SCREEN FAVOURITES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17835, 1 May 1926, Page 20 (Supplement)

SCREEN FAVOURITES.

111. RENEE ADOREE. Bom on a circus “ lot ” at Lille, France, Renee Adoree has known the world of powder and grease-paint all her life. Her father was a noted, clown with leading white-topped aggregations in France, her mother a rider and acrobat. Renee early developed skill at bareback riding and became one of the best in Europe. In outlining her education Miss Adoree said: “My course of learning was a very broad one. I studied in France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden and Russia, and during this time I was working with the circus. Every one with the show would read to me when I was a child. However, there were so many children with the troupe that the management eventually installed a teacher to look after our education.” Renee Adoree left the circus for a time when she was ten years old and tried stage dancing. She went back to the circus again, but the theatre had claimed her and she returned to the footlights. She was engaged as a. dancer with a revue in Brussels the night the German forces invaded the town. She escaped that night and went across the Channel to London, where she found work in one of the music halls. As soon as Miss Adoree had sufficient money for passage to “ ze magnifique Etats Unis ” she went to New York and appeared in several musical comedy productions. Her screen debut was made in Hollywood in 1920 when she appeared as leading woman to Tom Moore. Her gradual advancement brought her contracts to play opposite some of the leading male stars, but she never has had a role offering such chances for screen fame as in “ The Big Parade,” the picturisation of Laurence Stalling’s stor} r . In this Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production you will see Miss Adoree in her role of Melisande, wearing the clumsy wooden sabots and calico dresses of the peasant girl. In pastoral scenes of the French countryside, the girl tends her cow. chickens, and pigs and frolics with the soldiers billeted at the farmhouse. Her work in this role enlists the sympathy of the audience because she is exactly the type of girl Laurence Stallings had in mind when he wrote the story. For Renee, it was just living her early years in France over again. She found herself set down again in the quaint farmstead; dairy, hennery, wine cellar, everything. And when the family left the farmhouse, the filming of the exile had a most poignant realitx*—only those who have been refugeed know.

Edmund Lowe has the biggest part of his career in the Fox big special, “The Fool,” shortly to be released in New Zealand. He was considered a fool because he gave up his position as curate at a fashionable church because his conscience would not allow him to preach sugary untruths to the wealthy congregation. He was despised for his -work among the ignorant population of the waterfront; he was thrown over by the girl he was engaged to. and he spent his life in the sacrifice of self and devotion to the cause of the betterment of his fellowcreatures. Was a man ever less near the right to be called a foof than he? s: A pre-release showing of “ The Night Cry,” the Master Picture featuring the dog star, Rin.-Tin-Tin. was greeted with enthusiastic approval at the Warner Bros. New York office, where all who viewed the film declared it to be the greatest picture Rintv ever made. “The Night Cry” is full of thrills and action, the biggest punch of the picture being Rinty's fight with a giant eagle. Rint\' is supported by June Marlowe and John Harron in the major roles.