Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1950 — Page 22

Taylor Leads Parade

Heads ‘Roman Legion’

On ‘Quo Vadis’ Location

By Earl Wilson ROME, July 27—I went out to the old Appian Way that was here in Nero's time and found that Hollywood has improved it—if you can call dark glasses and chewing

gum “improvements.”

Robert Taylor, a Nebraska boy, was standing up in a chariot, pulled by two snorting steeds, leading a parade

of 1800 extras, supposed to be Roman legionnaires returning from a three-year war. : Taylor's armor and helmet Jooked heavy — but they were made of plastic and sent from Hollywood. It was al! part of the titanic $7 million Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, “Quo Vadis.” The Roman legionnaires—several had been chewing gum and had forgot to park it—were whip« ‘ping their men and women slaves they had captured. . “Multa, muita!” the assistant director yelled to the legionnaires with the whips as they approached the cameras—and they whipped (and chewed) harder. The extras that played the slaves had rouge or red pencil marks on their backs.

ts They were supposed to be welts

from the whippings. A 1950 airplane flew over this scene that was supposed to have occurred in 65 A. D, Down at the gnd of the parade ground was a Coca-Cola stand, It was, as you can begin to

see, amazing, gigantic, and superstupendous. - n » s , THE APPIAN WAY is today - Robert Taylor a modern, although narrow high-| vinicius, a Roman pagan general way, still lined with Roman wy, falls in love with a Christian tombs—Ilargish buildings which girl (Deborah Kerr), came over are broken and in ruins. land took off his big helmet and “There are bodies all around sighed about the heat. here,” Producer Mervyn Leroy said. “Some Romans saved UPipis wife, La Stanwyck, “can all their lives to have a fancy] never get warm ping She's funeral. always chilly.

clamored outside the gates of Cinecitta, Mussolini's famous film center,

“Please,” they said, “you have

about 1000 lira—$1.25 a day.

There are 24 lions in the cages. .

When the picture was made In 1924, a lion devoured one

of the extras. “This dampened |

the cast’s enthusiasm.” says a report of the tragedy Just found

Leroy is proud that no siesta is observed by his company. Bob Taylor, commenting on the lei-

“Barbara,” he said, speaking of tp, om a ald ”

“I'll bet there's not a good

pait e of stomach ulcers in all of

| ‘Labor Education ion Rally

her engagement Jane Earing momentarily to somebody-—may-be the Ear! of Dalkeith . . French magazines warn that Tito'll switch back to Stalin at the crucial moment . . . Jane Earing stars in the Agquashow.

® LA tJ i WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Why is it,” asks Charley Jones, “that

| leducation conferences being held

Dale A. Beikman and James

Milo Boulton, “but what can you do—they’ré the best other sex we have.” . . . That's Earl, brother. |

4 From Here Attend

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“But we can’t use these tombs in the picture.”

“Why not?”

“They're ruins, but when alll ‘this happened in 65 A. D. they

weren't ruins yet. So we had to build new ones.” Leroy decided to shoot some

more footage. He went to a mike

and yelled into it, “Silenzio, silen-!

zio!” He knows other Italian,

00. “Everybody in poseesheawn” he sald, ” » » EDDIE MANNIX, the big boss from Hollywood, was wandering! around the Appian Way, too, with black glasses on.

Bome soldiers had black k glasses’

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“Well . . . in August.” ; ” » . IN ONE ARENA SCENE, they] use 6000 extras, but even that] didn’t supply jobs for all Rome's | unemployed. Hundreds of others|

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