LUXURY FOR ACTORS.
WARMING THE SEA. Steam-heating the Pacific Ocean represents an American producer's latest effort to study the comfort of his players. Scenes of revelry aboard a yacht were being filmed for '* Dance, Fool, Dance," and the action demanded that Joan Crawford and her companions should jump, fully clothed, into the sea. To save them from being chilled, the director, Harry Beaumont, hired a small firo engine by which a continuous flow of steam was pumped into the water at the ship's side as the artists leaped over. The "near-drowning" were thus accomplished in circumstances of bathroom luxury.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20868, 9 May 1931, Page 10 (Supplement)
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99LUXURY FOR ACTORS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20868, 9 May 1931, Page 10 (Supplement)
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