AQUATIC ROMANCE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 354, 15 October 1932, Page 7

AQUATIC ROMANCE

FILMED IN EUROPE'S FINEST SWIMM^NG POOL. A BIG UNDERTAKING. Milton Rosmer, director of the British International Picture, "The Perfect Lady," took his company and all the paraphernalia necessary to filming to the Ladies' Carlton Club in order to shoot an equatic courtship in Europe's finest swimming pool, which' has heen built there for the members' • use. .berries transferred the necessary lighting and sound equipment from Elstree to the club, and after tremendous difficulties which were successfully overcome hy the studio engineers and eleetricians, a generator' outside provided the necessary current for the arc lamps which were installed at vantage points within. The bathing pool itself was huilt at a cost of £25,000 and is designed on the same lines as the famous Lido Bath Paris. Surrounding the bath, which is 90 feet in length and seven and a half in depth at the deep end, are many interesting features. A verandah and cocktail mar occupy the majority of one side and here ara large vases of brightly coloured fruit, slim green poplar trees and windows round which cluster gaily-hned blossoms and vines. Small tahles and chairs in painted .wickerwork afford teas and tete-a-tetes for onlookers and a flight of steps leads to the water's edge. A raised colonnade, on which glow illuminated alabaster vases, leads to the aressing rooms, which are approached by archways hung with lacquer green oilskin eurtains. A staircase painted and curved to represent a raibow arch leads from a gallery to the shallow end of the bath on to which two windows flanked hy green shutters and pots of scarlet and orange blossoms look down. Large lamps of Venetian inspiration light | the interior of this beautiful bathing 1 pool. The scenes directed hy Milton Rosmer show the ripening of a chance | acquaintance between the two princi- x pal characters, and their romance begins in earnest from the moment they "go off the deep-end together. Moira Lynd and Harry Wilcoxon from the cubist diving board found no difficulty in "taking the plunge," particularly the latter, wh'o, is an expert swimmer and was at one time a pearl diver. At the conclusion when Rosmer gave the "all clear" with one accord, the company "fell in."