DARING FEAT
TYUKE GREENE, stunt man and screen player, drove a loaded army truck through a heavy barricade of sandbags and furniture for one of the most spectacular battle scenes in “The Plough and the Stars,” soon to bo released by RKO Radio. Director John Ford and members of his camera crew had to work in a cage of heavy timbers to protect themselves from flying debris as Greene sent the big truck crashing through the barrier. “The Plough and the Stars,” considered by RKO officials one of their most important pictures of this season, is a screen version of <ne famous play by Sean O’Casey, wnich the Abbey Theatre Players from Dublin presented throughout the United States and Canada. Barbara Stanwyck stars in the feature, with Preston Foster opposite and five of the Abbey Players bringing to the screen the roles in which they scored or. the stage.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 154, 27 March 1937, Page VII (Supplement)
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149DARING FEAT Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 154, 27 March 1937, Page VII (Supplement)
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