Tableware in Bulk

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 168, 12 April 1935, Page 16

Tableware in Bulk

JpOR “Broadway Bill,” the Capra-Co-lumbia comedy sensation, Ted Dixon, Columbia property room hear), received an order calling for the handling of 24,000 separate pieces of tableware! It was for a cafe scene .featuring Warner Baxter, star of the picture, in which 300 patrons are seated. So Dixot hired 300 pieces of each of ten seperate items, such as dinner plates, 1 salad plates, forks, knives, beer steins, ' glasses, cups, saucers, etc. The 24,000 piece-handling involved unpacking, jvashing,-. wiping, setting up on the ' tables, removing, washing, wiping, repacking, etc., a total of eight complete operations. Such is the glamour of Hollywood for those on the inside! \ . New Mystery Story \ , • movie studio has its detectives. They are not connected with any police force, public or private. They follow their quarry all over the world. Frequently with no more clue than a line of mimeographed copy or a -short telegram or radiogram they unearth information which leads to the fj saving of expenditure of thousands of dollars. Behind the story of every feature motion picture lies hours of unsung, uncovered work by some movie sleuth. In Universal’s "The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” there is much detective work on the screen, but there was a great deal more on the other side of the screen. Working in libraries, colleges, slums and cathedrals of five of the leading cities of the British Isles and in a score of hamlets, Hying squads of investigators unearthed the information upon which all the fiftytwo sets of the production were based. Claude Rains has the leading role of the sanctimonious and sinister John Jasper. The supporting cast includes Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, Francis L. Sullivan and Valerie Hobson.