TALKIES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 77, 20 October 1939, Page 7

TALKIES

DENNIE MOORE FOLLOWS CAGNEY On West 47th Street in New York City, within a bricks throw of the brownstone house where a little boy named James Cagney lived, Dennie Moore —a girl, not a bojr—was born. Like Cagney, Dennie Moore decided to enter the chorus and like Cagney, chorus work she did. Again she followed in Cagney's footsteps and stepped from the chorus to roles in Broadway plays. Again like Cagney, she came to Hollywood with a Warner Bros contract to start her motion picture career. Her first screen role bince signing the contract was "Mystery House." After serving her apprentice ship in the chorus, Dennie Moore struck out for legitimate roles —and soon she was a full-fledged actress. She has since appeared in more important Broadway plays than she can remember.

CAGNEY

'TOUGH GUYS' USE DIRT TO MAKE-UP Grease and dirt rubbed off the motor of fin old and battered truclv supplied the only make-up worn by Universale Little Tough Guys .luring Filming of "Code of the Streets." When the boys arrived for work an the set in scones with Harry Carey and Leon Ames, they were attired in costumes from the studio wardrobe which filled their own idea of what tattered street urchins should wear. "The clothes are perfectly okay,'' admitted Harold Young, the director "But you'll have to make them a whole lot dirtier. And muss up your faces, too." Over at one side of the set, which was filled with a strange collection of "props" rented from a local "junkyard, sat a wrecked motor. The boys promptly acquired the proper "character" by rubbing grease and dust off the old motor and smearing it over their faces and costumes.

"A' BIT OF A MYSTERY" Emile Boreo, who plays in "The Lady Vanishes," a G.B.D. attraction, is best described as the reincarnation of Grimaldi and Grock. He is diminutive in stature, gesciculative in manner,, charming in speech, and quaint in personality. He has travelled the seven seas and five continents in search of fame. He found it when Sarah Bernhardt found him outside a French theatre and offered to coach the boy in elocution for his stage career. He was born on a French express bound for the Russian bodder. His mother was French and his father Russian. He himself was educated in Paris and is an American citizen, from which you will gather Emile is, as he says, "a bit of a mystery." Speaks six languages, English the worst. First appeared on the stage as the hind legs of a horse in a circus show and jumped for joy when they promoted him to the front legs. Later he landed a job as a prompter in another French theatre and then started his happy association with Sarah Bernhardt. Studied for a year and a half at the Conservatoire of Paris for Dramatic Art. SAVAGE GOLD This is a stark drama of fierce primitive people and reveals savages in their wild jungle life. It also portrays the wild ceremonials of headhunters, the gruesome rites of the wtich doctors, as they compress human heads of recently decapitated victims. Also the Jivaro Indians killing their prey with poison darts from blowguns, and, eating the bodies of human victims —through it all is the drama of the conflict of the white mana gainst the savage in the hunt for buried treasure —Savage Gold.

CLOSE UPS Close-ups have been a major feature of motion picture camera technique ever since they were invented by D. W. Griffith way back in the film industry's infancy, but Director Anatole Litvak hasn't any use for tliem in his productions. Contrary to the general theory. Litvak, who directed "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" the sensational Warner Bros picture, feels the close-up could be dispensed "with entirely and nobody would notice the difference.