King as a Cinema Actor.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 2 October 1914, Page 8

King as a Cinema Actor.

While King- Christian of Denmark was cruising with the Queen and their two sons in his yacht Rita off Aarthuus, Jutland, the party were startled by the sound of shots and shrieks for help. The King immediately gave orders to sail in the direction of the sounds. They found several boats manned with crews of the most desperatelooking type engaged in a regular battle with rifles and revolvers. The King was making arrangements for speedy intervention when he saw through his binoculars another boat, a little away from the others, with a man at. the stern calmly turning the handle of a cinema camera. The sight of that unruffled figure made the King smile, and he ordered the yacht to be "taken out of action." At that moment, however, Fate took a hand in the game. The actress who took che part of the heroine jumped overboard to escape from the villain, but half-way to the shore she became exhausted, and would have drowned if the King had not detected a genuine ring in her cries of distress. A boat from the Royal yacht was manned, and came to the rescue of the drowning actress. The silent man at the camera, stuck to his post, and thus gained the distinction for his firm of having a King among its actors.