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Observer, Volume XXXVI, Issue 37, 20 May 1916, Page 9

Quaint advertisement from a daily paper:—"Wanted: Lady help, must be good typist." Other suggestions: "Wanted: General servant; violinist preferred." "Wanted: Lady for drapery counter; must be good milker." "Wanted: Well educated girl for confectionery business; able to drive motor car." "Wanted: Housemaid, two in family; must be professional accountant." "Wanted: Lady governess, in refined Christian family; knowledge ploughing essential." .In short, the wealthy persons of New Zealand are showing a praiseworthy attempt to make up for the shortage of men, bless them. At His Majesty's Theatre, on Wednesday, May 24th, Mr Charles MacMahon will put on a sensational cinema record of the great glove fight between Les Darcy and Eddie McGoordy, for the middleweight championship of the world. It was fought at the Sydney Stadium before 12,000 people. The picture shows each of the 15 rounds. Notice is given elsewhere by the Land and Income Tax Department that returns of income, whether taxable or otherwise, must be sent to the Department at Wellington on or before June 2nd, 1916.

William Fox announces that his Annette Kellerman picture will be ready Tor release about June. This picture, which has already cost the Vox Company £200,01)0, is being directed by Herbert Brenon in Kingston, Jamaica. a * • A reason for film producers' anxiety to secure the services of stage stars is disclosed in a recent statement by Thomas H. Ince, one of the Triangle directors. "1 have always been a believer in the value of the stage star to the photo-dramatic production, and it is not merely a commercial value. I have often engaged players with big names who have not returned one quarter of what they were paid; but they certainly are of artistic worth to motion pictures. They bring new methods of treating various situations and new ideas of emotional registration which cannot but benefit the films." Despite Ince's "no commercial value" assertion, however, the concern with which he has affiliated has engaged among others, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Miss Billie Burke; and the last American mail brought news of their financial and dramatic film success. Frank Mills and Bessie Barriscale are two others who have come to the motion pictures at Ince's bidding, and appear together in "The Golden Claw."