes, recently announced jointly
with Howard Hughes, famous
world girdling record holder and
a part owner of TWA, that new
planes have already been ordered
from Lockheed which will far sur
pass any commercial planes yet
built for speed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-01
Busy as Possible NoW

At the moment defense and war
orders are keeping the big five"
manufacturers of giant planes and
the two makers Of high-powered
airplane engines busy as they
never were busy before for three
shifts a day. Virtually 100 per
cent Of the plant production ca
pacity. of all available skilled la
Dor. and OF all the tools and ma
terials which can be obtained are
devoted 10 defense orders.
But under all the thunder and
flame of defense production, other
work is going on almost I'M
noticed-the translation of all the
lessons learned from the great de-
Tense program of warcraft into
terms Of greater and faster planes
to carry passengers and freight
during the coming days OF peace.
Under the forced draft Of the
unlimited emergency. await o n
leaders believe, airplane design
and structure Will progress ire
mendously in the coming year.
Every advance male in the in
terests of defense is being adopted
10 future use for commercial pur-
Doses
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5000 II. p. Engines

This likelihood is emphasized by
Hall Hibbard. chief engineer OF
Lockheed, who told me he believes
the huge airliners OF the fctare
Will tend toward an eventual
flying wing"
The motive power OF these
planes will consist of four. six or
even eight air-cooled engines, each
of which will develop at least s.
600 horsepower The most power
full engines now IN use are oil
1000 horsepower. but $500 horse
power engines are in the early
stages of production and 3,Ooo
horsepower Jobs have reached the
working pilot model stage.
With such power and the addi-
tional streamlining Of plane and
engines already worked out al
least in wind tunnel tests, these
monster planes will start off with
a speed of $50 miles an hour and
il is expected that can be quickly
raised 10 at least 400, approx
mately the present speed OF tho
best military planes.
With changes in design anc
propeller action already planned
these planes will be able TO rise
easily TO a level flight altitude OF
$4,000 feet TO escape changeablC
atmospheric conditions which arc
common close 10 the earth.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-01

NEW YORK. May 31.-Ameri-
can strato-palaces-the fastest,
most luxurious and highest flying
passenger planes ever built-are
already taking form on drawing
boards and in wind tunnels. and
will be thrown into production
when peace comes.
This postwar planning is Amer
lean aviation's preparation for the
colossal dislocation and reorgani-
Zation which is expected to follow
the end of war and which might
wreck the aircraft industry if its
leaders were not ready 10 take up
the slack with advances which will
create new services and new jobs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-01
New Landing Gear

Because OF the changing design
in these drawing board planes
there probably will have to be an
entirely new form of landing gear.
One possibility is the tricycle. gear,
already used on few small
planes, so that the ships will be
at the same angle 10 the earth
flying or standing still.
The passenger space in the wing
will undoubtedly, in accordance
with the present trend, be cut up
into spacious compartments. with
possibly a dining salon or recre-
alton room in the center bulge
and a glassed-in promenade deck
S-der the trailing edge of the wing.
II case this may sound too fan
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