Boy's Cinema (1933)

Every Tuesday All letters to the Editor should be addressed to BOY'S CINEMA, Room 163, The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London, E.C.4. " Scarlet River." Tom Baxter, Tom Keene; Judy Blake, Dorothy Wilson; Ulysses Mope-, Roscoe Ates; Sam Gilroy, Edgar Kennedy; Jeff Todd, Creighton Chaney; Babe Jewel, Betty Fnrness; Buck Blake, Billy Butts; Clfnk McPherson, Hooper Atchley; Benny, Jack Raymond: Dummy, James Mason. NEXT WEEK'S 6RAND LONG COMPLETE FILM STORIES. I " Man Hunt." Junior Scott, Junior Durkin; Josie Woodward, Charlotte Henry; Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Wallace Reid; James Wilkie, Arthur Vinton; Henry Woodward, Edward lo Saint; Sheriff, Richard Carle; Abraham Jones, Carl Grosse, Jun. His Ambition from Boyhood. Clyde Beatly, the wild animal trainer, whose remarkable perform- ance in "The Big Cage" has added greatly to his fame, became interested in wild animals when a boy. He wa9 fifteen when he heard that a big circus was going to pitch its tents on a meadow behind his home. The circus arrived over- night, and next morning young Clyde woke specially early, ami, without waiting to have his break- fast, made his way to the cages of the boasts that were to perform that evening. The trainer discovered him gazing interestedly at the lions, but, instead of being angry at the youngster's intrusion, he talked to him for hours about his work in training them and other aspects of circus life. Before the day was out Clyde had made up his mind what he wanted to be when he grew up. What is more, he decided to start his association with wild animals without delay. As long as the circus remained in town he used to go along to the wild animal section as often as he could, and when the show moved away the circus proprietor was astounded to see following in its wake a small boy carrying a bundle of clothes under his arm. Clyde had left home to begin his career. " THE BIG CAGE." Forty jungle brutes watching for the chance to tear him limb from limb, men urging him that his death- defying act was suicidal, a rehearsal that ended in disaster. Yet in the face of difficulties and dangers he strove to make good his boast. A story pulsing with the swift thrills and the poignant drama of the Sawdust Ring. Starring Clyde Beatty, the world's greatest animal trainer. " RUSTLERS ROUND UP." How crooks conspired to rob a brother and sister of their inheritance and how a fearless rancher befriends them and fights back against the law- breakers. A stirring Western drama, starring the Ace of Cowboys, Tom Mix, with Diane Sinclair and Tony, Jun. ALSO The eighth episode of our thrilling serial oi mystery : "THE HURRICANE EXPRESS." Starring John Wayne and Shirley Grey. Using an Old Engine. Varied as are the demands made upon the property departments of film studios, the supples are invariably forthcoming, be they ever so hard to find. For instance, a very old locomotive was needed for a new Columbia picture, entitled "Full Speed Ahead." The engine had to be one used about forty ago, for the story required that the engine-drive]-, played by Chic Sale, and his locomotive, after being put on the retired list, were to come back and do 'heir stuff. So the director asked for a locomotive of the early '90's, and the more dilapidated it looked, (he better. An hour later the exact type was found. June 10th, 1933. The property-man had sent out frantic inquiries, with the result that a truly ancient engine was discovered in a shed belonging to the Southern Pacific Railway. It only needed oiling, water- ing, and coaling to be ready for its part in the film. Wild Horses in a Film. Five thousand wild horses which roam about the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona had to be lured within camera range and kept there while scenes were shot " for the Paramount picture, "Wild Horse Mesa," which many of you will now be seeing. It took weeks of careful planning and preparation to secure these untamed animals, and the inducement ofi them was nothing more than ordinary water. For this purpose four galvanieed- iron troughs, each five bundled [eel long, wvre constructed in Hollywood. They were then sent part of the journey by train, and after that carried ono hundred and sixty miles overland to the barren mesa. When the troughs were placed in position, pipes were run from the nearest well and electric pumps installed. RJeanwhile, other preparations - ess M y. Three hundred and fifty members of the Navajo Indian tribe -were pressed into service as "extras," so that they might help in rounding up the horses required for the film. The Indians made, quite a ceremony of the event. The chief called a council of Ids leading folio mil then, holding up before them a captured fleet-winged bird, he gently plucked seven feather-, from the neck, wings, back, breast* and two from the long-spreading fail. Then, taking some powdered the chief sprinkled the feathers with the vegetable dust, while the council, sitting in a broad circle round him, muttered an incantation to the god of tho birds that he might gi\e speed and endurance to the ponies of tho tribe during the round-up. The luring of the wild horses to the chosen area had to be very carefully carried out. Many of them were suspicious and nervous, and time after time turned back and bolted after approaching a. short distance. But when the animals found there was no attempt to capture them, they grew bolder and came daily to the troughs in increasing numbers to quench their thirst. To film the scenes required, ono camera had to bo lowered two hundred feet down a canyon and then lifted the other side. Another was placed in a pit directly in the line of the stampede, the opening in the ground where the camera- man remained being covered with heavy planks, with an aperture just large enough for the lens to film the rush of the hor-es as they passed overhead. If and A Charles Dickens Talkie. you have lead "Oliver Twist "— who has not'.'—you will be interested to know that the title role in the talkie version of this classic story is taken by Dickie Moote. The part of Fagin is played by Irvine; Pichel, and William Boyd, the stage actor, appears as Bill Sykes. Jackie Cooga.fi appeared in the stellar role in the silent version made some years ago. What is a Goldfish? Little Dairy Perry, jun.. son of tho well-known cameraman who helped to film "Wings," "Hell's Angels," and other pictures, 1m - been brought up, so to speak, "ii studio mil ters. The '"■'•■ v.i (catching the goldfish in ■. hen In- remarked : "Baddy, I know what a goldfish is." " Well."what is it?" "A sardine in grease-paint!"