Did You Know That—

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 744, 17 August 1929, Page 27

Did You Know That —

One of the finest German film “heavies,” Albert Steinrueck, has died suddenly, Jean Arthur, Paramount featured player, has blue eyes and brown hair. She is five feet three Inches tall and weighs eight stone one. Gertrude Lawrence, well known English musical comedy actress, will appear in the “Fox Follies,” a musical talkie. Miss Lawrence has been playing on Broadway in “Treasure Girl.” June, the English dancing star, married to Lord Inverclyde, has signed to appear in a talkie for Vitaphone. She has completed her contract in “Polly,” a musical comedy. * * Exploding the old theory that bathing girls can’t swim comes information that Marie Prevost, once in Mack Sennett comedy, not only can swim, but learned to swim in those custardpie throwing days. Miles Mander, who was to play in a German costume picture, “Nijni Novgorod,” is now to play a very modern perjurer in a picture to be produced by Georg Jacoby, a German director, who has done much work in England. There is a movement in Berlin to follow the American example and arrange special talkie shows for blind audiences, with the programme printed in the Braille system to make it legible for the blind. The motion picture heroine is scorched less fiercely by her lover’s kisses than by the beams of the hissing lamps. A spotlight too sharply focussed can burn a hole in an actor’s face.

The correct pronunciation of Olga Baclanova’s Russian name is ‘‘Baek-lanover,” with the “lan” accented, according to her publicity men. Thus rhythm is introduced in the sound of the Christian and surnames, spoken together.

Betty Compson began her theatrical career as a child violinist in Salt Lake City. She is to play the violin again ill ‘‘The Viennese Charmer,” her first Radio picture, in which shb is cast as queen of a little cafe in New York’s Hungarian section. Ronald Colman is recovering from injuries received during the filming of “Bulldog Drummond,” in which it is said that he received a cracked rib, sprained knee and suffered a number of bruises during his struggles with thugs in the filming of a fight sequence.

One of the ice-breakers in the recent ill-fated Nobile expedition is to do useful work in a film. This picture, to be entitled "The Call of the North,” will be produced, during an Arctic expedition, by N. Malasoma and Louis Trenker, producer and star of the famous German "Matterhorn.”