Bilo Baby, a pleasing Filipino singer from Manila, and Tatong Ampers dance band last night opened a long engagement at the Metropole Garden and Ballroom and were greeted by a capacity gathering anxious to see and hear the new vocalist and musicians. Amper has played with and directed orchestras here at the Little Club, Cathay Hotel. the old Palais de Danse, Ladow Tavern. Del Monte and other cabarets and night clubs. He has assembled a combination of unusually fine musicians, all Filipinos with the exception of the American singing drummer, Bay Nelson. Other members of the band include Vicente Legaspi, "Sonny" Louis, Surrey Pedring. E Dionicio. C. Francisco. Frank Casino. F. Car-noire and J. Francisco. would be the Indian the same soldier shot down in the morning session. He was a western heavy, with a painted black mustache, a keystone cop, or any other character the call sheet demanded. But it was make-up that aroused curiosity and caused him in his spare time to launch the experiments that finally landed him among the foremost members of his craft.
Dawn's career as a make-up man has thrust many a strange assignment his way. but he says there was only one demand he couldn't fulfil "That was a matter of self-protection" he grinned. "You see, a producer wanted me to shave off the mane of an African lion and make him resemble a mountain lion. At this I drew the line."
But he did make up a Mexican Chihuahua to resemble a French poodle at the request of Hal Roach, who needed such a dog for a comedy starring Jimmy Finlayson.
One day he was called into consultation by William Fox over a weighty problem connected with a sequence in which George O'Brien and his lady love were to be hurled into a pit of hissing rattlesnakes. The scenarist refused to compromise—it had to be rattlers or nothing.
Dawn sent property men over the Hollywood hills (this was before they were covered with fashionable homes) in search of 50 harmless garden snakes, which then abounded in that section. They returned, b: kets loaded. Dawn had the snakes taken to his home, and there, with the aid of two boys—one holding the head, the other the tail—he worked over their squirming bodies with a paintbrush, transferring the design of the deadly ratti backs. The final stroke was a touch of genius. Each tail was dipped in glue and to this was fastened "rattiers." carved of balsa wood and tied together with thin wire.
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