PICTURE PLAYS and PLAYERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 92, 9 July 1927, Page 25

PICTURE PLAYS and PLAYERS

r rrtrude Astor has been added to th ß cast of 'Too Many ( Women."

■ The Ice Flood,” a drama of the rt h woods lumber camps, will be r nown at Everybody’s Theatre soon.

Julanne Johnstone plays opposite harley Paddock in his first picture, Lfbe All American.”

Virginia Eee Corbin has been signed a five-year contract by Associated Idrst National. ,

“Rookies” is a picture which Metro- , old wyn- Mayer officials predict will very successful.

-God Gave The Twenty Cents,”. Herbert Brenon’s Paramount film, staring Lois Moran * Lya de and

Jack Mulhall, is booked for early release at the Regent in Auckland, Patsy Ruth Miller has bef-n cast for “Patents Pending,” with Glen Tryon, George Fawcet, and Charles Gerrard in support. William Craft is directing. m + * May Robson. Harrison Ford. Phyllis Haver. Franklin Pangborn, and Robert Eveson have the leads in “The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary.” * * * ... Ben Hecht has written an original crime story -for Paramount titled Underworld.” drawn from liis experiences in Chicago as a police reporter. Running Wild” is the name chosen for W. C. Fields’s new comedy, in which Mary Brian appears as ingenue lead. * * * Ricardo Cortez, Lois Wilson, Estelle Taylor. William Powell, and Norman Trevor all appear in Paramount's forthcoming drama, "New York,” a tale of the metropolis. A murder mystery is the centre of the plot. Man's battle with the desert, his never-ending tight to wrest a living from the waste lands, is the background into which is woven Zane Grey’s story, “The Mysterious Rider,” to be screened shortly at the Princess and Tivoli Theatres. Sally Blane, who was Betty Jane Young before she grew up sufficiently to be Wallace Beery’s leading woman in the James Cruze comedy, “The Big Sneeze.” has been signed to a new contract by Paramount. Betty Caldwell will play opposite Norman Kerry in “The Irresistible Lover." which William Beaudine is making. In this film are Myrtle Stedman. Gertrude Astor, Arthur Lake and Lee Moran.

Tiffany have made a picture dealing IJp* theatrical life. It is called Backstage.” The cast includes WilColl ier. jun.. Barbara Bedford, 4?JJ rta Vaughan. Eileen Percy. Gayne ''hitman, Jocelyn Lee, Brooks Benedict. Jimmy Harrison. Shirly O’Hara, ancoln Plummer, Marcia Harris, Louise Carver.

Hope Hampton, who in private life p Mrs. Jules Brulatour, has left for *<urope. She will appear in a Technioiour picture that is to be produced p* Holland and France for Colorart icture Corporation, and will return in to start rehearsal for her forthcoming operetta, “The Proud Princess.”

In “The Stolen Bride” Billie Dove v e * r f 80 many gowns that she claims «£l er day ’ s work consists of chaug%/roin °ne costume to /mother. As 'countess she displays a that would be the envy and dcspa, r of any real member of the h»» Alexander Korda is directPicture, and Carey Wilson is author.