NEW SCREEN PLAYERS

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

NEW SCREEN PLAYERS

Three new screen players are making American debuts in 1928 in leading roles in United Artists pictures. Camilla Horn, 19 years old, and only known through her appearance opposite Emil Jannings in “Faust,” is to be seen for the first time in an American picture in her role of Princess Tamara in John Barrymore’s “Tempest.” Walter Byron, young English actor, commended by Ronald Colman. makes his American screen debut opposite Vilma Banky in “The Innocent.” Le Roy Mason, an American youth discovered by Edwin Carewe in a Hollywood restaurant, begins his film career as leading man for Dolores Del Rio in “Revenge ” These three beginners in American films follow in the footsteps of Lupe Valez and Merna Kennedy. Last year Lupe Velez, who had been seen in only one Hal Roach comedy, played opposite Douglas Fairbanks in “The Gaucho.” Now Miss Velez is to be co-featured with William Boyd in “La Paiva.” Merna Kennedy had never appeared on the screen before Mr. Chaplin cast her as his leading lady in “The Circus.” m \.t that time Mr. Chaplin took an option on the young lady’s services, and this option he exercised, so that Merna Kennedy will be Charlie Chaplin’s leading lady in his next United Artists picture, which is to go into production very shortly.