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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 June 1935, Page 10

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Chester Morris. Chester Morris was born in New York City. His father -was William Morris, prominent on the stage, and his mother was Etta Hawkins, commedicimc. After attending grammar and high schools at Mt. Vernon, N.Y., Chester slipped into -a picture at .the old Tlianhouscr studios in New Rochelle. Then Chester turned to the New York stage where lie appeared in “Crime,” “Yellow,” “Homo Townors,” “Turn to the Eight” land “So This is London.” Roland West was seeking someone to play in the picture, “Alibi.” T). W. Griffith suggested Morris. He got the part and immediately became a film success. He will appear at the Grand Theatre on Saturday and Monday in “I’ve Been Around.”

Jean. Parker, Metro-Goldvvyn-Mayer’s newest and youngest player, is the first Ilofjv •wood actress ever to be photographed by a motion picture camera in front of tiie largest and oldest’ living treefin the world to-dav. .

The tree is the General Shermian, located in Sequoia National Park, where -the new nature romance, “Sequoia,’.’ was recently filmed. \ It towers over 300 feet in height, has a base diameter of 40 feet, and thfc first branch-is larger in diameter than any ■ tree east of the Appalachian- mountains. ( The General Sherman is estimated to be at least 4000 years old. “Sequoia” will screen at the . Opera House next Wednesday and Thursday.

j “Ready for Love.” The Paramount- construction department had to rely on a New England museum for . photographs of early American relics .used in the' Richard Alien. Ida Lupino film “Ready for Love, ’ ’ which comes next Tuesday and Wednesday to tiie Grand Theatre. Although .the story of - the film oe- ’ curs in modern times, a ducking stool, whipping post, stocks and other instalment.s of chastisement in Colonial days, were called for in one sequence. From the photographs and details obligingly furnished ,by the museum, replicas of the antiques vrere constructed and employed in the film, which' tells the Story of a high-spirited 1 girl who becomes the innocent victim of a countrywide scandal.