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
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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,-
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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
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lar tires, even worn ones, if they
are not worn too bare.
The retread man would like
to contribute a word of caution
for folks who aren't used to driv
ing in snow, like most of the
people in Washington and other
climes where you run along on
dry streets most of the time
during the winter months.
"When you start to slide," Car
ter said, "let the clutch out easy.
And, using low gear, keep on
taking it easy. You'll get there,
if your tires have any grip left at
all."
'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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