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Ruth Chatterton, with Dorothy Arzner directing, has 'gone Austrian' for "Sarah and Son." Miss Chatterton brushed up her German for the dialogue in her role of a Viennese girl.
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Helen Ludlam
has prevailed upon Paramount to let him do more of these outdoor stories he loves. He has just finished "Only The Brave," and in preparation for it he visited North and South Carolina, going through the public buildings, driving past the old homes, being entertained in a few of them and steeping himself in the Southern life and traditions. Of course he stopped off to see Lupe who was doing a picture in Florida, but that was just a detour on his way to Texas to bob around that state picking up clothes and props in unlikely places from ranchers and cattlemen who had never seen a motion picture.
He used to sit for hours listening to the cowboy songs, absorbing words and music and the lilt in this way, and yet when it appeared on the screen you heard only a verse or two.
I asked Ruth Chatterton how she ever managed to give such a convincing performance of "Madame X" in the scenes where the lady 'went native?'
"Well, I don't know that I did give an accurate picture," she said slowly. "Willard Mack told me how the absinthe fiends in Paris act. They sit staring at one spot for a terrible length of time. (Continued on page 128)
tions in any way her hair is cut short and she is banished from the tribe. Edwin Carevve used this bit of information which he wove into a sequence of the picture, you will remember. The gypsies taught Dolores their dances and some of their songs. They also showed her how they dressed, with a do?en petticoats and brightly colored material for their gowns. The first wife took Dolores to her 'room' and opened a chest containing her wedding gown. Only the royal wives boast a chest.
None of the graces and subtleties for the gypsies when they woo! Thin girls are out of luck. You must fatten up if you want a gypsy husband. All the king's wives, says Dolores, were very fat.
When Gary Cooper trained for "The Virginian" he found a friend, Anderson Lawler, a writer from the south, and just let Andy's Virginia accent thoroughly soak into his mind. The cattle country Gary knows well, so the ranch life held no terrors for Gary. Since the success of "The Virginian" he
Gary Cooper and his friend Anderson Lawler, a writer from the south, who helped Gary acquire the Virginian accent which gives real local color to the title role of "The Virginian."