Evening star., 1942-04-19

room as a bead in a large bass drum.
There were extras. though, but
they were apart. flying high up in
airplanes, doing maneuverS. Para
mount got all the winter scenes II
wanted. and not too soon. either, for
the Government beckoned all the
planes down and told the pilots
there'd be no more of that, and
they might as well go right back to
Hollywood. and take the skiffs along
with them. SO back they went. with
the planes disjointed like chickens.
1t gave the flyers a peck OF trouble
to knock those planes apart way up
in a pine forest, with the snow 10
feet deep.
They wished they could have
flown back, but camouflaged planes,
void of insignia and equipped with
bomb racks. are not the kind OF
weapons any reasonable citizen
would care to be found with at this
iuncture. One look at them high
up, and any sensible State would
60 into blackout at once. and the
interceptor command would be hot
winging it to the scene in the blink
of a hawke eye. 1t makes 1t rather
tough for the cinema flyers. some OF
whom, like Paul Mantz. who flies
for Paramount. have been doing
nothing else for Is years. But Mantz
got all he wanted, and reeled of
enough background stuff - flight
above snowy mountains-to keep
Paramount going, for polar. Andean
and Mount Everest dramas, a long
while to come.
Trouble for Nothing.
Snow there was a-plenty when
Cianelli and Director Sam Wood
went up to film Gustavo dodging
behind rocks, solo and In homicidial
mood, but 1t was all in long shots
But no snow had fallen in the gully
So Wood had 4 tons of the synthetic
article hauled in. 1t was bleached
corn bran. 1t photographs better
than snow, hasn't the glare that
makes real snow look so artificial
and when trod upon gives out a
subzero crackle. In fact. the hotter
the day, the louder the crackle.
1t was a lot of trouble for nothing
though. Wind blew off the flakes
then real snow fell, with an at
tack of seven-below-zero weather
Cianelli went into some quite
vigorous acting, firing pistols and
stamping about, which was one way
to keep from freezing to death in q
Sierra snowdrift at 10000 feet alti-
tude. 1t was trifie easier for
Wood, who had a large cigar and q
portable heater going and was COM
fortably done up in furs.
you think you can stand that
Eduardo2" he asked leisurely, squint-
ing through the lens finder.
BY a Herculean effort, Cianelli
quelled the chattering of his teeth.
Listen" he said. You ever
heard of 'winterset'? Well, I acted
In that for three seasons"
Things had been going pleasantly
at the studio itself, which an
nounced some very important cast.
ings. AKIN Tamiroff as Pablo
Joseph Calleia, Ell Sordo; vladimir
Sokoloff, Anselmo, and Duncan
Renaldo as 1t. Berendo.
Nom Committal Response.
Their Importance was not to bt
gainsaid, but what everybody wanted
to know. 1t seemed, was who was tt
play Robert Jordan and Pillar anc
Maria, especially Maria. On these
points the studio remained elo-
quently silent, with a "that's-all-
the there re-is-from-here" atti-
tude. B. G. de Sylvia. Sam Wood
and Wally Westmore may have ar
nkling about Maria, but naught car
be pried from them. One astutt
journalist, not giving way to despair
wrote down list with the query
'Is Maria among these?" and sent
1t In to the heads. The names were
Ingrid Bergman, Madeleine Carroll
Paulette Goddard, Vivian Leigh
Luise Rainer. Betty Field, Frances
Farmer, Hedy Lamar, Merle
Oberon, Dorothy Lamour anc
Katharine Hepburn. 1t was all the
names he could think of at the mo.
ment.
The response was appreciative
but non-committal.
1T is quite possible that Maria
Is among these" 1t said. "At least
DANCING.