REALISTIC ENMITY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21396, 20 October 1934, Page 12 (Supplement)

REALISTIC ENMITY

GIRLS' HUMOROUS ORDEALS OPPORTUNITY FOR REVENGE An enmity which Loretta Young and Astrid Allwyn are required to simulate before the cameras in Jesse L. Lasky's " The White Parade," now in production at Fox Film studios, threatened for a time to become real. Both actresses portray the roles of undergraduate nurses in the current Lasky production, and as. the story unfolds a bitter feud develops between the pair ovter Miss Young's screen romance with John Boles, leading man in the picture. In an earlier sequence the action called for Miss Allwyn to douse a pitcher of cold water in Miss Young's face while the latter is lying in bed. After the scene had been filmed several times Miss Young accused the other actress of deliberately " blowing up in her lines," necessitating more than the usual number of retakes and, consequently, more ice water. Director Irving Cummiings had difficulty pacifying the pair.

Then Miss Allwyn was on the receiving end of the punishment in a scene wherein Miss Young delivers a socking slap to the right cheek. A difficult scene, it was refilmed several times. Finally Miss Allwyn complained that the slaps were becoming too realistic and it was feared for a time she might return the blows.

However, the ktorm blew over when the last " take " in the slapping sequence had been declared " O.K. " by Director Cummings—the girls embraced and are again the best of friends. Now they both are accusing the director of encouraging strained relations between them to obtain maximum realism for the scenes in which they register mutual antagonism.