SHIRLEY PLAYS IN KIPLING FILM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 178, 14 August 1937, Page 10

SHIRLEY PLAYS IN KIPLING FILM

At an isolated . spot in the roeky Santa Susanna Mountainsj where nature prQVided a ?geojgraphical replica of . India 'a f amed . KJbyber • Pass, large and costly'iocation sets, were erected for Wee . Willie ^Winkle." Eudyard Kiplihg's frontier of- 1898 was reproduced in faithful detail in .a series of 34 permanent outdoor sets which sprawled over an area of one xnile square , in. the - rock-atrewn mountains. The golden-cnrled Queen of Hollywood —Shirley Temple— is the star of " Wee *Willie Winkie," with Victor McLaglen heading the supporting cast, which includes 3 une Lang, Michael Whalen, 0. Aubrey Smith, Cesar Komero and Douglas Scott, who will be remembered aa the young boy, Horatio Nelson, in "Lloyds of London." The high point of production to Shirley were the kilties she wore. She critically compared them for detail with the uniform 6f McLaglen, and, when she found out her own uniform was identical . even to a pocket in tho sporran? she ;took • it without reserve into her childish- 'heart. She marched with* the men until they begged for rest, and .then she marched by herself just as long as she could get a bagpipe to. play. And when the end of the day 's work came, "she wore the uniform home. It is said that Kipling loved the story of "Wee Willie Winkie" above all his other works because It depictcd some of his own childhood. It is this story that 20th Century-Fox has made into the cinema production starring Shirley Temple as "Wee Willie Winkie." With* scrupulous care, procedure, film teehnicians, writers, and research men laboured for over a year under the direction of Produeer Chief Darryl F. Zanuck in order that the film story might reproduce in minutest detail the stirring scenes whieh Kipling described.