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CLAUDINE WEST • WRITER
BOX OFFICE CHAMPIONS:
SMILIN' THRU (MGM) PRIVATE LIVES (MGM) REUNION IN VIENNA (MGM) BARRETTS of Wimpole St. (MGM) DARK ANGEL (GOLDWYN)
Ralph Spence
conjure up overnight a section of the Grand Canyon or an ice jam on the Kennebec river. The "back lot" at 20th Century-Fox is covered with Darling's artistic achievements. Some may remain only a month, but most of his masterpieces of construction are permanent fixtures, to be used over and over again.
His pet achievement is a huge tank, some 200 feet long, 30 feet wide and five feet deep. It is a versatile property. Today it may be a Maine waterfront, tomorrow a prison moat, Tuesday a week, the home of sporting dolphins.
In its natural state, unadorned, this tank isn't much to look at. It might be a sec
William Darling
tion of a storm drain or an irrigation canal. But when Darling is confronted with a scenario which calls for water stuff he doesn't bat an eyelash. He calls good old Joe Tank into action.
In the twinkling of an eye, his designers contrive blueprints, estimates are completed, and material is on the ground before the prints are dry. The genii's of hammer and saw have whipped into shape the forbidding masonry walls of Fort Jefferson for "The Prisoner of Shark Island."
Today, at least, the tank is the sharkfilled moat surrounding the fort in which Warner Baxter, playing the role of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd, is incarcerated for aiding in the escape of John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of President Lincoln. Waves lap at the gray-stoned gates of the prison, propelled by hidden turbines. No prisoner would dare attempt an escape through those shark-infested waters.
Last week Darling called the tank into action to provide a Maine waterfront for Shirley Temple's latest picture, "Captain January." A wharf jutted into the stream, [TURN TO PAGE 160]
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