Movie Classic (Sep 1936-Feb 1937)

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rf Horizon on which thousands of extras worked for weeks, but the.r work ,s .nterestlng. At left: Virginia Odeon, the autho They're not all like takes two good hours to come but of it that, thank heavens! When we're on a set with Alan Mowbray we settle down ,to a good show— and nobody could. have a more appreciative audience ! We re so easy to please, bless our hearts ! Alan clowns from morning until night ; he has a grand sense of humor and keeps everybody amused. Only once have I seen him quiet -and then he didn't feel well ! Whereupon he called for some bicarbonate of soda. As soon as he had downed it the director (much to his own surprise and chagrin)— burped ! That's one up for the power of suggestion. Of course we nearly fell off our seats at that ! The director didn't like it. Usually on sets I don't get too well-acquainted with other extras They get pesty and don't get a girl anywhere. I know He said «tS tY^"*1 ^J™' *hat J rePlied befor* * thought wnat the.r pay-check is and I know they may not work aS t -a «t ? J10^/' am * rt ? for two weeks-so what's the percentage? Make my Ss wnd' I$J? * }hou8hi ** was cold!" seriously and when Anita Loos writes that a "kiss on the wrist heSS^ d tor anotber (you know how it will !) and < wit™ Th3t' C?ring froni N Yawk the weather here seemed The dancing girls get a breajc in Cain and Mabel, co-starring Marion Davies and Clark Sable. Dancers are paid more than the average extra rV^ *? ^ Z buHed my face in a book ^d that was that. 2?JS dauy WC ^e-re ,called back and he started the conver ;o „:„„ L l ... """■=• ",,i« "'«" «t kiss on tne wi is nice but an emerald bracelet lasts longer," I believe her t uli y> however> tried very hard to start a conversation I shudder now to think what I nearly missed. It Tas likj this • e placed side by side in a court-room scene and there "nnifort " t ~. iT u ■ • """■ "«= wcainer nere seemed th mf • T Mnt '.magine why a b°y like that would try ^ard0goteme"n.''UPOn ^^ he "^ "^^ Raft's body' I said, "You mean Mack Gray ?" [Continued on page 78] 37