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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 696, 22 June 1929, Page 25

Know That

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Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, wife of President Coolidge, is the latest recruit for Pox Movietone. She sang “Angela Mia’’ before the microphone, and the number will be released soon.

Honey Brown, Harlem night club entertainer, brought to California for a part in King Vidor’s negro picture, “Hallelujah,” was forced to leave the studio as the result of an attack of influenza. Nina May McKenny took her place in the cast.

Margaret Livingston, best remembered as the city siren in Murnau's "Sunrise,” plays an important part in "Innocents in Paris,” the picture introducing Maurice Chevalier, French stage idol, as an American picture star.

In the new era of sound there can be no more sleeping on the set. An actor in a recent talkie, wearied by long hours before the sound receiver, stole a snooze a few feet from the director’s chair. Two and a-half minutes later the whole company was advising him that snores were not indicated in that particular scene.

Drinking milk, consuming milk chocolate and eating as many fattening foods as possible is the procedure followed by Evelyn Brent in direct contrast to the dietary regime of the majority. In her new picture Miss Brent found after several hours’ dancing that she had lost five pounds. Now her ambition is to bring her weight to normal.

A maze of shadowy rooms, staircases and passageways kept Louise Fazenda and Chester Conklin veritable prisoners oh a motion picture lot where “The House of Horrors” was being filmed. Messengers at various times returned whence they came, unable to locate the comedy pair, and Director Christensen and his crew, so completely were they hidden in the labyrinthine setting.

According to statistics published in Paris, French films hold fourth place on English screens. Of 550 films passed by the British censor during the first nine months of 1928, 411 were American, 2 German, 53 British and 17 French. Four Italian, two Russian and one Danish film completed the total.