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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 880, 25 January 1930, Page 25

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Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor will definitely appear in a talkie romance, it has been announced. 1* Is possible they may make a talkie ot ‘ Seventh Heaven,” Tom Mix is now lost to the screen tor ever. He has signed a contract with Sells Floto Circus to work for them “for the rest of his career” at a salary of £3,000 weekly. * * * Five hundred and twenty long feature films were censored in Germany during 102 S. Of those censored £2l, or 42.5 per cent., wore of domestic production. American films censored during this period totalled 205, nr 59.4 per cent. Reversing the general order of things, Pathe has just completed the talking sequences of “Missing Men,” and will scon start the camera work. As a rule, the camera shooting comes first with the sound ll sing taken afterward. * * * Blonde Constance Bennett has been assigned the feminine lead opposite Richard Barthelmess in “Sons of the Gods.” Ruth Chatterton, who left the stage to go into talking pictures, declares she is made happiest in her new career by the fact that she is able, for the first time in years, to establish a home. Donald Ogden Stewart, magazine humorist and author of several comic novels, makes his entrance into fulllength talking pictures in the role of an affable lunatic in “Dulcy” with Marion Davies. Not long ago a short comedy sketch of his was screened at the Regent.