BIG PREPARATIONS AT HOLLYWOOD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20150, 19 May 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

BIG PREPARATIONS AT HOLLYWOOD

THE PRODUCTION OF “HIGH TREASON.” Three of the largest sets ever con strncted for motion pictures have been built at the Paramount studio for use in the production of the picture “High Treason.” formerly called “The Patriot.” They consist of a corridor and grand staircase; a throne room copied after the original in the Palac*of St. Michael in St. Petersburg, now Leningrad, and •* section of the main thoroughfare leading to the palace, flanked by massive buildings on each side. The street set occupied the studio construction forces for nearly two months and when seen on the screen will be one of the most impressive ever built in Hollywood. P is over five hundred yards in length. with something like seventy stone buildings, two, three and four storeys in height, on each side. The houses are all practical. with massive doors and gates leading to court-yards which are also completely finished and will bo used in filming “High Treason.” "Ernest T.ubitsrh plans to use more than one thousand people and nearly five hundred horsemen in scenes to be made in this gigant’e set. Emil .Tannings, the European actor now with Paramount, is starred in the picture, playing the part of the Czar Paul I, mad son of ferine the Great