MOVIE NEWS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 164, 29 March 1939, Page 4

MOVIE NEWS

4 TELLS HAYSTACK JOKE _! Hpiai ion Martin is enjoying a laugh otPherself. . f orking at Metropolitan airport with L m versa!/s “Pirates of the Skies” company, the blonde beauty was passing her time knitting. She chose lor shelter from the San Fernando valley sun, an airplane hangar, especially built for the film in the form or au immense hay-stack. 1 After working in a scene, Marion went back to ner-- shady spot and cLiscovered ■ o»e of her knitting needles to be missing. She started to search for it. “I’ve heard of people looking for a. needle in a haystack,” she said, “but 1 never imagined I’d be foolish enough to try it‘” 200 DOVES GO COO-COO Pigeons talk too much to suit Jee BcDonough. Cooing of the birds has already ruined seventeen scenes in “Pirates of the Skies,” which McDonough is directing at Universal studio. The birds, some two hundred' of them, are used in a sequence between .Kent Taylor, and Lucien Littlefield. As soon as cameras start to turn, tin.’ birds begin to coo, making so muchnoise that, recording of dialogue between tne principals is almost impossible. Jerry Ash, camera man, discovered that shouts for silence and the shrill whistle which proceeds each scone, started the pigeons “talking.” * ~j McDonough and Ash are now substituting hand i signals lor tho customary shouts and whistles to start a scene.