PRODUCTION PARS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 27 January 1940, Page 4

PRODUCTION PARS

j Believe it or not; but the Noise and j Nuisance Abatement Society, with Dr jG. S. Thompson as President, has I drafted a bill to be presented to the | N.S.W. Premier (Mr Mair), providing | —among other things—that “a citizen j may inform against, or actually arrest, strangers in a theatre who annoy him ! by talking or noisily eating peanuts.” . j The Australian Museum (Sydney); j has begun the preparation of a series of films of various natural history sub- j jects—to be circulated in due course j among the schools in N.S.W. through j the Education Department. * * * * Sunday, 31st December, is stated to have been the twenty-sixth anniversary of the start of the first feature film ever tackled in Hollywood.—Cecil B. de Mille’s “Squaw Man.” * * * Paramount has released the motion picture industry’s second featurelength cartoon. It is the Max Fleischer produced Technicolour feature, “Gulliver’s Travels,” which has been in production for over a year. “Gulliver’s Travels” is entirely in carton and in Technicolour, and is one of the outstanding achievements of the screen. It is the second allcolour feature-length cartoon to come to the screen. * * * * Hollywood gossips have been wondering about the beautiful flowers that have appeared daily in Joan Bennett’s dressing-room since she started work in “House Across the Bay.” But the rumours of a “new romance” in Joan’s life were abruptly halted by the prop man on the picture. “I put them there myself, every day,” he announced calmly. “I always do for the stai*s of picture I work on. It mekes the room look cheerful when they come in to work in the morning . .

English cables stale that the only j British picture exhibited in Berlin ; since the beginning of the war is George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion.” | ; The eighty-three-year-old playwright! seems destined to achieve a real world’s! success with his great comedy which has been translated into many European tongues. Its season in Berlin is j said to have been “an outstanding ; success.” * *Y- * * | The great popularity of Charlie Mcj Carthy—the ventriloquial figure first j introduced to the screen by Edgar Berj gen in “The Goldwyn Follies” —is shown by his having been adopted as the mascot of the 2nd-lst Battalion (A.1.F., N.S.W.). In a recent issue the "Sydney Telegraph” devoted a huge reprduction to Private Washbrook with a representation of Charlie poised on i his upraised hand. * * * * Hollywood producers have generously donated eighty-four feature length films, fifty-two shorts, and twelve newsreels to the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. s * * * * An eventful meeting was one which tok place in Honolulu, when Paul Muni and Shirley Temple were introduced at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Mr Muni shook Shirley’s hand and smiled at her, “I think we should have met long ago,” he said. “I think so, too, Mr Muni,” said Shirley. “After all, we’re in the same racket!” * * * * America’s college boys have found their ideal in Lana Turner (of “These Glamor Girls” and “Dancing Co-Eds” fame). Lana in her fan mail gets hun-

dreds of invitations from young hopefuls all over the country inviting her down for college “does” and festivals. Sometimes they want her just to go