CAUGHT IN A DENSE FOG AT SEA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20150, 19 May 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

CAUGHT IN A DENSE FOG AT SEA

MARY PICKFORD’S EXPERIENCE IN HER LATEST FILM. The mechanical skill of a tugboat cn_,uh 11 saved Mary Pickford and her otaii i rum having to make an unsched"‘i lri P " LO Hawaii during the filming ui the star’s latest picture, “Aly Best '••n,' showing at the Majestic 'theatre next Wednesday. io make the final sequence of the ►dm. Miss Picklord, with her leading man, Charles Rogers; her director, lay lor; the cameraman, Charles Posher,• and a group of assistants boarded a big Honolulu liner in Los -kiigelrs Harbour, and “shot’’ her scenes as the steamer went down the channel and out into the Pacific. A tugboat was to pick up the coir pany somewhere off Catalina Island ami bring them back, but as the liner neared the appointed rendezvous a dense fog descended, making it impossible to locate the tug. Constant whistling of albacore fishboats made it impossible to recognise the tugboat’s signal. Miss Pickford grew anxious, for mail steamers cannot turn back to port, and to continue to Hawaii would ruin the picture schedule. Finally, however, the tug suddenly loomed out of the fog, having been able to distinguish the steamer hoarse whistle above the din of the tooting albacore fleet. Production is scheduled to start at once cn Fred Thomson’s next picture, “The Sunset Legion.” It is a story of the exciting mining days of the ’9o’s. Edna Murphy is to play opposite Mr Thomson as leading woman. A special Paramount Gazette featuring the landing and reception of Bert Hinkler in Australia has been prepared. It was enclosed in a case suitably inscribed and presented to the 1 famous aviator in Melbourne.