Hollywood (1938)

"assembled" tree into an artificial pond. The tree's foliage had to be renewed every other day. This got to be very expensive. The result is live trees. Remember that beautiful shot of Jeanette MacDonald beneath the tree in Blossom Time, and how very real it seemed to you? That tree was a Hamsher tree in a nine -foot box. Weighing about 35,000 pounds.. It was the biggest tree ever moved into a motion picture set. It had a spread of forty feet. Then there was that old tree with the gnarled trunk used in Lost Horizon. The limbs grew out oddly and grotesquely, and that answered Frank Capra's demand for a weird thing to fit the mood of the production. Hamsher spent three weeks locking for the tree, finally found a Brazilian pepper in a back yard in Inglewood, a Los Angeles suburb. He bought the tree, transported it to the Columbia ranch 25 miles away, planted it with cedar trees in the courtyard there. So much for realism for you. Another Brazilian pepper was used in the Louisiana scenes in Paramount's Valiant Is The Word jor Carrie. This tree was transported to the Paramount ranch, and Jackie Moran swung from it during his visits to Gladys George, if you recall. That was a permanent, live and beautiful tree you saw in the "Colonial house" setting in Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, with Gary Cooper. Recall the house he inherited? The desert courtyard which Twentieth Century-Fox used for Under Two Flags, with Colman and Claudette Colbert, was the real thing. Brazilian peppers, palms and olive trees all were moved in to give the scene the realism which it finally had. ■ "So great has become the demand for realism in pictures and for old trees to grace new estates," Hamsher says, "that I have one man who is a 'tree scout'. He works just like a baseball or football scout. He goes around the countryside, spotting healthy specimens, trying to buy them up. Whenever we find such trees, we box them, bring them to our 'forest' on West Pico Boulevard. "As we are finding fewer and fewer available trees, we are planting our own groves and transplanting reasonably small trees into them. I have ten acres in San Fernando valley, and soon expect to have more." So now maybe when you see such pictures as Ro77ieo and Jxdiet, with sets in which real trees grow, or you visit California and see the new homes of stars graced with forty-foot olive, palm, oak cedar, and pine trees, you'll know that you're not dreaming — and that one more strange business has grown up in this equally strange place called Hollywood. NEXT MONTH A Sto y aboi t Jar nes Stew art caned "He Had Pie ity of Nul hin' " tells with sor ne sympathy and plenty of la jghs the st rugg es that a gangly, self cons cious boy had to becorr ear lovie sta You'll find it in the September ssi;e of HOLLYWOOD MAGAZINE THIS NEW 6REASELESS ODORONO ICE IS SIMPLY A DELIGHT YES -AND IT KEEPS YOUR UNDERARM ABSOLUTELY DRY AND IT LASTS AS LONG AS 3 DAYS 1 . NEW ICE DEODORANT is cooling, vanishes completely, checks perspiration instantly HERE'S the last word in underarm daintiness made to order for busy, fastidious moderns! The new Odorono ICE meets all the requirements . . . quick application, greaseless, cooling, checks perspiration! Based on an entirely new principle — this new ICE deodorant disappears as you put it on. Leaves your underarm cool and refreshed, yet checks perspiration •Trade Mark Re». U.S. Pat. OS. instantly! You can forget about offending odors and embarrassing stains for as much as three whole days. Use Odorono ICE according to directions on the label of the jar. Protect your feminine charm — the friendships that are your natural right! Get a jar of Odorono ICE today ! Only 35(f at all toilet-goods departments. '"SAFE — cuts down clothing damage, when carefully used according to directions,'' says The National Association of Dyers and Cleaners, after making intensive laboratory tests of Odorono Preparations. SEND 10* FOR INTRODUCTORY JAR 0D0-R0-N0 COOLING — NON-GREASY ICE RUTH MILLER, The Odorono Co., Inc. Dept. 8-A-8*, 191 Hudson St., New York City (In Canada, address P. 0. Box HI, Montreal) I enclose 10<! (\5t in Canada) to cover cost postage and packing for generous introductory of Odorono Ice. of jar City State When Answering Advertisements Please Mention August HOLLYWOOD 39