PICTURE GOSSIP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19367, 25 July 1925, Page 13

PICTURE GOSSIP

Swimming was a necessary talent D’-ng the players in “Rugged Water,” seph C. Lincoln’s story of the lifc- • Ing service on Cape Cod. wb’.ch Tria Willat has produced for I’araunt. Every player in the picture ex- ( ■ f.r Lois Wilson was called upca to ■ some first-class swimming, and even ■ ”-s Wilson is a strong swimmer, al-1 igh she was not required to prove | ■!• "skill in this line before the | . -a. The need of natatorial abil- | was illustrated more than once. On • occasion Baxter jumped overboard { - a dorv and kept Wallace Beery 1 fur several minuros after the 1 *• had been stunned and thrown | the waler by a Hying boom. ♦•‘ * • i Thomson was once a Loy scout! ; tL was a member of a band of Nc•'<in Scouts, an 1 graduated eventual < to the honoured post of scour-u«.-.ster. From scout to preacher to ; hlrte to film star —surely wide steps n lite. At Los Angeles on May 28 I en trice v was granted a divorce from John Gilbert. Under a property settlement Miss Joy will receive 15,000 dollars, and their child will receive 50 dollars weekly until she is eighteen years old. The Los Angeles Examiner publishes a story to the. effect that Miss Mac Murray, the film actress, has signed a contra't. for one year to act as star for th- 1 U.F.A. Film Interests of Germany. Her salary will be at the rate of 350,000 dollars a year /'normally £75,000). Mr N. Barnard Freeman, general manager for Australia and New Zealand of the Metro Goldwyn Films, Ltd., v. ; il arrive in Wellington early in August to establish a New Zealand headquarters for the Dominion branch of the big corporation’s activities. The Metro-Goldwyn Corporation represents the merger of Metro-Goldwyn with the Louis B. ? r ayer and Cosmopolitan Film interests, an amalgamation achieved with the object of making and buying the best films in the open market. It is stated that the introduction of the new Metro-Goldwyn film releases. will open up important developments for the New Zealand kin ema houses.

Air Maurice Ralph, general manager for Beaumont Smith, is in receipt of the following cable with reference to the New Zealand film. “The Adventures of Algy,” in which so many New Zealanders are appearing: ‘‘Earl and Countess of Stratbroke and Sir Dud ley De Chau to-day witnessed the screening of ‘The Adventures of Algy,’ at the Lyceum, Sydney. T.ast Saturday was a record for the Lyceum. Algy a great success. (Signed): Beaumont Smith.” Algy features Miss Barhie Stuart, an Auckland girl, and Claude Dampier. Vitagraph will produce another James Oliver Curwood’s story in addition to * ‘ Baree, Son of Kazan.” As soon as David Smith finishes work on this story he will start the production of “Steele of the Royal Mounted.” The scenario for the latter is being prepared by Jay Fulcher. Tt will be released on the current Vitagraph sche--1 dule. Important Paramount releases for -h-> Tc-ar future: “The Thundering Aiti '.” Zane Grey’s story. ‘‘Little ■■•‘.insen Crusoe,” with Jackie Coogan, ,;nd “The Golden Bed,” Cecil B. De •-M;lie’s production. » * • • ! The leading artists in the Master I Picture “The Eleventh Virgin” are 1 Helene Chadwick, Clive Brook, Helen I Dunbar, John Harron, and Dale Fuller. I Bon Turnip having come to the end j of one of his Sennett contracts, is going to take a long vacation in order to ! allow Mrs Turpin to visit the Shrine of St. Anne in Canada. She has been j ill for a long time, and hopes that here I may bo one of the miracles wrought at I the shrine of this saint. ! .... j Ton years ngo, Alice Joyce was playling opposite Carlyle Blackwell and Tom j Moore for the obi Kalem Company. She was known as the Harrison Fisher Girl, as she had been the model for nearly all Air Fisher’s beautiful posters and magazine covers. Miss Joyce is featur od in the Alaster Picture, “Whitt Alan.” Caroline Deas, the young Honolulu girl who won a contest started by War pier Brothers on the Island, will be seer for the first time on the screen in tin Alaster Picture, “Aly AVifo and I,” th( Harriett Beecher Stowe novel, Avhicl has recently been completed. Irene Rich has the leading role, and took a great interest in young Miss Deas.

D. W. Griffiths, who is now a Paramount producer, is nearing completion of his first picture from the wellknown story by Marie Corelli. “The Sorrows of Satan.” Picture fans can look forward to something big from such a noted director. This picture is being produced on a lavish scale, and will be released by Paramount at an early date. Tn future Paramount will release all ••>f Douglas ATcLean’s pictures. McLean is proving one of the most popular comedians at present on the American screen. The two first pictures to be released in New Zealand will be: “Never Say Die,” ami “Introduce Ale.” Lillian Gish will he loaned to the ; Ufa Company to play Alarguerite, in a dim production of “Faust,” which is ; be made in Germany, according to •in interview given out by Louis B. r ion madj ger of the A Aro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with whom Miss Gish has a long term contract. According to the announcement the star will make “La Boheme” and one other feature for Metro-Goldwyn before going abroad to appear in “Faust.” It is understood that Emil Jannings will play the role of Mephisto, and probably Ramon Novarro will appear as Aralentin in the Ufa production.

To-night’s attraction at The Grand Theatre is a William Fox production,

‘‘The Painted Lady,” in which those twin screen favourites, George O’Brien and Dorothy Mackaill are featured. The story is excellent, most of the settings being in the South Sea Isles, where hate, love, intrigue and romance are welded together in » truly Fox manner.

Vitagrpah announce that J. Stuart Blackron will make a screen production of A. S. AT. Hutchison’s “The| Happy Warrior” for that company.' The script for the picture is being writ- ■ ten by Alarion Constance, who made '■ the scenario for “The Clean Heart.” j Jacqueline Logan was married at j Los A ngeles on Jure 3, to Ralph James j Gillespie, formerly a Texas real estate , « • ♦ • ATarjorie Sutherland, known on the screen as ATarjorie Daw, secured a divorce from Albert E. Sutherland at Los Angeles on June 3. A Los Angeles message reports that contract to appear on the stage roars’ contract to appear on the stage in comedy roles, hej first appearance to be in New York on August 27. Daniels has re-signed her contract, and will continue to make starring pictures at the rate of five a year. The mos>t recent appearance of Bebe Daniels has been with Raymond Griffith in “Miss Bluebeard.” She has also completed Ihc liliaing of “Wild. Wild Susan,” with Rod La Rocque as leading man. and “Lovers in Quarantine,” in which she is supported by Harrison Ford. The finest example of ronl danger can be had in “Down to the Sea in Ships,” shortly to be released by United Artists, directed by Elmer Clifton. The biggest scene in this wonderful picture is where one secs a, small boat, being dragged at lop speed by an angry whale which lias been harpooned, and every now and then the boats pop up and down —seem to almost capzise—in the most startling manner. Then there is the most extraordinary brilliant scene of all when the whale turns round am! attacks the boat, overturning and wrecking into splinters the frail craft with its terrible tail. The crew is thrown high into the air, and the unfortunate whalers end up by falling into the shark-iniested waters of the Caribbean Sea. “Gerald Cranston’s Lady,” is the intriguing title of the AVilliam Fox production which opens at The Grand Theatre shortly. Even more intriguing than the title perhaps is the cast which shows two such distinguished names as Alma Rubens and James Kirkwood at the top. The picture is a society drama, based on the novel from the pen of Gilbert Frankau, and is directed by Emmett Flynn. It is the kind of film in which Alma Rubens is certain to wear the beautiful clothes for which she is well known, the kind of role in which she may be aloof and mysterious and beautiful. James Kirkwood also

is particularly well cast as the selfmade millionaire who believes that position might be purchased and that love was “a game for fools*’’ Around these two principal characters revolves a cast of unusual • /’i'it including AValter AlcGrail. i.» .< n Littlefield, Spottiswood Aitken, Templar Saxe, Alarguerite De La Alette, Eric Alayne, Lydia Knott and Richard Headrick. The scenes are laid in England and Paris with a few stray shots showing life in Nigeria with its attendant thrills. There is also a scene inside a big passenger airplane crossing the English Channel in a terrific storm which is very well done. Arrangements arc now well in hand fo rthe Alovie Ball, which will be held in the Town Hall, Wellington, on September 23 next. It promises to be one of the biggest functions of its kind ever held in Wellington and a very capable committee has been set up to carry out the necessary arrangements. His Excellency the Governor-General and Lady Fergusson have accorded their patronage, and the proceeds are to be de-vote-1 to the Karitanc Appeal Fund, and it is anticipate'! that this worthy cause will receive the support that it deserves.

Frank Mayo, on Alay 28, was granted a final decree of divorce from Joyce Eleanor Alayo, after a three-year legal battle for a decision, says a Los Angeles message, which further states that the decision legalises Alayo’s marriage two years ago with Dagmar Godowsky. Tn “Salvage,” shortly to be screened at His Majesty’s, Pauline Frederick, the screen’s foremost emotional actress, renders a characterization that will rank with the finest achievements ever attained by any artist on cither stage or screen. “The Super-Sex,” a delightful ATaster Picture, is the story of a typical small town youth of 20, his trials and tribulations as they concern himself, his family, and his sweetheart, all people that you have known or seen. These are woven into one of the most amusing and appealing stories written in manv a day. # * « * Wallace Beery is said to have the finest role of his screen career in the new Paramount picture, “The Devil’s Cargo,” which will be shown here soon. He is featured in the cast along with Pauline Starke, William Collier, jun., Claire Adams and Raymond Hatton. “The Devil’s Cargo” is an adaptation of the story. “The River Boat,” by Charles A. Whittaker. Beery plays a big, slow-moving, slow-thinking stoker, who comes on deck one day to find his captain slain. He tosses the little runt of first mate overboard and i makes everyone on board the boat hop at his slightest command. It’s a new I role for Beery. It gives him a chance jto be funny. And it is said he has I made the most of it.