The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 11

Famous Drama of Old South Adventure Pictures Sea Epic Romance Excitement Featured MECHANICS OF ''FILM-MAKING THRILL NOVICE fiWEuiMiiiuiLiitL in mmn mmn1 ii iiui mmiiiliniulL inmii untmjjiuwwii nw vygyr At 4 I- I By PAUL HARRISON -NEA Service Staff On a first visit to a nearly everyone quick ly becomes more interested In the actual shooting of movie scenes than in staring at the stars I taking out of town guests lound the sets occasionally their vjactions remind me that fans are forever curious about details which I'm inclined to take for granted Entering a sound stage a stranger always is bewildered in the half gloom by a maze of braced walls which are the backs of sets He steps gingerly over the braces and snakey tangles of electric cables on the floor When his eyes are accustomed to the dim light he looks around and realizes that "sound stage" is a term for a big hollow building perhaps 200 by 120 feet and 60 or more feet from floor to rafters A sound stage usually is cluttered with six or eight sets represent v--' A 1- ft i I 4 ing rooms offices and such and sometimes exteriors You may wk throuarh a drawin all vJlriod furniture oriental rugs and silken walls and find a dirty jail cell or a Bowery saloon adjoining if it Harmonious Colors On close inspection visitors al way exclaim about how meticu SHOW MENU Vivien Leigh and Leslie Howard (left) in "Gone 3 lously everything la done even to richness of materials and careful Columbia will aid its farmen to make their land more "bat we're going after regular trade competing with private merchants and doing it successfully" ly chosen color schemes which SCRIPT RUNNING IS BIG BUSINESS Hollywood Film Shop With the Wind" at the Orpheum theatre Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Margaret Lockwood (left center) in "Rulers of the Sea" at the Paramount Freddie Bartholomew (right center) in "Swiss Family Robinson" at the Egyptian theatre Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland (upper right) in "Love Finds Andy Hardy" at the Colonial theatre Charles Laughton (lower right) in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame' at the Ogden theatre you'd think wouldn't register do black-and-white film Super entertaining programs By HAMILTON FARON WASHINGTON Feb 24 (AP) The tourists are guided around tip toeing and whispering until they reach the set actually in use (Only one company can work in a building because there must be absolute silence while the camera is turning) Near the working set are offered show fans at Ogden's five show houses Sunday The with 25 girls from the "Worjd of Tomorrow'! On the screen will be "Charlie Chan In Panama" with four complete shows daily Starting Friday will be John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" with Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell By ALEXANDER KAHN HOLLYWOOD (UP) He has been in turn a Spanish prince an American senator millionaire and numerous kinds of heroes and villains And yet he prefers to push a plow in sun-baked fields HeJ is Claude Rains whose srreat- are parked the portable dressing Matinees 15c Evenings 20c Children 10c STARTS TODAY! Miners who pay for their cakes and coffee with money based on a "coal standard" have built up a retail business totalling about $650000000 annually Their "money" is the script of the coal fields printed coupons or stamped discs of metal that take the place of currency and coins Each bit of the coal field money whether in coupon or metal style Is backed by an individual coal company the 'company's resources are its coal est pleasure is not in reading his voluminous fan mail but in harvesting a field of corn He has thrilled to the applause of the world and gets a bigger kick from 2 BIG SMASHING HITS! 2 screen entertainment at the various theatres follows: i "Gone With Wind" Shown At Orpheum The Orpheum theatre Sunday features the long awaited show "Gone VVith the Wind" screen version of Margaret Mitchell's famous book which has thrilled thousands To transplant a novel consisting of 1057 pages to the motion picture screen and knowing that millions had already read this the most discussed novel that was ever writen is no easy task However David Selznick said it could be done The proof of his success has been demonstrated by a good patch of potatoes Distinguished figure though he is fthe screen and stage Rains rooms for the prominent players De sound booth (a glassed-in uck) and large hand trucks holding supplies for the property man electricians and carpenters Behind the camera is a disorderly semi-circle of chairs also wooden platform and metal i stands holding various kinds of lights When Vivien Leigh or Joan Crawford or any woman star Is pointed out visitors usually say "How litUe she is! I had no Sometimes they ask with concern whether Loretta Young or Bette Davis has been "she's so thin!" Most of the actresses are slimmer and smaller than fans imagine them ambition is to be a real farmer and now it is more than wishful 1 Originally conceived as a means thinking He owns a farm- near Cheyney Pa and spends every of extendine credit to miners be vacation from Hollywood on his tween paydays the script system has grown steadily with more and land triumph of his career as the pitiable and admirable Quasimodo the cathedral bell-ringer the film also presents his new protegee Maureen O'Hara as the gypsy dancer-heroine of this memorable offering Laid in the Parisf 1482 "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" takes place in and around the famous Notre Dame cathedral Sainte Chapelle and other landmarks which are reproduced In enormous settings peopled with a record cast of 3500 players Wednesday- and Thursday the Ogden will present Warner Baxter and Alice Faye in "Barricade" and "Risky Business" with George Murphy Friday and Saturday will show Jack Holt in "My Son Is Guilty" and "Yukon Flight" with James Newill also chapter two "The Green Hornet" Colonial Has "Love "Finds Andy Hardy" Judge Hardy's Family embarks on another amusing adventure1 in "Love Finds Andy Hardy" which opened yesterday at the colonial theatre The entire family participates in the fourth of a series of pictures which has rapidly won a place in the hearts of film audi ences Lewis Stone is seen as Judge Hardy Mickey Rooney is his son Andy Oecilia Parker is the daughter Fay Holden the mother and Betty Ross Clarke the aunt In addition Judy Garland makes her debut in the series in this picture singing three songs and playing a grown-up role for one night Lana Turner makes her appearance as one of Mickey's three girl friends jAnn Rutherford is back again as his "steady" girl The companion hit is "Stagecoach" with John Wayne Claire Trevor Andy Devine Thomas Mitchell George Bancroft John Carradine and Tim Holt The thrilling story of seven men and two girls together on a stagecoach trip Then strange things begin to happen Danger threatens them all in "Stagecoach" the millions of fans throughout the United States who acclaim it as more attention paid to the opera' tion of the company stores About 2600 Stores Now on the records of the National Industrial Stores associa Rains worked his way up in the acting profession from the bottom At His Majesty's theatre in London he was call boy carpenter mechanic electrician property 4 111 3-v -J the motion picture of all time It V- is difficult to imagine any one '-'1' 1 completing a careful digest of the ft i man treasurer ana company tion approximately 2600 such stores are ooeratinz and each is book in less than twenty-four hours manager before he ever under took an acting role of actual reading time As it Is pre doing an' average annual business sented on the screen in Technicol of $250000 His first appearance as an actor was In "The Gods of the Moun or the story is told in three hours and forty-five minutes and will be 1 It tain" It was well received and he At some company stores a profit sheet turns up at the end of the year showing better returns than shown at the Orpheum theatre then toured Australia with Maet came trom the mine erlinck's "The Blue Bird" which he followed with a hit appearance The system is simplicity itaelf A miner needing money goes to in "You Never Can Tell" Identifying Players Visitors often can identify every -oIayer even small-time character I jW-ple on a set They seldom ask vje name of the director of a picture Usually they mistake the assistant director or the head cameraman for the director because the former makes most of the noise and the photographer does 11 the bossing of the camera set-lup flights and exact positions of the players The head cameraman never operates his machine that is the job of his first assistant Watching the filming of a shot for the first time usually is a disappointment Most of them last only a few seconds and contain a few lines of meaningless dialogue When this is done several times the company- office signs a slip Returning to England Rains ap authorizing deductions from his peared In "Golden Doom" and wages when payday comes and is handed "company money" "Typhoon" before making his American debut in "Androcles Paramount Features i "Rulers of the Sea" A gusty salty romantic tale of the first triumph of steam over sail thunders to the screen in Frank Lloyd's new production "Rulers of the Sea" which opens its current engagement today at the Paramount theatre Boasting a distinguished cast headed by Douglas Fairbanks Jr Margaret Lockwood and the noted Scottish actor Will Fyffe "Rulers of the Sea" finds a courageous inventor undertaking to prove the steam engine which he has perfected can drive a ship across the Atlantic He is helped to the ultimate realization of his dream by a young seaman who has had enough of the brutal treatment meted out by the skippers of sailing packets and by a brave a girl in love with the young mariner who wisely guides her father and the man she loves to success Distinguished by magnificent shots of great ships being buffeted by the Atlantic by fine performances on the part of the stars and a large supporting cast the picture looms as the greatest triumph of the production and directorial genius of Frank Lloyd The companion feature "Henry Goes Arizona" is a hilarious comedy of the old west which stars Frank Morgan as "Henry" and features such top-notch players as Virginia Weidler Guy Kibbee Slim Summerville Douglas Fowl-ey and Owen Davis Jr As the whimsical Henry a Broadway dude who goes to Arizona to save the family ranch from a band of outlaws Morgan is a one-man circus From the minute he discovers that a derby hat and spats are not worn in the wild west until he turns into a cowboy with guns and chaps Morgan contributes a new high in hilarity The short subjects include a Fitzpatrick Travel-talk "Night Descends On Treasure Island" and latest Paramount News Flashes Ogden Show Offers Picture The Ogden theatre features "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" starring Charles Laughton and a second feature "Charlie Chan In the City of Darkness" with Laughton scoring the characterization Theoretically it is good only In the company store But some coal fields merchants recognizing their They drove the first ocean-going steamer throagh the ragiag fury of the broftd Atlantic they beat the tali masted sailing ships at their own game of speeds they conqaered the mighty ocean itself these brart sailor men and the women who loved them competition now have 'We Cash Script" signs in their windows They accept the script at a discount "then use it in replenishing supplies by purchasing standard priced articles at the company and the Lion" at Hartford Conn When the World War came Rains returned to England again where he enlisted in the famed London Scottish regiment He was gassed at Vlmy Ridge and at the end of the conflict was mustered out with the rank of captain Rains continued his stage career following the war and was a leading player for many years Because of his striking resemblance to Napoleon he was cast in "A Man of Destiny" and scored so decisively that American producers vied for his appearance Hollywood eventually got him but Rains starred in his first film without having his face visible It was in "The Invisible Man" in between there's a longer wait while lights are readjusted and the camera moved in for an angle shot or a closeup of the same bit of action Guests invariably comment on ese delays and marvel that pic- starting with a matinee Saturday February 24 at two in its entirety exactly as it was shown in the great Atlanta Premiere New York City and the engagement just concluded in Salt Lake City Egyptian Has "Swiss Family Robinson" The Egyptian theatre Sunday pesents the thrilling adventure movie I'Swiss Family Robinson" starring Freddie Bartholomew Thomas Mitchell Edna Best Tim Holt and a second feature "The Lone Wolf Strikes" starring William Warren and the latest "March of Time" film featuring "The Story of Finland and Her People" In the "Swiss Family" epic some of the 1 thrill-packed sequences include: (1) a terrific shipwreck during a terrifying storm (2) the exciting flight of the Robinson family from the sinking brig to the safety of an unknown tropical island (3) their spine-tingling adventures in the forbidding recesses of a mysterious tamarind forest (4) a fierce electrical storm on the island which shatters their half-completed escape boat (5) the nearly fatal experience of one of the Robinson boys with a poisonous spider in a dank cave and (6) the accident to the baby of the family when it is snared in a wild animal trap On Thursday only on the stage will be "The World's Fair Follies" ways explain that a director is sat' isfied if he can average three min- 4 i ji OOMPH GIRL' IS HAPPY NOW 117 mm 2T 1 uies oi nmsnea mm auring a nam 1 day's work V-i'iH ''LWly VIHJ-L V- WW I stores As with all money systems there's an "exchange rate" for script "Buyers" cruise through the fields and purchase the script for actual cash from miners who need funds on trips away from home Regular "exchange" rates are available Depending on demand for cash the exchange ranges from 70 to 90 cents on the dollar Reaches Other Industrie The script system reaches too into textile and lumber industries where company stores sometimes supply the needs of employees Combining their business with that of the coal company merchants the National Industrial Store association says the annual business of its 4200 members exceeds $1000000000 "Most of the business is in script" said Hull Broson executive secretary of the association FOLLIES COMING MORGUE SHOCK FATAL MONTREAL (UP) Louis Poirir 60 was called to view a body at the city morgue for possible identification She identified the body as that of a brother then dropped dead from a heart attack HOLLYWOOD Feb Clara Lou Sheridan who changed her name to Ann and became the "oomph girl" has exercised a woman's privilege She's changed her mind For months you may recall she's bemoaned the "oomph" tag given her by some young-men-about-town and later most of the populace "But I'm sorry now" she says contritely "I know if it hadn't THRILL to the mightiest stern ever recorded en film! HERE THURSDAY Egyptian to Present Roxy Beauties From NY On Stage Things are buzzing at a fast Ympo these days around the Egyp- ii been for 'oomph' I'd probably still be in the chours I'm awfully grateful for what it's done for me "But will somebody please tell 1 me what it means?" Plus The Comedy Riot of the Season! efian theatre where Manager Wil-liam Fowers has his capable staff getting- everything In readiness for the stage engagement here one day only Thursday February 29 of the "World's Fair Follies" you'LL iiomL! "The World's Fair Follies" is no true all the beauty is revealed in full color the heart-stabbing drama the powerful love story are here for you to live over again on the screen While this engagement is limited this production will not be shown anywhere except at advanced prices at least until 1941 he fame of "GONE WITH THE WIND' has spread throughout the nation You will see it here exactly as shown in its famed Atlanta Premiere Then you will understand why it is the most exciting topic of the day why it took three years to produce an unprecedented fortune5 to make All that you ever hoped for it has come inuGtie? Tour vorite tcxn comedian Frank (call him MORGAN comes a rootin' tootin' hombr out to tame the West! Lot Frank tell you it's a panic 1 an ordinary stage show in any sense of the being larger than the average having a bevy of beautiful girls from the World of Tomorrow and the Treasure Chests of Treasure Island" he says "They feature a score or more of sensational dance productions introducing the greatest array of outstanding girls who made Exposition history present- Cing these particular numbers for Vie first time outside of the two World's fairs Week Day MATINEES Starting TOMORROW Will be continuous performances with no 'reserved seats You may come any time from 10 a up to 2:15 and see a complete show DAVID SELZNICK production 0 MARGARET MITCHELL'S Story of the Old South mm IS! Manager Fowers admits this great revue "puts him on the spot!" "The World's Fair Follies" was originally produced in New York for a tour of Europe but when the war broke out It was brought rectly to San Francisco a coast to coast route was quickly set up and the west gets to see this outstanding show first As all the girls are under contract and will have to open at the world's fairs when they UP rrnmi I VIICIXIIWEIBLII Vf IQ8CUS FOWIEY A Extra Added in TECHNICOLOR starring CLARK GABLE as Rhett Butler LESLIE HOWARD OLIVIA De HA VILL AND and prtstutini VIVIEN LEIGH Scarlett O'Hara A SELZNICK INTERNATIONAL PICTURE Dirtcted VICTOR FLEMING frtt Wo SIDNEY HOWARD Mmnc Sui A MetroGoUhrynMrer Rehsse Now Playing 'X i 1 Night Shows 8 All seats reserved $111 Inc Tax Sun Mat 2 All seats reserved $L1? Inc Tax Weekday Matinee Continuous 10 a in to Unreserved 75c Incl Tax both re-open in May this tour is necessarily limited "The World's Fair Follies" has been enjoying topnotch business in every city it has played "Every report from every city indicates this is a fine show" con- eludes Mr Fowers "It puta me on the spot because I want to do Just as big business with it as other cities have been doing" Color Cartoon "Hare-um Scare-urn HEHJJM fHEATRE 1 Box Office Open Tomorrow at 8:30 a Also Bltipatrick'a '-Night Descend On Treasure Island" Matinee Today (2 m) Tonight (8 m) All Seats Reserved $112 Incl Tax.