TOO MUCH TEA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 16 (Supplement)

TOO MUCH TEA

ENGLISH STUDIOS’ FAULT. I Tea drinking is the curse of English j film studios, according to Francis X. • Bushman. I “Gloria Swanson. Esther Ralston, land I a’most had hysteria over this ■tea business,” he told a Canadian rc|porter. “Everyone was at the studio iby 8.30 in the morning, but they lingered over breakfast until 10.30, and jthen, after shooting one scene, knocked ’off for two hours for lunch. Another | scene and then came 4 o’clock tea, ’after which it was time for dinner.” Mr. Bushman, who is forty-eight, played in the British talkie. “Watch Beverly.” during his holiday in England last summer. He has been appearing in pictures since 1911.

Bela Lugosi and Paul Hurst have been added to the cast of Paramount'* “The Island of Lost Souls.” » * ¥ » Thomas Meighan, now in Paramount’s “Madison Square Garden,” is rated as one of the wealthiest actors in the world. * * * * Several feminine spectators summoned the courage to whisper in Frances Dec's ear during the filming of location scenes for Paramount’s “The Night of June 13th.” at Ontario, California. They had noticed a long run in Miss Dee's stocking. In order to put a stop to the whispering, Director Stephen Roberts had to explain to the crowd through a microphone. that the run was called for in the script.

whose flashes of humour never failed to lighten the gloom of the zero hour. Gordon Harker is unique, as his nearest rival is the inimitable Herbert Mundin. who spent some seasons in Australia, and also visited New Zealand. On his returning to England he figured on the Hippodrome programme as principal comedian to the Co-optim-ists. but soon drifted into pictures and has since appeared with outstanding su e-s in both American and English productions. Both those artists purvey a brand of humour peculiarly English. and are at present so much in demand, that producers are ever readv ♦o offer good round sums for their services.