HOLLYWOOD FRONT.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 4, 4 July 1940, Page 18

HOLLYWOOD FRONT.

The best-laid plans of many men have been changed by the new World War, and one Hollywood motion picture production has felt the influence of the European Armageddon. Before now, of course, Mars has manifested himself on the west coast on several separate instances: he caused the untimely departure of, among others, David Niven and Charles Boyer; he has curtailed film revenue from abroad; he has prevented the production of some projected pictures, and made possible the production of others that otherwise would never have reached the screen. But Edward Small and the company of "My Son, My Son!" were the first to feel the full force of the war-god's might. The first obstacle arose even before the film went into production. It had been Small's intention to transport the entire cast and crew to England, where authentic location shots could be made in the actual settings of the Howard Spring novel, but the war soon put a stop to that. Undaunted, Small instead ordered England to be brought to America, and had constructed on his Hollywood sound stages the exact replicas of the scenes he was unable to visit himself.