Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1937, Page 45

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, "FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1937. “General Hospital” Set Buzzes With Technicians! Calls for “Clean” and “Dirty” Nurses Dif- ferentiate Between Reel and Real Types. BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN. YWOOD, June 4 (N.AN.A).—Watching the stars at work: General Hospital.” at M-G-M-—"Send & dirty nurse in here,” yells Director George Seitz A door to the set's operating room opens and a very clean, sanitary-looking nurse walks over to the operating table to confer with the director, Seitz means no harm. It is enl the six studio bit girls nurses, and the six bona fide profes- sionals brought in from a Hollywood hospital to show the amateurs how to look and act like nurses in the picture. 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But always he is talking and always Re is on the move A half-hour rehear Ratoff elects to shoot the scene “Come. now, we shoot—yah!" says, waving both arms at Peler and Joseph Schildkraut, whose officer make-ups are bri nated in the flow of light Now you. Meester d-kr let’s haf a steef bow floor—like dee is where you, Peter for Lorre) come in “But — vait — yah — one pleez.” and Ratoff scuttles over the cables to the camera. He brushes the cameraman away and peers into the finders. “I vant one leetle look here—just to see moods.” The scene prepared for shooting. Ratoffl returns to his chair. Next to him sets his wife, Eugenie Leontovich a daily visitor to the set, now that the run on her play “Tovarich,” has closed “Come, baby,” he whispers ife her hand in his shouts Ratoff, “giff now—okay the camera s over and chee almost here pet name that is eet seckund to his mee a it's de whirrs peetcher!” And (Copyright ) Americaa Ratoff, Hollywood's leading | and most excitable dialect comedian, | HE CAN’T PLAY A PIANO, BUT HE WROTE A TUNE (CONTRARY to popular belief, you don't need musical instruments or | even a knowledge of flats, sharps and counter-harmony to become a com- poser Claude Binyon, ace Paramount sce- narist, established this fact during a recent locxtion trip to Sun Valley. Idaho. One lonely night while he was \ll-l ting with Claudette Colbert and We: ley Ruggles, producer-director, Binyon | felt this strange urge to compose a tune. 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