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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER Pace 3 Washington Square, v.Vere Fifth In A Costume Of The 1860's Author's Ncisrhbors Assisted In Avenue begins in New York, was ftfDaniel Films' once the Potters Field. He -'- Minimi hii j ip limn nm!a rn,.wm . ihiiipiiiihi , .' ,'i"MH!, vm Filming 'Gone With The Wind' Mammy Margaret Mitchell, who wrote Abo'it 27:!OO.O0.) ;f India's : tus, complete to the squeaks. w Famous 4 Gone with the Wind, is perhaps i 35U,00O.,00fl ronilation ar unable Kurtz'. also painted a birdseye view sign- - the only whose friends . to read or write. was author anal nf...It anta tpm hie hK'lniii,a Horn faith-- 1 neighbors traveled to Hollywood ottier from which the studio constructed inf help a book into a picture. O'Hara, in to turn the whole panorama of buildings to It is required by law that turned Wilbur G. Kurtz, artist and his- !lffd." she be destroyed in what is perhaps tne three- - torian, and his wife, Annie Laurie a New Registration be had. in'""' 'r1v most spectacular fire n screen cldar '..? Hattie's Fuller Kurtz, of Atlanta, conduct - books on Saturday. f ceniu'- history. The optn nd worked on ed the research for film. I 11VCU Tara de- - The Kurtz family and Margaret Mitchell's are Atlanta neighbors, 1 1 c ! l vv one has r If! vu and the relationship is that i7Tt d 0f the ex. ended over three generations. - Mrs. Kurtz's father, Captain Wil- - -.-- ' is! known "mam- 4 i J I no K.t.r Fuller, the Confo.ler: te . , n,,ttip McDan-- liam A. of .. - i. f " ; p wna uu waa L 1 .! -- V nit Mian iv( J nd. beaming ;- sponsible for the capture of James f "..t a t V t eyes, - twenty-tw- o raiu-er- s, M - Andrews anu his L her in aernaim fP ivtppn screen in April 1802. His plantation in Clayton, Georgia, handed down by his father, is in the exact locale .... 1" Wichita, ao hrn . one Vo f Tara, the fictitious O'Hara estate 1 iIflyo, and in "Gone with the Wind." r Susan Holbert Kurtz and his wife were sum- rL;i mother was Her moned to Hollywood on Thanks- her father Pville, and Day in 19H8, to serve as the tnir- - giving .j She was technical aides for the production, was a Bap- - tj Her father Hatrie McDaniel in which has Clark Gable, Vivien her, w hose senu with the Wind' Leigh, Leslie Howard and Olivia de uu. "Gone bv songs otterea Havilland in the starring roles, and mother. Jhvr Hattie's is being released by it SEVENTEEN Battle Flags Had Lt came to Hattie when, . ,r Has Own Studio ten, snei Avur the Screen '" To Pass As an and historian, Kurtz -- !' Denver with rroiessor artist J W'' 1 I maintains a studio in which he has s rt"e3"' Like Actors torrison girl to croon Test assembled photographs and records Her conutuw Battle flags that have withstood of the pre-w- ar South. Margaret Olivia de Havilland, Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable in remained one oi ner the test of shrapnel and passing Mitchell is a frequent visitor there. "Gone with the Wind" 'Showboat," As a result of his familiarity with the picture, of time, have now been subjected Me" with the people, the period and the novel, I Still Suits to a new and modern test for the i 1 . , .. mitviKpr Kurtz was offered the post as re- leson, anu anmiici Technicolor camera of Hollywood. mmiiii rwyiiw'iiiiii'w!pwi.wwwiwffwwiliii' search expert, wilh his wife co- Dunne. Filming of "Gone with the Wind," llaborating. With his dual equip- Iteen, tiauie won a made it essential to establish the "" s ment as historian and artist, he tic art from the women photogenic qualities of the four only provided factual material IVmuerance Union ot official flags of the Confederacy. not Joe." for the picture, but made water or reciting "Convict Until research revealed the fact, Lt color sketches to aid the techni- he launched into her only historians and Southern pa Olivia de Havilland leer, having gained some cians. triots were familiar with those old Olivia de Havilland, wearinjr a costume of the ISfiO's for her by touring with tne An outstanding example of the banners which waved gallantly for role of Melanie Hamilton in "Gone With. The Wind," opening rchestra, She played the unique type of assistance furnish- a lost cause Sunday on the Park screen. luth for the Shrine and Wilbur G. Kurtz, technical ad- ed by Kurtz is the train shed wits and headlined the viser for the picture, gathered the which appears on the screen in circuit in 1924 and 1925. data from Miss Irene C. Harris, The Life Story replica of the original building in liie known as the "colored curator of Battle Abbey, the Con Atlanta. Kurtz owned the plans, fucker" and the "female federate Memorial Institute at Of Vivien Leigh drawn by an architect named F. A. llliams." In Kansas City Richmond, Va. Vincent. There are a great ninny her own act, with songs other faded records, prints of the There were four Confederate No matter what else may hap- If composed. old South, daguerreotypes and flags, shown in their respective pen to her during her future ca- iikee, Wisconsin, is , re-- sketches in the Kurtz tiles that periods film. Kurtz explain reer, Vivien Leigh will always be? I.. TT,.ii-- in the proved invaluable filming the ' "'" ' ed that the oroginal one resembled remembered as the girl who won m most : picture. Kurtz drew plans of a wt.hcr unusual.,., Union colors so closely that jt .the most ''Controversial role in the IShe was broke when she i cotton press and from tt, Harold was sometimes difficult to distin- history of niihm pieturt's he ! A 1 " there, and found no job Fenton, studio construction super- guish the two in the action of ba- part of Scarlett O'llara in "(Jona All intendent, built u working appara- - she could get was a ttle:. with the mil.' a mam in tne laaies room of This was the role that all the Kc')istra(i()n books open Pick's Suburban Inn. "The Confederacy consisted world had ''debuted for two years, ght, after midnight, when Americans and they didn't wish to Saturday. You must register Every important star in motion pic- itertaincrs had left, the change the colors of their flag," he field, tures, and dozens of the lesser if you want to vote in the called for volunteer talent said. "They adopted a blue players, were named as candidates Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in "Gone with the Wind" nne the help. That was a with stars in the upper left hand I'rimary. at one time or another. In the fall to action for Hattie. corner, with three bars of red, white respectively. There home stretch of the race, the role riirht out of the ladies' and red, 1 went to Miss Leigh launched into "St. Louis were seven stars at first, because Ufter that, she never went on March 1 18(51, only seven states Selzniek, when he first purchas- had seceded from the Union. A star ed film rights to Margaret J Bier maid's job. the r'--- 1 was added for every state that Mitchell's best-sell- er novel prom- Vivien Leigh il itt HI would search the world ft joined the Confederacy. ised he for (verae jarni family lives "Following the battle of Manas- a living Scarlett, a girl with the (Appearing O'Hara and accumulates more sas, General Beauregard protested green eyes, the sixteen inch waist in "Gone with the Wind" at the than the average city that his men were unable to distin- and all the other characteristics of Park Theatre). guish flags in the smoke of action. the Georgia belle. In Miss Leigh This Confederacy then adopted the he found not only the physical her marriage at the age of nine- tal area of Alaska; 590,- - 'battle flag,' with a starry cross of counterpart, but a girl whose teen, to Leigh Ilolman who, today, fire miles, is nearly one- - blue on a souare red field. There French and Irish ancestry gave her is one of England's most, prominent ea of continental United were thirteen stars, although only the same blood strains as the he- barrister?." Following the birth of eleven states had seceded, the Con- - roine of Miss Mitchell's novel of the a daughter, Suzanne, in l'.t.'U, Miss Civil War South. Leigh- appeared in a number of Born tn India minor picture roles and then made Vivien Leighwas born on No- her stage bow in "The Green Sash." vember 5, 1913, in the resort town "The Mask of Virtue," presented of Darjeeling, India, which nestles by Sydney Carroll at the Ambas- in' the mountains opposite the sador Theatre, was her next play. peak of Mt. Everest jn There were only four major players the Himalayas. Her father, Ernest in the cast, and Miss Leigh was one Richard Hartley, then a stock of them. It gave her an 'opportune broker of Calcutta, came of French ty jn the biggest role to date. The forebears, and her mother, Ger- play did so well )t was moved to a trude Robinson Hartley, was born larger house, the St. James Thea- in Ireland. In the book, Scarlett's tre, where it ran for five months. mother was of French descent, and Miss Leigh shared in its success, 1 , ar-,; i u;.

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