Planning Ahead

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 55 (Supplement)

Planning Ahead

UNIVERSAL’S 1929 RE-

LEASES.

Outstanding Attractions

Planning ahead for two years in advance of each season has. gained for Universal a high place in the film world. The array of pictures for the coming year contains products that have never been equalled in the history of the industry. Specials include Reginald Denny, Laura La Plante, and Glenn Tryon Pictures; Universal Jewels; Melodramatic Classics (a new Universal innovation); Rex features and Hoot Gibson productions. In addition there are the incomparable Universal Junior Jewels, “The Collegians” series; the fifty-two Stern Brother Comedies; five Chapter Plays and one hundred and four International News Reels.

“Lonsome,” a lavishly - produced super, features Glenn Tryon and Barbara Kent and is directed by Paul Pejos. Reginald. Denny appears in four specials—“Red-Hot Speed,” “The Night Bird,” “Clear the Decks,”, and “Partners for the Night.” “The Michigan Kid,” by Rex Beach, played in Alaska, stars Conrad Nagel and Renee Adoree, and is directed by Irvan Willat, the master producer of outdoor pictures.'

Sally O’Neill is the shining light in “The Girl on the Barge” and “The Cohens and Kellys” make a new appearance, this' time in Atlantic City. This picture is directed by William J. Craft, and is headed by George Sidney and J. Barrell Macdonald.

“Home, James!” and “That Blonde” owe their brilliance to Laura La Plante, as do “One Rainy Night” and “Dangerous Dimples.” This star also appear;; in the Universal super masterpiece “The Last Warning,” directed by Paul Leni, an eerie stow adapted from the famous stage success. This director also makes “The Man Who Laughs,” another masterpiece starring Mary Philbin and Conrad Veidt “Bather and Son," “Broadway,” and “Show Boat” are also special Road Show attractions.

Four great comedies are headed by Glenn Tryon, and among a host of notable productions appear “Come Across,” “Red Lips,” “The Shakedown,” “Honeymoon Flats,” and “Freedom of the Press.” Seven marvellous melodramas include “The Midnight Mystery,” “The Price of Bear,” and “Eyes of the Underworld.” Much time has been spent in the production of Hoot Gibson Western pictures. “Burning the Wind” and “Smilin’ Guns” are two. of eight wonderful titles. In the short product , field there are new series of “The Collegians,” 1929 productions, even better than former opes, with the same famous people in the cast.

“Tarzan the Mighty” and “The Pinal Reckoning” are just two of the five chapter plays, and the whole world is brought to the screen by the International News Reel, one of the vastest news-gathering services in existence.