THAT BOYISH FIGURE

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

THAT BOYISH FIGURE

PLAYERS’ GYMNASIUM Feminine players at Paramount need not worry any longer about getting the proper amount of exercise. A gymnasium , fitted with everything from Indian clubs to rowing machines, is the latest addition to the facilities at the moving picture studio. The new gymnasium is housed in an old barn at the corner of Selma Avenue and Vine Street This is where the Paramount studio began, 15 years ago, and now that there are new and expensive studios for picture-making the original home of the film company comes in for an extended term of usefulness as an up-to-date gymnasium. Here the stars come for exercises to preserve the boyish figures that endear them to their public.

Herbert Brenon, who is now preparing his first inependent production, “Sorrel and Son,” the other day telephoned his wife at I-lollywood from the Hotel Savoy in London to tell her that his conference with the author, Warwick Leeping, would keep him in England a week longer than he expected.

“Old Ironsides,” an epic of the sea, will be presented in the Regent on Friday, July 22. Wallace Berry, George Bancroft, and Esther Ralston head the cast in this Paramountlames Cruze production.

Jack Luden is Paramount’s latest Western star. He has been promoted from minor parts to take the- place of Gary Cooper, who is promoted in turn into starring roles in feature productions.

“The Road to Romance” is almost finished. Jack Mulhall and Lorothy Mackaill are a pair of travelling salesmen in this First National comedy romance.

Gustav von Seffertitz, the noted character actor, will be seen in George Fitzmaurice’s “Rose of Monterey.” Mary Astor is heroine of the romantic Span-ish-Californian story and Gilbert Roland, seen for the first time in films opposite Norma Talmadge in “Camille,” will be the Spanish hero.

Raymond Griffith will make his own pictures from now on. Following the example of Harold Lloyd, Louglas McLean, Buster Keaton and other comedians, he will form his own producing unit immediately after finishing “Time to Love” for Paramount.

Five young players will make big strides toward stardom this year, or Paramount will know the reason why. James Hall, Richard Arlen, Louise Brooks, Sully Blane and Nancy Phillips are the youthful screen favourites who are practically compelled to do bi~ things in 1927 or get themselves accused of ingratitude. Paramount has chosen the five as junior stars.

Lois Moran has been engaged by Universal to play the leading feminine role in "The Irresistible Lover,” which is to be directed by William Beaudine. This picture is an adaptation of “Las Opern Glas,” a German novel by Gabrielle Reuter. Gertrude Astor, Norman Kerry. Lee Moran and Myrtle S ted man are also in this production.

L. W. Griffith has returned to Unit*. 1 Artist— Corporation as an independent producer. He will ‘commence work shortly on a new picture in the studio. It will take eight or ten months to make, according to Joseph M. Schenck, with whom Griffith’s arrangements were concluded. Griffith is also director-general of the Art Cinema Finance Corporation.

Gertrude Olmsted has been added to the cast of “The Callahans and the Murphys,” Metro - Goldwyn - Meyer’s screen version of Kathleen Norris’s well-known magazine serial. Sally O’Neill. Lawrence Gray, Marie Lressler. Eddie Gribbon and other wellknown players will soon begin work on this new picture.