TALKIES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 32, 5 July 1939, Page 2

TALKIES

SYDNEY PRIDE OF AUSTRALIA V Scenes, of Sydney, tcchnicolour taken during the crui.se of James A. Fitzpatrick's recent world cruise on * the ''Empress of Britain ' —will be 11 featured with the film "Too Hot to Handle." V - ( COWBOYS ARE LUCKY ( e Luckiest of all screen extras are * the cowboys, who get 40 per cent more work than any other type of bi:. 1 players. This was revealed by Bircc. * tor Ray Taylor during the production of "Panamint's Bad Man/" new western thriller. Smith Ballew stars in * the 20th Century-Rox release. , l SOME.VILLAINS DON'T DESERVE J YOUR HISSS! E Please don't hiss that menacing movie villain; he may be very kind to small animals and may even, be hen_pecked at home. 1 Take for instance Stanley Fields, 1 who gnashes his teeth in, "Pana- * mint's Bad Man," a 20th Century- 5 1 Fox release starring Smith Ballew, Stanley, whose film job is to keep screen heroes in hot water, devotes ( his home hours to raising the most 1 delicate of all flowers —orchids. i And Harry Woods, also in the picand a villain of great renown ' himself, admits that watching a boy put a worm on a hook makes him ' uncomfortable. | So please don't hiss them. ■ TYPE OF PRODUCTION "Too Hot to Handle" is an exciting story of daring newsreel men who face death daily to bring the events of the world to the motion picture screen. It is the story of Chris Hunter, ace cameraman who chooses to work alone, of Alma Harding, famous aviatrix who crashes her plane in China on a round the world flight, and Bill Dennis, a rival cameraman. Through war, disaster and other great news events is woven a tem-* pestuous three-cornered romance. The plot opens in the midst of the Japanese_Chinese war,' races across oceans to America and ' New York, into the depths of the Amazonian jungles and then swings back to New York for its climax. LUISE RAINER Luise Rainer became a full-fledged American citizen the other dajr. It made the Viennese so happy that she posed for newspaper photographers for a full half hour—a privilege she rarely extends. Luise, it appears, is Hollywood's best airplane passenger;. She made forty transcontinental flights during the past year. Edward G. Robinson was so successful in "The Amazing Dr Clitterhou.se" that Warners has decided to star him in ''Footsteps .in the Dark 7 ' which will be another fling at comedy mystery, with a murder or two to liven up things. Maxie Rosen, bloom denies that he will play A victim killed in the first scene. *

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CONNOLLY'S 50TH FILM ROLE When Walter Connolly took over the job as Clark Gable's boss in 'Too Hot to Handle' it was his fiftieth motion picture role. Connolly plays the role of Gabby ? head of a newsreel company and Gable's employer. The highlight of Connolly's role is that he and 'Gable engage in numerous arguments by newsreel sound tracks although' 10,000 miles separate them. In his fifty picture roles, Connolly lias never played the same type of characteiS twice. Gable appears as a daring newsreel cameraman who falls in love with Myrna Loy, an intrepid airplanfe pilot Laurence Stallings and John LeC Mahin prepared the screen play from a story by Len Hammond. FROM CLOSE RANGE Olynipe born in a dressing room in a iFVench theatre. Her parents were circus performers. Grace Moore almost became a mis. sionarv to China. Deanna Durbin won a baby show prize—for the girl with the lustiest pair of lungs. Andrea Leeds would rather do anything than pose for publicity still photographs. Director William Wellman is Hollywood's number one prankster. Director Edmund Goulcling always wears a yachting outfit, but h?,s no yacht, and, in fact, is easily made seasick. Paramount signed an Irish girl, Jean Kelly, then renamed her Armanda Varela. panamint visitors must FOREGO DRINK The evils of djink, includ'ng water and pop as well as the harder liquors, are never more apparent than in Death Valley or in the Panamint range on its Western rim. The film company making ''Panamint's Bad Man," new 20th CenturyFox starring Smith B&llew found that drinking to relieve the. oppressive heat while on location in the hills served only to make them more uncomfortable. The noonday heat is so intense that drinking water makes a quick trip from the glass, down the throat and out the pores. The actors and crew* learned to follow the example of the district's prospectors, who keep a couple of pebbles in their mouths +o maintain the flow of saliva. Those of the miners who had "struck it rich" sucked on golden nuggets! PRESENT FOR JANE ! Leo Carrillo, to the delight of Jane Withers and the horror of her mother, presented Jane with a Sicilian donkey —a beast which he guaranteed would do the wrong thing at the right time and any other time.. It was named Cactus. Leo's guarantee, incidentally, has held up beautifully. Cactus has the disturbing habit of crashing into the Wither's home by any moans he can devise, then wandering about the house at random. And he likes to sleep in Jane's* bed.