Did You Know That?

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 230, 17 December 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

Did You Know That?

William Haines and his company have returned from West Point after filming a romance of the military training school. Joan Crawford is the heroine and Ralph Emerson and Neil Neely are featured. Pauline Frederick, who it was announced would play the part of Nurse Cavell in Herbert Wilcox’s British film “Dawn,” has been called to the United States on urgent private business and had to resign from the cast. Sybil Thorndike, English actress, is replacing Pauline Frederick in the role of Nurse Cavell in the war picture, “Dawn.” Miss Frederick was obliged to return to America to attend to urgent private affairs.

Marshall Neilan is back in the First National fold with the signing of a contract to direct Colleen Moore inner next picture, tentatively titled ‘Tell the World.” Back at Burbank after his trip to New York for the opening of The Patent Leather Kid,” Richard Barthelmess is ready to start work on The Noose,” the stage play by Willard Mack and H. H. Van Loan. The Film Exchanges’ Association of New Zealand has elected the following officers: President, Mr. B, Y. Marschel, general manager of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, LtcU; vice-president, Mr. Eric Rutledge, manager of Fox Films, Ltd.; Messrs. B. Y. Marschel and C. E. Eskell were appointed exchange representatives on the New Zealand Film Protection Board.