Did You Know That?

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 508, 10 November 1928, Page 25

Did You Know That?

General Lodijensky, Cossack general, and former member of the Imperial Court at St. Petersburg, has opened a restaurant named “The Russian Eagle” in Hollywood.

Richard Arlen and Nancy Carroll are being co-starred in a story of chorus girl life. It is called “Soubrette” in the making, but will probably be retitled before release.

“Dirigible” is the latest air picture, a war romance by John Monk Saunders, author of “Wings,” and Jean de Limur, French wartime aviator. William Wellman will direct, and Lane Chandler is featured.

Barbara Kent, dark-eyed leading woman to Reginald Denny, Andre Beranger and others, has been lent to British Canadian Pictures, Ltd., a motion picture company operating in Canada.

Lola Salvi, winner of the Fox contest for the most beautiful girl in Italy with picture possibilities, will make her first appearance in “Plastered in Paris,” a Sammy Cohen-Jack Pennick comedy.

Rena Vale, a Los Angeles typiste, recently won the Photoplay screen story contest and a prize of £2,000. Her story, which is called “Swag,” will be produced by Paramount for George Bancroft.

Mabel Normand is -seen about in Hollywood, looking rather emaciated, but animated and popular as ever. Mabel has never entirely recovered from the serious siege of illness of a year ago.

William Desmond, motion picture veteran, is dusting off his makeup case after a year in vaudeville, to star in Universal’s chapter play, “The Mystery Rider.” Jack Nelson will direct the 10-episode adaptation of George Morgan’s story.

S. George Ullman, manager for the late Rudolph Valentino, has signed Theda Bara for a return fling at films. The first vamp of the films essayed a return three years ago in "The Unchastened Woman,” and a special comedy number with Hal Roach, but this time she intends going at it in earnest.

Greta Garbo, star of Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer’s “Flesh and the Devil,” and “Dove,” will next be seen by New Zealand audiences in “The Divine Woman.” a story based in part on the life of Madame Sarah Bernhardt, and directed by Victor Seastrom. Lars Hanson is Miss Garbo’s leading man.

Olive Borden, who plays the leading feminine role in the Till an y-Stalil production, “The Albany Night Boat, being directed by A 1 Raboch, fainted twice on the set during a scene in which she has to battle with Duke Martin, who is more than six feet tall and weighs 1751 b.

On his way to the studio recently Lionel Barrymore’s car crashed with a truck and the actor’s ankle was broken. Rather than hold up production of “West of Zanzibar, ’ he skipped about before the cameras that morning, although he spent intervals between shots on crutches.