Silver Screen (Nov 1939 - May 1940)

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They give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney tubes flush out poisonous waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills. From Riches to Rags [Continued from page 73] and their bodies diminish to one-fifth their normal size. Here things get complicated. "My handkerchief," Miss L. blushed, "was now my dress." Before you make a dash for your local palais de cinema, gentlemen, reflect! Recall that they were now people one-fifth normal size, ergo, the handkerchief now assumed the proportions of a sheet — also a problem. "It certainly was a problem," she had to laugh. "If you were stood in front of an airplane propeller {simulating a jungle hurricane) with only a sheet wrapped around you, wouldn't you wonder what you'd do if it became detached from your person? I did!" She solved the problem by pinning the sheet in so many places that she was able to face the toughest gales and, mirabile dictu, not a thing blew off. But Providence got back at her, this way. "We were working on a set so big it took three hours to light it. It required about sixty electricians to be busy overhead and a like number below — all watching us. That costs money, so naturally the director wanted to shoot the sequence without delay and we hurried to places. "As usual, something was after me, and this time I was supposed to dash into the protection of some prop cactus, wearing the customary sheet and worried expression. The cameras rolled and I dashed. 'Swell!' hollered the director, and little echoes of 'swell' sang around him — with one exception, the cameraman. His 'Sorry, can't use it!' sounded like a bomb going off in a deserted graveyard. 'Why not?' the director demanded, very much annoyed. 'Well,' answered the cameraman, 'she tore her sheet on that first cactus — of course, if you think the Hays office. . . ."' Apropos the fact that she had to {and did) keep up with the otherwise male cast, she was working late one evening and was very tired. "I was hanging onto a big vine over a stream in which lay our crocodile actor," she grimaced. "Great guy, that 'croc' If they fed him he promptly went into a torpor that would have defied the combined efforts of every director in Hollywood to rouse him. However, since he cocked an eye at me I knew he hadn't lunched and was toying with the idea of a little filet de Loga?t. "I should have been more careful knowing that I was worn out, but I got interested in the director's instructions and lifted my hand to make a gesture. Crash! I slipped and slid two feet down the vine before I was able to stop myself. Scared? I went home that night and threw two new crocodile bags right out of the window. Ugh!" The animals in the cast were, by far, more temperamental than the actors. The actors were docile, the animals possessed of a thousand devils, especially the cat. He was one of the stars of the piece, picked solely for his rotten disposition. He was the Bligh of the feline kingdom and worked only when he felt hke it. Woe Betty Lou Mickelberry, of the famed Abbott Dancers, in "Buck Benny Rides Again," starring radio's Jack Benny. betide the careless actor who disturbed the mouser after he had been persuaded to start emoting. "I'm afraid it was Voltaire," she said, "who wrote, 'Beware of the woman who does not like cats.' After our trials and tribulations with this baby the whole cast automatically fell into the beware-of category, and no pun intended." This young lady might be considered interesting as a study of the type of girl whom the movies are attracting more of, today. She comes from a very good family, but doesn't put on airs. She responds readily to advice and goes out of her way to learn more about her business — considering advice from any qualified source too important to overlook. She is intelligent and uses words like "gregarious" and "variegated" as naturally as "yes" or "no." She writes, typing speedily with three fingers, and doesn't kid herself when her stuff isn't good. She draws because she'd stifle if she didn't. She went through a "violent poetry stage" {her own words), but recovered completely. She was surprised when told that occasionally she said "yerss" instead of "yes." She will probably spend much time in the future getting rid of that "yerss." She is glad that her grandmother takes unconcealed delight in her so-far success and is happy that her broker father is more or less reconciled to it and not above boasting about her on the sly. He isn't sure that he likes the close conjunction of sheet, crocodile and his daughter. Neither is she. One thing is certain, parental okay or no, she won't quit what she's trying to do. She has startling theories about the