Boy's Cinema (1935-39)

Tuesday All letters to the Editor should be addressed to BOY'S CINEMA, Room 218, The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London, E.C.4. Mob Outside DeMille Offices A demonstration of eagerness on the part of several hundred extras to appear m (Veil B. DeMille's lihn, "The Plains- man," lias resulted in the erection of a three-foot barbed-Wire barrier at the Paramount studios. ' The wiro was placed on top of the twelve-foot gate to tlie DeMille oTGees. ■ Tiic gate afforded a daily mob scene for a week, since DeSrlillc issued a "call for "pioneer types " for "Tho'Plains- n:an." in which Gravy Cooper and Jean Arthur star. Hundreds of extras, old and young, bewhiskerod arid shaven, reported, iriost of them in costumo. DeMille soon selected the two hundred and fifty players he sought when lie issued the call, hut' others kept on arriving. ' \ Mixed with the Western types were tm haned Arabs, Hindus, Filipinos, Kgyptians wearing fezzes, Hawaiians carrying instruments, Mexicans, Chinese, and Japanese. Many brought "trained"' animals and birds, and parked outside the gate all day, hopeful of a chance to exhibit their pets' tricks to DeMille. The. strange feature of this curious congregation outside his office was that, there was" no leduction in the number iif Biblical and Oriental types who ap- peared day after day, despite his an- nouncement that the picture lie was making was strictly a saga of the Western plain*. Paramount studio officials are pre- pared to provide DeMille with a moat, guards with swords and halberds, or machine-guns and tear gas bombs, and any other protection he needs if the demontiatioiis continue. Hollywood's Little Men Hollywood boasts of many strange in- stitutions, but surely none stranger than the "Society of Little Men," a group of tiny people who make a living by "doubling" for child stars. The members are not small enough to join a midget act, not large enough to be taken seriously in ordinary commercial or professional life. "But," says Henry "Buddy " Stone, thirty-six years old, four feet ten inches tall, six stone six pounds in weight, and spokesman for the group, "Hollywood has provided a haven for us pint-size gentlemen. "You see, child stars and feature players must have ' doubles ' and 'smut men ' when they are called upon to do something dangerous. That's where we come in..' Then; too, there is a law which prohibits children from working- after ten o'clock at night. So when a studio .finds it necessary to shoot late at night, that's where we come in again.''. It is a combination of these "cireum- stances that has given Stone and his fellows their latest picture assignment' with . Merle Oberon in • Samuel Goldwyn's "Beloved Enemy.". The script demanded that a number of children must fall from a fence. Stone and his group really do it, and because H. C Potter, the director, likes to shoot his night scene; actually at night, the little men were in great demand through- out production. '•'Growing,'? Stone points out, "is the great handicap. Only it's not our growing, it's the growth of the voilngsters we double for. 1 stunted for Jackie Cooper in many of his pictures. In the past six months Jackie has grown so much he'd make two Vf me, so that's the end of that." Occasionally Stone and his fellows crfr! double for grown feminine players, fie claims to have done some of his b^.^ work as Janet Gaynor and Rochell*i Hudson—but in "long shots," of con So the next time you see your favourite feminine star fall from a horse, calm yourself with the thought that it is probably only little Buddy Stone. "Go-getter" Harold Harold Lloyd is nothing if not on the spot 1 The Paramount comedian has already applied for tickets for self and family for the 1940 Olympic Games in Tokyo. £ He has been told that the order for ' scats will.be duly honoured towards the end of 1939 The Japanese, incidcntally.Arc ardent* supporters of Lloyd, who is now pre- paring to start on a neuy Paramount, comedy. They call him Mik Ludo. Music for " King Solomon's Mines " The magnineo^Bfcke of Paul Kobe-* son, internation^W^^Smous conceit singer, screen, and stage star, will be heard in several songs in "Kin, Solomon's Mines," the new Gaumonl British picture in which he plays flio part of Uinbopa, coloured Pretender to the throne of Kuwuana. """>** Recording has already started on (hi* three songs which Robeson will sing in. the picture. 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