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Gloria Swanson Fascinated by Jaunt Through Puppet Studio Near Amsterdam By GLORIA SWANSON Amsterdam :u.P.i From Hol lywood to Dollywood is about 7000 miles and from my first childhood to my second one is sbout 50 years. During three hours yesterday I felt as if I were a child again for I visited Dollywood Studios jost outside Amsterdam, where 'Little People" no taller than 12 inches are brought to life through the ingenuity of 110 real people, mostly men. who live all day in this puppet world. All Departments This large studio has all the facilities and departments one would find in a regular motion picture studio with human ac tors. There is a make-up depart ment, one of wardrobe, also cos tume, the designing of wigs, set, furniture, and scripts and music. I visited them all, starting with the beginning where the ideas for scripts are first born. nere xney mane a synopsis in picture form rather than in words. Then there is the design ing of character which is done in more or less the same way f f EASY AS )) ftAPPLE PIE 15 NO COOKING NO BAKING just add to your prepared crust, bake according to directions ... and serve you would cut out a pattern for a dress. These in turn go to the various departments , such as arms, legs, .torsos and heads. Sometimes they have something in stock in the way of a leg that they can use. Four Fingers Only I never knew until I examined a puppet's hand carefully that it didn't have a thumb or a little Jackson Couniy Receives $191510 From Timber Sales Salem (U.R) Revenues from federal forest reserve rentals and sale of timber during the year ended June 30 received by the state of Oregon were about a mil lion dollars more than for the preceding year, according to Sec retary of State Earl T. Newbry. He announced apportionment to the counties of $6,104,818 for the year ended last June 30. Lane county was the "largest participant, receiving $1,073,278. Douglas was second with $682, 356. Other counties included: Baker, $103,322. Benton, $17 554. Clackamas, $356,017. Coos, $21,100. Crook, $201,141. Curry, $137,099. Deschutes, $307,463. Grant, $347,862. Harney, $183 952. Hood River, $148,063. Jackson, $191,510. Jefferson, $53,867. Josephine, $81,496. Klamath, $452,105. Lake, $398, 888. Lincoln, $181,280. Linn, $352,061. Malheur, $656. Marion, $152,615. Multnomah, $48,281. Polk, $3205. Tillamook, $104,546. Umatilla, $43,059. Union, $88,797. Wallowa, $117,011. Wasco, $147,643. Wheeler, $63,207. Yamhill, $31,- 201. Don Campbell Sets New Speedboat Record Boulder City, Nev. (U.R) Britain's Don Campbell roared to a new world's speedboat rec ord yesterday at 216.2 miles per hour. The son of the late speed king Sir Malcolm Campbell raced over a kilometer course between official timing devices to shatter his own mark of 202.32 set at Lake Ullswater, England over three months ago, in the same jet-propelled boat, the Blue bird II. finger but only four fingers of the same length. If it had more it would not be a puppet but a doll. In one department a village of thatched roofed houses was be ing made. I helped make one of the thatched roofs. No doubt you have seen many of these puppet cartoons in America because some of the sponsors there have had them made in Amsterdam. The employees are unable to learn their craft of puppet mak ing in any school. They are peo ple with a tendency to create, and consequently they start by working in the studio at night to earn a little extra money or to develop what might have been "just a hobby." One man I spoke with was on the police force at one time. He had a talent for sculpture and now he works full time model ling faces for these "little peo ple The material which is used is a sort of combination of rubber and plastic. Therefore the face can be pushed into various ex pressions and held. ine mustion ot walking or dancing on the screen is created the same way that Disney car toons would be created with drawings, moving a hand a frac tion of an inch each time it is photographed. When the film is run it gives the effect of live movement. The puppets I de scribe are puppets without strings although they do have the string type also in Dolly wood. Toward the end of my visit I was taken to the projection room where I saw a short film which was made to commemorate Thomas Edison's birthday anni versary last year. It was not sur prising that the music was espe cially impressive because it had been scored by the London Sym phony Orchestra. Short Movie Planned "Life" magazine last year ran a color picture serial of "The World We Live In." Next year Dollywood will finish a short movie of this subject for "Life." On the stage where this is being made I found myself looking into the bottom of the sea and the tops of mountains as they were millions and millions of years ago. The odd sensation of feeling like a giant when I was aware of myself and a foot high when I wasn't left me only when I sped away in a full-sized American car leaving 2000 "little people" and Dollywood behind me. A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment' On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Prmf Etur. Wriar Harman Nichols Washington OJ.R) Retread ing of tires saves you money, says a man who retreads tires """""l even if it costs you S4200 a re tread. That fantas tic price is for tire of "earth moving" ve hicles. These huge tires cost spanking new something like $12,000 apiece. Thing is, ac cording to Bill Carter, general manager of the Tire-Retreading Institute, that you can save money if you know when to go after a retread, which Bill firmly believes gives you "good as a new tire." "A smart person, even with a car which travels only between town and country," he said, "doesn't tarry until the cord on the tire shows. It's too late then." To be sure, very few people have to get up $4200 for a recap. You can get a regular auto tire done for a few bucks. Nothing New The business of retreading isn't exactly new, but of late the idea has been catching on. "Airlines," Carter told me, "are going in for the retread thing, but they went at it slow ly. Safety tests were made for a long time before the airplane folks would trust them. Now, those big tires that often lose a lot of rubber' on a single landing can be retreaded from eight to 11 times." Last year alone in America and in the military overseas, some 27,000,000 tires got the re tread treatment. "The big commercial outfits and the government keep a care ful watch on tires that wear thin," Carter said. "They look at the problem on a 'safety first' basis. But sometimes the pri vate car owner gets a little care less, and often, when he does, he hits the skids, and when he hits the skids he runs into trouble. Sometimes with fatalities." Can Be Trusted Carter-- says retreaded tires, thanks to a lot of research and testing, can be trusted. "They are," he said, "safer than today's so-called 'bargain tires,' which sometimes are made down to a price and not up to a high standard of quality. Carter fell to talking about snow tires. He said that these tires are fine on sleet and in snow and will keep a driver out of a lot of messes. Treads, he aPfllflllffP Best for him between meals . . . UGA1 HONEY . because they digest so easily! All the good things in nabisco Sugar honey GRAHAMS like rich graham flour and pure country honey are very easy to digest. 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'Inadequate' Efforts Charged in Car Shortage Washington (U.R) Oregon senators charged yesterday the Interstate Commerce commission has made "totally inadequate ef forts" to relieve a shortage of railroad cars for hauling lum ber in the Pacific Northwest. Democratic Sens. Wayne Morse and Richard L. Neuberger said they have asked the Senate Commerce Committee to look into the "adequacy" of ICC ac tion in the shortage. NOT TO BE EATEN New Haven, Conn. (U.R) Po lice said a thief took $550 worth of drumsticks from a parked car owned by Joseph Friedman of Flushing, N. Y. Friedman sells musical instruments, not chicken legs. Thursday, November 17, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Hollywood (U.R) Wanted for television: Handsome actors, not too young or too expensive, - " - i to hold han.ls with Loretta Young and Jane Wyman. Television has other .short ages, such as quiz matsers who don't leer, but the leading Aline Mosby man situation is approaching disaster. This is the big problem of Ruth Burch, who is one of the most sought-after women in tele vision. Miss Burch wields power over 5,000 actors every year. She's the casting director for 16 filmed TV shows, including "You Are There," "Frontier," "Screen Di rectors Playhouse," "The Burns and Allen Show" and "Wyatt Earp." Men Provide Headache' ' Her worst headache, she de cided today, is finding leading men for Loretta and Jane. "They're limited on the money they can spend for leading men, so the actors can't be too expen sive," the casting director ex plained. "The men must not be too young, either." Miss Burch works up to 16 hours a day at various TV film studios. After reading the script, she makes a list of several actors for each part and calls them to make sure they are available. They hurry over for interviews with producers and directors, who usually make the final de cision. As one actor puts it, "If you don't know Ruth Burch, you don't work in TV." Parts Filled Quickly Parts have to be cast for TV shows with the speed of light, which might account for the way some of. the plots turn out. Miss Burch casts some shows, like ''Make Room for Daddy," in an hour at her desk that is stacked with scripts, contracts and ring ing telephones. One day she called Frank Fay at 5 p.m. for "Screen Directors Playhouse" and told him to re port for work the next morning at 6 o'clock. "Once a girl was due on the set at 9 a.m. but phoned at 8:30 a.m. saying she was ill," says Miss Burch. "I had another actress in her place by 10 a.m. She learned the lines between scenes." 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