Have You Heard That?

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 388, 23 June 1928, Page 25

Have You Heard That?

Richard Barthelmess will be starred in “Diversion,” screen rights to which have been purchased by First. National. ... Production is finished on “The Hj-wk’s Nest,” Milton Sills’s story of the underworld. The Burbank studio of First National is seriously considering adopting daylight saving time. In her next picture, “The Sawdust Paradise,” Esther Ralston is a girl evangelist. Luther Reed will direct. “Black Magic” is the title of Johnny Hines’s next comedy, from a story by Jack Townly, Los Angeles newspaper man. Louise Fazenda will play a small town spinster in Mary Astor and Lloyd Hughes’s next co-starring picture. Don Alvarado is the “boy friend” of Phyllis Haver in ‘The Battle of the Sexes,” directed by D. W. Griffith. Barbara Kent has renewed her con tract with Universal, and will play several leads this year for that company. * . * Alice White has been cast as a French girl in “Lingerie” for TiffanyStahl.