“ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT"
A German army training tamp of the war days, the most rigorous it. military history, by which school boys were transformed into Germany f famed “Iron Youth.” was established r»i Universal City in preparation for the production of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” as st Universal picture. Fifty Los Angeles boys, including «*»e seven featured players of the picture were trained by a German drill sergeant exactly as the boys were trained for the German army. The training included culistenios. marching, drilling in the manual of arms and every detail of training exactly ;ls it was in the days of the war. Otto Biher, who served in the German army, had complete charge of the boys at the training camp and. under the direction of Lewis Milestone, whipped them into military shape with the same discipline he used as a German drill sergeant. Included in the platoon which « be seen any day marching over the hiJK adjacent to Universal City were Wiliam BakeweJl. Allen Lane. Walter Browne Rogers. Ben Alexander, and Owen Davis, junior, the school boj • of Erich Maria Remarque’* best stlUmr book of tj>e wofJ4
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1030, 22 July 1930, Page 15
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194“ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT" Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1030, 22 July 1930, Page 15
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