Did You Know That—

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 738, 10 August 1929, Page 31

Did You Know That —

First National is planning to send Colleen Moore to Ireland to make “Colleen.” Whether or not it -will be a dialogue. feature has not yet been decided. \

Lon Chaney, as befits a gentleman who battles often and violently, buys bis scars by the gallon. Preparing for his role in “Where East Is, East,” he bought two gallons of a fluid which, used on the skin, produces artificial scars

Producing dramas in Hollywood and breeding pedigreed pheasants on his ranch Paradise is the double role now enactod by Cecil B. de Mille. De Mille has recently turned the beautiful acres of Paradise into a pheasant farm and hundreds of the beautiful birds are now domiciled there.

Sound-proof footpaths are the latest Innovation to reach the studios since the advent of the talking picture. The larger concerns have replaced the concrete walks and drive-ways around the big sound stages with a composition of asphalt and other resilient materials.

The echometer, a device designed to pursue elusive sound rebounds to their source so they may be put to death, has been invented. First used ia'the making of “Tong War,” with Wallace Beery and Florence Vidor, the echometer is declared to bring recording results that are acoustically Perfect.

.. * r&rm tractors are among the biggest aids at picture studios. They are ln constant use, moving houses, wrecking them, hoisting anything from a ship's mast to a lift, hauling airplanes, pulling camera trucks, carting elephants and other large animals, and even working in treadmill fashion to operate generators.