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for January 1937
He makes pictures for a living, and also for fun! Here's star advice for amateur camera fans by one of 'em — who is also a famous actor
By
Ruth Tildesley
I can, hoping to get something interesting; but ordinarily, I feel that there's too much waste in that — too much depending on chance. Personally, I enjoy figuring out my effects before I shoot."
He wouldn't leave to chance the points he hoped to make with the portrayal of the adventurous young illustrator, Michael, in "Theodora Goes Wild," his most recent film for Columbia ; everything about that characterization was carefully worked out before he went on the set ; Michael does not in the least resemble John Randolph, the Virginia statesman of "Georgeous Hussy." He is no less
Examples of pictorial effects Melvyn Douglas produced with his camera in the patio of his Hollywood home. Above, the patio gate; upper left, a study of shadows; left, a view featuring the Aztec fountain. At top of page is a new portrait of the star, with Corky, the pup appearing with Melvyn and Irene Dunne in a new screen play.
conscientious over his hobby.
"I don't care so greatly for home movie cameras because it's so much trouble to set up projector and screen and run off the film whenever you happen to want to look at your stuff, or to show someone else." he said. "It's all very well at first, when you're tremendously enthusiastic about catching movement and showing birds on the wing and so on, but in time you tire of it and merely say : 'I'd like to show you the new film of the baby, but the room's too light in the day-time. Come around some evening. Not tonight, we're going to the opera ; tomorrow — well, tomorrow's the Whosis' dinner, and Thursday we're having bridge — but you'll have to see it sonic time.'
"If the new stuff consists of camera pictures, you can get it out then and there.
"Children are excellent camera subjects. I never find it necessary to catch them off-guard, because they are always willing to co-operate if you approach them properly. They don't mind moving into a better light, or dropping this to pick up that. They will take direction marvelously, if you make a game of it. Peter is only three but {Continued on page 90)