Did You Know That

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 774, 21 September 1929, Page 31

Did You Know That

Will Hays, American “movie tsar,” is suing his wife for divorce. The couple have been married for 27 years, and the action for divorce Is based , on incompatibility. A survey made in New York vocational schools shows that of 100,000 students, 83,000 spend their spare time , seeing films, and find them educational j as well as entertaining. * * * Colleen Moore has been insured by I the New York Indemnity Company against taking on five pounds In | weight in the next year. The amount of insurance was not made known. j Alice White has won the title role ; in “No, No. Nanettje,” the famous I musical comedy, which will be pro- , duced as a musical talkie by First 1 National. * # According to an Inventory the : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio property 1 department contains 11,937,562 articles, all of them different and all of them used at one time or another in a j motion picture. Irving Berlin recently visited the : Paramount studio in Astoria and watched the filming of “The Cocoanuts” with the four Marx brothers. Mr. Berlin composed the original score for the stage production, which is the basis for the music in the talking picture. A year in Africa to get a reel of film which later was to be spliced with eight other reels made in Hollywood was what Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper, the makers of “Grass” and “Chang,” did in order to authenticate their newest picture, “Four Feathers.”