HAS ANYBODY HERE SEEN MAHONEY?

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 194, 5 November 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

HAS ANYBODY HERE SEEN MAHONEY?

AUSTRALIAN WANTED SYDNEY’S NEW THEATRE ; A wandering Australian named Mahoney, who established a repuj tation as the finest theatre decorator in America, is being sought in i two continents. A nig job awaits him at the Capii tol Theatre, Sydney, if he can be located• the builders of huge ; cinemas in U.S.A. want him, too; | bivt Mahoney is missing. I He bobbed up a couple of years ago in Chicago as a painter, and joined

I the staff of John Eberson, who is responsible for the principal atmospheric ■ houses in America. Within a short while Mahoney became known as the one man who could handle the unusual colours necessary to produce an outdoor effect within the four walls of a theatre. The high point in his I career was the decoration of the Capitol Theatre, Chicago, and the .Riviera, Omaha. When the Sydney Capitol was commenced, the construction supervisers of Union Theatres, Ltd., cabled John Eberson, requesting that Mahoney be sent to Sydney “on loan.” But Mahoney had gone. The only address he left was care of the San Francisco Post Office, from which it was concluded that he was making his way back to Australia. “If you find him,” Mr. Eberson’s cable to Mr. Stuart F. Doyle concluded, “send him back to me. We need him.” Cables and letters to the San Francisco Post Office have been returned unclaimed. For two months inquiries in the Australian capitals have failed to locate hpK.,.

Australian Girl Deceives Americans Ho lly wood’s New ‘ ‘S tar ’ 1 Ena Gregory, an Australian girl recently completely gulled the Press of Los Angeles. She pretended to be a new “find”! ! Sometimes the chicanery practised I by movie press agents succeds in hoaxing the suspicious editors of Los Angeles. writes a Hollywood correspondent. A couple of weeks ago one studio issued publicity matter accompanied by pictures about the signing of a new “find” named Marion Douglas, asserted

to be a Philadelphia school-girl, aged 18, just come to Los Angeles to spend a vacation when seen by producer Charles Rogers and director A 1 Rogeli and invited to make a screen test. “Marion Douglas” thereafter was cast in Rogeirs company making “A Shepherd of the Hills.” Now it turns out that Marion Douglas is a 23-year-old Australian girl, Ena Gregory, who has been working in small parts in the films for three years or more. As Ena Gregory she was a Wampus star in 1924. She has been Mrs. A 1 Rogeli for a year. Rogell’s press agent thought it was a good joke because the editors fell for his “planted” story. He said: “W ; wanted a new name for Mrs. Rogc:!, so we took a combination name made up of the two most popular names in Hollywood for Ena. We called her Marion Douglas for Mary and Douglas.” Ena, in order to carry her idea of a new identity to completion, submitted to the expense and suffering of a nose remodeling operation so that her photographs as Marion Douglas would not be recognised under ia« {name of Ena Gregory,