THE ANSWER CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 217, 13 September 1930, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE ANSWER CORNER.

REPLIES TO -INQUIRIES.

*.M.—Conrad Nagel hails from lowa where he was born on March IG, 1897 Hβ-is married to Ruth Helms; a nonprofessional, and has one daughter. F.J— Fay Wray is the wife of Johr Monk Sauuders. She was born Sentember 15, 1907, and has. light brown hair and blue eyes. Little Sally Star hails from Pittsburgh.

E.O.—Robert Agnew's latest picture is "The Woman Racket." He appears in 1 it with Sally Starr and Blanche Sweet Bob was born in 1899, and is still single.

B.C.—Clara Bow, Nancy Carroll, Dorie Dawson, Zelma O'Neal, Myrna Loy, and Joan Crawford Lave brick-tops' some of them by nature, some of them by choice. Ann Harding is married to Harry Bannister, stage and screen actor. They have one daughter, Jane about eight months old.

P.R.—Robert Montgomery married Elizabeth Allen, a non-professioiial. Bob ■was born in Beacon, New York on May 21, 1904. Joan Crawford has dark red hair, and Gloria Swanson's locks are brown. "Olive Borden was born in Richmond,' Virginia, in J907. Her latest release is "Hello, Sister," and her next will be "The Social Lion/ 5 in which she appears with Mary Brian and Jack Oakie. 3.K. —Jack Holt's picture "Vengeance" was filmed just a few miles outside of Hollywood, and the players were not real man-eating natives as pictured, but just a bunch of boys with a good t>l , sun-tan. Jack Holt is a native of Winchester, Virginia, Avhere he was born on May 13, 1888. He is 6ft tall, weighs 1721b, and has brown hair and eyes. He is married and has two daughters and one son. P.O.—Winifred Westover was the former Mrs. William S. Hart, who retired from the screen about eight years ago. Miss Westover was born in San Francisco, and has blonde hair and blue eyes. She is sft 3in tall. She had to put on a lot of excess poundage in order to. play the role of Bertha in "Lummox." Dolores Costello is sft 4in tall, and is about 25 years old. Since the advent of the talkies, Thelina Todd has been in great-demand in Hal Roach comedies, playing opposite Charles Chase. She will be seen in a new Nancy Carroll-Buddy Rogers picture soon. ;

Jeanette McDonald, a decided blonde, and Kay Francis, a striking brunette, jnake a battle of feminine charms in jfche. extravaganza "Let's Go Native."

Ed. Wynn, a New York stage boinedian, has been engaged to star, in •Manhattan Mary," a talking version of the Broadway musical success.

One of the high spots of a railroad grama, "The Record Run," is a.five-hour Bash with a train at 90 miles an hour. To make this record-breaking run the largest and fastest passenger engine in the world yre.B engaged.

Carl Gerrard, youthful character actor, has been signed for a supporting part in "Leatheraecking." Gerrard, husband of Ethel Grey Terry, came to films from the New York stage. He has had many years of hard experience before the public and will lend valuable support to the sparkling cast, which is headed by Eddie Foy, jun., Irene Dunne, Ken Murray, Lilyan Tashman,.Ned Sparks, Louise jFazenda and-Benny Rubin.

A pontoon bridge 150 ft long and 16ft vide, stretched across a stream, was wnashed by shell-fire explosions to attain perfect war realism for one of the en tire scenes of a newly-completed aiitalking picture. The scene forms one o the hifhlight* of a P roductlOn in Gary Cooper is starred as ' the engineers' force of the Great vv Dynamite blasts, V™^£°° ««* exploding shells, sent the bridge vy b into spliLrs, and the for*, f g t ° 0 eions hurled timbers more t han ci f n V to a the air. An ambulance aß . e "° K T he eatery grave in another seen . machine was sent speeding over bridge until it reached a point at Q a bomb had been planted. J.M « ¥ turned the oar on its side f 1 iu the bridge. Cooper and Ins squ engineers then rushed on to tne h& and, with a mighty heave, J^\ eTe wrecked car into the w ater ' . erß <jurthe methods employed by B ing the war to keep bridges clear.

Maurice Chevalier hats finished work on "The Little Cafe." It was produced under the direction of Lud'wig Berger.

"Anybody's Woman", replaces "The Better Wife" as the title for a recently completed production in which Ruth Chatterlon and Cl.ive Brook are costarred.

"Typhoon Bill" has been selected as the title for George Bancroft's next production. It will be a story of the sea, prepared by Denison Clift, playwrightdirector.

"Tom Sawyer," a juvenile talkie, will shortly go into production in Hollywood. Jackie Coogan will be featured in the title>role. Junior Durkin will be Huckleberry linn, and Mitzi Green will lend eupport. ...

"Pot Luck" is going •in to the St. James' Theatre on September 2. The theatre is now closed in preparation for it. There was a "draught" there during the last picture, and so it works both ways, the management being glad enough to go dark for a while..

Realistic story settings have been responsible for location parties as far north as Alaska and as far to the eastern part of the globe as England. George Berthelon, with a party of cameramen and technical workers, is now in Alaska, filming scenes and looking for locations for Rex Beach's "The Silver Horde," an epic of the salmon industry.

Five cameras and ten microphones were required to film and record a gigantic masked ball scene which , forms the exciting climax for a recently completed all; talking picture. The set, one of the tallest ever constructed inside a studio, covered one-fourth of a city hlqek and was only comfortably filled by toe .250 extra .players who, in gorgeous iperiod costumes, took part.

The Bridge of Sighs is a covered span of stone that connects the Tombs Prison with the New York Criminal Court building. Across it, prisoners are led from their cells to the court docks; its name originated from their thoughts and feelings as they were led.to trial or back again following pronouncement of their sentence. The unfortunate individuals are always allowed to hesitate for a moment on the bridge and, enjoy the last look at the city and freedom from the heavily-barred windows which let out on the busy street below. "For the De : fence," a unique, gripping story of crime within the law, presents William Powell in the role of a notorious criminal defence lawyer. For this picture the Bridge of Sighs has been photographed.

to charge 15. dollars the quart bottle for champagne in this Mexican village, 20 dollars if served to you. Their bars are run at much the same prices as the New York speakeasy. There is a general movement on to pave the crooked dirt roadway, steep and dangeroue, which runs south from Caliente for a distance of 70 miles. Children of the simple life, the peons of Ensenada are already keenly aware of Hollywood whoopee, movie gold, modern methods, and speedy miracles.

A rose-hung village will probably be a gay week-end centre with spinning roulette wheels and the rhythmic click of dice within a twelve-month. Andrews de Segurola is building an imposing casino on the shores of the blue coast. Agua Caliente will have a rival; the Caliente tables are so easily reached by tourists from San Diego. This further retreat hae the hide-away qualities the movies love. Zasu Pitts, known in private life as Mrs. Tom Gallery, is one of the most enthusiastic mothers in Hollywood village. For several years her family has consisted of one child—the adopted eon of Barbara La Marr. The two women had been close friends. The beautiful La Marr was devoted to the handeome little boy and Zasu Pitts became a second mother to him in the fullest sense. Within the week her family will be augmented by four more children. Her sieter-in-law's death in the east left four little ones motherless, so Zaeu Pitts sent for her brother's four children to adopt.