Boy's Cinema (1935-39)

28 (Continued from page 2.) West Socks William The day when the screen featured a hero socking hia lady fair to show his love is over! That, was the day that gave birth to "Public Enemy," in which Jimmy Cagney introduced this typo of tenderness. To-day tho fashion has changed. The lady socks the man! And take it from Warren William, she can sock. Mae West unleashes a right cross to the jaw in Paramount'* "Co West, Young Man " that almost sent him West. '-In the picture William is the personal representative of Mae, who has the role of.a temperamental film star on a per- sonal appearance tour. His job is to 'keep her away from romantic mix-ups, Jim Irie interference provokes a sock in ' the jaw. No rehearsal was necessary. Mae. a fight fan herself, punched—and •William went down. ' ' -"-I can thiow a pretty fair left hook, too,," Mae added as an afterthought. Knt William didn't wait for a demon- stration. ■ Swim "as You Work flood swimming technique \w>s one of the requisites for the labour crew at work tAt" Lloyds of London " at 20th Century- Fox. r v Four crews of five men to a crew were equipped with swimming trunks, blankets, and constant supplies of hot "eoft'ee and put to work filming scenes with Freddie Bartholomew, Douglas 'Scott, "Montague Love, Arthur Hold and other members .of .the cast. The huge tank on the 20th Century- Fox lot was turned into a portion of a ' Norfolk harbour in the 18th century. .Two sloops of. that period, half discer- nible through the artificial fog, rode at anchor while the actors did a good part of their action in rowing boats and by swimming in hurried retreat. In order to record this action, the camera was mounted on a raft on which Director Henry King worked with the oamer.r crew. So that the raft could follow the actors in motion, five swimmers at a time were required to move the raft. ..Dno to the coldness of the water, no workman was allowed in it more than fifteen minutes at one time during the course of an hour. Four crews were thus kept busy all of the time. Only,those who could swim noiselessly unci without splash were drafted into this chilly service. BOY'S CINEMA Roman Qalleya Float Again Roman galleys will again .-ail the waters of San Pedro Channel. The fleet of triremes, constructed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1928 for the production "Ben Bur," is again being made ship-shape, and will soon take the water for sequences in the Metro- Goldwyn - Mayer two-reel musical comedy, "No Place Like Home," which Reginald lo Borg is directing and Jack Chertok is producing. The galleys, now moored at a ship- yard in San Pedro, California, will be completely repainted and ivnv standing and running rigging fitted to musts and spars. Tarzan Chimpanzee Becomes Proud Father While the entire ''Tarzan Escapes company of 150 waited most of the night with bated breath, and a veter- inary, hastily summoned, worked with feverish anxiety, the stork arrived, sig- nalising the first "blessed event" in the making of the new Tarzan jungle thriller, Skippy, the trained chimpanzee, play- ing Johnny Weissmuller's friend and companion, would distribute cigars if he knew enough. He is now a proud father. Mamie, another chimpanzee, is the mother. Tho baby weighs five pounds. The little chimpanzee is nearly white, but will darken in colour in a few weeks, according to George Emerson, animal man on the picture. It is kept cuddled in cotton batting, and won't be used in the picture. Baby chimps can't be worked for several months, as they are very delicate. "A chimpanzee," explains Emerson, "has only one lung, so when it catches cold, it's usually a ease of good-bye." THIS WEEK'S CASTS "REVENGE RIDE R." — Tim O'S'eil, Tim McCoy ; Chad Harmon, Robert Allen : Myra Harmon, Hillie .Seward ; Martin Kramer. Edward Eerie ; -let! Harmon. Frank Sheridai^: Matt Ludlow, Jack Clifford ; Dr. Lindsay, George Pearee'j Ned Lynch, Allan Sears ; Mike Rankin, Harry Semels. " ACCUSED." — Tony Seymour, Douglas Fairbanks jun. ; Gaby Sey- mour, Dolores del Rio ; Yrette Delange, Florence Desmond ; Eugene Royet, Basil Sydney ; Ninette Uveal, CJoogie Withers ; President of Court, John Roberts ; Prosecuting Counsel, Cecil Humphreys ; Morel, Ksme Percy ; Alphonei de la Riviere, Edward Rigby ; Dubec, George Moore Mariott ; Guy Henry, Cyril Raymond ; Henry Caj>elle, Roland Culver. „ Every Tuesday Scottish Veteran in Hollywood Hollywood, where things arc seldom what they seem, tho other day came forth with a real, life-blood hero in the person of 76-ycars-old James " Scorn " Robertson. A fighting man since the age of 15. when he joined the "Boys' Brigade' in Edinburgh. "Scotty" has been "soldiering" since 1860. Veteran of the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882 and a dozen other skirmishes, including action in Majuba Hill, Khartoum, the Soudan. Argia Heights, the South' African War of 1900, and against the Afghan* and Der- vishes, "Scotty " received more than. 30 wounds, smashed shoulders broken legs, arms, fingers, and toes, as well as deep head wounds, during his scrapping career. He now has a small part in Cecil B. .DeMille's new Paramount tilrn. which stars Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. Among mementoes presented him foi bravery is a shell box from Queen Vi< toria. Together with his many medals, he proudly exhibited the gift to a mem- ber of the cast of '"The Plainsnran." Filming Witchcraft 8cenes Some sort of a record for detailed re- search has been set .by Frank Woyd, Glasgow-born Paramount producer director, who, with his staff, has digested moro.than 75 book- in prepar- ing his now historical romance, "Maid of Salem," which stars Claudette Colbert and Fred MaoMurray. In addition to the books, dozens of different sources, such as museums and libraries, were called upon to supply data for costumes, living habits, and other item.-. The British Museum was one of them. The books were collected by Late.- Baxter, technical director of ti.-- Lroyd production, and range from the Bible to bound volume- ,.f the "National G graphic Magazine." Many of the books are original editions, and BOtno are tie only ones of their kind in existence. The Lloyd -tail had not only to make a complete study of the life of Puritans, but in addition the famous outbreak ol witchcraft in Salem round about 1692 was studied to the last available detail. 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