“GIRL IN EVERY PORT”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 28 July 1928, Page 16

“GIRL IN EVERY PORT”

Victor McLaglen’s latest starring vehicle for Fox Films is “A Girl in Every Port.” The story, based on one by Howard Hawkes, tells of the ro mantic adventures of a burly first mate, “Spike Madden.” His note-book records the names of eligible girls of various degrees of pulchritude in Amsterdam, Buenos Ayres, Panama, Marseilles and other ports of call, and his amorous adventures in each provide the plot. In addition to affairs of the heart, “Spike” provides thrills aplenty through his ability as a fighter, especially when he pulls his buddy, Robert Armstrong, out of the many scrapes he manages to get into while Spike goes a-wooing. Another unusual thing about “A Girl in Every Port” is that eight of the most popular and most beautiful of the younger motion picture actresses in Hollywood play the feminine leads—one or two for each port. Marie Casajuana, the little Spanish beauty, who won the Fox Film contest in Spain, is the girl in the Argentine; Natalie Joyce plays the girl in Panama; Gretel Yoltz the girl in Holland; Leila Hyams in Panama; and Louise Brooks in France.

Dorothy Gulliver, appearing in support of Rin-Tin-Tin in the Master picture, “A Dog of the Regiment,” soon to be released in the Dominion, was born and educated in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her first screen work was for Universal in two-reel Westerns. She played lead opposite Jack Hoxie in “The Fighting Three,” Xeil Hamilton in “Shield of Honour,” and George Lewis in “Collegians,” a series. Miss Gulliver is the wife of C. W. De Vito, assistant-director for Universal. Her hobbies are riding and tennis. In a “Dog of the Regiment” she plays the part of a Red Cross nurse with the German Army during the World War.

Fifteen years ago only 16 persons responded to a call for 50 extras to appear in “The Squaw Man,” the first picture produced in Hollywood by Paramount A thorough canvas of Hollywood, accompanied by an offer to furnish the dress clothes needed in the scenes, uncovered only four more extras and wives and sisters of studio employees had to fill the gap. To-day the Paramount studio has access to to,ooo extras, each skilled, and nearly with extensive wardrobes. Questioning of the hundreds of extras appearing in Esther Ralston’s new starring picture, “Sawdust Paradise,” a screen story of street carnival life, revealed the fact that the average value of the extra’s wardrobe is £3uo.