The SCREEN and its STARS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11827, 7 January 1933, Page 11

The SCREEN and its STARS

REGENT THEATRE To-day, to-night and Monday, “.Red Dust” — drama., featuring Clark Gable. Jean Harlow and Mary Aston. Tuesday and Wednesday.— “Tonight’s tli e Night”—comedy, featuring Leslie Fuller and all-Briti.-di cast. Thursday and Friday: 'in a Monastery Garden”—melody on the screen —featuring Joan Maude and TTumherstonc Wright. Ar A JESTIC THE A Til E To-day, to-night and Monday, “Life Goes on”- melodrama, featuring Betty Stockfiold and "Warwick Ward Tuesday and Wednesday—“l Like Your* Nerve”, comedy, featuring Douglas Fairbanks jnr. and Loretta Young. Thursday and Friday— “Local Bov Makes Good”— comedy, featuring Joe F. Brown, and Dorothy Lee. BTBTITSTOXFS AND TEMPERAMENTS. Karen k for ley has an idea that Die ancients wore all wrong about the matter of birthstones. Not the calendar, but the personality of the individuals should be ilie determining factor, she bolds. In other words, the birthstoiic should match the temperament. Among others. Miss Morloy takes Marion Davies and AYilliam Haines as examples. Both were boin in January, which has the game! a* a birth symbol. They have dissimilai personalities. [Moreover neither i' reflected by the garnet, Afiss Davies has flash and intensity. suggesting ihat her hirtlistone ho the diamond. Haines’ personality is buoyant, exuberant. and lias the gleam of the turquoise.

Norma Shearer and Ethel Barrymore were born in August, which is represented by the topaz, symbol of bope. But according to the Morloy theory "Miss Shearer should be represented by the sapphire, stone of wisdom, while Ethel Barrymore has the beam of iho emerald. Joan Crawford and Jean Harlow have birthdays in March. But they are decidedly opposite in type. >o the bloodstone, which stands for courage. cannot wholly represent both. Let it typifv Miss Crawford. says Karen, but the screen sophistication of Miss Harlow suggests the fitness of the turquoise. For Greta Garbo, whose September birth-month is supposed to he reflected in the beryl. Miss Morloy would substitute the ruby's fiery glow. Ramon Xovnrro, John Barrymore and Clark Gable were horn in Febrn-. ary. Tradition assigns to them the amethyst, symbolic of sincerity. "Miss Morley admits the aptness <»f such * stone for Xovnrro, but thinks the aquamarine, typifying truthfulness, is hotter suited to John, and the emh-j lem of good health, the pearl is bettor suited to Gable. Helen Hayes and Buster Keaton were horn in the pearl-month of October. Theier divergent personalities could not he symbolized b\ the implications of the same stone. Muss Hayes has a personality more suggestive of the garnet, gem of constancy. Lionel Barrymore and Y allace Beery both celebrate their birthdays in April, the birthstone of which is the diamond. But Lionel bespeaks a stone of more sombre hue, such ns the bloodstone, while the emerald of happiness is the gem which Aliss Mmloy would identify with the happy-go-lucky Beery. CRrSOF. FP-TO-DATE. Forty Polynesians and Chinese, uncanny artists, solved a big problem for the • Douglas Fairbanks company on the islands of Tahiti and Mooioa, where scenes were made for ' Mr. Robinson Crusoe,” a Hinted Artistsrelease. This picture deals with the adventures of a modern Robinson Crusoe who forsakes civilisation and riches to prove that even in this day and age a man can work out his salvation on a desert island with only his wits, his hare hands, and a sense of humour. Tn fact, of his own free will ho exiles himself on a. small South Sea isle, landing with nothing hut a toothbrush, the clothe* on liis back, and a dog. and eventually building a house with model n comforts, including hot and cold Dinning water, a valet panted "Eiiday the Thirteenth.” and a lively romance with a girl named 'Saturday.’ "Where the JO Polynesians and Chinese artisans came in was in constructing front coconuts. *en shells* sawfish, "etc., all of the ingenious implements used by Bong, in bis Crusoe castle. From liana, twigs they made rope, from iron-wood they made implements, front bamboo water-pipe* nud traps to catch animals, from pnndanus loaves walls and mats. ■TO BECOME A STAR! Tf von have any hopes of becoming a film 'extra with a view to reaching stardom, the opinion, of Air. T. Hayes Hunter, the British producer who is just completing "Sally Bisnop f or British Dominions, may interest you. The odds against an extra becoming a star are 50,000 to one! •-‘Success at such odds cannot acenratelv be tabulated into a set of rules,”" says Mr: Hayes Hunter. “Real stardom from the -start as an extra naturally, depends on many tilings— abilitv diligence, luck, and the "possession of that indescribable quality which makes the public flock to tlicir feet. . “However,- there are certain rules of success for extras, which, I nare learned bv experience will lead to better parts, often, fame, and perhaps Stardom.

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"Always watch the work of stars and directors if you are not working in a scene and space permits. }ou to do so. Never, if such an opportunity presents itself, choose to play bridge or chat idly as many extra* do.

•■ln this study of principal players and even other extras, learn how to enact scenes and make their secret, conform to your own personality. But. above all—do not imitate. "When in a scene, do exactly a* the director demands, always remembering that you can't nB ho “discovered'’ at once.

“Invent characteristic bits of business to do in scenes and do them in rehearsals so that the director may approve of them, but don't' irv to get your face in every scene. the extra whose duty it is to keep bis back io the camera in a scene may be putting across tho spirit of that scene as well as the star. “Dress as well as you can when the work gives such an opportunity. And. of course, practice the usual rules of success — Work hard. take advantage of your break when 1 1 comes, be alert and attentive. “Lastly, if von are plaving extra navis morelv for a lark. < f ive up the business and let more ambitious ones have vour opportunity/ NOTES AND NEWS. Jean Leroy, who is credited with having invented the film projector which made the motion-picture industvv possible, died in New A ork in poor circumstances, aged TS' yeuisFailure to patent his invention 3S voars ago los? Leroy untold wealth, and during his later years be made bis living at a small camera repair shop within a stone’s throw of Broadwav's immense picture palaces vheie fortunes have boon made from bis invention, says flip “Xews-Glii onieleLeroy said before he died: "1 did not patent my invention because 1 did not realise what 1 bad.

A new shade of wine- maroon which will enable blondes to wear red without violating the dictates of fashion was created by Adrian. M.G.AI. designer. for Karen Morley to "cur in “Flesh.” The gown is an afternoon dress, trimmed in metal triangles, with a metal belt ot triangle links. Miss Money is going to have the material duplicated in an evening gown for her personal wardrobe.

Plain have almost been completed for the production of “Tarzan and His A fate.” which will be the second picture to feature Johnny Weissmuller. once the world's champion swimmer, and now. rapidly becoming the first choice of all the dappers and love-sick maidens of every country. His magnificent physique, his effortless swimming, and his simple and natural acting in his first film created a furore, and his second film appearance is being eagerly awaited.

Who said a woman hasn 1 the privilege to change her mind? Karen Mor!ev. whose real name is Mildred Linton, once paid a nice fee to a numerologist io work out a ‘ lucky name for her. and then discarded the name arrived at because she decided that such things arc silly. ■s. ’■ * Huge stone hudclhas and fantastic statues covered with gold leaf form an imposing detail of a great set in “The Mask of Fu Manc-hu.” Tt is in this setting that Boris Karloff as Dr. Fa Afanc-hu stages his sensational Feast of the Mongols and plans on Asiatic uprising against the world. The picture is based on tho Sax Rohmer mystery thriller with Lewis Stone. Karen Morley, Charles Stnrretr. Myron Lev and Jean HershoH in the cast.

•'"They've given up their Inda skirts for trousers!'’ Such is the harden of Jimmy Duvanto’s latest song. He made it up himself when he visited "Waikiki Beach, Honolulu. He expected To see grass skirts but saw the same modes worn at ATnikiki as at the Hollywood beaches. Durante, with Robert .Montgomery and Waite’’ Huston, is in Hawaii with the Af.O.M. company filming ‘Pig Boats, a drama of naval submarines. «* y * Elizabeth Allan likes telling joke* against heorself. And oven if the stories are not good they are worth listening to. to see one ot the most attractive smiles in British films. Her last rather humiliating adventure was when she made a personal appearance at a cinema, writes an admirer of Elizabeth Allan in the “British Film Weekly." The Pres* photographers arranged for hpr to pose signing an autograph album for one of the page boys at the cinema. After the photograph Betty asked the page if he .would really like her to sign it for him. “Oh, no, it don’t matter about that, miss!’’ he answered.

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wichcs of cross, lettuce, or tomato and scrambled eggs make variety and add to the nourishment of the meal, and a few dates or raisins, separately or on sandwiches, are excellent. AYiili a drink of mtjk and a. raw apple to finish with a perfectly ourishing, satisfying, and digestible men] J s provided for any young child.

So much, for the subject of food. Probably every mother will have her own suggestions to add to the foregoing. which, however, have been, thoroughly workable in actual practice.

Next week we will deal with other practical suggestions for travelling with children.