NEWS OF THE TALKIES.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18159, 25 October 1930, Page 17 (Supplement)

NEWS OF THE TALKIES.

Milton Sills Dies Suddenly. Film-goers will lament the death of Milton Sills, the college professor who became a star of the screen. He collapsed on I he tennis court at his home near Los Angeles, and died two hours later. He had started the game in excellent, spirits and apparently good health, and was playing against his daughter, Dorothy. His wife, his three-year-old son, Kenyon, and a friend of the family were watching the game. Suddenly the actor dropped his racquet and motioned feebly to his daughter. He

forced to impersonate. Peter and falls in love with Eva. Then Peter decides he wants her himself. After complications, Bobby wins her love and secures her mother’s consent with Peter’s help. The camera work in the big scenes is splendid and the talking, though laborious in parts, very interesting. Australian In English Talkies. Cyril Ritchard, who was for long in Williamson musical comedy, mainly as a dancer with Madge Elliott, is doing exceptionally well on stage and screen in England. His latest talkie engagement was in support of Ivor Novello in “Symphony in Two Flats.” Minnie Rayner, who was out here in “The Ghost Train," is also in the production. Denial of Matrimonial Trouble. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks are on the warpath I Not between themselves, hut with the public. They have issued an emphatic joint denial of a separation now or at any future time. Thei/r attorney branded a report that Fairbanks’ fancy had been captured by a titled Englishwoman as totally without foundation. Lion Tamer Mauled. During a performance of Chapman’s circus, at Gillingham, Kent, a Ijon tamer, named Jan Doksansky, was badly mauled on the hand by a lioness, but he pluckiiy went on with his turn, and was rewarded, wtith tumultuous applause. There were 14 beasts in the ring, and the sight of blood running from the trainer’s hand threw them into a state of restlessness. Doksansky flourished his stick and called out an order, but the animals snarled and showed little disposition to obey. Letting' the stick fall to the ground the trainer passed his injured hand through the bars and had his wounds bandaged by an attendant. He kept his eyes fiercely and steadily fixed on the beasts, which he cowed with his personality. Then he proceeded to put them through their regular performance, and when this was over he visited the hospital to have his wounds stitched.