Profile of Van Johnson

By transcription, Bidwell McCormick takes you behind the scenes in Hollywood. Director Peter Godfrey wanted several hundred actors to rough things up when he was filming a scene in Hotel Berlin, so he used the modern ruse to accomplish the effect he was after.

I suppose if he wanted a stampede he would just announce that there were some cigarettes for sale and he'd get some action all right. Well, Godfrey did better than that. He was trying to get several hundred extras to stampede toward a bomb shelter to give realism to the scene he was shooting.

So he announced that two cartons of cigarettes were going to be given away to the first twenty persons reaching the shelter. Well, I guess he got his action, all right? Yes, and there was realism of plenty, and some bruises that were not called for in the script.

Diogenes can throw away his lamp. Gene Sullivan, young Warner Brothers actress, soon to be seen opposite Philip Dorn in escape from the desert has found, if not an honest man and honest woman. A little less than two years ago when Gene was eking her way through UCLA with such odd job, his housework, minding babies, and what all else. One of her clientele became a little

delinquent and moved from the city before making good. Jean has a letter from the lady now of Des Moines, Iowa. Dear Jean, she wrote, I'm terribly, terribly sorry to have forgotten you when we left. I just remembered that we owed you a dollar and a half for minding the baby twice. Here is the check and I hope you'll forgive. We certainly could use you in this