Hollywood (1939)

Jeffers, present president of the Union Pacific railroad and likewise present on location as the guest of Paramount, spoke right out in class and declared that Union Pacific was going to be so good that even trainmen will like it. Coming from a man who began his railroading career more than fifty years ago as a train dispatcher such a statement ought to have as little weight as a box-office teaser. | Before I hop on the train and beat it for sunny Hollywood, let me go on record right here and now about Barbara Stanwyck. THERE is a gal who is a trouper! If the cold and the snow, the long waits between takes, the rehearsals, the ra t h e r s kimpy accommodations afforded by Cedar City, bothered this swell lady, you'd never guess it from what she said. Not a word of complaint did she utter the four days I was there and goodness knows she had plenty of cause to howl to high heaven. The same goes for Joel McCrea who plays opposite her. Joel took his frost-bites, his chillblains and his snowdrifts ten times better than the stoical redskins. On the way back I sat with Charles Beauchamp who has jumped from property man to grand opera and back to property man all within a twelve -year period. Back in 1918 Beauchamp was head property man for Mary Pickf ord. His hobby was singing and it was his fine tenor voice that prompted Miss Pickford to bring him to the attention of Mitchell Leisen who, in turn, told Sid Grauman of his potential ability. Grauman engaged Beauchamp for the former's popular atmospheric prologues. Later Leo Forbstein signed him to tour the country singing in motion picture houses. Three years later Beauchamp got his chance to try out for the Metropolitan Opera — and made it! And then left it for the much more profitable opportunity of singing for the Paramount Publix circuit at a salary of $1,000 a week! These engagements took him abroad where he sang condensed versions of the operas Martha, La Boherne and Pagliacci in Paris, London, Rome, Berlin, Amsterdam, Venice and Madrid! At the beginning of his fourth year in Europe sound was introduced to motion pictures and the "operatic epilogues" were out. Beauchamp returned to this country and in 1929 was married to Emily Antoinette Teeseling, a young singer whom he had met in Amsterdam. Beauchamp's ambition became his wife's singing career and so, twelve years after he had forsaken the work, he returned to his job as a motion picture property man. Beauchamp insists that his is no sacrifice story. He's the kind of a man who likes to whistle while he works. A real 18-karat guy. It was Beauchamp who, on the way home, sketched in the story of Union Pacific. "When the railroad was first planned," he said, "Barrows, a Chicago financier, sees a chance to clean up millions. He sells stock short, hires Sid Campeau (Brian Donlevy) and his gang to delay the work so that the Central Pacific can reach Salt Lake City first, and profit when the U. P. stock crashes. Campeau has as his aide and gunman Dick Allen (Robert Preston) , late of the Union Army. Jeff Butler (Joel McCrea), Leach Overmile (Lynne Overman), and Fiesta (Akim Tamiroff) are the three leading trouble shooters for the railroad whose duty it is to keep the work going. Mollie Monahan (Barbara Stanwyck) finds herself falling in love with both Jeff and Dick. In Cheyenne, the gang, led by Dick, sticks up a payroll car. Jeff pursues Dick, not knowing who he is, to Mollie's mail car. Dick forces Mollie to hide the sack of money. Mollie saves Dick from Jeff by saying the two are going to be married. The loss of the payroll almost stops work and the Central Pacific is fast nearing Salt Lake City. Jeff raids Campeau's place and forces a confession out of Campeau. Then he goes to stop Mollie's wedding. That night the train, with Mollie and Jeff aboard is wrecked and attacked by Indians. Jeff and Dick fight them off and as a reward for his service Jeff permits Dick to escape. After the U. P. has won the race and after Mollie has recovered from her injuries sustained in the wreck, Campeau comes to town looking for Jeff, but shoots and kills Dick by mistake. As he is about to knock off Jeff, Overmile lets him have it in the back, and then the fadeout with Mollie and Jeff turning on the romance as a final fillip." Maybe it doesn't sound so hot the way fan you dance i hour AND 34 MINUTES without tiring? ENERGY TESTS with BABY RUTH By actual calorimatric tests, an active adult weighing 120 lbs-, can dance continuously for 1 hour and 34 minutes en the food energy contained in one delicious 5c bar of Baby Ruth candy. Lively people are gay, interesting partners in every kind of activity. Their energy lends them charm and personality. The energy of the body comes chiefly from Dextrose, which is the primary "fuel" sugar of the body. Baby Ruth candy, so pure and delicious, is rich in Dextrose — rich in real food energy. You'll enjoy Baby Ruth— and you'll find it helps you to forestall fatigue.