FILMS AND THE STAGE

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 24

FILMS AND THE STAGE

(Continued from Page 25.) The singing voices of Louise Fazenda and Blanche Sweet are shortly to be ■heard for the first time on the screen In two forthcoming First National and Vitaphone productions. Miss Fazenda will sing a duet with Vivienne gegal In “Bride of the /Regiment,” while Miss Sweet has a song all to herself in “Show Girl in Hollywood,” starring Alice White. Both pictures are being made in Teehnicolour throughout.

Milk baths, wine tubbings, and all variations of water ablutions are well known-to everyone, blit it remained for a motion picture star to introduce a compressed air bath to the theatre-go-ing public. That honour goes to Maurice Chevalier, who recently completed his third Paramount all-talking picture, “The Big Pond.” It’ was during the filming of this picture that the French star had his initial experience witli this new cleansing method. In the action of the screen play, Chevalier appears as a labourer in a chewinggum factory. Powdered sugar, e one of the chief Ingredients in chewing gum, speedily coated the star’s clothes, face, and hands. At the conclusion of the day’s work, one of the employees at the factory in which the action was being filmed suggested a compressed air bath as the best means of removing the accumulated sugar, and led the way to one of the factory’s many air tubes, installed for this purpose. And now, through the medium of the screen, Chevalier will introduce it to the rest o£ Um world.