ODD FACTS FROM MOVIELAND.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17016, 14 April 1923, Page 6 (Supplement)

ODD FACTS FROM MOVIELAND.

4_ ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN OF THE SILVER SHEET. George Hackathorne. character ju reloading man. Hackathorne went on th*:* stage when eleven years ol -c. appearing in many stock plnvs and musiial shows. Before appearin- ,„i the screen he was employed m various

kinds of studio work, such as filmcutting. laboratory development, lighting and other mechanical processes, f ive years ago Hackathorne got hi* chance to act. Since then he has developed into one of the screen's most prominent juveniles. Hid you over sit in a moving pioture show and watch the hero consume a cigarette, and wish you could smeke, tool-' Under such circumstances wouldn't it surprise you to learn that the leading man whose nicotine indulgence seems to give him such pleasure actually hates the weed, and that his molting is for screen purposes only? That is the situation with Conrad Nagel. While Mr Nagel has consumed cigars by the dozens and cigarettes by the score as part of his screen impersonations, in his private life he never indulges. Ewart Adamson’s travels and adventures qualify him as a scenarist. Here

is his record: Six times around the world as the mat** of a wind-jammer - illustrator for English periodicals; eoeoanut grower in the Malay States, lumberman in Canada : major or Canadian troops. Mr Ewan, Adamson has the distinction of being the youngest Canadian soldier to rise from the rankt.o a major’s commission. He has re coived the British and Canadian Ser vice Medals, also the mncli-coveted I Mens Star. I hat was the hardest task I eve: bad to perform in pictures.” declared lliomas .Wcighan. still nervous fron the ordeal. And what do you suppose it was? Not, jumping off a hundred loot cliff, carrying a Jeopard on hi shoulders, or struggling with a mob o infuriated ruffians. Not a bit of it All he luid to do was to make : speech before a woman’s club 1 An it "'as only a tnovii worn n chub, too 1 To have appeared in fifty comedic ‘ of ihe screen i> rather a record, bu this is only a part of the experienct that h:is t-Deu to the 101 of Fran! Hayes. Mr H[ups is * - ;in Francis run. He was in musical c-omeriv

stock, vaudeville, an d on L®ur for years. Entering tfhe films by the comedy route he spent three or four years in this variety of screw activities. and then went in tor roles mi n.ore serious pictures, appearing with Yitagrnph, Metro. Pathe, Hampton Jnce and Paramount. Bertram Grass by. professional villain, figured up recently that he had been beaten up forty-two time g . thrown off sever cliffs, shot with twelve different kinds of gHas. and stabbed scores of ways—and all by his best friends. Twenty times around the globe, a total distance of approximately 500,000 miles. It’* a long way. but that's the estimate arrived at by Ruby ette. veteran character actress, for her travels during sixty years as a player. " I’ve travelled on river boats, steamboat*. mule teams, horseback, and all types and classes of railroad cars to practically ever}- village and hamlet in the United States.” says the seventy-eight-year-old Thespian Miss Lafayette is one of the few remaining survivor® mi the days of Booth. Bar•ett. Charlotte Cushman and Edwin Forrest. Screen actresses cannot always change stocking* when they want to. The other day Lillian Leighton was showing another actress a beautiful pair of new ho*e. ‘ Whjr don’t you wear those?” the other asked. “I can’t—l have to wear these because they are registered." Which means that the hose she was wearing had already Vieen photographed, and nothing else might be worn in their place unless a perfect duplicate in colour, texture and design.