STARS IN THE FOX FIRMAMENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 538, 15 December 1928, Page 6 (Supplement)

STARS IN THE FOX FIRMAMENT

JANET GAYNOR

Despite the fact that Janet Gaynor has brought millions to the heights of “Seventh Heaven” by her poignant and inspired screen portrayals, she is still the sweet, unspoiled child that she was the day she started on her role to fame as “Diane.” Having won acclaim as the greatest dramatic actress on the screen to-day has not altered Janet’s sweet personality that was her great charm when she si urted her screen career. For fame may come and fame may go, but intimates of Janet always claim that she will be just the same sweet girl.

SAMMY COHEN

Spectators who grinned, then laughed, and finally roared at the antics of Sammy Cohen, young Jewish Fox star, in “"Why Sailors Go Wrong," would hardly visualise him as a former dignified furniture salesman. Yet the young comedian started his business life as such in his father’s furniture store in Los Angeles, where he attended a school of dramatics and took a course in stage dancing. JLo could dance, and dance well, h i s instructors told him, and when the chance came to join a musical comedy production, he left the furniture business. He appeared in club engagements and appearances at the "Winter Garden and Karl Carroll Theatres, New York, until an attack of homesickness, a consequent return to Los Angeles, and an invitation to play the clowning doughboy in “What Price Glory.” That role made Cohen.

MADGE BELLAMY

kludge Bellamy, celebrated Fox star, is a Texas girl with the background of a Bostonian. Instead of shorthorn cattle and lariat-looping cow-hands, there figured in her girlhood days the romance of ancient classics, the sheltered life of exclusive schools, and the family existence of a daughter of a college professor. In her father’s library Miss Bellamy acquired fondness for romance and drama, and as a child began to play “actress.” Buter she was sent to an exclusive school of classic dancing, but soon turned to films and made an instantaneous success.

CHARLES FARRELL

Gay, with the care-free spirit of youth as it should be, enthusiastic over the present and full of decisions and plans for tho future, is a brief summing tip of Charles Farrell, young Fox star who leaped to fame in “Seventh Heaven.” His latest production for Fox is “The Ked Dance,” iL story of Russia just prior to the time of the Menshevik Revolution in which he plays the part of Eugene, Grand Duke of Orenburgh. l-arreu will also be starred in Fazil, a romance of the burning sands of Arabia.

LOIS MORAN

T.ois Moran. young Fox player, besides having the destinction o£ being a full-fledged star at the age of 18, also lias seen more of the world than most youngsters of that age. When Lois was 12 she went to Paris to finish her education and at that age possessed practically on entire high school equivalent in knowledge. She has travelled to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, and Italy, and wherever she went studied not only the customs, but the arts and sciences as well.

EDMUND LOWE

Kdmund Lowe. Fox star, is a native of California find a graduate of Santa Clara University in San Jose. As a college youth his goal was the Bar, but before he became a lawyer, he decided he was better qualified for the stage. His first theatrical engagement was in a stock company in San Francisco. After a short apprenticeship, he was given leading parts and then appeared on Broadway in a number of legitimate attractions produced by Belasco. Returning to California, he went into the moving pictures. Mr. Lowe's latest production for Fox Films is “Making the Grade, ’* a story of a snobbish young millionaire brought to see the uselessness of the life he is leading.

VICTOR McLAGLEN

Adventurer, fighter and actor —such is Victor McLaglen. famous Fox star. Born in England and raised in South Africa, lie has travelled all over the world. After establishing: himself as a tighter he served with honour in the war and then turned actor. His first successes were made in England, where he was starred in his own right. Going to America to play the title role in “The Beloved Brute/’ he scored such a hit that his services were in constant demand. After his portrayal of the character ot Captain Flagg in “What Price Glory,' he was signed under a long t*-rrn contract to Fox Films to appear exclusively tn their productions.