Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1930, Page 104

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C—GRAVURE SECTION—JUNE 8, 1930. | “TALKIES” IN THE MAKING How they get those high-angle ef- fects. This cabaret scene in “Th Painted Angel” is being shot from a towering camera platform in the cen- ter of the set. A modern rhapsody in celluloid. Bernice Claire and Noah Beery, on the raised base of a fountain in the public square of a movie Petrograd, face a battery of cameras, microphones and Russian revolutionists for the First National picture, “Song of the Flame.” The orchestra supplies the musical background. Featuring the world’s largest fiddle. The giant instrument furnishes the background for a scene from the new M-G-M revue, “The March of Time.” Here's a view be- hind the scenes dur- ing the staging of a collegiate rally in the picturization of the musical comedy “Good News.” Shooting a scene in the artificial lake at the First National studio. Alice White is under the swinging micro- phone at right. Shooting the “Lockstep™ dance number of a new Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer revue. The stage upon which the tiers of “prison cclls™ stand is said to be the largest ever built. Pupils of the June graduating class of the Columbia Junior High School. ¢ Rideout