PARAMOUNT ANNUAL CONVENTION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17877, 19 June 1926, Page 20 (Supplement)

PARAMOUNT ANNUAL CONVENTION.

GREAT GATHERING IN SYDNEY. (Special to the “ Star.”) SYDNEY, June 14. At the Paramount convention just concluded Mr I licks announced the world’s greatest group of motion pictures as this year's fifteenth birthday celebration.

For the first time representati\'e exhibitors. from all over Australia sat in convention with Paramount delegates. Sir Mark Sheldon addressed the members of the convention at the banquet. (SigqedJ Davison. FILM PERSONALS. Milton Sills’ daugter, Dorothy, has been subjected to screen tests, and is expected shortly to be seen on the silver sheet. When the last American mail to hand left San Francisco, Bebe Daniels was recovering from severe injuries received from being thrown from a horse. Not so very long ago, says an American paper, Bryant Washburn was a star—a star being one of those persons whose names precede the title of the picture on the billboards. Bryant then took a fling at independent producing, leaving the Lasky lot for another, lie is now back at work with Lasky, playing a small role in one of Raymond Griffith’s comedies. On the screen Warner Oland has a criminal record that will stand for years to come. He has shot Tom Mix any number of times, strangled Theda Bara, tossed an ugly-looking dirk at Clara Kimball Young, thrown Pearl White into an octopus den, poisoned Elise Ferguson, and set fire to Ruth Roland’s home. Then he reformed and entered on a career of royalty in Douglas Fairbank’s “Don Q." Alice Terry, beautiful wife of Rex Ingram, who helped Vicente Biased Ibanez make his “Four Horsemen” famous, was the first brunette to continually use a blonde wig in pictures. Her own tresses have never been seen on the screen. Now comes Estelle Tavlor. Jack Dempsey’s wife, • ' hr-. concealed her unruly rm-' - i ■ ■‘•’i a blonde wig. She ’ . j the role of Lucretia Borgia in “Don Juan,” Jack Barrymore's newest picture. Doug and Mary had an audience with Mussolini, Italy’s dictator, on May 10. “I have seen you often in the movies, but I like you better in real life,” Doug said to the Premier. Mussolini smilingly answered: “I don't know whether I like you better in the movies or in real life, but I certainly do both. I admire the movihs tremendously, because the action is so precise and

rapid, which is one of the finest things in all life.” He presented both stars with autographed photographs. Harry Carey, though not seen here often, is still on the screen, his latest picture being a Pathe western. “The Seventh Bandit.” Carey's world-wide popularity is a natural outgrowth of his histrionic talent and of the time and study he has given to familiarising himself with Western history and of bringing to the screen an authentic picturisation of life as it really was in the days of the gambler, the cattlerustler, and the wide-open towns. The Pathe Western star has always been a pioneer at heart. Although born in the East, he took Horace Greeley’s advice and went West while still a young man. Carey searched for and found adventure as a miner, prospector, rancher and cattleman. Even now he lives on his own ranch in Southern California where he conducts a large trading post and is surrounded by those things associated with the fine tradition of the hardy pioneer. While fast riding, quick thinking, sure shooting and hard fighting play an important part in the Harr 3' Carey type of pictures, he brings to his characterisations a knowledge of dress and habits and background and high dramatic power.