Cecil B. De Mille Chooses Big Factor in Career Nei Rebellon as Subject If Lana Turner will behave herself For Latest Picture and not go completely berserk she is headed for a top spot in motion By some happy arrangement bepictures writes Louella O. Parsons to tween its producer and Providence, the "Oregonian." She is the most "North West Mounted Police" started glamorous actress since Jean Harlow off while the comforts of a mackinaw had the world talking about her in and long hair were acceptable even "Redheaded Woman." She comes on the clement portages about Holly-nearest to representing what the wood. It is hyperborean stuff. Those college boys consider ravishing beauty learned in the portents aver it will since Clara Bow won the vote of be ready in midsummer, when any every male college as the most attrac-film—even if it had no plot, nor Gary tive movie star. Lana has the child-Cooper, nor Madeleine Caffoll nor like beauty of Bow, the sophistication Paulette Goddard—would be em-of Harlow and the glamour of Hedy braced by any audience forgetful of Lamarr, but she is a bundle of the long Winter of its discontent that emotion, has just trailed out.
Clara Bow, too, was a creature of But no Cecil B. De Mille epic ever varying emotion. Involved in too depends on such a trifle as climate many scandals, most of them unfor its acceptance. The rigours of deserved, Clara lost her place in the Saskatchewan are stressed only be-movie sun and was never able for cause this must be the first time regain it. Lana, in her impulses, is that De Mille has ever dealt in snowy not unlike the little Bow girl. Both material—or the first in a very long of them trusting and lovable, use their hearts instead of their heads. Lana, time he has made so many pictures.
This is his 66th. He doesn't mind of course, has never been in any confiding to the press that this is per scandal but she has always acted hastily and been guided more by her haps his most colourful, quite apar own ideas than by any advice the from its being a technicolour piece studio gave her. with fine effects of red jacket agains She would have walked right out snow. on her MGM contract rather than As one may have heard, "North forego a trip to New York with her West Mounted Police" is of no one bridegroom, Artie Shaw.: She needs man hunt, but swirls about the Rie to work and work hard, and that is "rebellion" of 1885, an episode tha a thing which she will find most ranks in Canadian history pretty difficult to do, for she has the night much as the Harper's Ferry incident: club spirit and shed rather go to a does in American. It was a more crowded, smoke-filled night spot and sanguinary affair, however, for at do one of the new dances than any-the Duck Lake battle the red-coated thing else in the world. But Lana company of 50 was massacred by 1.00€ is young and she will learn some dispossessed half-breeds and Indians day that the worth-while things are under. the luckless schoolmaster. not found night-clubbing.
Luis Nei.
To tell the truth, I felt that MGM was ever-exploiting this beautiful Quiet Day on the Sct redheaded child until I saw her in "Two Girls on Broadway." Based on Filming was a quiet business when the original "Broadway Melody," this this reporter groped into the stage at musicale discloses that Lana "has real Paramount Studios the other day. talent as an actress and possibilities De Mills set was practically empty as a dancer, but if she wants to be—after the bravura of the first weeks another Ginger Rogers or Eleanoi when the big scenes were shot in Powell shell have to work. the presence of a half thousand spectators. The sole visitors were a dozen journalists, a class from a traditional in all dramas like this, and military academy in full uniform Francis McDonald as Nei. De Mille and a brace of celebrities. Almost 2 is not the man to let any one down desolation. De Mille was in excel-in the matter of types. lent humour. He does his best work Meanw William H. Pine, his in a solitude like this. The set was aide, was selecting more types at about 20 feet square, with about 30 the rear of the stage, all dark, sombre assistants jammed together at one and muscular. Moving about behind end. their natural beards, and only half De Mille, sitting on an attached recognizable, were Akim Tamiroff. chair, was snuggled up to a sky-blue Lynne Overman, George Bancroft and technicolour camera as big asa trailer.
Montagu Love. But nobody could It appeared the simplest possible of fail to spot them with half an eye as scenes—Madeleine Carroll as the voyagers and half-breeds of the nurse, was to bandage up the foot of most relentless stamp. As Nei, an Indian child in a wilderness hos-McDonald looked something between pital. It was something, that one John Wilkes Booth and Edgar Allan thought, could have been filmed must
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