HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 992, 7 June 1930, Page 17

HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP

THE FLAGG-QUIRT TRIANGLE Lilyan Tashman, wife of Edmund Lowe, is the leading lady in Victor McLaglen's new picture, “On the Level,” which Fox Movietone is making. T ha t puts the wellkno w n FlaggQuirt combination of “What Price Glory” and “The Cock Eyed World” on a new basis. Incidentally Miss Tashman does a more thorough job of bringing McLaglen to grief in On the Level” that Quirt, that is Lowe, did in his two pictures. SPORT NEWS Ilow ari improvised basketball team of Hollywood cinema huskies met the cream of the North-west's lumberjacks in a hotly contested game at Mineral, Wash., was revealed with the return from a location trip of the movie company engaged in filming the snow country picture, “A Holy Terror.” The same, which drew almost the entire Population of Mineral to the local high school gymnasium, resulted in the defeat of the Hollywood team to the tune of 30-10, but greatly increased the respect of the rough and ready lumberjacks for “movie people.” Actors, Property men, wardrobe workers and an assistant director were in the Holly-

wood line-up. George O’Brien, who is featured with Helen Chandler in “A }loly Terror,” captained tli© movie team and played centre.

Kamo n Novarro is not leaving to chance the question of the various different foreign languages he must know to pursue the side career he has set for himself in the field of grand opera and concerts. During his first talking picture, “Devil May Care,” it developed that the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star is perfecting himself in five languages— Spanish, English, French, German and Italian. He is learning German and Italian from vocal teachers of those nationalities; English is his adopted tongue, and Spanish is the language of his nativity. And he lias hired a French valet in order to perfect that tongue by direct contact.