Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1930, Page 99

STORIES SPORTS & GAMES PUZZLES AT 'A NICE fat hen, that looks as though she i would make a wonderful Sunday dinner, Brings us this week’s cross word puzzle. CLUCK, CLUCK! 2. Father. 5. Exists. 6. Therefore. %. Hens and roosters. 11. Boy's nickname. 12. To become old. 13. Ocean. . Southern State (abbr.). . A playing card. . A female fowl. VERTICAL. . A heroic narrative poem. . Remains of a fire. . Distress signal at sea. . A sly, deeeitful person. . Notion. . Knight of Arthur (abbr.). . What a hen lays. . Pain. . Electrical engineer (abbr.). — Now for a couple of word chains about this Cinngem@oLAYlnthmm, Change SETS to NEST in four moves. - Hens are known as very attentive mothers, *which inspires this word diamond. The second word means a large quantity, the third is a machine for working wood, the fifth is an ad- verb and the sixth means before. Complete the diamond. M o T MOTHERS E R s Sl Three breeds of chickens are concealed in this picture puzzle. What are they? 'THREE BREEDS OF CHICKENS Here is a four-word square started for you. The second word is & cavern and the ® canvas shelter. Form the square. sSscCoT (] o T "MHE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, A IS T e m N~ JUNE 8, 1930, GIRLS PAGE Punkinville Golf Tournament. How Movie Wheels Go ’Round. BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. UCH must be done in geiting ready to make a motion picture. Let us suppose that all neces- sary preparations have been made. Let us suppost, too, that general rehearsals have been held. The actors have studied their parts and learned their lines. Rehearsals are held on a bare stage, although in the old days of silent pictures they were held right on the set where the picture would be taken. But operating & modern sound stage is very expensive, and the director doesn’t want to move his company onto it until he is ready to take the picture and take it rap- idly. Therefore a dummy set is used for re- hearsals, and the positions of the cameras are marked by lines in preparation for the actual shooting. director is satisfied with rehearsals, and ‘" decides that he will start making the pic- ture at once. All the departments have been operating smoothly, and he knows that every- thing is ready to go ahead. On the night before shooting is to start, the assistant director gives orders to various departments. He tells the casting department to have all the players on hand the next morning. He directs the cos- tume department, the hand props department, and all the others to be ready. Some of the actors appear at the studio very early the next morning and go to the makeup department for special kinds of makeup, such as a specially built broken nose, a scar, or anything of that sort. ‘The other players, the extras, arrive for work already made up. The assistant director also sees that ward- robe and makeup experts are on the set ready to make needed repairs during the shooting of the picture. First-aid materials are at hand, a nurse is on call, and there are plenty of pins, needles and thread for emergencies. In other words, every sort of mishap has been provided for. The actors are all assembled, the cameras are set up, the microphones which will catch the sound are in position. Talking pictures are “taken on soundproof stages. often built with double walls, so that outside noises will not interfere. Even the cameras, which make noise in taking the picture, must be covered with hoods or inclosed in soundproof booths. Now come the results of all these careful preparations, which may have required several weeks or even several months. The action begins, the cameras grind, and another picture iz being made. ’[’fll actyal taking of the picture may require ! several weeks. Each night the director views the “rushes,” a special showing of the scenes taken during that day, and listens to the dialogue which was recorded. 1In this way he knows at all times how the picture is pro- gressing. During the filming of the picture, the director may not be satisfied with the act- ing, or the sound director may not be pleased with the sound, so that scenes may be played over several times. But these are avolded as much as possible by careful rehears- ing. In making the ordinary picture, about 70 per cent of the scenes are taken right in the studio, the rest being special scenes taken “‘en location,” or at some place other than the studio. When the company must travel to some distant point by train and take much of the action there, it is called a “location” picture. Sometimes companies travel for many miles to get the proper setting for a picture. “The Pagan” and “White Shadows of the South Seas” were actually made in the South Seas. “Trader Horn” and “The Four Feathers” were filmed in Africa. The company which made “The Sea Bat” took 62 persons in three Pull- mans to Mexico, with 100 tons of eguipment. In making “The Ten Commandments,” the company actually built the city in the sand dunes along the Pacific Ocean, and near it they built a tent city to take care of the 2,500 actors and the 3,000 animals for the two weeks that they spent there. Even when the actual filming of the picture is completed, work is by no means ended. Much more film is photographed than can actually be used in the picture. The cutting department must take all this film as it streams in and finally cut out perhaps 4.000 feet of it untii the picture is of the proper length. When this cutting has been done, it may be necessary to take some extra scenes to fill in certain gaps. AT last the picture is completed and ready for a “tryout.”” This first showing of the picture is called a “preview,” and it is made at some small city near the studio, often without any announcement. The audience viewing some other picture suddenly finds that it is having a “preview.” and then the picture is flashed on the screen for the first time anywhere. The director, officials of the studio, and mem- bers of the cast attend this showing to judge the result of their many weeks of work. In y cases, cards are furnished to members of audience so that they may give their opin- of the new picture. The makers then take film back to the studic and make any nges or additions that are needed to make the picture as nearly perfect as possible. At last the picture is complete in the form in which it will be released. Two negatives are made, one for use in the United States and one to be sent abroad. From the negative, some 200 prints are sent to exchanges in 40 large cities throughout the United States and Canada, and from these exchanges the man who runs your local movie theater gets his films, THE END. Al Billy’s Faulr.” Little Emily ran in the house, crying as though her heart would break. “What's wrong dear?” asked her mother. “My dolly—Billy broke it,” she sobbed. “How did he break it, dear?” “I hit him on the head with it.” Foot Ball Tactics. Pirst Monkey: Did Hannibal believe in the open game? Second Ditto: Sure. F. M.: How do you know? S. D.: It says he crossed the Alps by means of passes. {8 CRAFTS JOKES] 5 PUZZLES RIDDLES “Bertha” sent these riddles to us. We don'd know Bertha's last name, but we join with alj the riddle fans in thanking her. 1. What Is the best way to raise cabbage? 2. What relation is the doorstep to the doo® mat? 3. If a guest in a restaurant ordered a lobste® and ate it, and another guest did the same, what would the latter’s telephone number bl 4. Why is a kiss like the three Graces? ANSWERS. 1. With a knife and fork. 2. A stepfathes® (step farther). 3. 812 (ate one too). 4. Bew cause it is Faith to a girl, Hope to a young woman, and Charity to an old maid. i The Man of Neanderthal, Various parts of the world have given us the selections of prehistoric peoples and one wag found in the Neanderthal region. near Dussels dorf, Germany, by Prof. Schaffhausen. Not all of the skeleton is there, to be surej we have only the top of the skull, a few leg bones, part of the pelvis and a few of the ribsj but these remains were sufficient for the scien= tists who reconstructed the figure of this ancient man who lived on the banks of the Rhine River so many years ago. From this ree construction of the figure we learn that thia was one of the lowest types of the human race, a man with a low forehead, long arms, a rather hairy body and prominent teeth. His brain was smaller than is that of modern man, but he wag very active in his movements. He was ex« tremely barbarous, ate meat. berries, fruits and vegetables; he was a true human being, bul§ looked and acted more like an ape or gorillay ‘We humans have improved~ somewhat sinced the days of the Neanderthal man, but we are far from perfect. The men and women who will live a hundred thousand years from today will look and act differently, for they, too, will change slowly, as the years go by. Whethen they will be an improvement over twentiethe century man we do not know, for many thingg influence such change—and change may ga toward a betterment and it may also go toward the worse. Perhaps in those years the scientisty will dig up the bones of twentieth-century man and exhibit them in museums as we do those we discover, Puff Like Water Lily: uI THINK that at the drug stores,” said M Brown to the Hobby Club, “one finds " most fascinating array of articles that any one could imagine. One day I was wandering around looking at all these things, when thig delightfully quaint powder puff caught my eye, For one moment I was transported back to a scene in my beloved north woods, where I re« member a pond in the midst of the forestd which was almost entirely grown over with the loveliest water lilies. Back to realities. X bought the dainty article and studied carefully how it was made. “Oh, so simple to make! Just take a thin wooden stick like the one you get on candy suckers, wind around it this satin ribbon, green and white alternately, and on the end of thisy sew your water lily made out of a small piece of gold ribbon for the center, surrounded by three tiers of ruffied white satin ribbon and one tier of green ribbon for the leaves. Get & large white powder puff and sew it on the back of the flower, and there you have the daintiest powder puff that any one might desire to usd after a bath. ANSWERS. 1. Cross word puzzle solution. 2. HE}N—hey— hay—LAY. SETS —seas —seat—neat—NEST. 3. The diamond is B, lot, lathe, mothersy there, ere, S. 4. Leghorne, Plymouth Rock, Rhode Isiand Red. 5. Scot, cave, oven and tent. (-