MANY ODDITIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 58, 5 September 1940, Page 18

MANY ODDITIES

. Director Sam Wood had an odd sign put up on" the "Our Town" set one week. It read: "Keep off the Shadows.1' It was a very necessary'warning. The shadows in the Sol Lesser production was highly destructable. They were painted on the lawns and walks. The scene in which the shadows played such an important part was set at night, with the moon throwing the shadows on fences and trees across the set. When lights are used to make the shadows, they are seldom the same. Paint doesn't change. Shadows out of a paint pot weren't the only odd things in "Our Town." There was a horse with a beard, for instance. Director Wood wanted whiskers on the lower lip of the nag that pulls the milk wagon and the horse1, hired for the job didn't have them. So they gave him a set of whiskers. There was also the man who oiled trees. That was for the rain sequence' because oil on the leaves and trunks gives a fine photographic effect.