BUDAPEST ON THE SCREEN.

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 21

BUDAPEST ON THE SCREEN.

The beautiful cafe and garden scene in Universal's "Prescription for Romance" required a specially-constructed swinging camera boom 38ft long before it could be recorded* In order to follow the principals in the cast as they danced and made merry in this Budapest cafe it was necessary to ele; , vate the camera and crew far above the heads of'the company," which Tea-" lures Kent Taylor, Wentfy Barrie, Mischa Aver, and Frank Jehks amongothers as principals. Inasmuch as much of the action in the romantic comedy" takes place in Hungary, Art Director Jack Otterson spent months in research before he gave-final-instruction-to-his two-score architectural draftsmen arid construction engineers.. For instance, Mie had to send all the way to Hungary when he was .required to construct a replica of the famous Marko Ucca detention home, or gaol, whpre some of the most amusing comedy' situations take place, involving-Frank Jenks, Mischa Aver, Wendy Barrie and Kent Taylor. Only in this ' way could he be sure of authenticity "as to architecture, furnishings, and other accessories. But it was in the big cafe and garden scenes that Otterson found most opportunity to display his genius These were reproduced from an old and typical hostelry in Budapest, where lords and ladies and members of royalty dined in the grand manner before the World War scattered them to the four winds. The architecture is Dure German baroque throughout. Mag. mftcenl gardens heavy with rose trellises, rare shrubs, and trees were -jrepted on the gigantic sound stage me hospital interior, where the impetuous American detective not onh irenziedly hunts for a slick embezzle") but also makes love to the beautiful young American physician, is a combination of all the newest architecture of that type in Europe.