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How Rita Hayworth's Aversion to Man-made Fog Got 68 Men in

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By transcription, Bidwell McCormick takes you behind the scenes in Hollywood. With all the proverbial California sunshine, what did the Hollywood movie producers use when they went to scene with fog? Well, vaporized mineral oil is the answer to that.

This can be directed with fans and blowers, almost anywhere desired on the set. It is interesting to watch this man made fog roll in. To a person watching the scene being shot, it looks like smoke, but on the screen it resembles natural fog to perfection.

I understand that this vaporized mineral oil has a tantalizing bland odor to which persons with highly developed olfactory senses sometimes object. Arita Hayworth is one of these, and as a result, 68 men had some tall explaining to do when they went home to dinner one night.

It was during the filming of Columbia's Technicolor Dramatic Musical tonight and every night. Well how did Rita and the mineral oil put 68 men on the spot at home? Well Rita didn't like the odor of the mineral oil and asked fog maker Freddie Wolf if he couldn't do something about it and do something he did. Freddy obtained a half-ounce bottle

of perfume and poured the stuff into the fog generator a few drops at a time. The results were really aromatic. I suppose pretty soon the whole stage reeked for the perfume. It's strong scent liberated all at once by the vaporizing process. Yes, it really got out of hand and fog maker Wolf was sorry to have ever gotten into the thing at all. So were

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