Boy's Cinema (1939-40)

2i copies of the Brussels "L-e Soil-,' dated August 5th and 18th, 1914, and telling of Germany's invasion of neutral Belgium. Tliey will appear on the screyn as mserts. In "Nurse Edith Cavell," Anna Neagle is supported by a cast of. forty top-notch HoHj'W'Ood players headed by Edna May Oliver. May. Robson, George Sanders, Zasu Pitts, Gustav Von Seyffertitz and Lucien Piuval, but with all due respect to them, Wilcox, himself, is mostly intrigued by his .new screen discoveries. CAVALRY UNIT GIVES "GERONIMO" THRILLING FINALE A Paramount location troupe visited Fort Bliss Texas, to film a sweeping final sequence for " Geronimo." the story of the Apache reign of terror in the Southwest din-ing the last generation. ■ The entire cavalry detachment of the army post donned the regalia of half a century ago, brought by special freight car from Hollj'wood. and staged n spectacular ceremonial review for the picture. The cast is headed by Preston Foster, Ellen Drew. Andy Devihe, Gene Lockhart, William Henry, Ralph Morgan, Marjorie Gateson and Chief Thunder Cloud a full- blooded Cherokee who has the title role. The Fort Bliss location scenes were, an afterthought, decided upon two months after everyone had supposed the picture was finished. BOY'S CINEMA appearing before too cameras in over 100 pictures. ^ Never before has she done a scene off-stage. Tlie other day, howevcrl she was in Big Bpar Valley for her role in "Untamed,' Paramount's Tcclmicolor epic of the northwoods. She plays the part of a wobble-tongiied gossip The scene showed her looking out of a \vindow at the three stars, Ray Milland, Patricia Morison and Akim Tamiroff. She did not speak a line. The *sccne required twenty-seven seconds. "Anyway it breaks my record," Eily Malyon said. • A STRANGE RECORD BROKEN Eily Malyon, veteran English character Jictre'ss, has jUst broken a ten-year-o'd record. She went on location. Since 1929 Miss Malyon has been LARGEST MIRROR IN MOVIE HISTORY Experts who silver the great mirrors for telescopes, such as the 200-inch reflector on Palomar Mountain, were called in to constmct the largest flat mii-ror in historj'. for a spectacular thrill in a Hollywood motion picture. Use of the mirror, sixty-five feet square, will permit photographing all four sides of a picture s<et simultaneously for the first time, in the dancing spectacle in the "Begin the Beguine ' number in "Broad- way Melody of 1940" at the Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer studios. The set is the largest ever designed tor a musical picture, tjeing 225 feet long, 137 feet deep and 80 feet high, ten feet higher than the giant pylon iii "The Great Ziegfeld." The camera will point through tire set, photogi-aphing one end, lined with a Cello- phane palm-trees, and at a certain point the huge mirror, hinged like a door, will move on tracks, reflecting the rear and sides of the set, o 'er which the camera points, into the lens. The mirror operates exact!'' like a closing door. Every Tuesday The giant reflectoi is made of speci^.l glass, silvered by astronomical technicians. To compensiito for expansion and con- traction imder heat, it is scored with criss-cross grooves on the l>ack. Tlie glass is embedded in a speciiil cement, backed by heavy wood and steel base. Casting tJio huge pane requu-ed two months for cool- ing, and silvering required three weeks. The work was done in an Eastern glass loundry, and the pane shipped in a special car, embedded in two-foot pads of heavv felt. The setting, in which Eleanor Powell. Fred Astaire and a hundred others dance, was designed by Merrill Pye. SHIRLEY'S SAFETY-FIRST GADGET Shirley Temple and Heath Robinson ought to get together. The diminutive star has just invented a swimming-aid gadget that looks like a Robinson drawing, but is actually serviceable. Shirley has not been making as much progress as she'd like with her twice weekly swimming lesson. And since .she has only been able to do the crawl suc- cessfully across the shallow end of her home swimming pool, her mother forbadi; her to swim towards the deep water. "Supposing I think ovit away to make it .safe? " Shirley asked Mis. Temple. So Shirley went to work \\ith a clothes pulley and some clothes-line. Result is. a trolley running the long stretch of the pool. From the trollex hangs a loop of clothes-line which Shirlev fastens about her shoulders. There is enough slack in it for her to swim until .she gets tired, and then when she stops swimming the loop takes hold. The gadget has considerably marred the pristine beauty of the Temple pool, but it works, and yoimg Mi.ss Temple can go into deep water now as much as she ]ike.> mum^m T Wheu twin boys were born to the Queen oJ France, one was to become kin^' and ttio other had to disappear. A swashbucklini; story o! the days when a quick ton*;ae-and a ttashing sword made all the difference between liberty and death. Louis Hay ward plajs the dual role of the kins and his brother, supported by Warren William, Alan Hale and Miles Mander BULLDOG DRUMMOND'S BRIDE Another grim adventure, in which Bulldog Ortimmond finds himselt up against an international crook ol great cunninR. The film start John Howard. Heather Ansel and H. B. Warner S.O.S. COASTGUARD On no account must you miss the next vivid t'pisode of this amazing serial—Ralph Byrd plays the part of the Coastguard Lieutenant B.G.39. 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