AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20273, 26 June 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL. HAROLD LLOYD IN "FBET FIRST." !. - - | WHET SCREENING TO-DAY. Commencing to-day, the management of the Theatre Royal ii reducing price# of admission in conformity with existing conditions. To-day will also sea the screening of the latest Harold Lloyd film, entitled "Feet First." Some idea of .the cost of "Feet First" is revealed by the fact that the first two reels of this az&azing feature alone cost £25,000. Lloyd gambled heavily on the film. The start entailed • voyage to Honolulu, for yhich the Malolo, a trans-Pacifio liner, was chartered as a studio, and ■ Lloyd was as much in the dark as anyone as to the outcome of the "shots" in that memorable trip. Not a foot of the thousands of feet of film "shot" on the voyage was' seen until Lloyd and his colleagues returned from Honolulu, because no projection' room was available. Had the sound apparatus gone wrong or had the film been injured in any way, the monetary loss would have been stupendous; But in spite of the fact that the ship encountered a fifty-mile gale on the homeward voyage, and that the sound equipment was in danger several times of being washed overboard, not one scene had to be remade for defective photography or sound recording. A lucky happening for Lloyd, and, of course, for Lloyd audiences. Incidentally, 80,000 people greeted Lloyd and his staff when the boat docked at Honolulu.