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with jumps, tests, training and drilling for the important part of their job, that is, their work in hack of the enemies' lines.
Motion pictures are made from the air and from the ground, of practically every jump. High speed cameras have been of great help in picking out minute flaws and the movie camera has become an indispensable medium of visual education for all branches of the U. S. Military Service.
If you would like to enjoy the thrill of landing with a 'chute, try stepping off the top of your car, backwards, while traveling ten miles an hour.
I understand the Parachute Battalion has proven itself most successful, through all tests, and will be alloted an enlistment of 3,000 or more men.
I said, we had an outstanding assignment, thrilling and daring. In conclusion, it may be said of this pioneer battalion that they have set an example of skill, courage and sound accounting to the entire nation, all of which will be set forth in detail in RKO's "Parachute Battalion."
HAPPY LANDINGS, PARACHUTE BATTALION.
Old qUARd AS EXTRAS
Not only of Napoleon's veterans can it be said that the Old Guard dies but it never surrenders. Hollywood has its gallant Old Guard too — and they came to Alfred Hitchcock's movie ball.
The famous director wanted to film a ball for a sequence in RKO Radio's "Before the Fact" which would bring together his co-stars, Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine.
"Get me the best dress extras in town," he ordered. "The best in looks and ability."
So the call went out, and the extras flocked in, for that $16.50 check each day was tempting bait.
Among them came faces once blazoned across the screens of the world, bearing proud names which used to gleam in lights on the marquees of theatres the world around.
Eva Novak. Remember her? She used
to play opposite the he-men of the silent screen Thomas Meighan, William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Jack Holt. She danced with Lou Payne, once Mrs. Leslie Carter's husband.
Dagmar Oakland was there — once glorified by Ziegfeld. And Mrs. Snitz Edwards. Lloyd Ingraham, who used to direct Mary Miles Minter. Carl Levinus and Howard Davies, former directors, too. Others: Larry Steers, who used to be the heavy in Ruth Roland serials; Frank Raymond, opera singer; Henry Hebert, who supported Myrtle Stedman and Sessue Hayakawa in "Black Roses."
There were many more. But these give the idea.
Stardom may fade, fame depart. But the players stay.
Said one: "We make out all right. It's fun to watch the game without having to struggle."
lp|H'r left: INew United States Rifle M-l, Curand, 30 cal., semi-automatic; right: method of wrapping rifles in hlanket to drop from plane hy 'chute; lower: camera crew, including Guy Newhard, Roy Hunt, Harold Wellman, Emmett Bergholz, Russ Cully, some members of Local 666, Chicago, and Civil Service Cameramen working for the United States Army.
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