EMPIRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 154, 20 September 1927, Page 16

EMPIRE

“STEPPING ALONG” Johnny Hines has decided he is the proud possessor of a charmed life.

“J While filming comedy thrills down at Coney Island for his First National picture, “Stepping Along,” now at the Empire Theatre, accidents kept happening all about him. First he decided to film thrills with ■J his score of mid-

gets—all members

of “The Midget Fdllies” —on the “Thunderbolt” roller coaster, only to have a serious accident happen a few hours before he was ready to film the scene. On the following day he was planning to film a chase on the board-walk, but something made him postpone it a day, and on the day he had planned to shoot these scenes the huge crowds on the boardwalk were thrown into a panic when the structure collapsed. Since Johnny has many shots of the “Scandals” in the new film he has made “Lucky Lay” his favourite song. “Oh! What a Nurse,” starring Syd. Chaplin, will also be screened at the Empire Theatre to-night. “Chuck” Reisner, who made the gags that helped make Charlie Chaplin famous in all of his pictures right up through “The Gold Rush” and who then became Syd’s director in “The Man on the Box,” has scored the comedy triumph of the season in directing this new picture. And Patsy Ruth Miller, whose poetic beauty is accompanied with an irrepressible sense of humour, is a gay little heroine.