NOTES FROM THE FILM WORLD

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12615, 27 November 1926, Page 13

NOTES FROM THE FILM WORLD

“THE SEA BEAST” AT EMPRESS "The Sea Beast/’ a big Warner picture, featuring John Barrymore, and released by Australasian, opened at the Empress Theatre, Wellington, last night to a capacity house. This attraction, which is considered on© of the best of 1926, should greatly appeal to all picture fans, and Manager Bob Haddow, of th© Empress, is confident that it will break tne previous record at this theatre. •• * * Tom Mix’s latest picture, “The Great

IIUmiItimiHIIIIIHIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIHtIIIHIUI Wellington last week, and was privately K. and A. Train Robbery,” arrived in reviewed at the office of Fox Films. This picture should prove to be Mix’s greatest, and will be very popular with pic-ture-goers. Most of the picture was filmed in the Royal Gorge, Colorado, and it must be said that the 6tenery is absolutely wonderful. It is expected that an early release date will be fixed, as Tom Mix pictures are much in demand. • # # * GREATER MOVIE SEASON Fifteenth 1 Birthday Month Greater Movie season will be celebrated throughout New Zealand and Australia during the entire month of March next. “The Greater Movie Season” has been instituted by Paramount Pictures to take place at certain periods. Its object is to stimulate the moving picture business generally, and the movement has gained considerable success in this regard. The moving picture industry has now come to be one of

(iimimiimmiiiimiiiiimimiiiiiiiiiitmiiii very great importance and standing, and it is through such “movements” as these that this effect ha 6 been brought about. • t c.' • Many important events in regard to moving pictures in New Zealand at the present moment go to the credit of Paramount. The following big attractions are now showing throughout the centres: “The Vanishing Race,” Zane Grey’s great story* “College Days,” with Harold Lloyd; "The Wanderer,” and now the news comes that the Paramount Indians aro to come to New Zealand, while of still more immediate consequence is the announcement of the opening of the new Regent Theatre, in Wellington, on December 10th, with "Bea\i Geste/’ P. C. Wren’s great story of the French Foreign Legion. • • * • George O’Brien and Anita Stewart aro co-starrcd in the Fox production, “Rustlingfor Cupid,” adapted from the Peter B Kyne story, whicn is screening here , this week. ‘

BREEZY COMEDY AT THE KING’S The romantic adventures of a modern flapper, who rebelled against the conventions of society in a small, old-fash-ioned country town, are the substance of “Don’t,” the Mctro-Goldwvn-Mayer pictuirsation of the Rupert Hughes story. It is screening at tho King’s Theatre this week. Sally O’Neill, tho latest screen discovery, who appeared so successfully in the recent pictures. “Mike,” “The Auction Block/’ and “Sally, Irene and Mary,” has the leading feminine role. Acting with the ease and assur-

riiiiHiimimimiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiii ance of a veteran, she will again captivate every audience. She is supported by John Patrick, Bert Roach, Karl Dane, and De Witt Jennings. Alf. Goulding directed. • • * • AN AUSTRALIAN FILM Mayne Lynton, Gerald Kay Soupev* Claude Turton, Dunstan Webb, Arthur Tauchert, and Charlton Stratton are among the Australian actors engaged for the filming of “For the Term of His Natural Life.” The leads are being taken by Miss Eva Novak and Mr George Fisher, importations from America. • * • • At the Strand next week the remarkable Auckland boy soprano, Master Dfivid Lunny, who won two first awards and one second at the recent Auckland Competitions, will sing from the stage. The judge commented on the rich qualities of his voice. A brilliant future has been predicted for this Auckland boy.

tiHiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiift More eyebrows have been arched in surprise in Hollywood over the casting of “What Price Glory?” than have been raised 6ince Jackie Coogan proposed playing “Hamlet.” The two principal characters, the rivals of the stage play, are a most ill-assorted pair. Captain Flagg is played by Victor McLaglen, the giant of “The Unholy Three.’* Edmund Lowe, esteemed for his suave society types, is cast as the hard-boiled Sergeant Onirk. The girl Channaine is plaved by Dolores del Rio, the new Mexican beautr. m * • • Norma Talmadge has returned to Hollywood from New York, whither she had gone to hunt for new screen material. The star is about to make her j last film release through First National, “Tho Sun of Montmartre.” After this is completed Miss Talmadge will join United Artists. \ • * 9 Will Percy, the ex-Pellardian comed--1 inn, is touring England in "Oh, Patsy.”