The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-14
- In
Hollywood
ny ERsKINE JOHNSON
NRA Stan Correspondent

Adolf Hitler was reading Variety.
Olsen and johnson were lombard
ing the sandbagged studio gate with
ing her hips for q sad-eyed l4-foot
King Cobra and Diana Barrymore
VII dealing a nand Of draw poker
in the Red Bull Saloon. Our studio
guide was apologize. 1t was COM
paratively dull day, he said. you
should have been here yesterday.
Adolf Hitler chased himself through
o revolving door and Maria threw
herself out q l0-story window"
Perhaps in the early morning
California fog, we thought, we
had mistaken a nut house for
Universal sVudio. Just ten we
ducked, as a blast from a siege
gun ripped away the sign. Olsen
and johnson thumbed their noses
at the san-bagged gate. Diana
Barrymore, unconcerned, shuffled
O new hand.
Dull day, Ell? We were headed
for q sign reading Bomb Shell
ter" and looking frantically for
IN air raid warden. when our
guide grabbed US by the coat
tails. Please" he said, "the boys in
the white coats with the butterfly
nets will be out here II you don't
explain to the people
Maybe the guide was right. Per-
haps we should explain. And after
all, the Universal scenarists were to
blame.
ALL IN THE PLOT
The shooting and the sand-bagged
gate were for Olsen and Johnson's
new comedy, Crazy House" APP
propriate title. The story starts off
with o. & ]. returning to the studio
to appear In another motion pic
ture. Studio employees hear about 1t
and, remembering the last time the
comedians made picture, decide to
keep them off ire lot. Hence the
sand bags and o. & J. siege guns.
But the comedians outwit the
studio by becoming human cannon
balls and blowing themselves over
the studio walls. But this, our
studio guide explained, was very dull
compared to the things that hap
pen once o. q J. set inside the
walls. 'You should have been here
yesterday when"
We were about to learn the grim
details, when Adolf Hitler walked
by reading Variety. He was en- route
to Stage IL, our guide said, for
scene In the picture, THE Strange
Death Of Adolf Hitler" We followed
Adolf to the set and found Direc-
tor Jimmy Hogan up to his neck IN
Nazis.
"Just how Adolf is killed is a
big studio secret" Director Hogan
said. "but it will be very delight
full, indeed"
Our guide pushed us off the
stage onto the set of a western
film. Frontier Badman," where
Diana Barrymore was dealing
poker to leading man Bob Paige
and some rough customers Of the
Red Bull Saloon while Andy De-
vine loked on. Miss Barrymore,
in the get-up Of a dance hall
queen, looked mighty pretty and
said she was very happy about play
ing N D WeStSIu p1CtulC AoA tAAo 1As'
time.
On the stage next door, Maria
Montez was in the throes Of
snake dance, gyrating around
l4-foot, disinterested King Cobra
(the big dope) for a scene IN a
flicker titled cobra Woman"
Maria said the cobra was tame as
a puppy. But the studio was TAX
ing no chances. Maria was dane
ing at a safe distance away
while the snakes trainer and the
snakes agent stood by with
wicked looking, three-pronged forks.
Maria also plays dual role IN
the picture-a good and a bad
princess. aid yesterday" she
said, IT had fight with myself
and threw myself out of a 49,
story window"
Our guide said, Eyes, you
should have been here"
YES, we said. I'VE know.
Very dull today. We should have
been here yesterday" I