Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

wasn't large enough for that particular shot, so he bought, at famine prices, a bumper crop of Irish potatoes that were ripening in an adjoining field, leveled and graded the new terrain— and then decided not to take the shot. A chicken rancher collected handsomely because the "Hell's Angels" planes made his White Leghorns scramble so frantically for cover that many were killed in the rush. At Caddo Field, and several other places, Mr. Hughes put tie prodigal Eric Von Stroheim's nose completely out of joint. I refer to his proclivities for exposing astonishing lengths of film for what anyone else would have regarded as trivial scenes. For one little close-up of the valves of an airplane engine — it would not run more than 25 feet in the finished picture— Mr. Hughes and a corps of cameramen consumed 20,000 feet of film. How mortified Von Stroheim must have been when he heard about that! On another insert scene, a closeup of a length of cable running off a reel, he got what he wanted with a mere 18,000 feet of film. THERE was a small scene in the Zeppelin sequence that, so his assistants tell me, Mr. Hughes took over 100 times before it was to his liking. When the cameraman asked which of the 100 scenes should be printed Mr. Hughes displayed an amazingly retentive mind by promptly replying "Xumber one and number sixteen." In October, 1928, after a year's continuous shooting, the picture was nearly finished — so everyone thought. There w-ere just a few aerial shots to be made. They involved a mere 40 airplanes and required clouds for their effective filming. For the first time since he had started Mr. Hughes was stymied. He could buy almost anything he wanted, but not clouds. He simply had to have them. Southern California is notoriously free from them in the fall. In Northern California they abound — cirrus, nimbus, cumulus, any kind j'ou want. If the clouds wouldn't come to Mr. Hughes, Mr. Hughes would go to the clouds, so he packed his 40 planes and 40 pilots and cameramen and technicians and assistants to Oakland, California, and established headquarters at Oakland Airport. Incidentally, Oakland Airport is one of the few municipal airports in the country to show an operating profit. Per Photoplay Magazine for April, 1930 I Ii Collins, Mo. I am a lonely woman on a farm with no very near neighbors. Have plenty of work to do, to be sure, but little, if any, real recreation. We toil year in and year out with little to look forward to and less to look back on! But once in a while I take a little trip to visit my daughter, who works in a little city, or my brother and sister, who live in a large city. And on all such visits I am given the treat of my life, for they take me to the motion picture talkies. My lonely farm lifehasspoiled me, for it has made me silent and diffident and so a poor guest and worse hostess, but the talkies take the responsibility off my shoulders and give me something to talk about after the show. I have enjoyed the few pictures I have seen and hope some time to have a house in or near some little city where I can attend good picture shows oftener. Daisy L. Marshall E INSTANT IMPROVEMENT in your skin after this marvelous beauty bath ! VERY woman who desires a soft, smooth skin should try the marvelous Linit Beauty Bath. Results are immediate — no discomfort — no waiting — and the cost is trifling! Merely dissolve half a package of Linit in your bath — bathe in the usual way, using your favorite soap — and then feel your skin! In texture it will be soft and smooth as velvet. Linit neither takes away too much of the necessary oil in the skin, which often makes it chafed and inflamed, nor does it dry up the skin by clogging the natural oil in the pores. This is the test that proves it ! After dissolving a handful or so of Linit in a basin of warm water, wash your hands. The instant your hands come in contact with the water, you are aware of a smoothness like rich cream — and after you dry your hands, your skin has a delightful softness. You'll be convinced! IS your GROCER soft, When you write to advertisers please men-inn PTlOTOr-T.AY MAGAZIXE.