Director Urges Players To "Have Fun"

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 260, 30 July 1937, Page 16

Director Urges Players To "Have Fun"

“ A LL right, children, let’s have fun with it 1” . That's Film Director Rowland V. Lee’s favourite final injunction to his players before they do a scene for “The Toast of New .York.” R.K.O. Radio’s current production based on incidents in the life of Jim Fisk, railroad baron and gay Lothario of the 'sixties. It seems a bit incongruous to hear the formidable Edward Arnold, the ,bulky Jack Oakie, anil (lie strapping six-footer, Cary Grant, called children. That, however, is a minor matter. The point is, Lee believes in his thespians enjoying themselves while they work. If, he contends, they have fun with the scenes, get a pleasurable zest from playing them, audiences arc going to derive enjoyment from seeing - them. On the other hand, if they make hard, grinding work of the scenes, audiences are very apt to find them laborious and dull.

A NTHONY QUINN, young Paramount featured player, spoke Cheyenne in “The Plainsman,” speaks Spanish in “Swing High, Swing Low. and will speak Hawaiian in “Waikiki Wedding.” He still insists that he can speak good English.