This is a 3 Stage Multi-Cache honoring the memory of Wahoo Hero, Famed Hollywood Producer, Darryl Francis Zanuck (Sept. 5, 1902 – December 22, 1979).
The final stage is located in a public area of Wahoo. Permission has been granted for the placement of this cache. Please be respectful of the area and the location of the Cache. You will not need to climb on anything or step into landscaped areas. You should be able to spot the cache with the trained eye of a geocacher. Each stage is Handicapped Accessible but at S3 (Final) a person in a wheel chair may need assistance.
FTF will get a buck.
BOYHOOD (Information cited from displays in the Saunders County Historical Society Museum)
“Darryl F. Zanuck, son of Frank and Louise Zanuck, was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, where his father managed the Le Grande Hotel, a building still standing on the corner of Fifth Street and Broadway. The hotel’s owner, Henry Torpin of Oakdale, NE was Darryl’s maternal grandfather with whom the young Darryl spent many summers in Antelope County. After his parents divorced, Darryl lived with his mother and stepfather in California, but at age13 he returned to Nebraska. Under Grandpa Torpin’s influence, Darryl developed a love for the great outdoors and a zest for hunting and riding that would endure throughout his life.
A desire for adventure led Darryl to enlist in the US Army in 1916, although at 15 he was two years below his legal age. After months of training in New Mexico and New Jersey, his unit was shipped to Europe where it saw brief action in Belgium before the Armistice of November 1918 ended World War 1.
Mustered out, Darryl returned in September 1919 to find his classmates unchanged and his cousins directing the family’s business interests. Impatient with the prospects in Oakdale, he soon set out for Los Angeles.”
HOLLYWOOD YEARS (Information cited from displays in the Saunders County Historical Society Museum)
For nearly three decades, Darry F. Zanuck was the chief of production for two of Hollywood’s largest studios. At Warner Brothers Pictures (1928-1933) and at Twentieth Century-Fox (1933-1956), he oversaw all of the studio’s output of movies and personally produced many of them. He was a “hands-on” production head whose greatest contributions were made during script editing and rewriting: and, when shooting was completed, during film cutting and editing.
Zanuck began by writing gags for the comedies of Mack Sennett, followed by script-writing assignments from other studios. Hired by Warner Brothers in 1924, he wrote scripts and developed concepts for the dog that became a super-star Rin-Tin-Tin.
Zanuck admired the contributions of World War 1-era President Woodrow Wilson on behalf of world peace. Following the Second World War, he felt that movie audiences were ready for serious themes and undertook a screen biography of Wilson. Wishing to honor the spirit of this country that he felt could be found in Nebraska, Zanuck held the world premier of WILSON in Omaha on October 10, 1944. A train carried stars Betty Grable, Bette Davis, Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Joan Fontaine, Tyrone Power, and Jennifer Jones, along with the Zanuck family, from Hollywood. The Zanucks -- Darryl, wife Virginia, son Richard, and daughters Darrylin and Susan -- were honored with a parade through the town of Wahoo.
TRIBUTE (Information cited from displays in the Saunders County Historical Society Museum)
One of Hollywood’s’ towering figures for almost half a century, Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-1979) headed production at Warner Brothers Pictures and then at Twentieth Century-Fox during the glamorous era of movie-making. These were the golden days of Hollywood studios when stars like Shirley Temple, Henry Fonda, Betty Grable, Tyrone Power, Gregory Peck, Marilyn Monroe, Don Ameche, Bette Davis, and Carmen Miranda roamed the lots. And when such blockbusters as The Grapes of Wrath, All About Eve, The King and I, Miracle on 34th Street, The Day the Earth Stood Still, How Green Was My Valley, Laura, Twelve O’Clock High, and Viva Zapata! filled the screen.
Zanuck, through an emphasis on character and plot, was adept at showing the human element in treatments of social problems. He developed an entire genre – the gangster film – represented by the movies such as Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and I Am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932). He was especially proud of producing films that entertained while illuminating social issues, movies such as The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), The Snake Pit (1948) and Pinky (1949).
Zanuck was at the forefront in two great technical developments. While at Warner Brothers, Zanuck was instrumental in bringing talking pictures to the American public by producing Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer (1927). At Twentieth Century-Fox he brought wide-screen movies to Hollywood with The Robe (1953), the first movie made in CinemaScope.
STAGE 2. N 41 12.ABC W 096 37.DEF
At Stage 1 find a bronze plaque and from that plaque find ABC & DEF for Stage 2.
A _____ = The number of letters on the first name of the person named on the plaque.
B _____ = Is the 3rd number on the date to the left of the person pictured.
C _____ = This number is seen three times on the dates posted on the plaque.
D ____ = Is the last number on the date to the left of the person pictured.
E _____= The number found as a result of subtracting the 2nd number from the 4th number in the date on the right side of the person pictured on the plaque.
F _____= The Number of letters in the 2nd word of the title of the “Famous Talkie.”
STAGE 3 and FINAL STAGE N 41 12. GHI W 096 37.JKL
At Stage 2 you will have to locate the date this building was built. Look up! It’s way up there. This structure is mentioned in the write up above. (You should be standing on a corner.)
Date = WXYZ
G = X – (W+Z)
H = Y-Z
I = Y – (W+X)
J = (X+Z) – (W+Y)
K = W
L = X-Z
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