CRYSTAL PALACE, MT. EDEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 945, 11 April 1930, Page 15

CRYSTAL PALACE, MT. EDEN

Travellers who wish to live again those memorable moments when they travelled the high seas and especially through the Panama Canal, would do well to visit the Crystal Palace Theatre while “The Girl From Havana” is presented. The throbbing of the steamer’s engines, the tattoo of the ship’s bells, the calls of the sailors on duty, the chatter of passengers lounging in their deck chairs, and the gaiety of dances under the Southern skies —all were recorded with meticulous fidelity during the filming of “The Girl From Havana.” For the first time, a .film has been photographed and recorded on an ocean , liner, bound for Havana via the ; Panama Canal. The whole company j of film players, headed by Lola Lan~ j and Paul Page, were taken to Havana | for the purpose of filming and recordi ing the picture on board ship and In i Cuba itself—the actual locale of the j story. So much impressed were Universal officials with the work of Helen Wright in “Dames Ahoy,” with Glenn Tryon, that she has been given a long-term contract with the company. The same thing lias happened in the case of Jeanette LofT, who is playing with Paul Whiteman in John Murray Anderson * ! “King of Jazz.”