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PAGE EIGHTIOWA CITY, IOWA, PRESS-CITIZENPiccadilly’s Premier Director Invades Hollywood280-Pound Alfred Hitchcock Brings Entourage, Apparently for a Long Stay in Film CapitalLEGIO!PLiBy PAUL HARRISONEA Service Staff UurresiwndcntHOLLYWOOD ~ England's biggest director, Alfred Hitchcock, has come to Hollywood to make pictures for David Selzniek.Apparently he expects to stay while, for he brought his family, a writer, a cook, a secretary, a housekeeper, two maids, two dogs and 42 pieces of luggage. Not an Inconsiderable item of the moving job was Hitchcock himself- He weighs 2S0 pounds.This is not the only reason that be is called.England’s biggest director, Among his pictures arc “The 39 Steps,” “The Man Who Knew Too Much, “The Lady Vanishes/' which won the 1938 directorial award of the New York film critics, and most recently, 4tJamaica Inn,” starring Charles Laughton.ICED FOOD GIVES HIM CHILLHitchcock is an urbane individualist and a gourmet who makes quite a lot of the difference between eating for sustenance andeating for fun, Hollywood people, he bemoans, eat only to keep alive. - During, a brief visit last year he discovered that there are no fine restaurants here. He- thinks the expensive. ones ruin a lot of thefood by using too much ice. “Wben I see a shrimp cocktail or a dbfa of olives on a mound of crushed ice,” he complains, I want to ask for an Alpine stock and a guide.”The only* American dishes Hitchcock trusts are steaks and Ice cream. “But I am. not a heavy eater/* he explains, -“except in the sense that I do eat and that I am heavy.BEST SELLER HIS STARTERThe first picture he will make here • la' “Rebecca,” the beat seller, which should be especially suitable to his methods of step-by-step narrative development.He’s working on the script nowand doesn't know of any essential changes that will be made, or who will play in it. A lot of liberties were taken with Uie new Laughton picture, however,“With so many people complaining about stoiy changes/1 he says, “It was good to be able to hold up my bead and aay, 'And how!' Thai story was Unfiimable as it stood because the principal character was concealed throughout two-thirds ofwoman and her influence by logical means/' he explains.*OUTLAWSOBVIOUSToo many Hollywood horror • specialists employ devices of old-time melodrama which make present - day audiences snicker. Hitchcock tries to shun the obvious.it.”In “Rebecca,” he’ll have to 'deal with an important character, the first wife, without ever showing her-at all. “the job will be to get across the 'eerie feeling of the . # # * * *On the stage, a green spotlight; used to bo thrown on the face of the villain. In a color picture* Hitchcock might obtain a similar effect by illuminating the heavy’s sinister pan from the reflection of a green-topped table.Another example: Xn the first British talkie, Blackmail ” Hitchcock didn’t put a long black mustache on the menace, but he did use a trick of lighting that produced the same villainous effect.During a scene with, a girl to Whom he. meant no good, the heavy’s face was photographed ‘under a shadow cast by some iron groiwork, • and It was so arrangedthat for a few moments he worean evil-looking shadow mustache.Thus lie was at once characterizedin Ihc minds or the audience.* * *PICCADILLYPATIENCEHitchcock has the reputation of bring a rapid .and amazingly accurate shooter, although he scums to work rather slowly, “I like to relax between shots/’ he says- “I have a lot of patience, and never in my life have I bawled out a player,” .. A former architect and artist, his outstanding advantage is his. ability to visualize how scenes will look and how they should go together.- He never looks at a script because he knows every word in it before a picture Is begun. He sketches. most of the camera setups in advance, getting just the composition he wants.And Hitchcock doesn’t hesitate to employ mechanical tricks to obtain perspective. A long dining table, for instance, will be built only IS inches wide at the end nearest the camera, and four or five feel wide at the far end.District Be He WiHome Project Achievement Day in Cedar County Will Be at Tipton on April 26WEST l: ments are b trict confer Legion to b Ray wueafr the local po following ci ols, genera! K_ A. Peter, ard Watters mars, K. C, ■Wayne Nici liam Brest Keele, Pway Ray Wuesti tan rants; Wells, Georj registration; Fspenthcin, L. E. Papent tournament.Miss Nora Henry. Folds make her fu The Rev., were vis! tori ents, Mr. anc Washington, Mrs. W. A the Ladies*afternoon.Solo:ALFRED HITCHCOCKTIPTON — A county-wide home project achievement day will be held In the Municipal building in Tipton Wednesday, April 26th, marking the close of the home project study in home crafts course, No. lt and will be based on “loom weaving*1 and “chair seats from corn husks”.Each of the 16 townships participating in the program will plan a booth exhibit, demonstrating an approved hbmemaking practice studied during the year. The townships will be scored by Mrs. N. MayT ■— — nnnS^fnnf Hctnn n I ifrr irrgram, besides the township selections, which will consist of playlets, demonstrations, music, will he the county farm women’s'chorus, of 16 voices. This chorus, organized since February of last year plans to participate in the district chorus tournament at • Cedar Rapids this spring. A music recognition test will be participated in by the farm women who have studied “Half Hours from Famous Operas” the last year. Township groups will participate in a song memory contest.The following committees arc• Mr. Charh home of his Bigwood, anlt; Saturday .a?Dinner gut and Mrs. Job Mr. and M family* Mr.; rell and faihi nig of Cedarors were Mrand son, Br shek and Ar Mr. and 1 of Chicago at the home and Mrs. Lil Mrs. Cath at the home Oilek.
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