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You'd think a Hollywood actor

woutd want to forget all about

"Pictures" when his daY's

work is done. But here's a fine

player whose idea of diversion

is to spend all his sPare time

shooting camera studies!

By

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Basil Raihbone has made some splendid photo-oraohs. and we show you a rePresenialive group'i".'dino from loo io bollom: Mrs' Ralhbone with

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in Naiure." "Happv," the

doo. witi oeraniums. The "spirit piclure" lrom"RI-"o uniJuli"t"' Now, see opposite page: top'. ,iudu of Marlene Dietrich bv Mr. Ralhbone' Court-u".d Jnd {ounlain in "Romeo and Juliet"' Localioni;;"-i;.;-;;Gurd"n o{ Allah." An action shot'

l\lACINll Basil Ratlrl'orr( AS a flarr witlr a -\lessage

l''''::i;,,;i;-t" L,,""A".ri" t-,. exl,lairred, his dark cycs slrinirrg.

I rr;. rJni' in.""o*rr* as thotrgh 'sorrleone had flashed a silr'er

i."n..,"r'i",";;."..c:; );,,;*1[ a .i,,,era aud r/o sotrtcrltiug diffe rcut !"- \i:e sat irr tlre Rarhbotte srtnroont' whcr.e tlte color schellre ol

litlrt hlue :rnd lrertrta -itttf.".

.r ou think- of .ice arrd flantes' lL giarrt

"ilru,rl o1,att L.re{ore rrs, rvliile lte.expotttlde(L hls vlews'--l*o.r'r""

t1.ris one-I shot that through a fountain. Water was

.f'rorr'*i"g' ,lotu" t.o"-t ^ilot ".

at-tc1-b"yoid *ttt the birds <lipping

il;tJ;;t. I dicln't t tlti" *hether I'd get anything or.not',Nol' all

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fi"tt.ls point me ouias the lnan who shot that

fountain thing.^"::i;;; tn"l%,' the set cluring i$9me9 a'd Juliet'' ol !,!it f]tltll'," ;;;i.-oi-.i, rro.r .n-.inri uttt" sixteef nr.[r. rnovies or strll

;;;;;;;', that they tt""ity shttt- clown .o11 us' There were Leslie

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Denirv ancl rnyself shooting- whenever we

weren't i' the ,..r.t.'-arta'ao"tlt of people who iither had small

r)arts or wcre visitirrglh;;.aiakirrg tlloit''After all' just rvho is

irraking tlris picture ?' they inqrrired' ...,Ilut an.rong ur, *.'goi soile e*cellent stuff. Sometinres I think

runratetu's ltave lttore tfialt rheit share o{ luck' or else tlrey're.lot1l"-1r".".1 lly iinowing exactly rvhat they catr or calulot (to' so tney

take chances.'-",.ily ,iririf pictures were acciclents, it_must be admitted. I lrad no

i,lea rvhat t was gettirig.' ih" set.was lit, the comPally *":,t:flJi.,-.,o irrto Llle ctretrtotti.-al .l"ttce' As I shot' tSey ntoved-atl(l tnelr

l*,i..t'"t. iuri-sitffi.i.rltly blurrerl so that tl"y lg:\ tl"l:l1ttl]t:iir" ior.ir..'on tfie walls.'tfte reflecriotts irr the polishetl floor, are

ari'itrit. .f""ti1-, onlytrr"-figu"t seem to be spirits ! I wonder nnder

l'hat corrditiorrs J cotrld do tltat aga1ll i'" ^H;

.t";t.d at the air with an eager f orefinger':itr... !,, he criecl,

,.that's what I mean ! ilakrng llctllres taKes

holJ on 1-our imaginatiorl' Having a qa.mela opells a 11ew door on

lif e. Yon .." "t..ttlting, not only rvith the ordinary httT?l- "y"'

but $'ith the.anre,-a's";tt;; *til' -t scel)e' a l)ersoll' a piece o[

".ti"" i.tt't anv lotrger mereil' pleasing' displeasing' or ttuiuterest-

itie.' it't a proi,lertr in pictorial valtres''?'i; tn.',r,or, boring tnoment, you can sit back arld spccrrlate orr

what yotl'd do ii yot'fiuJ';; ;"i6 a picture of whatever it is that's

.^;""'"" -f." #J;;;;;1i iotgetlit.tg to be bored' You think'ai'j'.i, ji ri.r'i"'" li.ii.;;." Ufitrt tr"om that winclow,' or'If I;;;;a ti"t

-.i."ii l"iitt.t Jot*u'il,' o' 'That's an interesting ar-

t"tg.L*t of shadows on her fa;e-'and so on'

"Next thing you i"o*, vo' discover you've learned something

about comporitiorl, tig't.'-ti"g] itutt-ling yotir subject and what not'"

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It's not vet a vear since this latest recruit to the arml of tioliy-wood cam6ra fiends joined uP."'.;ittif."J"t"rt Ltiirg pi.t'.tr"r for a long time before I aetuall,rz

aia';tl- i-," .o,rt?.J. ;,i-bili.u" it's almost tssential for- anvone in

ili. tlri"".r to learn to shoot a camera, because in that fashion -youi# ;;;Ai;g, yor'a ,te,r., k'to* ylen v9l1 mere11' q:tf"tfll-",1^"]:o".. gut r tiit i,a and talked until last cl-rrisrmas -\lfs. Kathbone

save me my cameras-movie and still-and I rvas ofi't-ii'-"i.iit;;i.J il -v moui. camera' too, of course' because.I

can use color. But I believe we're on the threshoid oi great ad-

"""..t"i" pi.t"t.t. ffli"t of the excitement of getting,l'"ii :9]:,i

"n. to *oik. Thittk of the interesting things you could do wrtlr

color contrast or harmonY !*'1';;;;".* i" tr-t" i-"t"trt. picture field' I'm no authoritl" I

b.li;;;the'bert thing anyone who isn't an e.xpertcan do is to learrr

all the makers can tell you about your particular camera-lt really

doesn't matte*o ,,.,u.li whether it's "t expensive motlel or not-;;d th"; i;itow aite.tions about timing, light, distance and so on'

When vou break the rules, do it for a reason'" ;,t"i:.'."ol.iii"", "i." to iatch a person who has a lot of character

i" hi;i;;;;lu.i tirti"g doing nolhing, completely relaxed', lt't i,1::

" e""aid.i to catch h"im when he's occupied doing somerlring that

inierests him keenlY."If vou can manage not to have your people move' so mycl ihe

better: but there are times when 1ou see you haven t enougn ll.gn1'

;;'ri;"'."*p"iiai"" is wrong, ut-td ygt flel you nrust.shoo. them

over to the other side of the lawn' The best eflects' though' are

usually unstudied."-"Th; n"tnton.t were about to leave for England'"Part of my joy in the trip is that I'11 be able t9 take plc-tures' ' he

""utt.a. 1,I,116'b.i"t stucl.ving various art publications,. Have you

""i;.J'tfl" st ots ttl.y ur. *fr.t" aii.you-see-is a part oI a m,ast and

*iybe three ropes-and that's a ship ? I'd like to get somethlng on

that order."I hooe. too. to set some famous people in an in{orm,al rvay' T

*th;;'lil; i[.'J.i, f -have

made of isitors to sets. \\rhile _they

;;;';"i;hid the scene, I shoot them' -one day I got Sir John

ffnnt"n.fa. frugh Walpole and James Hilton'"^ -Tt""*iilg

*?ttt u .nlro.ru fieni, according to the actor, isn't un-

alloved iov.- ;bn.i yoo "." bitterr by the camera brrg, ,rou're, ^, T.?l"tt 1oneonle who want to makeii*e on the road," he smiled' "-\.ou. see

io-'.tting and you say to the driver: 'Stopl I-must get thrs! or'

ii'v"u,.."ariui"g, yo.i puli up.crying: .wait. Here's something l'

You can't bear to pass a possrble plcture' -^;b;'ih" ;ay bick from Lake^Tahoe, I got my pet.picture oi

cattle srazing 6elow snowclad nrountains. 1'm proud of that shot.g"i t ;trtt admit I followed directions exactly'--:;I-nlrJ

tt at it's weli to use a filter-sometimes called a 'diffuser'

-on the camera when the light is bright' In that way, you get

more detail."';;Sorr"li*es I try for an effect in a shot that isn't merely.lightand shadow, but mood. lleat on the desert, for example' I. shot a

;;;;';;-A;nb., .ittit.tg in the shade against white hot skv and

:;;;:fh.;;'*^J no ug'ttt thrown on them-I wanted them in sil-

houette against the intense light'."I never use extra light o;tside, no reflectors, no flashes, noth-

i"r f.tt ru"f inf,t varied bly filters. But ['rn a beginner' Except where

th'e studio his sers alreaily lighted, I've never bothered wtth lights

i"ir"ir, .iit er. I've used- suilight coming in through a door or awindow and made my picture accordingly'-;;Ho*."..,

there are undoubtedly ma-ny- inte-resting things that

.urr^U. clone'with iights and reflectbrs. When I'm more expert, Iril"ffgtl"i" tirat." (Continued on page 92)

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AcmeHenry Fonda and Frances SeymourBrokaw. Their romance enhancesthe Socieiy-Hollywood en+enle.

world"), who visited the Lionel Atwills;the Countess of Warwick, who is at pres-ent the house guest of the Douglas Fair-bankses. Her husband, the seventh Earl ofWarwick, has recently been signed byMetro for pictures and is due to reportat the studio in a few weeks. Strange tosay, Royalty and Society have never madea success in pictures; the public, unlikeHollywood, simply doesn't go for them.But perhaps the young Earl will prove anexception. Of course tie racing seasonbrought out Jock Whitney and his sisterJoan Whitney Payson, Lord and LadyCavendish-she's Adele Astaire, Fred's sis-ter-and many others. A1{red G. Vander-bilt could be found dancing at the Trocalmost any evening when the day's racesw:ere over with Florence Rice or BettyFurness. Barbara Hutton oI the Wool-worth millions dropped in for a friendlylook-see, (Jimmy Stewart was her escort),before.she married Count Haugwitz vonReventlow. The Honorable Mrs. TanisMontagrre liked Hollywood so well shehas taken a house here indefinitely. Oh,

ScnTENLAND'really now', one just cawn't enumerate allthe Society that has swooped upon us, onecawn't. There rvas a day, I faintly recall,when people stood for hours watching foia Gould, or a Vanderbilt, or an Astor toemerge from his Fifth Avenue Frontage,but not now; all the Goulds, Astors andVanderbilts are in Hollywood gaping atmovie stars,

The most social-loving of the movie starsare the Freddie Marches, who recentlventertained thc German Prince and PrincessZu Lowenstein. And the Bing Crosbys, whoent_ered S-o,ciety via the racetrack, which isa bona fide way to enter. Bing and hiswife Dixie Lee are frequent week-endersat the Lin Howards' in Del Monte. theLin Howards being the swanky polo crowd.Miriam Hopkins does all right with So-ciety and only last month was entertained!y King Edward. Connie Bennett, ClaudetteColbert, Marlene Dietrich, Loretta Young,Kay Francis, Joan Crawford, Carole Lom-bard, Ricardo Cortez, Dick Barthelmess,Gary Cooper, and Clark Gable are {a-vorites of the blue bloods.

And what has the result of this socialinvasion been ? Well, you can imagine. Ithas gone right to the pretty littte headsof half of the Hollywood populace. Moviestars have compleLcJy lost their perSpective.They take Royalty big. and they-themselveshave become distressingly stiff and lormal.They can't relax any more. They shouldn'tforget Prince Georgi. It was noi pomp andcircumstance he wanted in Hollvwood. itrvas a bit_of hey nonny nonny. But I sup-pose we shouldn't be too hard on the poordears, After all, they're only human;-andif an Astor, a Vanderbilt, a Countess. anda Duke called you before you'd even hadyour- second.cup of coffee you couldn't helpbut feel a bit uppity, now could you? Buioh, what a dreadful mistake Holivlvood ismaking to take Society so seriously. So-ciety can go Hollywood all right, but it ismost important that Hollywood should notgo Society. When a movie star "goes So-ciety" she, (or he), immediately l,oses heraudience, and once she has estranged herfans she forfeits her stardom, and whenshe has lost her stardom you can be quitesure that Society wants no part of hereither. Beware of Celebrity-chasing Society !

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Basil Rathbone's "Busman's Holiday"Coniinued from page 63

Basil Rathbone, bei infant inbasil KatnDone, Derng an lnlant 1namateur game, doesn't develop or printown fi1ms.

I'11 get around to that, in timg perhaps,"said, thoughtfully, "but I feel that Ihe said, thoughtfully, "but I feel that I

must master the camera first. When I knowall about that, I'11 be ready to experimentwith the film. I beiieve I should have areal dark-room, fully equipped. I shouldalso have more spare time than I possessat the moment. I can scarcely manage timeto shoot all the pictures I want, to cut themovie film, and to plan effects, as it is.But when the time comes, I sha11 enjoy theexperiment.

"Do you notice that so many foreignfilms cut the tops off the characters' heads?Probably this is an effort to bring out someinteresting feature or expression. I mustsee'lvhat can be done about that.

"I believe you can use a mirror in anumber of ways, if you are after some-thing different. I took some shots of Direc-tor Boleslawski shaving on location, shoot-ing directly into the mirror he was facing.It took some maneuvering to eliminate myown reflection, but I fina1ly got the manand his shaving bowl."

If you have had trouble getting the sortof pictures you'd like to have of Grandma,Aunt Emma or the twins, perhaps there'sa hint for you in the Rathbone method. Dosomething different ! Get Grandma in hersunny kitchen, stirring something in abowl, perhaps with a dab of flour on onecheek. Surprise Aunt Emma when she'staking the dogs for a run, or listening tothe radio, or doing something that turnsher attention away {rom your little blackbox.

As to the twins, if you must get them outinto the sunshine in order to have the rightlight, pretend to take the picture verysolemnly, and when they think it's all over,click the shutter.

"In fact," elaborated Basil, with a swiftgesture taking in the universe, "a11 youneed to make pictures is a good clear lens,a lot of imagination, and the ability towork out the thing first in your mind.When you've made some experiments, dis-covered your mistakes, learned what toavoid and what to include, you're ready.

"Thinking the thing through beforehandsaves a 1ot of film. But whether you achievewhat you aim for or not, taking picturesis a hobby worth ridins."

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