NOTORIOUS NOVEL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 11 (Supplement)

NOTORIOUS NOVEL

SUBJECT FOR NEW FILM EMIL JANNINGS* PART Emil Jannings' next starring picture is to be a version of a notorious French novel, which, though several efforts have been made to place it 011 the English market in book form, is regarded as too daring to he translatable. The novel is " The Adventures of King Pausole," by Pierre Loiiys, author of the equally notorious " Aphrodite " and other decadent studies of eroticism. Its central figure is a libertinous old monarch of a fantastic kingdom where women under 30 years of age are compelled to remain nude in order that the public may " benefit " by their beauty. A subsidiary character is a farcical English Protestant clergyman whose efforts to impose conventional ideas of decency upon King Pausole's subjects are ridiculed. The film of this novel is now being produced in Nice at a cost, it is stated, of over £60,000, dix hundred women being employed in the crowd scenes. Jannings is to appear as King Pausole in the version of the picture which is being prepared specially for England, as well as in the German version. A Parisian actor will play the part in the French version.