HAROLD LLOYD’S FIRST TALKIE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 842, 10 December 1929, Page 15

HAROLD LLOYD’S FIRST TALKIE

Harold Lloyd’s first talking picture, “Welcome Danger.” will arrive in New Zealand shortly, as announced in cabled advice received by Mr. John W. Hicks junr., manging-director for Paramount Pictures. The picture recently received its world premiere in Los Angeles, where it was enthusiastically received by public and critics alike. Lloyd’s personality is unique in the world of motion pictures, and his first venture into talking films is sure to prove an event of great importance. Speech has increased the comedy possibilities of the story greatly, with the result that “Welcome Danger” is hailed as Lloyd’s finest comedy picture.

Submarine love scenes were recently enacted between Greta Garbo and Nils Asther in “The Single Standard,” the screen version of Adela Rogers St. John’s story produced by Metro-Gold-wyn-Maver. An ocean-going crane and diving apparatus were used for the cameras, which were swung overboard when Miss Garbo and Asther dive off the rail of the yacht used in the picture. The camera, specially lensed. followed the pair as they plunged below the surface and in a continuous shot showed them meeting in an embrace underwater and then rising to the surface clasped in each other’s arms.