"SARATOGA TRUNK" ON SCREEN

Chronicle (Levin), 3 August 1946, Page 6

"SARATOGA TRUNK" ON SCREEN

Readers of the novel "Saratoga j Trunk" who may wonder what ; Warner Bros. have. done to their ! favourite episodes in the Edna j Ferber best seller, can sit back and , relax. They are all in the picture. ! The Warner studio and director 8am Wood saw to that. , Wood sai'd that when he.thought, enough of a book to do it as a pic- i ture he fihned it. He said he I "shot" "Saratoga Trunk" as the j book depicted, not just the use oi j the title and the principal charac- ! ters. The picture eliminates the; prologue and the epilogue of the novel, which in no way affects thei story, "We start with Clio Dulairej and her two servants arriving ini New Orleans; we established the I background of the . charac ters i exactiy as described in the book," i said Wood. "From there on i through the railroad fight and the! climax of the romance it is all the ! Ferber 'Saratoga Trunk.' " It is not a re-write of Miss Ferber 's novel, but rather a masterly job of transition' from novel to screen play form. Gary Cooper plays Clint Maroon. and Miss Ferber must have been visualising him when she created the character. Certainly he fits all the specifications of her former cowboy hero from Texas. In black wig, period gowns and bustles, the transformed Miss Ingrid Bergman is the Ferber description of Creole Ciio come to life.