STUDIO CHATTER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 80, 29 May 1946, Page 6

STUDIO CHATTER

A FEATURE COLUMN Air-Sea Rescue The dramatic activities of the airsea rescue service are to be brought to the screen in Paramount’s “Seven Were Saved.” Hollywood Beds Joan Leslie thinks that some beds are deceitful things. The most luxurious, seemingly softest beds in pictures are actually beds from which all semblance of springs have been removed, and boards inserted in their place. Reason: So the body won’t sink out of camera sight, but remains pleasantly outlined under the covers. Narrow Escape Greer Garson, star of “Mrs Parkington,” soon to appear at the Regent, had a narrow escape from drowning a few weeks ago. Whilst on location, she was swept from a rocky foreshore into a cove, and carried away by a large wave. A sardine fisherman rescued her from her perilious position, dragging her from the swirling torrent, and carrying her to safety. A New Personality An interesting new personality to watch in films next year will be 8.8. C. comedian Michael Howard who makes his film debut in the Individual picture “I See A Dark Stranger.” Howard is not exactly a comic in the picture, which is about an Irish girl who becomes involved with a gang of Nazi spies, but he imbues the part of a spy with something of the quality possessed by the pirates in Peter Pan. Regent: “The Lady Objects” (June 3, 4 and 5). A picture not yet shown in Auckland or Wellington, and therefore arriving without the benefit of city publicity. It is a superior Western film of the high class cut of “The Texan,” “Dodge City” and others of this nature, and will appeal to all audiences. It is a technicolour film. Sufficient recommendation is that the season of “Tonight and Every Night,” the Columbia twenty-fifth . anniversary film, has been cut to one night, in order to allow “The Lady Objects” to open to a three night season on the King’s Birthday.