STUPIDITY
j EXAMPLES IN PICTURES ; OF HARPING ON THE OBVIOUS Stupidity is always offensive. Unfortunately it is nowhere more apparent than in film production—the regular film-goer meets instances of it every week. One shocking example of real stupidity was in a film shown here recently, writes a London critic. An elderly farmer who is thinking of getting married, has a baby’s high-chair in his house, which, he explains, is there in case a neighbour with an infant should visit him. One would suppose that almost anybody might
GLORIA SWANSON HAS PHOTOTONE APPARATUS INSTALLED IN HER HOME Because there will he talking sequences in Gloria Swanson’s "Queen Kelly ” the . actress has had
Phototone equipment installed at her Beverley Hills home so that she may see and hear daily “proofs.” Erich von Stroheim wrote “Queen Kelly,” and he will direct it for the screen. Negotiations are under way for a noted musician, who is
to have charge of a forty-piece orchestra■ to synchronise a musical score.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 554, 5 January 1929, Page 21
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164STUPIDITY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 554, 5 January 1929, Page 21
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