Films and the Studios

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 974, 17 May 1930, Page 28

Films and the Studios

.<r.u?y hoebies Here are the hobbies of a few Hon wood favourites at present bu«v° - talkies: Joseph Schildkkraut rollp,/ books; Mary Nolan, .tolls: John bS is a football enthusiast: Myrna W nedv is a dog lover: Laura La Pl- m is an amateur interior decoram/ Katherine Crawford likes horseback riding: Gler.n Tryon loves to go fi.t, ing; and Jeannette Loft is fond m organ music-. 1 * * * POPI'I.A NIT V Emil Jartnings. who has lately returned to the stage, had an ex. citing few minutes on his arriy.) at Vienna recently to act in a play Enthusiastic admirers crowded round his car and hoisted him shoulder-high in the air. But in the jostling Jannings was dropped, and fell to the ground in the middle of the crowd. By the time not only had he been trampled upon, but souvenir-hunters had taken his hat. had ripped away h.» collar, and tie. and had torn off every button on his coat. three on.'niM: Ben Turpin, the comedian whose squint made him famous, is short!, to arrive in Europe on the music-hail stage. After dallying with the aea of remaking some of his old silent pictures as talkies. Harold Lloyd has finally decided against this. Instead he islo make two talkies this year on

new subjects. Uoscoe (“Fatty”) Arbuckle, whose career as a film comedian was terminated years ago by .3 serious scandal, is now working as n “gag man,” thinking out laugh-getting situations for uew films. CEATOX TAI.KIE. Starring Buster Keaton, "Free and Easy” will soon go into production at the Metro-Goldwvn-Mayer studios, with the dialogue in Spanish. Juan do Hons. Spanish stage actor, will be .1 member of the east. The romantic leads will be filled by Raquel Torres and Don Alvarado, taking the same parts as Anita Page and Robert Montgomery had in the English version