SLIGHTLY INDECOROUS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 4, 26 March 1927, Page 19 (Supplement)

SLIGHTLY INDECOROUS

"The most gorgeous cloud effects { ever filmed,” is the praise being ! heaped upon the shoulders of Harry ! Perry and his crew of camera-men, i who were responsible for the filming of "Wings,” John Monk Saunders's story of the American aviator, which ; is being directed by William Wellman and supervised by Lucien Hubbard for Paramount.

Dorothy MacKaill, co-featured at the National and Lyric this week with Leon Errol in ‘ The Lunatic at Large,” is one screen star who simply has to watch the scales and her diet and exercise to keep her job. Her contract with First National Pictures has ’ weight clause or anti-fat clause in declares Dorothy’s contract null and void if she goes over 120 founds in weight-

De Mille believes realism of the Eugene O’Neill type will eventually be as popular in the motion picture dramas as behind the footlights. Ex-moving picture star Georges Carpentier, who fought Jack Dempsey once, and who is still something of an idol in Europe, is to make his debut on the Paris stage, doing a turn in “Knock Out,” a revue to be done at the Theatre Edouard VII. Carpentier will sing and dance. * • * Irene Rich, once the screen’s most perennially neglected wife, blossomed forth into such a charming woman when a chance role allowed her to do that, that they have put her in leading roles “for keeps” now. She is announced to star in the screen version of the Clyde Fitch play, “The Climbers,” which is soon to be produced by Warner Brothers. Paul Stein is to direct. Lois Wilson, after passing her entire screen career with Famous-Players Lasky, the company that discovered and developed her, has bobbed her hair and left the fold. She is asking 2,500 dollars weekly salary as a free lance. Each night of the year more than 1,200 theatres' in the world show Tom Mix pictures, and more than half-a-million theatre patrons watch the star’s performances, according to an American authority.