HERE AND THERE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20104, 24 March 1928, Page 15 (Supplement)

HERE AND THERE

Florence Vidor will be featured in support of Emil Jannings, the star of “The Patriot.”

Adolphe Menjou’s picture, started in production under the title of “Captain Ferrcol,” has boon given a new title. The picture i.s now captioned ‘ ‘ Code of Honour. ’ ’

“Hold Everything,” an original story by John McDermott, will be Bebe Daniels’ next for Paramount. Clarence Badger who is directing “Red Hair” for Clara Bow will direct Miss Daniels’ new film. ♦ * ♦ ♦

The recent floods in New South Wales temporarily isolated Broken Hill, the roads being impassable, and a washaway holding up the railway services. It was found necessary co charter an aeroplane from Adelaide to

get the Paramount Picture programm to the theatres in Broken it 11 on time

“Huntingtower,” starring the world famous comedian Sir Harry Lauder is creating a sensation at the Plaza Theatre, London. “Huntingtower” is a British production and will be released in New Zealand and Australia by Paramount Pictures during this year. J # * * *

Jack Canzhorn, Burton Ruff and Ethan Laidlaw have been added to the cast of “Partners in Crime,” Paramount’s new comedy-melodrama cofeaturing Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton. Mary Brian plays the feminine lead. The supporting cast includes Jack Luden and William Powell.

Leslie Fenton —the man with the baffling eyes he is called —is at work in a featured role with George Bancroft in the latter’s new picture for Paramount titled ‘ ‘ The Show Down, ’J Fenton’s eyes appear differently in different light and his friends cannot agree on their colour. # ♦ * ♦

Sojin the noted Chinese actor, will have an important ‘heavy’ role in the new Esther Ralston comedy for Paramount. The picture is called “Something Always Happens ” Neil Hanrlton is leading man, and Frank Tuttle, director. « ♦ • ♦

Madge Bellamy has started work on “Soft Living,” another whimsical comedy-drama in the light, airy vein for which she is becoming celebrated. .Tames Tinling, who directed Miss Bellamy in her previous effort, “A cry Confidential,” is directing her again in “Soft Living.” John Bowers is playing the male load, and William Kerncll is contributing the comedy clement. Miss Bellamy has recently completed her second starring vehicle for the Fox release list, “Silk Legs.”

One. of the, strangest movie actors to visit Los Angeles in many moons, is a huge, hairy-legged tarantula, which arrived by airplane from Arizona. The spidery native was recruited from his desert haunts to play an important role in “Womanwise.” a picture now being filmed at the Fox Studios. Duke Kananamoku, the famous Hawaiian swimmer, who claims to be more or less of an authority on the subjects of tarantulas, was given the task of directing the giant insect. June Collyer and William Russell appear in the leading roles of “Womanwise.”

Ludwig Berger, the celebrated German director who was brought to Hollywood by Fox Films, is comfortably settled in his new home, and is now busily engaged arranging tests for his first picture, “I Will Not Marry,” a delicious comedy. It concerns itself with the adventures of a stubborn bachelor who decides he will not marry because modern girls are too advanced. When he insists on meeting an old-fashioned girl, he has still more food for thought, and the. fun which' results should provide really clever screen comedy. The leads for the film have not yet been chosen. * * ♦ *

“Come to My House” is Olive Borden ’s latest film for the Fox schedule. Antonio Moreno’s masculine charms are seen to advantage in the male lead. Catalina Island, the most picturesque beauty spot on the Pacific, wa.s used for the exterior settings of “Come to My House,’’ and many thrilling water scenes were taken on the bay. One of the most spectacular shots is where Miss Borden drives a speed boat, cutting the water at a tremendous rate. The. undoubted beauties of Catalina Island provide a delightful setting for the romance of the film.

Some idea of the magnitude of the scenes in “The King of Kings” is gained from a consideration of the fact that for one scene, De Mille was obliged to reconstruct the whole crowded city quarter of Jerusalem, showing the marts, the flanking alleyways, the long side passages, the curious overhead niches or balconies, and the different levels or terraces of the building construction. Another big setting was the Temple of Herod, which necessitated an army of carpenters working day and night for one month. Yet this particular set is absolutely dwarfed by the giant structure representing the. Judgment Hall of Pontius Pilate, wherein is a replica of the Eagle of Rome, standing 37 feet highMuch of the picture is in colour, and this adds a note of increased vividness and interest to the remarkable sequences. * * * *

Billie Dove, who has been termed one of the most beautiful women on the screen, is starred in the colourful tale of Old New Orleans, “The Love Mart,” a First National production. She is supported by Gilbert Roland, the handsome actor who interpreted “Armand” in Norma Talmadge’s “Camille.” The drama revolves around the story of a girl who is falsely declared to have dark blood in her veins, and is consequently sold into slavery, only to be proved white by the man who bought, her with his last dollar and who learns to love her. For sheer beauty of settings and lavishness of production, the film could hardly be surpassed, while the picturesque background is the stirring, thrilling years of the last century, when slave-running to the American coast among semipiratical adventurers was as popular as bootlegging is to-day. Noah Beery makes a powerful addition to the cast Captain Remy, the slave-runner. The atmospheric tone of the production is very convincing, notably those which feature the inn constructed from an old ship grounded on the sands outside Now Orleans, the slave market, the gay Tivoli cafe, the streets of the old French quarter of the romantic city, and some splendid exhibitions of fencing. Gilbert Roland makes love with convincing fervour, while Billie Dove makes a very appealing and beautiful Antoinette Frobelle.