NEW QUARTET

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 816, 9 November 1929, Page 27

NEW QUARTET

DIRECTORS AND STARS JOIN FORCES A £2,000,000 COMPANY The formation of a striking quartet of prominent film people for the purpose of entering the production field with the very latest types of

apparatus is announced from Los Angeles.

Those concerned | are Reginald Denny, Eric von j Stroheim, F. W. Murnau and Esther ; Ralston. They (are said to have formed a £2, ,000,000 company—“ The Colo- F* W. Murnau art Synchrotone Corporation”—for th purpose of making pictures in colou and full dialogue. The first production on the Coloar

jinald Denny. Murt at Tahiti building scenes for another picture, and Stroheim and Miss Ralston are working on a third. Up till recently Denny has been associated with Universal, under whose banner he rose to stardom first in “The Leather Pushers.” and later

(-siiici ndibLun rusuens, a.xiu laier in a series of comedies. It is said that he left Universal because of a disagreement with Laeihmle over contracts. Dr. F. W. Murnau is a directorial genius of silent films. He came

from Germany and joined Fox Films, for whom he made “Sunrise,” one of the most remarkable productions of (he decade. He followed this with “Four Devils,” another successful production. Eric von Stroheim, maker of

exotic, colourful romances of the spectacular type, is the most surprising addition to the team. A temperamental Austrian, he is credited w’ith the power of wasting more money on his productions than any contemporr. L'SSH an’. Still, it is

ary. atitt, it is recognised that he is a great director and a most artistic one. Esther Ralston, an attractive little Paramount player, has never been accused of setting the film firmament on fire yet. Like Reginald Denny she has a number

of satisfactory and successful pictures to her credit.