Did You Know That

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 637, 13 April 1929, Page 25

Did You Know That

The United States Department of Commerce has announced that of the 50.000 motion picture theatres in the world, 20,500 are in the U.S.A.

S. M. Etsenstein, director of “Potemkin,” the remarkable “Soviet” picture forbidden exhibition in England, is going to America to make a picture for United Artists.

The smallest automobile in Hollywood is owned by Colleen Moore First National screen star. It is 4ft long, wide enough for two passengers and travels 40 miles an hour.

Inland seagulls, accustomed to being fed at the First National studios, were pressed into service for atmosphere recently and helped to make realistic ocean sequences lor "Naughty Baby.”

Screen fights are sometimes as real as they look, if William Boyd’s bandages are any criterion. Boyd broke two ribs in a fight with Robert Armstrong recently. It was “some screen fight,” in the opinion of other members of the cast.

Many American screen stars are anxious to enter vaudeville in order to gain experience for talking films. Casting offices are having a difficult time in finding them dates, and are advising them to tour with small legitimate troups in order to gain knowledge.

“Evangeline,” Dolores Del Rio’s first picture after her return from Europe, was made with dialogue and music. Roland Drew plays opposite the Mexican star in a story based on Longfellow’s poem. They will be heard in duet singing French folk songs.

Tragedy and heartache in the love affair of an IS-year-old girl will form the theme of Mary Pickford’s new picture. Her scenario staff is hard at work on Mary’s first "grown-up” picture. It will not be oversophisticated, but does show Mary in her new bob as a young lady.

Blonde-blue-eyed, sft 4in tall, and she has never yet appeared before a motion picture camera —meet Virginia Cherrill, Chicago debutante, chosen by Charlie Chaplin for the feminine lead in “City Lights.” Escorted by her mother, little Miss Cherrill arrived in Hollywood to assume the crown worn by Merna Kennedy in "The Circus” —that of lead-' ing woman to the world’s favourite ! comedian.