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FILMLAND NEWS

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1934.

DANCE COAT

London Films' New Studios More Popular Than A

at Elstree

97—ACRE SITE

Jack Okey, the art director, who has been brought from Hollywood to design the lay-out, of London Films' new studios, hus completed hie-detailed-plans---

The studio boing erected by London Films will contain every modern ald to motion picture mak- ing and, it is claimed, will be the most up-to-date studio in the -world

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Covering 97. acres of land Elstree, Herts, the ground will con tain such natural features a wooda. farmhouses, and'a small lake.

Executive offices will occupy the frontage of the main building, be- hind which will be the first three sound stages, Lending from the stages will be the carpenters' and plasterers' shops and properly

rooms.

Special facilities are being arranged for crowd players, who will have a separate entrance lead- ing to the costume and make-up departments ensuring that no time will be wanted, however large the number of artists. A retiring room leading off, the set will be reserved for their recreation in be tween shots, and will eliminate the tiring waits and lack of wats on the pets.

A theatre seating 160 will be used for pre-viewa, In addition to

smaller theatres where the day's rushes will be seen.

Nearly 1,000 persons will be employed when thin studio is in full working order, and it is expected that many subsidiary, trades will take sites in the vicinity.

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FOOD IN WINTER.

FOUR RESCUED BY STEAMER

YACHT SMOTHERS IN HIGH SEAS

LEAK SPRUNG IN STORM

A drama of tho-soa-was-onacted of the isle of Anglesey, when the Liverpool steamer, Lady Leinster, bound from Dublin to Liverpool, rescued the owner ilha, crow the 44-ton yacift, Thursday, which was on its way from Dumfries to Lon- don.

The Thursday, a sailing yacht converted from a cargo-carrying barge, was almost on the point of sinking in heavy sens after spring; ling a leak when a distress signal of oil flares was sighted through the darkness by the navigating officer of the Lady Leinster.

The yacht was owned by Mr. J. H. Hone, a London contractor, who had on board his wife and a crew of two-Captain W. Jarrett, of Sydenham, and Mr. H. Rhodes, of Stroud Green, London,

Mra. Hone had on board her pet eat, Tiger, which she rescued.

Mr. Ilone had been carrying out a contract at Dumfries since May

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on the yacht. They left Dumfries to return to London on October 18,) but were held up by bad weather at Whitehaven.

"We left Whitehaven, in the early morning," Mr. Hone said.

WITH the advent of colder and it was heavy water bott ind

damper days, the housewifething went well until about mid- realises that she must give greater night, when we noticed that the thought to planning menus, and vessel was springing a leak. -- longer time to cooking.

"We. got the pumps going, but Food must now be highly nourish-jat the end of more than two hours! ing and stimulating. It needs to we found that we could not cope The site will be larger than most gontain mare fat than food served with the leak. Our saloon was Hollywood studios. It is expected in the summer, and to be more waist deep In water, and every that construction and equipment, heating. Soups and stews and surt moment we feared the vessel would will be completed next spring.

puddings can appear on the table capsize...

uce more. While fresh fruit and! vegetables and salads must not be

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It is announced in Hollywood that Charles Laughton, the British actor, has requested to be relieved of the part of Micawber in the film of "David Copperfield."

The reason is that he feels un able to do justice to the characteri- sation, and also that his health is

"There were heavy squally seas, LAUGHTON AND MICAWBER overlooked-they are important at and the yacht was becoming water.

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all times of the year--more autogged and, threatened to turn xtantial fare can be served as well, turtle. It was bitterly cold, and Those who like to bexly the day 48 we worked on deck we were well can now indulge in porridge, soaked by heavy seas, followed by eggs and bacon, ur sausages or kippers. It is well to when I found we could not possibly!

"My wife was asleep in bed, and have fresh fruit on the breakfast keep going I aroused her. The cat to eat appies, oranges, and grape and my wife put the animal into table, for there is no better time was playing at the foot of her bad, fruit than early in the morning. a pillow-case and came on deck, Stewed prunes and figs are good to

"To our great relief we saw the serve at breakfast time, too.

light of a vessel which turned out.. Growing children need plenty of to be the Lady Leinster. Al that food, and they should not be stint-time our stern was low in the ed. Don't let them have rich and water, and our decks were nwash. "TALKIE” TELEPHONED TO spiced foods. They should not be The yacht was rolling and dipping allowed pickles and ninuant sales, over on her side while we clung rich cakes and pastries, but they desperately for our lives. The production of a talking pic-should be permitted to eat as much "A boat was lowered from the ture was recently, telephoned to a bread and butter as they like. Lady Leinster, and it was with sick-bed in London hospital direct They need meat once a day, and an gront difcuity that we were taken from the film studio.

not robust.

No other notor has been cast for the part as yet.****

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SICK-BED

For five minutes Basil Gill, the film actor, was heard by his invalid daughter. But he spoke not as a father but as William Shakespeare, from a Southwark tavern, for the film is a farce on the life of the great playwright.

When a reporter spoke le Mrs.

Kg or dah or cheese at another off." merl. Mlik, of course,, is eszentini

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·OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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be well „dressed—a. Ulttle. queer, in fact. 4 These were consulted by the Romans before they launched อบเ

If the ith letter of this poor player were the fifth, any car. penter could make it.

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10 A meticulous precision,

on one band.

12 A French actor whose, body lies

in Malta.

to them. In winter, ment and vegetable soups are beneficial, and the far corners of the earth, we are children who do not like milk will going to spend our vacation right often take it readily in the form of here in Hollywood." milky vegetable soups. Sugar In another important article of diet, MOVING PICTURE PIONEER 15 Here you must reverse the pro- especially needed in cold weather. It ena be provided in the form of plucose, honey, syrup, home-mada

DEAD

Don Bell, one of the ploncer in- j

13 To nip in nlppily before the other fellow, and have a real

peller.

16 To become. better, like tho

human race in these times.

Esther Stock, the actor's daughter. jam, barley sugar, raisins, datesventors of the moving picture, has 17 What the tolerant may do to the

at the London Clinic, Devonshire and chocolate.

Place, she said: "I received the relay perfectly for about. four or

died at Brawley, Canorna, aged 22 Shared by infants and the deep.

sinter who offers a good one. G6. He was found dead in his 24 A jockey who might be drier. garage us the result carbon mon- 27 This foreign commander starta

again. Thirty years ago, in association

five minutes. It was very clear, stale jokes," declared Herbert Mun-oxide poisoning.

I could hear all my father said. It din, explaining to Hollywood news- was wonderful. I quite imagined paper men why he had just taken a with A. F. Howell Bell, he invented myself back in the studio."

separate flat in Hollywood for him- the moving picture projector, which Mra. Stock was to have acted in self in which to spend a holiday is now in use all over the world. the film, but this was prevented alone, leaving his wife in their own awing to her illness.

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"STALE JOKES!

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house.

"

MARY BROUGH LEAVES £5,781

He hastened to add that there was no question of divorce, and that the "holiday" was only a tem- Herbert Mundin, the Lancashire 'porary one. "I could not get comedian, and his wife, Ann nuw; along without Ann," he anid. "Shefield Road, Stockwell, the well- who have been working in Holly-

always laughs at my Jokes, whether wood for the last three years, are they are funny or not." going to have a little holiday-from each other.

Mary Bessie Brough, of 47 Bin-

known comedy actress, who died on September 30, aged 71, loft gross estate of the yalin, of £5,781, with net personalty £6,530,

Mrs. Mundin, for her part, de- clared:"Oh, he will soon be home She bequeathed £600 to Daisy "We have been married for ten again, but we have been in Holly Rogers, "who has been my devoted years without a vacation from each wood for three years, and we have mald," and all her other property to other, and, gosh, how she has earned a vacation, from each other. her niece, Mise Jean Webster suffered listening repeatedly to my Instead, however, of me going to Brough,

SALESMAN SAM

Figured Out!

28 London's hard, hard pavements are, daily. A wager started it.

31 Fashions affected by the gloomy. 82 Not brought low: in fact, it

secures commendation.

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a Flirt more elegantly.

6 He was paid by a schoolmaster. Wreckage of a town in Flanders. Destruction by fire, of course. 7 This wound la accidental: this

ward for "vagrom men."

8 Legal term for what an appro-

priater does.

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18 Soft soap does this effectually. 19 How George got through the exam-stimulated, perhaps, by his breakfast eggs

20 Recommend as a barrister. 21 Don't expect to see much of the Man in this moon, but the trail is evident.

[29 Don't know whether the con junction in fortunate, but it gota n show here,

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