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Joan Crawford, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star, who plans a holiday trip on the Continent soon, will have company Avhile there. \v nen Tito Schipa, famous 'opera star, visited her at the studios, they agreed, that Joan and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Mr and Mrs Schipa should meet in Eome and take in opera there together. Super-sensitive film and super-sensi-tive microphones are in use in the making of “A Free Soul,” Norma Shearer's next MetroGoldwyn-Mayer photoplay, which Clarence Brown is directing. The new film reduces lightg lare and the new microphone is being tried for “long range” recording and the elimination of extraneous sounds from intimate sceens. W. S. Van Dyke is embarrassed these days when he meets former army men about the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. They insist on saluting the famous director of “Trader Horn,” since he was recently commissioned a colonel in the Kentucky National Guard, on the Governor's staff.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 June 1931, Page 3
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