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nature. But everybody on the sets had grown up in a black and white universe and did things in a black and white way. It was like a color-blind man trying to stage a Radio City spectacle. Actors and actresses put on their regular heavy makeup without realizing that the proper Technicolor makeup calls for rather less artificiality than the more extreme street makeups. And all the time the two-component process was struggling bravely but unsuccessfully to handle all the colors in the spectrum.
THEN -- like the cowboy bursting into the cabin just as the heroine has thrown the last flowerpot at the Mexican-came the three-color process to the rescue. There was |  LA CANTINA PANCHO: PANCHO'S BAR, AS VISUALIZED BY MR. JONES | |
The costumes and sets on this page were made by Robert Edmond Jones for La Cucaracha, but they are only symptoms of what will happen if color comes to Hollywood in a big way. For just as sound brought the voice culturists, so color would bring its own experts. And stage designing would be come a big-money profession. Mr. Jones did very well with La Cucaracha although his fondness for colored lights added to Technicolor's troubles-the colored light changed the color of the surfaces it fell on. But Mr. Jones has not had so much fun since he did the Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, eighteen years ago.
