Evening star., 1943-04-18
To Spare the Pubic's Sensibilities
On the Screen the People Won't Eat So WE'LL Either

in which. holding their morning
coffee, they try to borrow sugar from
horse.
Of course, the old stock scene in
which the gangster's car roars
adays would bring down the house
a brick at time-as anguished pa
irons demonstrated what they
thought of such rubber wasting An
automobile chase sequence in THE
Gay Sisters" was hissed in almost
every theater in the country. The
picture was unfortunate enough to
hit the screens a week or so after
the Nation was notified of its dire
rubber situation.
George Pair for 1t.
Only tire blowout Hollywood has
seen in some time was filmed in
"Bomber's Moon In this case it
was tire on an airplane piloted by
George Montgomery, who went into
the Army, anyway, right after the
picture was finished.
Those big wedding festas are
strictly out. too. MGM ruled
against a grogeous Russian feasting
sequence originally scheduled for the
cellulcid rites between Robert Tay-
lor and Susan Peters in Russia"
Instead of principals and guests
stufing themselves full of famous
Russian edibles, a small table of
modest tidbits is shown in the back
ground And no one goes near
enough to it to get bite!
Sonia Henie had one of the most
conventional wedding scenes i'm
aginahle in winter Times" and
everybody was very happy with it
until some one happened to notice
that after the ceremony the guests
threw the conventional old shoes
and lot of rice. Sober heads went
into conference and ruled the rice
out, making the excellent point that
nobody is throwing any rice after
departing brides and grooms these
days, either on the screen or off.
The fat lady who lays on a chaise
Tongue nibbling chocolates won't fit
in with the headlines, either. Now
adays she nibbles at stalk of parsley.
if she's lucky, and, anyway, she
ought to be in a war production fac
tory instead of on a soft couch.
Headlines also have suppressed
those scenes in which the hero takes
long drive in the moonlight. Irate
A-card holders in the audience
would razz the fellow and probably
break up the show Even for pic
lures which happened a long time
ago, like, Hello Frisco, Hello" for
which Alice Faye had to reshoot a
scene in which she ruined a pair of
silk stockings.
SmallScale Chase.
In Swing Shift Maisie," Ann
Sothern was filmed in chase scene
in which her limousine was being
followed by fast convertible sedan.
This had to be retaken-and the
chase now takes place in two midget
cars.
An early scene in Lets Face 1t"
carried a banquet in which Bob
Hope and Betty Hutton feasted on
pre-ration comestibles. Censorship
exerted by the headlines changed
the banquet to hamburger apiece.
Jean Arthur is hot-headed secre-
tary in THE Lady Takes Chance"
but the scene showing her wadding
up a ruined letter and heaving same
into wastebasket was shot over
again. In the revised showing the
crumpled letter won't include previ-
Gus carbon paper, which is scarce.
Ginger Rogers goes in for several
dream sequences in Lady in the
Dark" In one she dreams she is
IN butcher shop and is drawing
from her purse 20 yards Of ration
tickets. The head lines censor
stopped her on the 10-yard line.
Eddie Bracken's troubles with his
car in THE Miracle of Morgan
Creek" were funny up to a point
when he began to throw away
broken parts from the interior of the
motor. Change in plans will show
the broken metal descending into .
conveniently nearby scrap pile.
About the only thing the head
lines haven't rationed in Holly.
wood yet is love. 1t begins to look az
if love is here to stay.
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