Boy's Cinema (1935-39)

BOY'S CINEMA Every Tuesday Room 199, The Fleetway House. Farringdon Street. London, E.C.4. My dear Readers,—Another ol the superb coloured plates will be given away absolutely FREE in next week's issue, full particulars will be found on page 14. After that there will be three more weeks in which a plate will be given away, and in the issue dated February 26th you will find the full details of the Presentation Scheme which I mentioned last week. So be Mire and make certain of getting a copy, because 1 can assure you that it is an offer that can never be repeated. It would be a sound policy to order your copy of BOY'S CINEMA from your local Newsagent NOW. otherwise you might find that he has sold out. At all times I am pleased to hear from Readers and to answer any questions on careers, general knowledge, and film matters. Don't forget, a stamped addressed envelope will get you a speedy reply. Your EDITOR. Comic Whale The Kitz Brothers haie iusl pleted a whale of a comedy toutii Samuel Goldwytf's musical exti gabza, "'llu' Goldwyn Follies." The principal actor supporting brothers in (ho scenes was .i pi whale, thirty foot long-. Made to Ritz specifications by studio carpester oonlci do almoM everything but *alk; Among its accomplishments wen ability to wink, ro move forward and b at k ward and io spout a stream of water with deadly accuracy a dish of twentj yards. The Brothers will testify to that accuracy. Their faces were on the receiving end "f several of its volll Mechanics which operated the sea beast vvere concealed in its spacious " innards." Wlion the routine was completed, the Ritz boys bought the whale. Stunt Ace Hi nam. like Bollywood, has a stunt s(|nad. and its chief, is thirty-five-year- old Manor Park-born. Sam Loo, who has done more dangerous tricks for l'o iti-l> films hhan an Sam. whose parents were on the siapo. started films when ho was seven, at, a studio in Snaresbrook; he played urchins and pot five shillings, a bottle of ginger beer and a ham sandwich a day. Joined a circus acrobatic troupe, and later became physical training instructor in the Army, winning the Challenge Cup for acrobatics. Re-entered films in 1925 when ho heard tha I n anted to take .i tOSS down some stairs. Sam job and got through without a. .-' catch. Since then ho has been constantly in demand, and although ho has boon knocked downstairs, lias smashed oars and fallen into water innumerable times, be has had only eal injurj—a broken log. Ho recalls the time when he had to jump off the top of the Eiffel Tower on to a platform fifteen foot below. Ho landed two inches from the edge, a thousand feet from the ground. He once fell off the Mauretania's boat- dock, sixty foot, into tin., water, for a film, at 3 a.m. And he has been knocked out by all the best people— recently Victor McLaglen throw him through a window One of his earliest thrills was tight- rope living across forty feet of wire NEXT WEEK'S THRILLING FILM STORIES! EDWARD G. ROBINSON IN " THE LAST GANGSTER " Public Enemy Number One was a ruthless, cold-blooded killer, and for a crime of vengeance the police were baffled, but finally got him on an income tax charge. His one thought on getting his freedom was bis only son, but his old gang thought only of the money he had hidden. A powerful and thrilling drama of the underworld. " AVENGING WATERS " Ken Morley arrives at El Mirasol Ranch to find trouble between Mortimer, its new owner, and Slater, a rascally rancher who contends that his cattle have a right to graze on his neighbour's pasture-land. Slater causes a stampede and dams the head-waters of a stream that flows through Mortimer's property ; but Ken stops the stampede and discovers the dam only to be made captive by Slater's men. A rousing Western, starring Ken Maynard. Also Another episode of the grand new serial : " RADIO PATROL " Starring Grant Withers. AND between two telegraph poles over a burning building. He saw the pole behind hhn catch fire, and just reached the oilier one before it crashed in flames. lie played the part of rile irate picr- i in "Windbag the Sailor." w iio-e pier is pulled from under him by Will Hay's lug. The local people who built the pier at Falmouth made a good job of it, u>ing strong pi heavy beam-. Consequently, wInn the pier gave way and he foil into the valor, real solid beam- came crashing down around him, a blow from any of which would have oi rasi- He swam underwater and came up for air just in time to go down again to avoid more flying beams. The camera unit which had raced back to the tug puin hod lain black and blue to ma that he was really alive. In his current film. "Strange Boarders," which Gainsborough are producing at Pinewood, ho lias the Comparatively peaceful job of damag- ing a taxicab. only hint lie can give to prospective stunt artistes is— io keep limp, try falling downstairs without contracting a muscle and see how little it hurts—or so Sam Shaving With Egg A dozen eggs were on call for the new Tom Walls' film, "Strange Boarders"—for shaving purposes. Tom had to be photographed .hav- ing in an art studio set near some, very powerful lamps. Ho laiherod * with ordinary shaving soap, but ho was too near the hot lamps, and W wouldn't stay on: in fact, the more he lathered the le-s ho got. Then one of the make up men suggested that the white of an egg whisked well and applied like sha , soap might do the trick —it did. and Tom, who was willing to try anything once, had to lather with egg twelve times for the sequence. Hi- only complaint- wore thai it felt, a little slimy ami one of the ogtr- was not up to scratch, Jack Holt Jack Holt, the famous he-man star of outdoor action and adventure films for the last two da bom with a natural love of life in the open and a desire to be an adventurer into (ho far romantic places of the earth, lie has lived that sort of life, too; actually before he entered films, and vicariously on the screen. Charles John Holt was bom in Win- chester, Virginia. His father, an Episcopalian minister, could trace his descent to John I loll, a Lord Chief Justice of England. His mother wa- a (Continued on page 28) ANOTHER FREE GIFT!