PRINCE EDWARD
“JOHNNIE GET YOUR HAIR COT A new profession, that of 4i thriH director,”’has been added to the highly specialised motion picture industry. B. Reeves Eason, who filmed the thrill-
ing chariot races in “Ben Hur," is the pioneer. He created the new occupation. Ikuon arranges and directs horse and motor races, battle scenes, mob violence and perilous stunts of all kinds. When Jack Coogan, sen., decided that Jackie’s next picture was to be a race track story.
he signed Eason to film the s-enes which required thrills. According to those who have seen “Johnny Get Your Hair Cut.” which comes to the Prince Edward Theatre to-night, Eason has never equalled the thrills which he hits literally packed into the final episode* of Jackie’s newest Metro-Ooldwyn-Mayer film.
Al. Jolson. the internationally known black-face comedian, will be starred in “The Jazz Singer,” a forthcoming Master picture founded on the popular stage success.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 166, 4 October 1927, Page 14
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