CAMERAS ROLL AT CHAPLAIN SCHOOL IN SHORT FOR R.K.O.

Not since cameras swept the Charles last spring and immortalized the Varsity crew on celluloid, has Harvard gone Hollywood, but technicians, photographers and directors have just picked up paraphernelia after completing a short film for RKO on the Harvard Chaplain school. Second in a "This is America" series, the short will depict the work of the average chaplain.

Hero of the film will be Reverend Gilbert V. Hartke of Catholic University who heads the drama department there. No stranger to the silver screen. Reverend Hartke made his dobut playing juvenile roles for the now defunct Essanay Film Company.

Week's Shooting

Winding up a week's shooting of the Chaplain school and the life of a typical chaplain in training, the location will move to Fort Blanding, Florida, for action shots. A duplication of Guardalcanal has been built there for the more martial scenes.

Three hundred and twenty-five chaplains marched, sat norvously in their classes, and carried out their work under the grinding of cameras and the shouts of directors last week. After a two weeks stretch in Florida, the picture will be finished after a total of three weeks on location.

First picture in the series was "Private Smith", the diary of the average soldier; as a companion piece the chaplain film will depict the typical "skypilot" as he tends to the needs of his men.

Reverend Hartke was chosen for the leading role by Brigadier General Aruold, chief of the chaplains, as one of the few clergymen in the nation with sufficient dramatic and cinematic experience.