A QUEEN AND A CINEMA.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 143, 19 June 1922, Page 7

A QUEEN AND A CINEMA.

rn.vrn.vcT with r.s. phodcckh. Ii The Queen of Umuania has, according to Hie -'New York World." signed a contract ] t with one of the big American film companies j to appear in some film scenes to be entitled |, •'For My People." The contract, which has 1.----just been revealed, was signed about two f months ago, and some of tbe principal con- , ditiou.s governing it are contained in a r letter sent to the producer on the Queen's behalf from the Itoyal Palace at I'.u.-linrest. r which reads:— i t "You are hereby granted an option to negotiate for the taking and making of a ; moving picture in which her Majesty. . Marie Queen of Rumania shall be featured for a period of fourteen days. The terms , upon whirl) the said picture is to be made , by you or your principals arc as follows:--- , Hi. The manuscript and scenario arc to . be acceptable to her Majesty. I_l. The picture shall lie taken in i Bucharest and such other cities in Uutuaiiia | or elsewhere as shall be agreed upon. j CI). Yon or your principals are to assume all costs and expenses incidental to the . takius and making of the picture. i4i. You or yon,- principals to advance | tin- sum of £1.1.000 to her Majesty and Hi) | per cent of the net proceeds realised." ' The Queen, it appears, has also agreed to I. furnish bet- royal palace and grounds. | nobles, officials and all her Court attendant- h for scenes in the picture. j ■Some of the scenes arc to be laid in the . railed Stales, ami the Queen has agreed to , visit there after her coming coronation as Queen of Transylvania. | ; Queen Marie was bom an ICnglish prin- I cess, the daughter of the Itnke ~r I.din- i Inirgh. ami is a cousin of King fleorgo.