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South American Grapes Adorn
Yineyard Scenes of "Caravan"
So far it hasn't been necessary i
for the movies to bring the moun- |
tain to Mahomet — but if such a i
thing were needed in a picture it j
probably could be done.
The resourcefulness of screen
technicians cart solve almost any
production problem, as was demon
strated at the Fox Film studios re- 1
cently. j
"Caravan," Erik Charell'e unique j
and spectacular musical romance
coming at the Metropolitan Thea
tre, has its setting in the Toway i
district of Europe during the grape
harvest. Harvest scenes, therefore,
were naturally important in the
film, and a big vineyard was ac
cordingly built as one of the sets
But supplying grapes for tb? i
vines turned out to be a very dif
ferent matter. Rudy Bylek, of the
studio landscape art department,
drove some 1800 miles through Ca
lifornia and Mexico, and found
local variety would not be ripe un
til after Thanksgiving, and east
ern cold-storage houses, when ap
pealed to by wire, similarly proved
devoid of the fruit. In most in
dustries this would have ended the
matter but the movies have deve
loped a technic all their own.
Abandoning the telegraph, Bylek
began to concentrate on the South
American cables. Far below the ;
equator, South America was now ,
experiencing its fall season — and
messages revealed that in the Ar
gentine grapes were already being
picked. That night several tons of
ripe Tokays were put aboard a fast
cold-storage boat and headed
north. Four weeks lao.r, just as ,
Director Charell was getting ready
for his vineyard scenes, the grapes
arrived in perfect condition, all
ready for the picking and subse
quent wine-making sequences.
Charles Boyer, Continental fav
orite, Loreta Young a id Jean
! Parker have the chief roles in
"Carazan."
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