Universal Weekly (1933-1935)

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8 UNIVERSAL WEEKLY -Sept. 28, 1935 Hugh O’Connell figuring how to get rid of Catlett. This is the thenie song of “ The Affair of Susan.” The AFFAIRof SUSAN ZaSu Pitts gets a swell idea i n “ Twenty Lessons in the Art of Love.” A HUGE amusement park duplicating exactly many of the entertainment devices at Coney Island, N. Y., was constructed at Universal City, California, for the gay scenes which are shown on the screen in the new feature "The Affair of Susan," co-starring ZaSu Pitts and High O'Connell. A coal mine, roulette wheel on which human beings ride, Ferris wheel, and a roller coaster were among the many concessions erected temporarily for the filming of the rollicking production at a cost of more than $100,000. For other devices, the entire company, including Walter Catlett, Inez Courtney, Thomas Dugan, William Pawley and Irene Franklin, was transported to Venice, Ocean Park and Santa Monica, famous Southern California seaside resorts, to attain realism. On sound stages, the interiors of both a candy factory and an automobile assembly plant were reconstructed according to scale on the huge sound stages. Right, W alter Catlett, who keeps two hearts asunder in “ The Affair of Susan.” ZaSu Pitts, most amusing sufferer in the world in “ The Affair of Susan.” k