Lucky Photograph

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 19 September 1935, Page 8

Lucky Photograph

Some years ago Frank Borzage, the noted director, was in Ireland searching for a typical Irish colleen to play opposite John McCormack in his first talking picture. Maureen O’Sullivan read the story in a Dublin newspaper and submitted -a photograph of herself. She was selected after a screen test. Her latest role is a major one with George Arliss in “Cardinal Richelieu.”

swim. Miss Chandler is a good Swimmer, but admits that she prefers to laze about in a bathing costume on the side of the pool in the sunshine, and sip cooling drinks, and get sunburned. Her love of Shakespeare, of course, is due to the fact that when she was only ten years of age the great John Barrymore took her to the New York stage and gave her a masculine part—the young Duke of York, who. was murdered in “Richard The Third.” . \ •,

Substitute for Human Eye. Filming weird, startling effects iu a sinister drama of the screen does not depend on “camera tricks.” In fact, it depends rather on the' absence of any trick whatever, or canny attempt to make the lens of the camera deceive the audience or distort wHat is placed before- it. So declares James Wong Howe, one of Hollywood's greatest experts in placing mystery and strange macabre effects on film, and who photographed iMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s uncanny detective thriller, “Mark of the Vampire,’’ which avill screen at tho Grand Theatre on Saturday and Monday. “It is done,” he declares; “by the creation of illusions such as human forms in mist, by the placing of lights to get hard, mysterious shadows and then letting the camera “play straight”—in other .words, photographing. what is on the stage exactly as the oye sees it.”