PILLOW FIGHT
“PROP” .MEN BUSY. Several minutes of gay amusement and a touch of nostalgia are provided for picturegoers, in the old-fashioned pillow fight staged by Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler, Fay Bainter and Ralph Morgan for a sequence in “Mother Carey’s Chickens,” adaptation of Kate Douglas Wiggin’s popular novel, which commences at the State Theatre on Friday of next week. '■ For the “prop” man the fight meant rounding up eighteen big pillows stuffed with goose feathers. For the makeup man, it meant “de-feathering” the cast after each shooting. The hairdressers had the job of plucking feathers from the intricate, old-fashioned coiffures, the wardrobe man had to brush and pick the feathers from all costumes used, and the clean-up crew had to remove all traces of the fracas
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1938, Page 5
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127PILLOW FIGHT Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1938, Page 5
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