TALKIES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 130, 1 March 1940, Page 2

TALKIES

BABY SANDY GROWING UP Baby Sandy, new wonder child of Ihe screen, lias definitely abandoned the male impersonations in which she rose to fame in. "East Side of Heaven" and "Unexpected Father." From now on. according to Universal officials, she will do her emoting for studio cameras as her own feminine self. Sandy's first appearance as a girl is in her co-star-ring role with Hugh Herbert in "Little Accident." Now that she is a lady, Sandy has her own private dressing room at Universal. But she doesn't seem to worry much about it. Most of her time between scenes is spent plaj T ing with dolls and toys or sleep ing. The state law permits her to work only two hours each day. "As far as Sandy is concerned, she thinks her movie job is a lot of fun —a regular game." according to her mother, Mrs Roy Henville. "She's perfectly at home on the set, <md lias adopted most of the crew, hairdressers and makeup artists as uncles and aunts." Lainont declares that Sandy's personality lias kept pace with her rise in screen prestige. 0005000eOQOOC3®COe««Ooe# l

MIRIAM HOPKINS,

®coo©o©o® ©oeo®'Cos©® Qoeo©o©*e® see® ©••*•€ LIKES LONDON It is surely news when a 'Frenc'i girl, and a very beautiful one at that, spends three days buying clothes in London before returning to Paris! But that is exactly what Corrinc Luchaire did. Miss Luchaire is the beautiful Korda discovery. who stars in latest London film, "Prison Without Bars." After completing the film she had exactly three days to. spare before returning to Paris to appear in another.

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Instead of going straight back she spent the time selecting gowns with which to startle her fellow, Parisiennes. "I think the English girl dresses as well as the Parisienne to-day and as a result Paris is no longer* the arbiter of fashion," explains Miss Luchaire. Miss Luchaire, tall, strikingly beautiful, is only seventeen, but she has the assurance and poise of a woman twice that age. She speaks English perfectly and has fallen in love with London and Lo'n doners, so much so that she intends to take a flat and spend at least six months here upon completion of her next film. Her biggest surprise is that the. people know so little about their own city. "I cannot understand," she says, "the number of Londoners one meets who have never been inside the Tower, Westminster Abbey, or seen Buckingham Palace. "A good Parisian would be asham ed if he could not conduct a provincial round the sights of Paris. T suppose it is because 'we Parisians are part of the capital. We do not rush into the country by road, train or bicycle at week-ends, but spend air hours in the boulevards and gardens of Paris itself." STAR GOT BLISTERS DIGGING HIS GRAVE It's bad enough to acquire a crop of blisters. But when you acquire them digging your own grave— that's irony! That was Warner Baxter's conclusion hen he at the palms of his hands after an eight-hour session with a shovel on location for the 20th Century-Fox production. "The Return 01 the Cisco Kid." The scene was the one in which Cisco digs his own grave before facing a firing squad. Every time Baxter completed the scene, two men would step in and fill up the hole again, in order that the set-up could be re-shot from various angles, WHAT A MOUTH! AND IT'S NOT JOE BROWN Pinto Colvig, human sound effects library, claims that he can produce approximately 500 different types of sound with his mouth. The sounds range from an angry bull elephant to a barking dog. Colvig is assisting in the scoring of Paramount's full-length technicolour car toon, "Gulliver's Travels.'