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CINEMA NOTES.

JANET GAYNOR AS ACROBAT

IN DEVILS”

AN ISLAND OUTRAGE,

GROCER SHOT AND, RORBED

AT SING CHAU.

"I hope all your children will An outrage on a Chinese grocer be acrobats," This is the most is reported to have taken place at terrible curse known to the thea Sing Chau Island, on Wednesday trical profession. In the filming of night, when armed robbers entered the Fox production, Devils," his shop, ransacked the place, and which is to be shown to-morrow as the man struggled with them, at the Queen's Theatre, Janet Guy-shot him, and carried him away, nor acknowledged at Hollywood that when she started on a seroon career she had never expected to become ont of the children.

The full facts, as submitted by Chu Chan, aged 14 years, the son of the grocer, to the authorities, ure that about 5 p.m. on November 20, he was in the shop with his Yet she has been, in two pro-father and mother when some ductions. First in the noteworthy people knocked on the door and sald | Frank Borzago film "Street An- they were detectives and wanted to gel," und now in F. W. Murnau's search the place.

4 Devils," Miss Guyñor. plays the part of a circus atrobat. When she set out for screen heights Miss Gaynor wanted to be an emotional actress. She never had an idleu that many of her emotions would some day hang suspended from. a trapeze. She thought all big scenes occurred on the ground.

Now that she has recovered

from the blisters, however, she says she enjoys hanging on the flying bar with her hands, and let ting her feelings swing freely.

Curiously enough, most of Miss Gaynor's work in her more not able pictures has been done "on high." In "7th Heaven" a good deal of the action takes place in a lofty Parisian garret, and now she has to be up in the air with- out losing her head in her two newer pictures.

Even in the pictures which did. not elevate her physical position, "Sunrise" and "The Johnstown Flood," she had her biggest scenes: off the ground. In "Sunrise" the tensest moments occur in a row boat on the lake. In "The John- stown Flood," the first picture in which she had a real part, Miss, Gaynor was swept away by the razing waters of the bursting dam. It will be a momentous epoch when she appears at last in a pic ture in which her feet are planted on terra firme for every scene. Chaney Stages Perilous Capture.

A huge artificial river, dredged into the studio grounds and lined with a replica of n Siamese vil lage, an artificial jungle, with tropical plants grown in a great incubator building were just some of the technical feats that had to be taken into consideration in the filming of a new mystery drama of the tropics

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Upon the door being opened, three men armed with revolvers and knives entered, whilst two similarly armed maintained a watch outside.

One of the intruders caught hold of the boy's father by the throat, and when he struggled, shot him through the chest, and the man is believed to have been seriously in the premises, and stole a pair jured. The men then ransacked of gold bangles valued at $120. and $1,000 in Hongkong notes, as well as some clothing.

After holding up the inmates for two hours, the men left, carrying away with them the proprietor of the shop. They were last seen sailing away in a fishing boat,

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Youth and beauty, as well as a good foundation in stage dancing, were the requirements laid down They formed a few of the sets by Marcel Silver, director of built for the making of "Where revue, in selecting the young Bast Is East." Lon Chaney's new ladies of the ensemble. "for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring William Fox Moveitone Follids of vehicle, showing at the World | 1929, the all singing, dancing and Theatre in which, as "Tiger" Hay talking musical comedy showing nes, Chuney appears as a mysteri- for the last time at the Queen's ous animal trapper in the jungles | Theatre to-day.

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