IN FILMLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20324, 3 August 1929, Page 11 (Supplement)

IN FILMLAND.

I i j j I/avid Newell. Paramount's stage " ais j j | nov«ry," has beea given his first rale j J ; at the Paramount studios in Hollywood, j j ! Ee is to play a leading part in Miss 1J • Clara Bow's new all-talking circus story, ! | "Dangerous Carves." Richard Ariea is | | playing the male raie. Miss Gertrude Lawrence, the prominent 1 Enriisb musical comecy actress, nas l>eeu ; engaged by Paramount to maite tauaag ' pictui-es. Ser hint will oe " The Gay i ■ Lady." which will go into production ! shortly. •* The Gay Lady" is an orictual j story written for Miss Lawrence by uaae Max'key. On the emiratiou of his oresent eontract. Ai Jolson will leave Warner 8r05... and join United Artists at a salary of ; £100.033 per picture, plus 10 per cent, of 1 the profits, Jolson has just completed - ' " Little pal" for Warners, which will be j released under another title. After that j he has one more picture to make, and i then will chance ever. The first New Zealand actor has jttsfc ! been signed for a long term contract in j •_ae " talkies." Shayia Gardiner who, by j TLTznt 1 oi 21:5 spitJiidid £ictu'.tc % hex \ Ingram's " The Three Passions." in which s production he played opposite Miss Alice j Tarry, has been engaged by v\ arner ' Brothers to appear in several of their : forthcoming productions. Paramount has bought Galsworthy's ■ great piay, " Escape," for the making of ; ac ail-taKmg picture. The company announces that the famous English piay- I weight and novelist will, bimseii, prepare ■ the sceeu dialogue Basd Dean, the noted British prodacer, will direct and the • chief raie will be played by the well- I known English actor. Olive Brook. The piay should lend itself admirably for " taikiti" production. Followtnr a private screening of ' : The : I Bridge o: San Luis Bey," Metro-Coidwyn- ' j Maver's screen version oi the Pnlitser ! I 1 r •• ■ picze-w-junxig novel. Uie American Liisrary ■ : Association commends this iiitn as one of : I the finest of recent years and an unusually > | faithful transcription of an ou; standing j novek " XLe Bridge of San Luis Rcy," ; | is due for early release in Australia and ; i New Zealand ami Miss L.ii j and Miss Baanel Torres 12 the pnnciaal ! roies. It took talking jrictares to bring out an unsuspected singing talent in Miss . Artists' *' Tin Pan Alley. ' a stun* 01 s the Broadway songsters and musicmakers, cniiftd on to .'imc <1 j*.fitllin ■;f 3 r>v?p"iiar nurrber in nue oi liit l sound nfiqnencp!., -ad ii v:i& disccTerfid liiai : Miss Taimadge has a soprano of nrrnsna] ■ timbre ana duality. Playing opposite the star in the roie of her indoieci. husband. i is Gilbert Solend, the romantic, leading man who scored in her latest successes. An intensely dramatic story of life and love in Paris played by an exceptional cast, is " The Veiled Woman." a For film, shortly to be released. Heading the cast are two remarkaiiiy promising young actor, and Miss Lia Tora, a native oi ■ Brazil. Fox Films Corporation is always ' on the look-out for new fatts and new ; personalities, and these two are reputed . to be genuine " finds." Surrounding the j leading players is a cast of notable screen > j actors, mcinding Miss Maude George. : Iran Lebedeff. Sennsth Thomson, ana • i Walter McGraiL : army ia' Francs' has aided Claud Allister. j an English actoi, in his characterisation ' oi 'Spoof l "." a sneil-stmoiied war reteran. I b "'Three Live Ghosts." a United j Live Ghosts" revolves around the adven- l } mres of three men who escape from a ] GermEC unpon cinmn anci return to i former hanETS in London to discovfr : themseives officially dead tu 'tie eyes 0: } the GcvarnmenT, Other stage picyers m . ths cast are Miss Joan Bennett. Sober I i Montgomery. Miss Beryi Mercer, and ■ Charles McNaugutoiu - ! "" Queen EeDy," in which .'diss Giotca Swausou will talk, has been piaceci in , : production by Eric von Stroheim. With : this film Miss Swans on fallows " Sadie j ; Thompson" and von Stroheim The Wed- : ding March." The first sequences taken ; Tvers ? r, *intis on ionaxdon . .is : San Fernando Valley, not tar from Holly- ' wood. Miss Swanson. Walter Byron, Miss ■ Seens Owen, and 200 extras, garbed as i German cavahymen ami convent girts. ' acted in the sequences. Ton Stroheim : wrote the original story and continuity -ot 'Queen Sally." So completely was his - story prepared that tue dirßctor ezpect-s J j to phot.ograph the iswanson Sim in eignt i ! weeks. Tha picture is modern in nam- j ; tive and setting. The locale is rwttched j during the progress of the tale rrom ljtir- j : manv to German East Airtca. - Another outstanding mystery _ shortlv to be seen in .Auciiiand is " Jne i Donovan Aaair." _whirri has been chosen to aoea the old Hippodrome Tlieat»e ub me new Boxv. The Mireen adaptation ot the famous stage success bv uwen Di>rj. it is piaveci bv a notaole cast, heaaea bv Jack" Holt. Miss Dorothv Berisr, | William Collier. Junior. FrtKl Kelscy. John B.och»- and Miss Agnes Ajres. .t is a detective story with a doable murder mystiiry Mr.. Holt is a very ant* act.or . with an erceileut appearance. He shonid fit adauralir into the leading roie detective It is some time since Miss Avres has been tieen on the screen and - her return is 10 be welcomed, fispeciativ ; m view of the tact ibat American en tics : have said siie grace's a small pait witn j acting. The m est cry element to the f film is relieved by a good dash of comedy j and it is safe to predict a successful ] Auckland season. j