HOLLYWOOD PENCIL SKETCHES

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

HOLLYWOOD PENCIL SKETCHES

In rhe studio cafe .... William Harrison Dempsey .... often called ‘Jack’ visiting xxith Emil Jannings. . . Clara Bow telling her maid to get some lip stick the same colour as her flaming hair J attics Hall fishing for distance on her radio Richard Dix gazing heavenward ..... his new leading lady is Ruth Elder, the aviatrix . . . . As Fred Kohler describes his new garden of gladiolus .... Pessimistic newspaperman requesting biography of Wallace Beery .... who has just bought a new aeroplane. . Extra girl driving to casting ofiice in her husband’s Packard. .... Emil Jannings’ little Ford parked outside his dressing-room. .

A scene so vast that a battery of twenty-live cameras was required in order to “cover” it is one of the many features its premier releases at the Strand Theatre. Auckland. The scene depicts the flight of a young couple right through the heart of a great city; and in order that the director might control the actions of everybody within range of the cameras, a special set. one ami a-half miles long, was erected in the William Fox studios. Many attempts were made to shoot the scenes in San Francisco, but they proved unsuccessful. The cast of “Sunrise” is headed by lovely Janet Gaynor, star of “7th Heaven,” and George O’Brien, long favourite in Fox pictures.