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...Artagnan! Where the hell is D'Artagnan?" bawled stocky Joseph Lerner in a Roman courtyard last week. D'Artagnan, played by Hollywood's Jeffrey Stone, popped up from among the chaos of generators, cameras, props, actors and Italian technicians crowded before the venerable Palazzo Taverna, and Lerner was able to get on with the shooting of his filmed TV series, The Three Musketeers...
Producer-Director Lerner has 39 half-hour films to go and fears that his voice may not make the course. It has sunk to a whisper in his effort to crash the language barrier; Lerner can no longer operate on the theory that the way to make foreigners understand English is to shout it. He complains: "The trouble with these people is that you can't talk to them. You use a simple word like 'dolly' or 'Mole-Richardson boom,' and the interpreter takes five minutes telling 'em what you said." He also finds...
Demoted Cardinal. A deal with Rome's Thetis Films (makers of TV's Orient Express and International Police) has made it possible for Lerner to film the series in Italy. But the idea is his own and came to him one morning when he remarked to his wife, "Hey, how come there are no swashbucklers on TV?" A year ago, he picked up a copy of Dumas' The Three Musketeers ("It was lying around the house") and decided D'Artagnan was his man. Of course, Lerner, who has produced three B movies and a dozen episodes...
...Without a Horse. Lerner is more of a stickler for background than for plot. Because some of his finest locales are marred by modern improvements, he has assembled some 500 masking pieces: "You slap a proclamation over a Coca-Cola sign, cover light poles with trees, mask power lines with branches, introduce a coach-and-four and-whammo- you got a 17th century pastorale...
Frederick Willman '56 was re-elected president of the Young Democratic Club, at the organization's last meeting. Others chosen to serve with him were Robert Flaherty '55, vice-president; Thomas Ehrlich '56, secretary; Joe Steinberg '56, treasurer; Frank Rhuland '54, Joseph Sweeney '54, and Edward Lerner '54, members at large...