Did You Know That—

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 868, 11 January 1930, Page 23

Did You Know That —

Charles Wakefield Cadmau, now under contract as a composer to Fox Films has written a number, “Song of Courage,” which will be sung by John Garrick, leading man of “The j Sky Hawk,” directed by John G. Bly- : stone. • * • Teachers of elocution now in Holly- | wood earn fabulous sums instructing : the stars of the silent screen in the ! inflection of the letter “A.” The j stars represent so much capitalised , value to the film manufacturers, who are loath to cancel It. • * * Short talkie features, produced in connection with full length Vitaphone attractions, have proved so popular since their introduction only a short time ago that the schedule at the Warner Brothers’ studios has been augmented to 382 short features for the coming season. * » • About ninety chorus girls and fifty chorus men are rehearsing at present at the First National studios for . “Sally,” starring Marilyn Miller; ] •‘Little Johnny Jones,” with Eddie ' Buzzell; “Paris,” with Irene Bordoni, and “No, No, Nanette.” F.W. Murnau, out of the present running in the Hollywood scheme of things, due to the advent of dialogue pictures, had gone to the South Seas to undertake the filming in full colour of a story of adventuring among the pearl-divers. Before talkies appeared Murnau Made “Sunrise'” and "The Four Devils," both screened at the