MOVIE NEWS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 128, 30 December 1938, Page 4

MOVIE NEWS

TROUPE MAROONED IN MOUNTAIN SNOWSTORM Caught in the first snowstorm of the season in a high pass in the Sit. rrn Nevada mountains,; Jackie Cooper and the .members of his picture troupe making Universal's "The • Cagle •Scout” underwent twelve hours ol suffering and peril recently, ' Working at an elevation of 7,000 feet, near the Dardanelles, on Sonora. Pass, the players, with Jtkr members of the production crew, wore trapped when a heavy snowfall blocked! the roads. News of their plight was phoned to Sonora, California. Tractors and snowplows were sent, to the aid of the movie troupe. The remainder of the outdoor moun-L tain sentiences will he photographed near •Sonera where snow is not expected for another month.

lIICLKN PARRISH ON “KISSINO” Kissing ifc a greatly over-rated art,! Helen Parrish ventured that "expert V” opinion just alter she had received her "first kiss” lor a motion picture scene. Helen is sixteen. The* kiss was bestowed hy Jackie Soarl, juvenile leading man tor the young actress in their Universal him with the Little 'Hough (iu\s, "In Society.” I'Jarlier in the day Helen went through screen test kiss seems with Soarl, Jimmy Hut lor and Frankie Thomas, all ol whom are approximately her own age, Sear I emerged with a rouge-smeared! face and triumphant smile and got, the part. "Maybe kisses are all right for some people,” is the way Helen summed up her first oscillatory experience lor the cameras. REALISM IN "WEST SIDE MIRACLE” Beauty of its gods is admittedly one of the greatest lectors in making Hollywood the world’s entertainment capital. • Because of that fact, it scene.’ like heresy when Hired or Arthur Lnlnu employed no beauties when easting nurses I’m the current, Universal “West Side M'iraele,” in which much of the action lakes place in a hospital. Lubin had his own reasons. •"West Sid. 1 Miracle’ is a truc-to-lilo, dramatic story,” lie slates. ‘Most, movies have a lineup of nurses, telephone operators. salesgirls or waitresses that look like candidates for the 'Miss America’ title. in the average hospital stall' as in all (.din r lines, there are lew beauties.” Lubin lliisti ns to add, Indore the nurses of the country rise in v. rath, (hat there are exceptions. "Helen .dad;, for installed, is that exception in her role as a mil si • in the film. The brown-haired beauty is 8 aimed with Kdniiind Lowe and Dick c'orau in the movie version ol Qm lit,in Reynolds' story.