ADVANCE OF YOUTH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19892, 10 March 1928, Page 9 (Supplement)

ADVANCE OF YOUTH.

PROMINENT YOUNG STARS;

One of the greatest achievements of tho jnotion; picture industry in the past year has been the development of many "naw laces" for tho screen, personalities which have scored so decisively with the public, that the pinnacle of motion picture fame is open to them. They are the stars of to-morrow. ' There is. a continual demand for newfaces on the screen, and this is recognised at the Paramount studios. Charles Rogers and Richard Aden, after their work in ; "Wings," are ding March" which rtiade Miss Fay Wray, and Gary Cooper will be seen in the height, of his career in "Beau Sabreur" and "The Legioii of tho Condemned." Hiss Ruth Taylor, previously almost unknown, was selected from the thousands of possibilities to play the leading role in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," James Hall Jias had a succession of big parts, and Miss Louise Brooks and Miss Thelma Todd are two other young players who have had a material rise during the past twelve months. Of those mentioned above, virtually everyone was an unknown a year ago. JTo-dav they are recognised screen artists. They "have'been given great opportunities because they proved that they deserved them. Youth is also being served in Hollywood ion the Fox lot- International reputations are being made by inexperienced youths and maidens in what is generally conceded to be the twinkling of an eye. According to Mr. Robert Sherwood, the critic of> ''Life," some of the outstanding examples of tho blazing forth of youth to tho heights of success are provided by Miss Janet Gaynor in "Sunrise" and ."Seventh Heaven," Charles Farrell in .■"Seventh Heaven," Nick Stuart, John Darrow, and Miss Sally Phipps in "The High School Hero," and Don Alvarado in •'Carmen." About Miss Gaynor, Mr. Sherwood is especially enthusiastic. "Of all the spectacular ascensions to stardom that have ever been made," he said, "Miss Gaynor's is probably the most pheBomeuai.

"She came before the public, she was eeen,-and she conquered. In her first two pictures she established herself on a plane with Miss Lillian Gish and Miss Mary The opinion about Miss Gaynor seems to be unanimous, not only among the critics, but among every class <of patron that attends the cinema.