Jack Hulbert.

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 25 July 1935, Page 8

Jack Hulbert.

, Famous in every sphere of entertainment, stage, screen, vaudeville and radio, Jack Hulbert did a great deal of amateur theatrical work when at college at Cambridge, and also played at ‘the- New Theatre, Cambridge, in “Jack Straw,” playing the title role. He made his first professional appearance in 1911 at the Shaftesbury Theatre in “The Pearl Girl,” under the management of Robert Courtneidge, one of whose daughters, the now famous Cicely, he later married. Jack Hulbert scored innumerable successes as actor, author and producer, his biggest stage success being undoubtedly “Clowns in Clover,” which ran for two years at the Adelphi -Theatre, and in which Cicely Courtneidge also starred. Turning to films, he starred Avitli enormous success in “The Ghost Train,” “Love on Wheels,” shine Susie”, “Jack’s the Boy” and “Jack Ahoy,” which will screen at flic Opera House to-night and to-mor-row.

Too Hot! • According to the script, scenes at the United Airport in Hollywood for “Happiness Ahead,” the First National production which comes to the Opera House next Tuesday and Wednesday, were made on a crisp, winter afternoon. Actors played the scenes bundled in ulsters and furs, but Director Mcrvyn LeEoy wore khaki shorts and a sun helmet. It is winter on the screen, but it actually was a. hot August day. The principals had difficulty

in keeping- their make-ups from melting long enough to make a scene. The cameramen used ice packs. The film magazines were carefully shaded to keep the emulsion from melting;. Dick Powell and Josephine Hutchinson, the two leads, stood in the broiling sun, wearing heavy coats, leaning against the .metal sides of an airship, literally too hot to touch.