A Real Tumble Floors Hero

Northern Advocate, 22 July 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)

A Real Tumble Floors Hero

Shortly before Alexander D’Arcy appeared in a scene with Roland Young m which his face had to show the effect of a beating received from Young in a hilarious cafe brawl in “Topper Takes a Trip,” D’Arcy tripped over a cable on the set, hit his forehead on a light standard and came out second best with an inch cut above his left eye and several bruises. For that day’s shooting the wound had to be camouflaged with adhesive tape and make-up.

"Think of the time that will save tomorrow,” D’Arcy told Billie Burke, Vcree Tcasdale and others of the cast commiserating with him. “I’ll just rip off the plaster and look 'as if Roland Young had done a good job at beating me up.” i On the following day, D’Arcy learned to his dismay that the scene demanded he turn his cheek to the camera. He spent rJearly an hour with the make-up artist, who put tape and make-up over the real wound and then painted realistic scars of battle on the right" side of his face for the camera. Joan Crawford, who was recently divorced from Frandhot Tdne, said after the decree was granted: “I hope I am intelligent enough to be friendly with Mr Tone even though our marriage is finished. I could not go round not speaking to him.” The two stars expect to see each other from time to time and may even be cast together in the same pictures. * * Spencer Tracy. Hollywood star and twice Academy Award wanner, has just returned from a three-weeks vacation in Europe. On his return, to America Tracy is reported to have said: “Ah, I needed that. Even the Europe of these troublesome times is a rest after Hollywood.”