Personalities

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 58 (Supplement)

Personalities

* ♦ ♦ Great Array of Stars Under Paramount Banner 1929 “WHOLE SHOW.” In this single word is summed up one of Paramount’s chief sources of strength for the 1929 season. Never before in the history of motior pictures has Paramount offered to the entertainment-seeking world a greater array of stellar talent. With such personalities as Clara Bow, Bebe Daniels, Pola Negri, Esther Ralston, Florence Vidor, George Bancroft, Wallace Beery, Richard Dix, Emil Jannings, Adolphe Menjou, Jack Holt and Charles Rogers, and the costarred and co-featured teams of Fay Wray-Gary Cooper, Ruth Taylor-James Hall and Richard Arlen and Mary Brian heading the roster Paramount boasts of the greatest galaxy of real stars in the film world to-day. In line with their policy, Paramount constantly looks to the future in the development of stellar’ material. Many of the stars names in the list for the forthcoming year, represent players who have been developed by Paramount within the recent past. Paramount are always striving constantly to develop other star personalities from the ranks of contract players. Among the featured players of to-day are the stars of to-morrow. During the coming season these players will be featured in a number of productions that are destined to carry a large percentage of them to full stardom. In this group are such well-known personalities as Evelyn Brent, Louise Brooks, Nancy Carroll, Doris Hill, (Clive Brook, William Austin, Lane Chandler, Chester Conklin, Fred Kohler, Jack Luden, Paul Lukas, William Rowell and Lucy Doraine. In the coming new season these perfconalities will be featured in the most Impressive array of Paramount pictures in that organisation’s decade, end a half of motion picture production for 1929. This announcement of Paramount's production plans Is made by John W. Hicks, Jnr., Managing Director of Raramount Pictures in Australia, New Zealand and the Far East. The “Whole Show Programme” lists more than GO feature motion pictures and more than 200 short features, all to be produced and released under the Paramount banner commencing January, £929.

Two of the biggest pictures in Paramount’s “Whole Show” programme are *‘The Patriot” and “Abie’s Irish Rose.” •“The Patriot” is an Ernst Lubitsch’ production, starring Emir Jannings, With a cast including Florence Vidor,Lewis Stone and Neil Hamilton. The Story deals with the life of the mad Paul, Czar of Russia. It will be a Paramount Road Show. “Abie’s Irish Rose,” which ran five and a half years on Broadway as a stage play, is the second of Paramount’s Road Shows for next year. The east includes Jean Hersholt, Charles Rogers, Nancy Carpoll and other well-known favourites. Among the special productions (which Paramount will release this coming year are: —“The Wedding March,”. (With Erich von Stroheim as author, producer and star, with Fay Wray and a strong cast. This picture has already been two years in the making. There are magnificent sequences in technicolour. Besides his role in “The Plitriot.” Emil Jannings will also make two jother special productions; one, “Sins of the Fathers,” and “Ellis Island,” a story of the heart-aches and romance and laughs of the famous gateway to America.

Wallace Beery will be in “Beggars of Life,” which marks this star’s return to drama. lie will also play in “The Tong War,” a tale of America’s Chinatown, with Beery playing the role of a white leader of the Chinese, and Florence Vidor as a concert star. “The Canary Murder Case,” will also be a' Paramount special production, featuring William Powell, Louise Brooks and James Hall. “Interference,” adapted from the well-known Story of the same name will feature Evelyn Brent, William Powell and Clive Brook.

W. Somerset Maugham’s stage play, “The Letter,” laid in the Malay States, will be produced as a Paramount special. Evelyn Brent and Clive Brook will have the leading -r'filcs? • Those two stars will also be co-featured in a Paramount special titled “Under Tropic Moons.” 'Manhattan Cocktail,” a story of stage life will go into production under the supervision of Florenze Zeigfeld. Nancy Carroll and Bichard Arlen are in (lie east. These two players will also appear in "The Man 1 Love” A magazine story by Bichard Washburn Child will be made into a Paramount special under the title of “Forgotten Faces.” The cast includes William Powell, Clive Brook, Mary Brian and Olga Baelanova. "Wolfsong,” written by Harvey Fergusson, famous novelist, will be an allstar Paramount, directed by Victor Fleming. Gary Cooper, Lupe Velez and Louis Wolheim are in the cast. Paramount in its “Whole Show Programme” will produce the first epic picture of the dirigible. The story is by John Monk Saunders, author of “Wings.” William Wellman will direct. “Dirigible” will be the title. In “The Hard Boiled Angel.” Gary Cooper will play a soldier and Nancy Carroll, a chorus girl. “Living Together,” a comedy-melo-dni••isi. with Richard Arlen. Mary Brian and Chester Conklin featured,

■ will be produced as a special. Richard • Arlen and Mary Brian will be featured in “The Upstart Gentleman,” written by .John Monk Saunders. The Clara Bow specials for the new season of the "Whole Show ITo--1 gramme,” will be “Three Week Ends,” an Elinor Glyn story; “The Fleet's In,” a story of sailors and sailors’ sweethearts; “The Saturday Night Kid,” and “Apache Rove.” Richard Dix will appear in two specials. and three starring pictures. First ; of the specials is “Redskin,” a picture of the “Vanishing Race” type. “Unconquered” will be the second. One of ' his three starring pictures will be i “Moran of the Marines,” with Ruth • Elder, the famous aviatrix, as leading lady. Esther Ralston will make one special and four starring pictures. The special will be “The Case of Eena Smith.” “High Society,” will be Miss Ralston’s ■ first starring picture on the “Whole Show Programme.” , _ Zane .Grey stories will be “Aval-

anche,” a story of the love of two brothers for a beautiful, but fickle girl. “Sunset Pass,” is the second Zane Grey programme picture. The third is yet to be chosen. Pola Negri will make two pictures for Paramount’s “Whole Show Programme.” One will be “Loves of an Actress.” “The Woman from Moscow,” will be the second. Fay Wray and Cary Cooper will be co-featured in three pictures, first of which is “The First Kiss.” Florence Vidor will be starred in two pictures. “Divorce Bound,” is the title of the first. George Bancroft will be starred in four pictures on Paramount’s “Whole Show Programme,” namely “The Docks of New York,” a story by John Monk Saunders; “The Wolf of Wall Street” ; “Swag”; and “Scarface.” Bebe Daniels will be scheduled to star in four Paramount pictures, the first to be “Take Me Home,” and the second “The Big Scoop,” a newspaper story,

Charles Kogers will star in "Someone to Love,” and three others.i James Hall and Buth Taylor will be co-fea-tured in a series of three pictures, first of which is “Just Married.” Adolphe Menjou will appear in three pictures on Paramount’s “Whole Show Programme.” “His Private Life,” will be the first, “Marquis Preferred,” the second, and “The Beauty Doctor,” third. The pictures to be made by outside producers, releasing through Paramount include one, and possibly two from Harold Lloyd, and two from the Christie Film Company, starring Douglas Mac Lean. “The Carnation Kid,” is Mac Lean’s first. Another “Whole Show Programme” offering will be the Cooper-Schoedsack special feature, now in the making in the wilds of Africa. The same two producers made "Chang.” This picture will be called “The Four Feathers,” and the cast includes, Clive Brook, Bichard Arlen, Fay Wray and Noah Beer it.

During the cross-examination of a young physician in a law-suit, the plaintiff’s lawyer made disagreeable remarks about the witness's youth and inexperience. “You claim to be acquainted with the various symptoms attending concussion of the brain?” asked the lawyer. . “I do.” “We will take a concrete case,” continued the lawyer. “If my learned friend, counsel for the defence, and myself were to bang our heads together, would he get concussion of the brain?” The young physician smiled. “The probabilities are,” he replied, “that the counsel for the defence would.” * * * “Doctor, my husband is troubled with a buzzing noise in his ears.” “Better have him to go to the seashore for a month.” “But he can’t get away.” “Then you go.”