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In the middle of a take a roaring noise seeps through the thick walls of the stage. In the middle of his lines, Clark yells, "There she is!" Then Clark, Myrna and the whole company scram madly right through the red light and outdoors. So do we.
It's the DC-4, the biggest land plane in the world. She soars over the studio like a great prehistoric bird, while a guy and a gal stand below and wave like excited kids. Clark and Myrna. And right beside them is — us. The red light still burns, but nobody sees it. Pictures can wait. This is the real thing.
NO USE going back on the set after that, so we hustle over to where our two favorite actors, Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney, are dramatizing an amazing contemporary social experiment, "Boys' Town." The great boys' farm run by Father Flanagan near Omaha, Nebraska, inspired this picture. In case you aren't up on that capable priest's work with homeless boys, it's a model community operated and governed by young boys who might be in corrupting reform schools or orphanages. Instead, "Boys' Town" has a 100 per cent record of fine worthwhile young alumni.
Father Flanagan himself came out to M-G-M to see this one through. He thought Spencer Tracy ideal to play himself on the screen. Spencer's priest in "San Francisco" won him the respect of the cloth. As for Mickey, of course,
Wasp-waisted, pompadoured and ratted, Anita Louise let production heads worry about a major heada
he's a tough little troublemaker who tries to wreck the place but winds up catching the spirit. His chain of uppity escapades serves to show how the unusual community works on young character. Not a single skirt swishes in this picture. It's all boys and men.
We're lucky to catch two scenes of "Boys' Town." In one Mickey gets fresh with the community barber and has his face smeared with black shoe polish. A shining ebony countenance might hand the average kid actor an inferiority complex on the set, but, for Mickey, it's just a chance for more fun. Between takes he runs
, Bette Davis and Jane Bryan calmly sit by and che they face on the set of "The Sisters"
around smearing everybody, including Director Norman Taurog, with the messy stuff. Mickey has as much fun making movies as he does doin' the shag — and that's plenty.
When he's through that and the blacking is all wiped off, marvelous Mickey steps right into a dramatic scene with Spencer Tracy. Spencer, we notice, is much trimmer; he lost fifteen pounds during his sick spell. It makes him look younger, though, and he says he feels grand. In his black robes he looks truly spiritual. His voice, too, is soft and sincere as he points out the right path to Mickey. When the scene is over,
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