BUST DAYS.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 21

BUST DAYS.

. After one or two days' rest, Shirley Ann Richards, youthful star of Cinesound's "It Isn't Done" and "Tall Timbers," had ;a hectic, time.- ■• Leaving the' studio, at 8.30 a.m. for location at Pymble, • she, worked all the * morning in riding clothes. ' At midday she was rushed back to the studio to ■have her make-up removed and to [change her clothes. Another dash in,;to the city saw her lunching with the Business Girls' Lunch Club, when ,'she made a little speech. The luncheon ;was hardly finished before she was "called back to the studio, and again !made up and dressed for her part. ;She worked all the afternoon 'till 4 .o'clock, then changed at the studio. ;Then. after having dinner at 6.30, she •had- to go to Sydney where she opened .'a new theatre.

''■! One of the many amusing tales about elephants brought back from the Indian jungles by the expedition which shot "Elephant Boy," the Alexander 'Korda film, is contributed by Zoltan Korda, who collaborated with Robert Flaherty in direction. "Contrary to popular belief," says Korda, "elephants are very proud. During the puilding of the huge stockade we used ih the film,-;I noticed one 'enormous beast who worked more quickly arid efficiently than the others. But every time he got a log into its proper place, tje would march over to one of the 'overseers ,and-'ask; him to inspect his work... And once- he tried to conceal a badly-placed log by leaning, against