AUTHENTICITY!

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 51, 2 March 1939, Page 5

AUTHENTICITY!

NOT WANTED HUNT FOE INACCURACY Hollywood producers often make, a point of stressing the extreme authenticity of every detail in sets, costumes and stories. In the case of "Made for Each Other," David O. Selznick s latest production starring Carole Lombara and James Stewart, the studio is making a special point of stressing just the opposite as regards names, addresses ana telephone numoers in New York City. One of the biggest headaches to a studio research aepartment is the concoction of fictitious items such as these. It is a reverse process, entailing many hours of work, in which maps, directories and telepnone books play an important part. The idea is to find a fictitious name or number that docs not, by chance, coincide with a real name, address, or telephone number in any given city. This is necessary if lawsuits are to be avoided, as one studio found out to its sorrow some time ago. The studio turned out a picture in which one of the characters called up the police and said: "Hurry up here. There's been a murder." The address given happened to be that of a wellknown apartment house in New York. When the picture was released, a lawsuit was avoided only after the studio made due apologies.