PICTURE PRODUCTION

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 6, 29 March 1927, Page 12

PICTURE PRODUCTION

WORK ON “SPANGLES” The longest engagement ever pkye° by a big circus within sight of permanent winter quarters place during the filming of the Universal-Jewel to be shown &*■ the Princess. To furnish the setting for this P- c * ture, which features Pat O’Malley an Marian Nixon, one of the country* largest circuses, the A 1 G. Bam shows, was taken over entirely ioT month, and the “big top” set up n u the winter quarters at Culver b... ten miles from Universal City. . ITore the “Spangles” company day nfter day, with the ring sets g * on the trained animals hjstufT," the clowns “clowning, ringmaster ringing—or, rather craefc —his whip, and everything just as during a performance. In fact. on, very especial day, a Sunday, an ience of 5,000 persons was to “act” in t>e picture. Incident J th j work of the circus people 9erv w* rehearsals and practice for them, show' left the day after the P* company finished and began its sunn tout in Phoenix, Arizona. an v “Spangles” was directed by * O’Conner and the supporting eludes Hobart Bosw'orth, Gladys® , well. Jay Emmett, Grace Gorao * . Tr.n.es Conlv. The story is by Ne Re veil, with screen adaptation t>> Haird. _