PLEASANT PETS OF THE PAST

Evening Star, Issue 23189, 11 February 1939, Page 5

PLEASANT PETS OF THE PAST

The young man is Clifford Odets. And Rouben Mamouliau will direct the picturisation of his successful Broadway stage play. Recently the director arrived in New York and encountered the well-known playwright. Although Mamouliau had turned Odets down as an actor, he invited him to help look for an actor to play ‘ Golden Boy • on the screen. The director’s requirements for the role were exacting. Hopeful of discovering an unknown, but promising, young player, he sought a combination of youth in years, having a trouper’s perception and skill. Odets does not think Mamoulian can be too exacting. “Don’t be afraid to turn them down,” he advised the director, smiling. “ You did me a good turn.” “ If turning down means getting a few more great playwrights started,” the director replied, “ I’ll be doing the theatre a good turn.” ‘ Golden Boy ’ lead will soon be announced.

TO BE STABBED IN 1 LOST ATLANTIS ’ Four members of the oast of ‘ Lost Atlantis ’ have been named by Trem Carr and Fred Jackman, who are producing the horror-mystery spectacle tor Columbia. They are the Brontosaurus, the Stegosaurus, the Alisaurus, and the Trieeratops. Known as monsters of the Mesozoic Age, it is with scientific data furnished by Yale University and the Smithsonian Institution that the producers are using them as the bulwark of the thrill-

'ing drama in which an adventurous group of young moderns, probing into the secrets of a laud lost 12,000 years ago, confront life that stalked the earth 12 million years past. A year of careful technical preparation has gone into ‘Lost Atlantis.’ Now its strange, fascinating story is being moulded into dramatic form. The giant creatures of Mesozoic times are being brought to startling reality. The Brontosaurus is a 70ft wormnecked mud wallower, the Stegosaurus is a great saw-backed lizard, 20ft long and with a ridiculous needle head. The Triceratops, although also a giant reptile, resembles a modem animal more closely than any of the other dinosaurs; he is like a rhinoceros 20ft long, with a formidably spiked and armoured tail. There are also comparatively peaceful herb-eaters, while Alisaurus is a swift-moving killer of the form of a 25ft kangaroo, with the amiable countenance of a crocodile.