Jester's concession to Paramount's publicity department was that the stars, Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. appeared in a number of sequences. Other scenes began with Lincoln's Cabinet meeting, urging the opening of the West; the invasion of cattle-men and farmers came next; the war between cattleman and farmers followed; the picture ended with day dust-bowl problems.
late music and sound effects used throughout. pint of the Plains" cost conderably less than $10,000 to make, built up a lot of good-will for Hollyd Paramount and, incidental-y, through a judicious use of Gary and Jean Arthur, whetted he juvenile public's appetite for the less documentary but more exciting "episodes of "The Plainsman." As a ripplement to the classroom presenta-ion of Jester's short subject, the producer-director prepared a "study guide" made of factual scenes from e picture and appropriate text.
Later Jester was commissioned to work on "Maid of Salem." He was able to produce two short subjects out of the Claudette Colbert-Fred MacMurray starring vehicle. One of the: was a seventeenth-century travelogue of the Bay Colony settlement, "Seeing Salem." The other was a treatise on native superstitions and fetishes, entitled "Have Times Changed?"
Showing a remarkable flair for comedy Nancy Kelly, talented star of screen, stage and radio, has been given the starring role in "Public Deb. No. 11" by Darryl F. Zanuck, 20th Century-Fox production chief. Nancy Kelly's first important role Vas a straight dramatic one in "Jesse James," but her talent for comedy as shown in her current screen role expected to establish her as an outs
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