FILM PERSONALS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17527, 2 May 1925, Page 20

FILM PERSONALS.

A Los Angeles cable to Australian papers announces tho death of that promising young screen star, Lucille Kickscn. *= * * v Mr F. W. Murnau, one of the producers of tho Berlin Ufa, lias been granted a furlough of several months in tho spring of 192(3 as a courteav to the Fox Film Corporation, New York, for Which firm lie will direct one feature film. According to a cable message to Sydnev “Sun Tom. Mix, who is at present in England, is stated to bo leaving ‘-’or Australia in the course of the months, accompanied bv his horse Tony, there to make a spectacular film featuring station life. Advices from America state that Rene Adoree was recently granted divorce from Tom Moore*, well-known film actor, on the ground of desertion. In her evidence, the wife stated that she was married to Moore in February, 19*20, and that she was deserted by him in January, 1923. •fp :-i * * Mr Tom Ferguson, who has spent many years on the accountancy side of the motion picture industry, recently vacated the position of secretary fo • Paramount (New Zealand) in order to join the Metro-Goldwyn organisation now in course of formation in Sydney. Early in his career Mr Ferguson was associated with Australasian Films in Sydney and later with Paramount. For the latter company he moved to Brisbane, and later to New Zealand. Mr H. C. MMntyre, general manager for Universal f ilcifi, was a passenger by the Makura for San Francisco viaVancouver, this being his first visit to the United States. On the eve of leaving Sydney he said Iris visit was for the purpose of gaining “the widest possible knowledge of Universal activities first hand. It’s a great idea this get together scheme which broadens everybody’s viewpoint. The hoys over there only* know me by medium of correspondence. hut now I'm going to ‘get acquainted.’ * * * * Bill Hart has joined up with United Artists. He will produce and finance his own pictures ' ’ What is important,” remarks an American writer, “ is the assurance that Bill will make the kind of Western pictures in which Vie gained his popularity. When the picture industry was going mad on the subject of spectacular pictures not so long ago. they demanded that Bill keep up to that so-called standard and we’ll never forget Bill’s reply: ‘Boys, you can’t make a place out of a log cabin, nor use ten thousand extras in true Western locales where entire populations were numbered by the