HERE AND THERE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 219, 15 September 1928, Page 15 (Supplement)

HERE AND THERE

Sammy Cohen, Marjorie Beebe, Tyler Brooke and Beu Bard, four Fox comedy players are doing their initial work in Movietone at the William Pox West Studios in “Four A.M.,” a short sketch being directed by William (Jonselman. This is the second of all-talk-ing comedies to be made by the Fox company, the first being “The Family Picnic.”

“Fleetwing,” a Fox Films’ production shortly to be released throughout New Zealand, is a colourful and fascinating romance of the Arabian desert. Dorothy Janis, a new-comer to the screen, has the role of the dancing girl for whom two tribes of Bedouins wage battle. Barry Norton, the “mother’s boy” of “What Price GJory, ’’ is the young sheik who braves tribal law to win her and Ben Bard is the grim chief who buys her into his harem. Thrills — colour —action and romance against picturesque backgrounds promise to make this production one of the most outstanding dramas ever seen on the silver screen.

Ramon Navarro and Norma Shearer will be seen shortly in “The Student Prince,” a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture. The most beautiful of love stories has been treated in a tender ..nd romantic manner under the directorial guidance of Ernst Lubitsch, and tells the poignant story of an unhappy prince and lowly peasant maid who love each other in spite of royal traditions.

Although he plays the role of a German private in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Under the Black Eagle,” coming soon, Ralph Forbes was a British officer during the world war. After working for two months in a Genian uniform. Forbes declared the clothing worn by the German soldiers, was far more comfortable than that worn by the British Tommy. The most versatile girl in pictures, who is never afraid to wear old clothes, to he generally different, that’s Marion Davies, whose Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures have won her international fame. Tn “The Patsy.” her latest picture, to be released shortly. Miss Davies has the funniest role of her career in her most interesting picture. It is a domestic landslide of laughs.

No stunt is too difficult for Rin Tin Tin, Warner Bros.’ canine star. In his latest starring picture, “A Race for Life,” shortly to be released throughout the Dominion, Rin Tin Tin provides one thrilling situation after another. Versatility seems to be the key-note to Rin Tin Tin’s success. Bobby Gordon as Danny, youthful owner of Rinty, who leaves home to win fame and fortune that his aged mother may enjoy luxuries in her declining years, gives a sympathetic performance. In the supporting cast are such excellent players as Virginia Browne Fairc, Carrol Rye, Pat Hartiban and James Mason.

For the first time in her screen career, May McAvoy dons a wig for Warner Bros.’ production of “The Jazz Singer,” for Master Picture release, in the title role of which Al Jolson is scon. Not only that, but it is a pure shining white to top off the delicately lovely little ballet costume that May wears as the vaudeville star heroine. Thanks to the perfection of her features she appears fully as beautiful and much exotic than in her own titen tresses.

Fourteen blonde beauties, led by vivacious Nancy Carroll and the dainty Frances Lee, trip the light fantastic in Fox Films’ comedy romance, “Chicken a la King.” The chorus, all trained Morgan dancers, is responsible for a number of sparkling scenes of back stage life, which arc a part of the story of this production. AH costumes worn by the girls are originals and designed for them by the studio modiste. Accurate and convincing settings are one of Norman Dawn’s numerous fetishes. It was his thirst for realism that took “The Term” company to Tasmania, and later “The Adorable Outcast” players to the Fiji Islands, where lay a field of glorious tropical locations. There against the splendour of palmed hills, mighty waterfalls, the lazy tapestry of island-spangled lagoons and the sunny stretches of cocoa tree fringed beaches, many scenes of Beatrice Grimshaw’s famous novel were shot. With the services of hundreds of full-blooded natives, whose natural knowledge of all island details in dress, customs and history, materially helped Dawn in the avoidance of mistakes in action. “The Adorable Outcast,” featuring Edith Roberts, Ed-

mund Burns, Walter Long and Jessica Harcourt, is a Master Picture special, shortly to be released in New Zealand. • ♦ * * Under the supervision of William Koenig more than two thousand workmen have been busily engaged for . omc weeks in the erection of a mammoth architectural structure, the interior of which is the Temple of Jaughat, a replica of the sixtecn-thousand-ycar-old place of worship. This structure alone extends over several acres of ground, and i s to be part of the Biblical sequences in “Noah’s Ark,” a Warner Master Picture special. Joe Brandt, president of Columbia ’'Pictures, is said to have entered into negotiations for the leasing of a Broadway Theatre foi an extended run premiere of the Columbia special, “The Scarlet Woman,” starring Lye de Putti. The story. about rex lutionary Russia, is now being directed by Alan Crosland. Arrangements arc also being made to synchronise the production with music supplied by a symphony orchestra. • • • • Dolores Costello, star of the Warner Master Picture. “Heart of Maryland,’’ which is soon to be released in New

Zealand, has never been so appealingly beautiful as in the role of Maryland Calvert—the girl who, while passionately loving the South, found her heart divided against itself in love for a soljdier of the North. This exciting and glamorous story of Civil War days has had numerous revivals since it won fame for Mrs Leslie Carter thirty years ago, and always successful ones. It is suffused with a passionate intensity which makes it perennially interesting. Warner Bros, have given it marvellous settings and a cast which includes many of the most celebrated names of the day. Among the great characterisations arc Mr and Mrs Lincoln, Jeffcrso.i Davis. General Robert E. Lee and Genera] Grant. Fox Films will shortly be presenting lovely dark-eyed Madge Bellamy in [“The Play Girl.” In this production Madge enacts a shop girl, who thought she could play and dance through life, forgetting the fiddler had to be paid. A comedy romance of modern youth tingling with excitement, pulsing with heart throbs, and bubbling over with laughter. Johnnv Mack Brown, who played opposite Miss Bellamy in “Soft Living” has the leading male role in I this new production.