MANY SCENES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 716, 16 December 1933, Page 2

MANY SCENES

"DION'T BET ON LOVE" TAXES INGENUITY OF STUDIOS. Universal's "Don't Bet on Love," a colourful race track drama, opens at the Grand Theatre on Thursday, with Lew Ayres in the starring role, and reveals >gxaphically how an unusual film with an unusual background can entail many weeks of work for only a few minutes' showing in the theatre. iSet architects at Universal City worked overtime designing and erecting the many sets which the script of "Don't Bet on Love" demanded for proper screening. First of all, the opening sequences, where Ayres is seen as a young plumber, demanded a plumbing shop, replete with all the fixtures, accessories and tools of the business. But in the drama, Ayres walks from his plumbing shop across the street to a Kosher Delicatessen. This talces only a few minutes on celluloid, but it meant the designing and stocking of just such an actuial delicatessen withdn a few steps of the plumbing set. Then the script called for the star to wander down the street, passing and entering various shops as he goes, such as a Chinese laundry, ending up in a race track "bookmaker's" den. As the drama unfolds, moving rapidly from crisis to crisis, so it moves as rapidly from set to set, each one flashinig briefly on th& screen, but arising slowly and painstakingly at the studio. A hotel lobby, with lights, elevators,

and furnishings; a gambling casino, elaborately done; a night club, a bank, a barber shop, a West Side flat, a hotel room, a lawyer's office, even the interior of an undertaking establishment — just a few of the architectural problems neeessary to ac- ; complish before a camera could be turned. And then the biggest set of all-na complete race track, with 'paddock, the judge's stand, bookmaking stalls, the staiging of a fenuine ! race-, handling of hundreds of "$xtra," actors. "Don't Bet on Love" features Ginger Rogers opposite Lew Ayres, with i Charles Grapewin, Shirley Grey, Merna Kennedy, Tom- Dugan, Robiert Ernmett OI'Gbnnor, Lucille Wlelbster Oleason and Henry Armetta pro.mj- ■ ' : nent in the unsual suporting cast. ; ' iMurr9,y Roth." djr-ected th,? :&lni from his own original story.