GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CONTEST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1938, Page 13

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CONTEST

SEVEN WIN PRIZES. A large number of entries were received for the general knowledge contest published on this page last week and as seven entries were wholely correct, the State Theatre has donated an extra ticket. . * The winners were: —Miss U. Selby, 25 .Elizabeth Street, Masterton; J. Mc- ■ Lachlan, Rangitumau, Masterton; R. ' Mai Neil Prussing 172 Chapel Street, ■ Masterton; R. Harris, Opaki Road, ■.‘Masterton; H. W. Thompson, 42 Perry Street, Masterton; A. U. Burke, Pownall Street, Masterton; N. Hale, Masterton. Tickets will be posted to each winner. The following were the correct answers:—(l.) _A cow which kicked over a lamp in a barn; (2) a tough district in Chicago; (3) New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia; (4) Chicago; (5) St. Louis; (6)< (a) Charleston, (b) Nome, Alaska, (c) Milwaukee; (7) Fort Dearborn; (8) stock yards; (9) 100,000; (10) Lakehurst, New Jersey; (11), New York and Jersey City; (12) Milwaukee and Chicago.

WORLD-FAMED CHOIR

SINGS WITH DEANNA. The famous Vienna Boys’ Choir has broken into motion pictures at last, but even at that they will not appear on the screen. To reverse the old adage about little boys, they will be heard and not seen in Deanna Durbin’s new Universal picture, “Mad About Music,” which comes to the Regent Theatre on Saturday. They were signed to provide the vocal background when the fifteen year, old soprano sings Gounod’s “Ave Maria” in a church choir scene. The ages of these Austrian choristers range from eight to ten years. There are two dozen of them in the choir. According to producer Joseph Pasternak and director Norman Taurog, the group coml- - the most famous boys’ choir in the world. Their organisation is over four centuries old. Its members have sung before practically every European monarch and pope during those four hundred years.

Two entire airports with administration buildings, landing fields, hangars, planes and operating personnel were leased by Warner Bros, during the filming of “Hollywood Hotel.”

“CHECKERS.” An amusing story about horse rat - ing gives Jane Withers scope for her special type of precocious juvenile comedy in "Checkers.” Once again the young star should not disappoint her many admirers. She and Stuart Erwin own a racehorse which they take about the country with them, and in the process they manage to enjoy life—except that it rather interrupts Erwin's wooing of Una Merkel. He also has a rival in the romantic field in the person of a banker; and then to make matters more complicated Blue Skies (the horse) breaks a leg. But it iss Jane Withers’s screen mission in life to go round fixing things, and once again she is not found wanting at the end. This entertaining film is scheduled to open at the State on Saturday week.

REHEARSAL IN MORGUE! When Universal Studio was preparing to go into production on “The Lady In The Morgue,” Crime Club mystery thriller coming to the Cosy tomorrow, the whole cast, led by director Otis Garrett visited the Los Angeles morgue to rehearse certain sections of their roles.