Pa|e Two Chicago 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 "Maisie," 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.