Pa|e Two Sunday Tribune Looking at Hollywood Newfoundland's New Airport with Ed Sullivan A Big Help The Revolt to Ocean GANDAR LAKE o f Ann Flying BYy WAYNE THOMIS Sothern kNE OF THE least known airports in the world— By ED SULLIVAN o the Newfoundland flying Hollywood. field, situated in the midst of \S A RESULT of her fine job 500 square miles of virgin tim- in " Trade Winds/' which berland on the bleak little tri- she followed up with angle of rocks and scrub brush "," youthful and attrac- in the mouth of the bay of the tive Ann Sothern is the talk of St. Lawrence river—is destined the town. She should be the soon to become one of the ALTITUDE OF 540 FEET KEEPS RUNWAYS CONTAIN PAVING EQUAL talk of the town, because she world's most important aviation FIELD CLEAR OF FOG gambled $50,000 and a year of terminals. TO 100 MILES OF 20 FT. HIGHWAY her movie career on the propo- The field that has just been s i t i o n that Hollywood was completed after nearly three wrong and she was right. She years of heroic work by a crew Newfoundland's new airport as seen from the air. came close to starving, but she of more than 1,000 men, is to be won, and that, as the rabbit the jump-off point for most of or roughly 2,100 miles to C said, is a tale of importance. the east-bound trans-Atlantic don, the big international a Miss Sothern is a rarity in this airliners and the initial port of port of entry outside Londo town because she refuses to be arrival for most of the ocean air England. Thus trans-oceani a yes-ma'am. She's a rarity be- trafic that is west bound. airplanes bound east will lan cause she went on a year's sit- Naturally the airport will be there to fill their fuel tanks fo down strike. One fine afternoon used only by machines capable the long ocean crossing. An the young woman walked into of take-offs from and alightings westbound planes will refu the executive offices of RKO, upon land. But less than two there before continuing to Mon where she was under contract Ann Sothern—«he stuck it out and won. miles from the hangars, hotel, real or New York. at $50,000 a year, and informed and passenger terminal on the Indeed the natural location o them that she wanted to be a seemed sometimes that their musical. Her career was chart- airport lies Gandar Lake, some Newfoundland field may caus comedienne. Failing in that, conversation just was pointed ed when the mother went to Hol- thirty miles long, two miles wide the southern route—New Yor she told them, she'd retire from at me. Of course, that was silly lywood to teach voice to actors in the narrowest point and more to Horta, Azores; Lisbon, Por pictures. on my part, but when you're out and actresses who suddenly had than 1,000 feet deep, Gandar gal and thence to either Pari At first they thought that the of work for a long time you been plunged into talking pic- Lake will become, with the com< or London—to be neglectc California sunshine had addled start getting sensitive." She tures. Harriett, in the course pletlon of docking and refuel- This route is nearly 1,000 mile her pretty head. She assured was denied even the consolation of a visit, was signed to an ing facilities there, the port for longer than the northern a* them that she was sound of of explaining to people that she M-G-M contract. the big flying boats used in the way, but it is preferred at thi limb, wind, and intellect. "At had embarked on a sit-down It was then that she met Atlantic passenger and mail time because none of its harbor present I have a good job here," strike, because out here, when famous Florenz Ziegfeld at a service. ever is locked by ice. Ice c~ she explained, " but it won't last you tell people that you are out Hollywood party. Ziegfeld • • • prevent the flying of big clippe long, because the parts I'm play- of work because of a deliberate signed her to play the support- ships such as Pan-American - ing are daffy, as well as dopey, desire on your part, they move ing lead to the late Marilyn Mil- Within a short time, however, ways flying boats from usin and they will wash me up in away hurriedly. " Martyrs lead ler in 41 Smiles." It was after both European and American the shorter northern passag pictures quickly." The execu- a very lonely life," observed a succession of Broadway musi- companies will begin making But when the land planes com tives tried to josh her out of it, Miss Sothern. cals that she was signed again the ocean crossing with huge into use winter will have n but she told them that they had The race with time continued. to a Hollywood contract, because substratosphere land planes. terrors, and the land planes ca been served with an ultimatum It was easy enough for her to the coast was looking for sing- Pan-American Airways expects make the northern crossing th —" give me dif- observe the struggle, because ers. Up to now Miss Sothern has to make experimental mail year round. ferent parts or the bank book served as an indi- yet to sing a song in a flicker. flights this summer in a Boeing else." cator. Six months dragged into She is married to Roger Pryor, 307 stratoliner if delivery of the • • • three planes now on order is In such an ex- seven, then into eight. himself a former stage and film Map of Newfoundland« showing location of airport and Gandar Lake, The site, specifications for th completed in time. And Im- aggerated case " It got so that when I'd go to player who became a band lead- proposed seaplane port. field and the funds for the of player inde- the bank to withdraw another er when he became convinced perial Airways has on order three huge Fairey land planes ation of this airport out of th pendence stu- sum of money for expenses, even the movies were typing him out The importance of the New- the North American continent. raw wilderness were provid dios have the teller seemed to be pitying of existence. Pryor's father was that will cruise at high speeds foundland airport is that it lies From Newfoundland airport it at 20,000-foot altitudes. by the British air minis learned that it me," said Ann. " It was awful." the bandsman, Arthur Pryor. at the extreme eastern point of is 1,940 miles to Foynes, Ireland, More than one and a quart is sound eco- Friends now started urging millions of cubic yards of ea nomic reason- her to give up her foolhardy were removed in clearing an ing to suggest cause, pointing out as delicately flattening the field. A sm that the per- as possible that the public soon hill was cut away and a lake i former take a would forget her completely if the airport area was filled. long layoff and The First Spot News Color Picture she didn't get back on the screen Then paving equal in area t cool off. "That Hoger Pryor to prod their memories. PAGE ONE of today's cord the red, yellow, and blue wires fastened to weaving sent to the color engravers, is what I had 100 miles of road twenty fc Then, with the year almost Picture Section is a color primaries of all colors simulta- branches. Time exposures were in mind," said the amazing Miss who again had to separate the wide was put down. The flel exhausted, Ann Sothern was Ophotograp h of the $4,000,- neously. needed, and the shutter was three colors, one to a plate. This was surfaced with two and th Sothern. " I'm quitting now." offered a rôle in Walter Wang- 000 fire which on May 11 de- But the process of color pho- closed every time a leaf began is done with color filters and quarters million gallons of a Now, other players had car- er's "Trade Winds." She had stroyed five Chicago grain ele- tography in 1936 was still con- to move, and then reopened. color-sensitive emulsions in a phalt, and graded to a perf ried their fight for different rejected other rôles because vators and killed nine men. sidered too painstaking and Gradually the color staff was camera which provides the cor- tion of smoothness and lev parts to this extent. Then, after they didn't give her a chance When The Tribune reproduced delicate for outdoor photogra- able to speed up its shutters and rect dimensions for printing pitch. Four vast runways we at comedy. She grabbed this they'd missed a few pay days, this picture in its morning edi- phy—unless one wanted to use plate sensitivity by using faster and the half-tone screen " dots " laid out, three of them 4,500 f~ one hastily, because the part they returned to the studio sen- tions of May 12 it became the a color motion picture camera emulsions on the film. This to pick up the printer's ink. long and 600 feet wide and t sibly and went back to work was made to order for her. She first newspaper to illustrate a and wait for days while the made outdoor conditions less Then three copper engravings- other 4,800 feet long and 1, again. The security of a weekly was an instant hit. With equal spot news story in color. film was sent away to be proc- care she selected her next rôle, hazardous to good work. one to reproduce each color— feet wide. check is the most compelling Less than twelve hours essed. The use of the Tribune in " Maisie," opposite Robert But the long processing of the are made. The airport site is 25 mil argument in the world. And elapsed from the time the pic- camera at first was confined to then there is the added consider- Young. She ran away with the picture—from development to How could all these time-con- southeast of Botwood, the se ture was taken until it went the color studio, where condi- ation that a performer knows press notices. engraving—still remained as an suming operations be speeded coast town that is being used to press, although the compli- tions could be controled and obstacle to achieving daily press up? The answer was to elimi- the port for the early clip- that he or she must keep in The Sothern eyeful who con- cated processing of color photo- action to stay before the public. models made up. Production tempo. The photographer had nate the last four steps in the plane flights. From the coast ducted this one-girl revolt and graphs for commercial publica- was limited to illustrations for to do six things to his three color studio and the first one country rises to a broad rollin Weeks passed, and the reso- carried it through to a successful tion is usually expected to con- the Sunday sections and adver- plates: (1) Develop a negative in the engraving room. The plateau 540 feet above sea leve lute Sothern girl stuck it out. conclusion was born in North sume anywhere from ten days tisments. for the red, the yellow, and the photographer now sent three This places the airport, and The money she had saved start- Dakota (the town is Valley City) to two months. Then in the spring of 1937 the blue. (2) Make black-and-white glass positives, each marked cidentally Gandar Lake, abo ed petering out, and to give her- and lived most of her life in Behind The Tribune's ability color cameramen went outdoors positives of each. (3) Apply for color, to the engraver, who the thick coastal fogs. self a greater degree of security . Her real name, to beat a daily deadline with an for the first time—to try for color pigment tissues to the cor- made half-tone negatives. The As an assurance for all-weat Ann gave up the place in Beverly and the name under which I exclusive color photo lies three photographs of wild flowers in responding three prints. (4) latter now had no color separa- er operations the field will Hills and took a cheaper apart- knew her back on Broadway, is years of pioneer work with a their natural state. They got Transfer these single-color im- tions to make. equipped with the latest ty ment in Hollywood. A month Harriett Lake. A lot of girls out color camera adapted to news- them, remarkably real repro- passed, three months, six here claim to have been Ziegfeld ages to celluloid. (5) Transfer This is what happened in re- of radio and blind landing f paper needs. This is the Berm- ductions, but the effort was months. The bank roll was get- girls; she actually was a Zieg- the three images to a single producing the fire picture. It cilities in the way of flush ty~ phol single - exposure,. natural- great to make plant life "hold ting smaller all the time, and in feld girl, having worked in sev- sheet of paper, one exactly on was taken at 1 p. m. on May lights, a million candle-pow color camera. The Bermphol addition to her natural despera- eral of his shows. the pose." Muslin screens had top of the other. (6) Make a fin- 11, and by 1 o'clock the next rotating beacon, and lights ou tion there was the almost night- contains three plates and three to be used to prevent the wind ished print by another transfer. morning the first copies were lining the field boundaries an One of four sisters, she took color filters with mirrors to re- from blowing the flowers, and This finished print was then on the street. obstructions. ly irritation of the parties she readily to the stage, because her attended to keep up " front" mother was Concert Singer An- "At every party people were nette Yde, and from the time she discussing r61es they had in pic- was old enough to toddle around Letters published in this department should be written on one side of the paper. t u r e s," she recollected. " It the daughter's environment was Voice of tlie Movie Fan If you wish a personal reply please inclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Dear Miss Tin6e: is ey's real name is Joe Yule Jr. He was born lican. She was bom in Indianola, la., June Forever," " The Little Colonel," " Our Lit- sure swell! He is truly the greatest actor in , N. Y. Educated Dayton 12,1917. She's 5 feet 2Vs inches tall, weighs tle Girl," "Curly Top," "The Littlest in America in the Heights and Vine Street grammar schools 102 pounds, and has blonde hair and blue Rebel," "Captain January," "Poor Little WHAT A RELIEF! younger class. and Pacific Military academy in Holly- eyes. Sang with Fred Waiting's orchestra Rich Girl," " Dimples," " Stowaway," " Wee II Don't just send wood. Career started when he appeared before entering motion pictures. Willie Winkie," "Heidi," "Rebecca of Sun- orchids; send him as a baby in a act with his par- nybrook Farm," "Little Miss Broadway," the whole flower ents. Address him care of Metro-Goldwyn- Dear Miss Tin4e: In your Sunday col- " Just Around the Corner," and " The Lit- shop! T h a t's Mayer studio, Culver City, Cal. Thanks umn would you please print a list of the tle Princess" UNCORK YOUR CORN what I think of for the kindly wish. pictures Shirley Relieve pain and remove him. Temple has ap- Dear Miss Tin£e: I read your column I have seen him Dear Miss Tin4e: I have just seen peared in? every week and certainly enjoy it Would corns this easy way in " Boys Town," "Stand Up and Fight" at our neighbor- Please print her you please give me the addresses of the "Stablemates," hood theater, and by the time I left the following? , Mickey Roo- 2 Simple Steps now make it easy to get picture as she ap- rid of ugly painful corns for good, without the Hardy serie3, theater I was ready to stand up and fight peared in " The ney, , , Bonita the risko f dangerous home paring — without "Hucklebenry for my two bits. I'll take the third chap- Little Princess." Granville, , Richard pain or trouble. Here's how: Finn," "Slave ter of " Flash Gordon " to it any day. I'd Thank you. Greene, and . Thanks loads. 1 Put scientific Blue-Jay pads neatly over corns. They Ship," and sever- think M-G-M would be thoroughly ashamed Sincerely, A CONSTANT READER. * relieve pain auickly by removing pressure. Special al others, and I to show it! It is certainly no plug for Blue-Jay medicated formula on pad gently loosens DORIS Editor's note: Glad you like us. You corns so they can be lifted out. think he is su- their studio. But I suppose they can't STEPHENSON. can write to Deanna Durbin care of Uni- 2Now you have glorious relief!But that's not all. perb in them all. afford to show good pictures all the time. ^Simply by avoiding the pressure and friction which Editor's note: versal studio, Universal City, Cal.; Mickey cause corns, you can be free from them for good. I sure would like I would like to know where I could send I'll be glad to! Rooney, Judy Garland, and Spencer Tracy, Millions have gotten rid of corns this easy to meet him. MICKEY ROONEY for a photo of Priscilla Lane. 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