Boy's Cinema (1930-31)

BOY'S CINEMA Every Tuesday All letters to the Editor should be addressed c,o BOY'S CINEMA, Koom 186, The Fleetway House, Fariingdon Street, London, E.C.4. Stutterers and Stammerers Needed. Cleai-fcijeiikiiig voices are appaioiitly not all I hat tiiu talking lilnis want. Rl-- ceiirly the First National Sui<lio« sent, out a call- for people who could lisp. .^taninici- or stutter. Among those who lisped of the candidalcs applying was a twelve year-old Negro girl lor a part in "The Forward Pass," a foot- ball picture wliich shows how the Aniericaa game is playi>d. Stuttering men and stannnering women were also among the ai.plicants. Risky Work. In "Love Never Dies,." Colleen .!\Ioore"s new picture, there is a scene -showing an air battle between German and English aeroplanes. There were altogether sixteen machines performing all kinds of stunts, as diving, looping, and tail-spinning, and occasionally one of the planes would fall in flames ro the earth. The really li.sky part of this scene lay in the fact that often several of the machines were so close togeth<ir that had it not been for the skilful NEXT WEEK'S GRAND STORIES. Blake again in a most sensational and thrilling serial story of mystery, plot and counterplot. The adventures of a clever detective against the master-minds of the underworld. It is the first " talkie " serial ever made. Don't miss the opening episode next week ! Star- ring Crauford Kent and Florence Allen, " THE PHANTOM CITY." The deserted city of the plains and how an intrepid cowboy was sent there on a dangerous mission. His hairbreadth escapes and amazing riding turned the tables against a gang of crooks. Starring Ken Maynard. "DARK SKIES." An all-talkiug drbma of the exploits of an intrepid rum-runner versus the Revenue Patrols. Starring Wallace McDonald and Shirley Mason. " TEMBI." A splendid pictui-e-supplement of wild animals, filmed at great personal risk by the well-known explorer, Cherry Kearton. ifebruury l&lh. 1930. nianoeuvriug of their pHotS there might have been a serious accident. " Branded a Coward." Bill Dunn, John Mack Brown ; Herbert Luff, Hugh Allan; Betty Allen, Jeanette Loff; "Bidge," Maurice Ryan; "Skeeter,' William Bakewell; Lieuten- ant Dunn, Robart Bosworth. " The Enemy." Pauli Arndt, Lillian Gish; Carl Beluend, Ralph Forbes; Bruce Gordon, Ralph Emerson ; Professor Ai-dnt, Frank Currier; LTgust Bohrend, George Faw- cett; Fritz Winkelmaiui, .John S. Peters; Jan, Karl Dane. In the Long Ago. Few picturegoers know that as lon;j ago as 1917 the Edison company en- deavoured to make talking films. Jack Mulhall made his vocal debut in one of them. Ordinary gramophone records were used in .synchronisation with tlicsc pictures, but they were not a success, for there were then no loud speakers, and the other mechanical devices so necessary nowadays were also unknown. Since then inventors have made big strides. A Golden Ooose. All of us have heard of the gooto that laid golden eggs. But a golden goa^o is a bird one would not hope to ~ce even in a zoo. There is a golden goo^e, however, which will be seen in "No, No, Nanette.'" and the name of this strange bird is Tessic. It may b.j as well to explain that Nature is not re-ponsibjc for Tessie's fine colouring. That was the work of studio experts, for apparently a goose of an ordinary colour was not good enough for tho story. So Tessie was well sprayed with a golden hue, but after the scene 'n which she appears had been filmed tlio director felt a bit uneasy. He thought; the paint might badly affect the health of the bird, and so a property boy, arm<Kl with a hatchet, was deputed to find the goose and kill it. Meaiiwhil.;, Ti\s>ie. remcmboring she had ajuoth.u- important duty to perform, laid an egg. It was not golden, of course, but the discovery of it saved Tessie's life and she was permitted to retain her golden plumage. Barthelmess Learns Chinese. Richard Barthelmess is learning ;o speak Chinese. This, we are assured, is no Pre^s Agent's yarn, but the simple truth. His new picture is called "Son of the Gods," in which he will poi'triy a Chinese youth, and in order that he may ably play his part, he is being tutored in one of the most diflflctdt languages of the East. Wc offer him ou»- sympathy, and wish him good luck. (Continued on page 28.)