SCREEN STARS

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 212, 8 November 1926, Page 2

SCREEN STARS

‘FILMLAND FEATURES. NOTES AND COMMENTS. “Sea Horses,” the new Paramount spectacle-melodrama, will come to Auckland soon. Gladys McConnell is said to have proved herself a brilliant horsewoman in “The Flying Horseman,” a Huck Jones starring vehicle for Fox. The British Exhibitors’ Films arc presenting “Pleasures of The Rich,” a Bernhard-Tiffany production. This also appears to be one of the many eternal feminine variety. * -» * A Wm. Fox feature of stirring interest is “Siberia,” Bartley Campbell's drama of love and intrigue in Darkest Russia. Alma Rubens, and Edmund Lowe appear in the cast of charaetcvers. ’» * “The Chastened Woman” heralds the return of the screen of Theda Bara described as the greatest vamp of all time, this being a W. and F. Film Service presentation. # * * “The Torrent” by Langdon Mc-Cor-miek is a film' of rugged life, starring William Fairbanks, Ora Carew, June Elvidgc, Gertrude Astor, and Robert McKim. * # * “Yellow Fingers” Gene Wright’s romantic novel of adventure in the South Sea Isles, with Olive Borden the screen’s newest emotional star in the leading role, is included in the William Fox repertoire. A propaganda illustration indicates that it is a sex problem feature. * # •» Edmund Lowe, his wife, Lilian Tashman, and Lila Lee sailed from America recently on the Mauretania for England. whore they will act in the Fox super-production “One Increasing Purpose.” if vr In “Arizona Sweepstakes,” a tlniversal attraction starring Hoot Gibson, both men and ponies were put to a hard test. The great cross-country race which comes to a climax to the picture is said to be one of the wildest and most hair-raising scrambles of men and horses that has been screened in a long time. Aslcnder, blue-eyed Irish lass is Hollywood’s, most celebrated sportswoman. She is .Eileen Percy, and she holds championships in swimming, ridinc.-. skating, diving, dancing and shooting. She is due shortly in Hoot Gibson’s famous Western, “The Phantom Bullet,” a Universal-Jewel production. # Steve Donoghue, the famous English jockey, will be scon in New Zealand shortly in a series of short pictures dealing entirely with stones of the Turf. Steve, has surprised even all the hard critics as to his ability as a screen actor. ♦ * « In “The Auction Block,” Eleanor Boardman’s latest picture for MetroGoldwyn, she has two lovers and a nerve-raking experience trying to evade bigamy.. Charles Ray and Sally O’Neill, the new screen “find” who made such a success in “Alike,” support Miss Boardman in this picture. “The Auction Block” is a screen adaption of Rex Beach’s famous novel. * * * A pre-lease showing of “Silken Shackles,” in which Irene Rich plays the starring role of an irrespressiblc flirt, met with instantaneous approval from the executives of the Warner office in New York City, ifuntly Gordon has a splendid part opposite Miss Rich as the adoring and jealous husband, while Robert Sellable,- Victor Varconi, Evelyn Selbic and Bert Warburgh complete the cast of “Silken Shackles,” which was directed by Walter Morosco. The story of “My Old Dutch” is a deeply humanised tale of a happy pair of London costers, or vegetable mongers, whose inordinate love for their only son led them to make a great personal sacrifice in order that he might grow up in ignorance of the sordid side of life that had been their lot. Two lonely and desolate hearts pine for the love of their own, and are paid with ingratitude and disdain as is frequently the case in this life. But, as usual in the movies, the story moves on, with highly amusing episodes, to relieve the pathetic ones, until the sun shines again and hearts arc light.