NEWS FROM THE STUDIOS

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17916, 11 January 1930, Page 16 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM THE STUDIOS

Talkies to be Made In New Zealand. Mr 'Stanley S. Crick, managing director of Fox Movietone, has- just returned from an extensive tour of the United States, and is in New Zealand. Mr Crick stated that his company had formulated plans which would be of great interest and importance to New Zealand. While in America Mr Crick arranged that a Fox Movietone News crew and complete outfit should be stationed permanently in Australia and New Zealand, and already many important events in Australia have been recorded in sight and sound and distributed throughout the world. Mr Crick stated that the Fox Movietone News camera car and crew would arrive in New Zealand about the middle of January, and would proceed immediately to make pictures. Such spectacular items as can be obtained in the thermal districts — Maori folk songs and dances, the active volcano Ngauruhoe, in National Park—nesting of gannets at Cape Kidnappers, Mako fishing in the South Island, and other items, , will be recorded and distributed throughout the world, and will constitute one of the greatest advertisements New Zealand has ever received. Short Subjects! A troupe of midgets flocked into the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer commissary the other day at lunch hour. “Oh, look,” said Eddie Nugent. “Here comes a bunch of short subjects!” Pola Finds Men Selfish. Pola Negri, the film star, clad in black, wept copiously in the arms of reporters who met her at Le Havre on her return from the United States in the liner lie de France. “It is sad,” she said between her sobs “to come back to a land where my only happiness is to wait for my divorce, but, thank God, divorce does exist.” Referring to her husband, Prince Mdlvani, Miss Pola Negri declared: "I loved Serge greatly, and still love him. Divorce will be a great wrench, but it is the only solution when two people cannot live together peacefully." "Men," she said bitterly, “are nearly all Intensely selfish. Generally they take everything and give nothing." Miss Negri admitted that she had been a heavy loser by the recent slump on Wall Street. “It was the most severe shock I have had," she said; “but I still have property in Los Angeles and in France.” A later message stated that the differences between Pola and her Prince had been patched up and there would be no divorce.