Did You Know That?

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 596, 23 February 1929, Page 25

Did You Know That?

A patchwork quilt made from pieces of the wedding gowns of various stars is one of the possessions of Claire McDowell. Each patch has the initials of the former owner in a corner.

Buster Keaton puts in his spare time raising pheasants. The comedian is deeply interested in the decorative fowls, and has a fine collection including specimens of the golden pheasant.

Jack Mulhall boasts as long a list of leading ladies as any actor on the screen, and his fair ones include Mary Pickford, Colleen Moore, Gloria Swanson, Norma Talmadge, Lillian Gish, Greta Nissen, Constance Talmadge, Bebe Daniels and Dorothy Mackaill. * * * The British film, “ ‘Q’ Ships,” which is showing on Broadway, New York, has been declared by Lieutenant Kyger, of the Navy Department Motion Picture Bureau, to be the best sea film ever produced, and he has ordered twenty prints of the- feature to be shown aboard American warships.

H. G. Wells’s son, Frank Wells, is the latest young Englishman to identify himself with motion pictures. He is attached to British Instructional, a film company that already boasts the services of the Hon. lan Campbell Gray, Anthony Asquith and Paul Madeux.

Phyllis Haver was a high school girl in Los Angeles when she discovered that Mack Sennett wanted some girls as “bathing beauties.” She applied for a job and got it, and was several years in comedy before she had a chance at features.

The key to the cabin of the plane in which she started across the Atlantic is a lucky piece cherished by Ruth Elder, now at work in the Hollywood studios. It was the only memento of the plane she was able to save when she and George Haldeman, her pilot, were forced down.