WHAT MAKES A MOVIE STAR?

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 538, 15 December 1928, Page 7 (Supplement)

WHAT MAKES A MOVIE STAR?

SEVERE QUALIFICATIONS Young and old seem to be irresistibly drawn toward the motion picture camera. Thousands of the younger genration, and almost as many of the older generation, would take up a career as a picture artist to-morrow if they were given the opportunity. But liow many of them would succeed? First, there is the ability. Few have that, for the movie star must be prepared and able to act a scene sincerely and well under the most trying conditions. Then personality and the gift of photographing well in almost any. circumstances; a fund of inexhaustible patience; a capacity for hard work; and most of all the inborn talent that has been developed and matured after years of labour toward the ultimate goal of perfection. These are just a few of the qualifications of the successful motion picture star. Is it a wonder, therefore, that so few can pass the test?

Reginald Denny is in the planerenting business, aside from tbe business of acting. A new London cinema is to have a carillon of 32 bells, an organ with 500 pipes, and a grand piano electrically controlled. It is thought that even in warm weather everybody will be able to keep awake.

An author recently acted in his own play. Now it only remains to insist that he shall be a member of the audience for one night in order to complete the treatment. Can’t help thinking about these talking pictures—will Lon Cliaixey have to cultivate a thousand voices to match his faces?

i Films in which the characters speak t in a lifelike manner will shortly be - shown. The idea may yet be adopted - for plays on the legitimate stage. * * * Jean Arlette, author of many stage 3 farces, has contracted to write a new i “Confessions of a Chorus Girl” series s Frances Lee will be featured. Arlette J is the author of “Madame, Behave.”

William Boyd and Lupe Velez will be teamed in a forthcoming United Artists picture. An American Him actress has declared her intention of being married on the next Friday that falls on the -thirteenth of the month. It appears that she has never been married on Friday, the thirteenth, before.