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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY APRIL 5,1930 " Interesting Pen Impres- sions of the Coming : Attractions ON soe § y ' . vei ail - Who's Who & What's What in the Amuse ment World Colman in "Condemned!" - Lives on Devil's Island Now Talking pletures demotratic in thelr expeditions to the sources of screen material, are finding sub- stance for the new season in the writings of William Shakespeare, Channing Pollack, Ferenc Maluar, " ¥annle, Hurst, Daryle Zanuck, Tre ving Berlin and Blair Niles, Mrs, Niles, said to have been the first white woman to land on the shores of "Devil's Island" in French Gul- ans, set down her observations in a volume that is the basis of Bid- ney Howard's screen , "Con- domned!" coming to the Regent theatre today, In which Samuel Goldwyn presents his star, Ronald Colman, Wolheim and Dudley Diggen, Tmhe author of "Condemned to Devil's Island' has returned to her New York home after a Hollywood sojourn as production adviser on the Coleman picture, Every day Mrs, Niles reported at thie United Artipts Studio at 9 a.m., remaining thers until 5.80 p.m, Her husband, Robert Niles, Jr., had accompanied her to French Guiana and there he had taken numerous photpgraphs; these William Cameron Menzies found valuable wheu it came time to design the sets, In the interpre- tation of the character of the prota- gonist, Ronald Colman and Sidney Howard had the guidance of the Virginia woman who met the orl ginal of that character in an is- land prison full of expatriates. The romantic prisoner who fis portrayed by Mr, Colman on the scragn actually lives today, in a cell on the prison island. Mrs. Niles has recently received two letters from him, Mrs, Niles titled her book "The Blography of an Unknown Con~ viet," and he set down no back- und, # dominant mood, rather than the connected story of an drama involving a principal figure, Miehel, a young prisoner in the hook, 1s brought forward Ly Bid- ney Howard into a close-up, de veloped, far beyond the indications of character In the book, into the figure on whom interest ls center. ed. The other characters and the background, Mrs, Niles oxplains, have been shaded, The ploture tells the love story of Michel, & young French thief who escaped from the island, was recaptured, and is now back where he started from, The author changed his character only enough to save him frrm injury throueh publication of the book, And Miche! will not be telliug the IMMIGRANT MUST TAKE JOB OFFERED Montreal ~~Legs than four years ago, Thomas Nicholson arrived in Montreal from Eugland, After several weeks of aimless wander. ing about he found hifuself without money and disillusioned, Hp ap pied to the Protestant' Em. ployment Bureau for nid, ond following a series of events he returned to the office of hiy bene factors, in good health, prosperous and enjoying a good position in the West. He Is roturning trom a visit to England, "The man who wants to make good In Canada must bo prepared to nceept whatever Is offered and must at all events Nt himself into his new sphere until he is enabled to elevate his powition," Mr, Nie holson declared, He found during the first months of his stuy in Cane Ada, that he would have to accept Iabor employment other: prisoners that Ronald Col- man fs portraying him in his latest pleture;, for the prisoner would not wish so much revealed an would be known were he identified with the character of the book, TIS A SAD, SAD, TALE OF A FIRE, FREIGHT TRAIN, BURST HOSE -- Jackson, Mich~- smoke was rolls ing from the W, 8, Kimball House as the Jackson 1iré Department, sirens shrieking, and 'bells clang. ing, dashed upon the' scene, Quickly the hose was laid, orders were given smoothly, firemen swarmed upon the roof with then axes, and the huge pumper wan started, Everything was In read ines for another victorious battle by the Jackson I'ire Department "Turn on the water," yelled the chief, And then a freight train reared down the right of way, right over the hose which the firemen had laid across the tracks, And the W. B. Kimball House burned down, There is a turning point in every mais « career, even if he fmt a orapk, Chicago Dally News, Re MOTION PICTURE STUDD DNDER WATER PLANNED Will Have White Coral for Stage, Submarine Plants . for Scenery Boston, April 5 rs A. motion ple ture studio in the *bed®t of a sub. marine jungle with the myriads or tropical fish as actors Is soon to be established by Mr, and Mrs, Arthu C., Pillsbury who will sail about the middle of May from San Francisco for the Fiji Islands, The studio, probably the most re- markablg that man has ever con ceived, will have for ite stage a bed of white coral, its scenery will be the gorgeous and fantastie plants which sbound in tropical waters und the background will be a coral fore est. of every imaginable color, A battery. of dolicate and constructed cameras housed In spe- cial boxes, with remote controls for operation, will photograph the deni. zens of the deep, who, from the be- ginning of time hwve lived their lives far away from the prying eyes of mankind, Sea urching of tremen- dous proportions, jelly fish that can shoot thousands of poisoned darts, hermit crabs and (ropieal starfish, the beautiful and spectacular anemone = which is an animal, not u flower, == will all be "shot" by this scientist and his wile, clad in bath mg suits. plus diver's helmets and lead shoes, from a safe distance bes hind the cameras. Not only will ev- ery moment of the little characters bg reproduced as the action takes place, but they will be photographed by the latest process of natural golor Photegranhy in both still and motion pictures, Mr, Pillsbury expects the temperature of the water to be about 70 degrees and plans to stay below the surface about an howr at a time, The man who is to undertake this assignment is considered one of the leading micro-photographers and pige He is ] for« seine torialists of the world, mer New England man, living in Medford, Mass, before moving to San Francisco, He began his career as a news photographer on the San Francisco Examiner at the time of the great earthquake. He was the first man to fly through the Grand Canyon with a motion picture camps era and during the last two years he has startled the scientific world as well a the American public with his motion pictures of microscopic stib- a ~Greatest Lover The Screen's ' Joa ound Jove onan island of "living death')--the , year's master romance Today-Monday-Tuesday - Lg» ™ 1 (Apitoy' Jcrramment and the innocent tortured irl. The q elaborately | °° *% UPPER LEFT-=Ken Maynard and jects hitherto unknown, Mr, Pills. bury is the first man to photograph successfully by X-rays the blgoming of a rose, from bud to blossom; the knitting of a fractured bone in a ro- dent's leg, the pulsations of the cor puscles of blood and sap In a frog's foot and in an oak leaf respectively, and the fertalization of the proto. lasm and nucleus of a grain of pol. en at the very moment that the pols len germinates and live begins, His scenes are the first ever to be shown on a screen with a magnification of more than one hundred thousand uwies, A six foot man would appear to be 186 miles high if he were pho tographed and magnified on the same scale, Mr. Pillsbury plans to bring some of the specimens ta the surface for further study and for this purpose he has had constructed, out of optis ca) glass, thirty: aquariums ranging in size from four to six fect down to three to four inches, "One of the chief difficulties in using the port. able aquariums on this expedition," Mr, Pillsbury stated, "will be to keep fresh salt water circulating through the tanks at all times and ut the same temperature that exists below the surface of the sca, 1 have built a very elaborate: thermostatic eons trol, which, with a pumping control Jackie Hanlon in scene from "The Parade of the West" at the Now: Martin, UPPER RIGHT==HRonald Colman in "Condemned." LOWER RIGHT--Ken Maynard In "The Parade of the West," LOWER LEFT-=Ann Harding and Nonald Colman in scene from "Condemned," now showing at the Regent Theatrg, J] * +" will, 1 believe solve the difficulty." The scientist will bg able to show the living conditions of his subjects below the surface of the ocemi by taking thgepictures at the regular speed of sixteen pictures a second and by bringing the same specimens to the surface, in varying stages of age and development and - 'placing them in aquariums, it will be possi ble, by the stop motion, or lapse time method to show the actus! growth of the animal or plant from birth to death, The photographic apparatus which Mr, Pillsbury plans® te use under water will be encased in special boxes constructed of brass with op tical glass windows, These boxes have been put through rigid tests to ensure their goliability, They were submerged in San Francisco harbor for twelve days under sixty pounds pressure and when taken out were found to be dbsolutely dry, He has also built a' new type of tripod, weighing sixty-five pounds, out of monomel, Plllsbury has no - delusions cons cerning the dangers of this assign. ment, "If 1 should happen to step into the open shell of one of those tropical clams that are in some in- stances three feet across and weigh from 200 to 500 pounds, it would be r ONG SHOTS AND CLOSE UPS FLICKERS FROM FILMDOM AND GOSSIP OF THE scaEaN A GENERAL REVIEW OF SCREEN ACTIVITIES Helen Kane's, sister Gertrude will make her first screen appearance In "Dangerous Nun McGrew," now being filmed at the Paramount Long Island studio, but she will be incognito, Gertrude Kune will be one of the daneers at a masked ball which oceurs at the climax of the pleture in which Helen Kane appears wit! Erwin, Frank Morgan and Roberta + Victor Moore, James Hall, Stuart Robinson, The disguise of her cus. tume will be so complete that, as she expressed it, "even my own sister won't know me" Lillian Réth, who fore that appeared in Ziegfield and York, has been given unother feat played the mad in "The Love Parade," 'and be« Earl Carroll musical shows in New ured motion picture role. She will have the part of Trixie in Cecil B, DeMille's new production with music, "Madame Satan," due to Mayer studio, The cast o by Jeanie MucPherdon, DeMille's [4h unde r way soon at the Metro-Goldwyn- "Madame Satan," which is an original story ace scenarist, includes = Reginald Denny, Kay Johnson, Elsa Peterson and Roland Young, Universal has changed the title of "The College Racketeer" to or "HidesOut," James Murray and Kathryn Craw are featured in this unusual college story, which is scheduled for release March 30th, John Foster and his crew of Aesop's Fables animatorsihave Just completed two sound cartoons titled "Good Old: Schooldays" and "Fool« ish Follies" for early Pathe release. ' Gary Cooper has gone back to of Jesse L. Lasky, first vice-president in charge of production for Paras || mount, that frontier stories again the success of "The Virginian, hn badman in "The Texan," story, Other principals include Oscar who directe Western roles, due to the conviction will 'be in demand as the vesult of Gary's new role will be that or a two. a adaptation of Q'Henry's famous short he Double-Dyed Deceiver," Aplel and Eouma Dyan, "Street of Chance" will handle the new Cooper vehicle, ray has the feminine lead, Fay ohn Cromwell, ; eer ------ With fhe signing of four players, Clarence Muse, Bert Sprotte, Dorothy de Borba and William echtel; the cast for Columbia's roman. tic farce, "\ Royal Romance," has been completed. The production, which is an adaptation of "Private Propert direction 'of Erle C, Kenton with William rody, Walter P, Lewis, Betty Boyd and U Ann the list of players. JF CRY " is being made under the ollier, do Pauline Starke, ric Haupt leading TE -- 3 Marign Davies, who 4 completing work at present in "The Gay Nineties," under Hupry Dea ront's direction, will next appear in "Ros salie)" adaptation of the Ziegfeld musical comedy success of the samg James he Rehearsals for "You herine Brush's best seller and § aturday ~h ork newspaper life, started this week at the Pa studio under the direction of Menta Bell, Colbert, Churles Ruggles, Norman Foster and Ginger | Man of Manhattan," the, bleturishvion of t serial of Now nount Long Istand In: the cast are chic re. Additions al players for the other pringipal roles will be pamed shortly, . ' \ all over, or again, If we should be interrupted by a pack of barracudas, who dush through the waters with Jaws agape, it would be very discons certing" When questioned about the 200 pound clam, he said, "I have sown a photograph of ene of the na» tives giving a baby a bath, and us» ing one of the claf shells for a bath tub," Many and varied forms of danger. ous fish lite abound in the waters { which this scientist has chosen for | his headquarters Poisonous jelly fish of enormous breadth, a mere contact with which spells instant death, the stringaree, the octopus and the under-sea monster which van deal a paralyzing eleetrie shock to anything caught within its hairy arms will form an ever constant me nace to the plans and safety of Mr and Mrs, Pillsbury, Too, the waters arc infested with man eating sharks, but both the scientist and his wife feel, that Yke the beasts of the wild land jungles they will not molest human beings ir they are left alone, #0, disregarding warnings from more timid scientists this naturalist will undertake his task with the reeling that he will be (oo busy taking ples tures to worry about the danger ins volved, HONEY PRODUCTION IN WEST INCREASES Winnipeg, ~=0Of the 26,000,000 pounds of honey annually produes ed in Canada, nearly one-third comes from the three prairie prove noes of Western Canada=-=Manit oba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta In 1989 the total output in these three provinces was 7,818,000 pounds, of whieh Manitoba pro= duced 0,800,000 pounds from 4,800 aplaries, Alberta 014,000 pounds and Saskatchewan 400,000 pounds, Only swithin the pasf 'few years hug production of honey been given much' attention on 'the prairie farms of Wantern Canada, but when it was found that bee could he worked in as a very prot It able Jttle cash sidesline on the Average farm, honey production received a big impetus, Sous Men Don't Miss It! 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Hlmooe Ht. 8 Phone 28 Phone 08 New Ken Maynard Thriller Coming to the New Martin QUEBEC FARMERS ADOPTING MODERN 'DAIRY METHODS Quebec. ~~Years of efor, to win formers to modern methods in eons nection with' butter, milk and oream on the part of Quebec health inspectors have hegun to obtain re- sults, 1, N, Allard, director of the milk inspection branch of the local health bureau, stated recently, Three years ago the milk inspec tors forwarded to milk shippers the plans of n small scientific dairy in which were centralized an In~ crease and concrete vats to cool milk in summer and keep it from froosing in winter, A year ago, two farmers adopted the plan aud had good results, Since then many other farmers have installed simis lar plants, Dr, Martin, municipal health head, stated; "The significe ance of this development can he fully appriciated, It means the turning point in the difficult task of winning the farmers to our views on the milk question,' QUIET SAILING TRIP AROUND THE WORLD Montreal, «--- Businessmen In aquest. of a thorough holiday, who CAN enjoy an oceAn Voyage on An old fashioned sailing ship, have an opportunity of an unique trip it they accept an invitation whieh was reported to the Montreal Boayd of Trade at its council meet. ing 'recently, The council was advised of » proposed round-the-world trip in a square rigged salling vessel of nbout 3,600 tons gross registry, sailing frgm New. York on or ubout September 105 next, The trip will take about eighteen months and stops will be made at practically all the principle ocean ports of the world, While the vessel in equipped with auxiliary engines, It is expected that these will be very little used and that as nearly as possible the voyage wil) conform to the conditions prevatis ing in the old sailing days, 'The ship will be manned by a capable captain and a large crew, and ex- cellent passenger accomodation will be provided. As the aceom- modation is limited, only about Afteen couples will be taken as Passengers, Applo Trees for Prairie Farms After fifteen yours of seed planting the experimental work of the Dominion Department of Agri« oulture has developed sixteen vars Joties of apple trees sulted to the climatio conditions of the Prairie Provinces, Of these varieties two have been graded "very good" and four "good," Horticultural ex. perts point out, however, that it will take several more tree gen. erations to evolve the ideal species, Prairie farmers can help in this work by getting seed from the Wx- perimental Station at Morden Man,, '3 Days STARTING WEST SATURDAY NEW KEN MAYNARD THRILL. ER COMING TO THE NEW MARTIN With the spectacular and colorful background of one of the original old-time wild west shows, snappin with -setion und thrills and feature: by & revival eof famous old western songs, "The Parade of the West," Universal all-talking production stas ring Ken Maynard, opens today at the New Martin Theatre, Maynard, in the picture, revives the days of the pleturesque corner» lot "medicine show" with its bally~ hoo fo rsome miraculous "cure all" and the first of the old wild west shows which have become an Amer lean institution, To add to the appeal of the story, which is featured by a thrilling ¢li- max in which Maynard tames _ a man-killing* wild horse, the wesférn star sings and plays well known songs of the old west like "The Chis holm Trail" "Down in Union Coun ty) and "Sal's Got « Wooden Leg," songs that he learned while he was a cowboy on the Texas plains, The strongest supporting cast in Maynard's career was assembled by Idrector Harry J, Brawn for "The Parade of the West," It Is headed by the beautiful Gladys McConnell, in the role of the girl; Otis, Harlan, of "Show Boat" and "Broadway fame, as the old-time medicine man, and twelve-year-old + Jackie Hanlon, Maynard's prote ge In fancy roping and trick riding Making Poor Wheat Pay The sale of frozen wheat at $1,158 per bushel is a preity attractive figure, Jeoding tests made at the Lacombe Alta, Experimental Sta tion of the Department of Agricul- ture, shows that this can be done, Tests were made with four lots of hogs with varying rations of frosen wheat and frozen wheat fed with oat chop, A market value for frosen wheat ranging to $1.61 per bushel was shown by the test where onts were fed with the frogen wheat, The value of grain fed in this. way depends. directly on the price of hogs, At current market prices frozen wheat can be market. od through hogs at a price equiva~ lent to No, § Northern, Walter Dramrosch told a story at a dinner in New York, "Some of our musie crities," he sald, "remind me of the Wapeo 1s landers, There was a lighthouse keeper on the lighthouse off Wapoo who feb A girl from home, and as the Hght was a very lonely, mon» otonous place, he ordered a pianw for her, Well, the plano arrived in elght months time, and a4 couple of is landers were hired by the keeper to bring it out to the lighthouse, The keeper and his bride waited for ita coming very happily, and at Inst the island boat appeared, But where was the plano? "When the hoat got near enough for halling, the keeper yelled: *"* Hello, there! Where in darna- tion's the plano!' "t's all right," one of the ise landers yelled back, 'It's all right, for planting in their own gerdont. George . We're _towing her,' "wm 'NEW MARTIN Extra Features "STAGE DOOR PEST" COMEDY VAUDEVILLE ACT | 8-~CHAPTER-8 TARZAN THE TIGER in "Condemned to Death"