Third Ivy Films Production Depicts Life of Immigrant

Ivy Films has started work on a new moving picture, a documentary about Boston's West End slum area.

This will be the local moviemakers' third film. The first two, "A Touch of the Times" and "Much Ado About Studying," are opening a one week stand at the Beacon Hill Theatre March 15.

The new movie will show the West End from the point of view of a recently arrived immigrant family. Casting will begin next week, but the moguls haven't decided whether or not they will use real immigrants.

Ivy plans to do all the shooting in a space of about three weeks this spring. The film will be 25 to 45 minutes in length and cost about $600. Its premiere is scheduled for next fall.

Theodore O. Oron '52, who plays the lead in "Much Ado About Studying," will direct the movie. He is now arranging for preliminary shooting at the Elizabeth Peabody Settlement House and the West End Settlement House.

The sound track will include a narrator's voice, sound effects, and music, but no conversation.

The movie will emphasize the "bustle and energy" of West End life, contrasted to the "grim negligees of the buildings," according to Ivy publicity director Henry A. Wood HI '51.