"RAWHIDE”

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 November 1938, Page 6

"RAWHIDE”

The slugging star first baseman of the World Champion New York Yankees teams up with Smith Ballew in “Rawhide.” It’s a new type of war on the range, with "Larrupin’ Lou” Gehrig dropping his baseball spikes for spurs and trading his bat for a six-gun—to team up with the popular singing cowboy in driving the rustler-racketeers out of the West. The two stars are ably supported by Evalyn Knapp, who plays the role of Gehrig’s sister. Ballew introduces three new cowboy melodies: "Drifting,” “When a Cowboy Goes to Town,” and "A Cowboy’s Life.” * * * * A joke made by Cary Grant, overheard and taken seriously by an inventive sound man. resulted in the most novel—and certainly the loudest—alarm clock in the United States. When Pro-ducer-Director George Stevens worried aloud about his problem of rousing 600 men each morning during the ten weeks’ location near Mt. Whitney for RKO Radio’s “Gunga Din" Grant said: “Why not hook an alarm clock to the camp’s public address system?” Whereupon sound man John Tribbey did just that, wired the gargantuan device so ihat the hands of the clock automatically turn on the electricity for the loud speaker which blasts 600 drowsy men from bed at 5 each morning when the alarm, hung from the microphone, goes off with the loudest roar yet to shatter the silence of the Siergjß.