AUCKLAND IS SEEING:

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 21, 16 April 1927, Page 19 (Supplement)

AUCKLAND IS SEEING:

NATIONAL Ar£D LYRIC .. “ TIVOLI .. “ EVE RYBODYFS “ MAJESTIC,. “ GRAND “ REGENT “ STRANiD “ HIPPODROME “ BRITANNIA “ RIALTO ‘ nia'pEN-T (Epsom) *' “Cupid’s Round-Up” was the appropriate name of the film that rounded up Victoria Forde and Tom Mix at the marriage altar. * * * “Faust” is one of the most arrtistic pictures that has graced the screen this season. This importation from the German studios features Emil Jannings as Mephisto. * * * In “Twinkletoes” Colleen Moore plays a belle of London’s Limehouse and falls in love with a pugilist. The latter is played by Kenneth Harlan. * * * Mary Astor won honourable mention in a beauty contest. But she buckled down and eventually by real sacrifice reached success. ♦ ♦ ♦ “Winning a beauty contest,” according to Gertrude Olmsted, “did nothing but give me the opportunity to work hard.” * * * Lynn Reynolds has just received the greatest directing plum of the year. Carl Laemmle has decided that he will do Edna Ferber’s “Show Boat.” * * * Clifford Holland, Fox Films new screen find, will make his first appearance in an important role in “Rich, But Honest,” which Albert Ray is directing. The Stern Brothers, makers of screen comedies such as “The Newlyweds and Their Baby” and the Buster Brown comedies, are doubling the facilities of their studio to meet the growing demand for laugh films. It is quite likely that Laura La Plante's next Jewel feature will be “Stolen Silks.” This is an adaptation from the well-known stage play, “A Pair of Silk Stockings,” by Cyril Ilarcourt. * * * “For The Term of His Natural Life,” a Master Picture soon to be released, is the screen adaptation of Marcus Clark’s immortal story. This picture was filmed in Australia on the actual locality described by the author. Eva Novak and George Fisher were taken to Australia to play the leading roles. * * * For the first time in her life Florence Vidor has made herself appear deliberately unattractive for a motion picture. In several scenes for her newest Paramount starring vehicle, “Afraid to Love,” she wears glasses, does her hair in an unattractive knot on top of her head and is cross-eyed. * * * For a year Universal has been training a Belgian police dog named Dynamite for a remarkable series of stunts in moving pictures. It has now been decided to feature him in four fivereel pictures, to be directed by Francis Ford. The first is entitled “The Hound of Silver Creek.” Edmund Cobb •and Dixie Lamont play the leading human roles. * * * To blonde or not to blonde. Such is the problem of Dorothy Gulliver. In the first series of “The Collegians” by Carl Laemmle, jun., the beauteous Dorothy, for the sake of art and contrast, became a blonde. In the second series she is a brunette. Dorothy is going to prove once and for all which gentlemen do prefer. * * * Tom Mix felled a tree with a sixinch trunk in four seconds while he was making scenes for “The Broncho Twister,” a forthcoming Fox Films release. Mix used a “one man” machinegun, weighing nine and a-half pounds, that sends out lead like a hose spouting water. The gun fires twenty times at a single touch on the trigger.

‘Bigger Than Barnums,” “The Perfect Saip.” ‘The Quarterback,” “The Old Soak.” ‘The Old Soak,” “The Buckeroo , Kid.” ‘Don Juan” and Childhood Fantasy, produced by Valeska. ‘Road to Mandalay” (Lon # Chaney). ‘The Rat” (Ivor Novello). ‘The Quarterback,” “The Old Soak.” ‘The Rose of the World,” “The Call of the Wild.” ‘The Wild Bull’s Lair.” ‘Wet Paint.” ‘Rolling Home,” “Flying Horseman.” ‘Rolling Home,” “Flying Horseman.” Camerawork started recently at Universal City on “Back to God’s Country,” a James Oliver Curwood story which Lynn Reynolds is to make as an outstanding picture for next year. Renee Adoree and Robert Frazer are playing the leading roles, with Walter Long and Mitchell Lewis also among the principals. Based on the Jules Verne novel, “Michael Strogoff” has been setting up box-office records in Broadway. It was made by the Societe des Cineromans, the leading French producers, and acquired for distribution by Carl Laemmle, and when it first arrived in America, it found only a luke-warm welcome. The Keystone cops are to be revived. Mr. Mack Sennett has decided that bathing girls no longer make a comedy. The prestige of the bathing beauty has been sadly impaired lately. The girls were popular back in the year 1914 when the only one-piece bathing suits were seen on the Sennet beauties. Now the beaches are littered with them, and they are no longer a novelty. Kenneth Harlan, playing the male lead opposite Olive Borden in the Fox attraction, “The Secret Studio,” was educated at St. Francis College in New York. He gained his first experience on the stage in stock company with his mother. After two years of stock he went into vaudeville, thereafter being .chosen by D. W. Griffith to play leads. Harlan is ruggedly handsome, with dark hair and dark eyes. He stands six feet tall and weighs just under thirteen stone. Kenneth says his hobby is to go to dinner just before somebody starts to tell how he made a hole in one. * * * Patsy Ruth Miller, stars with Syd. Chaplin in his latest farce, “Oh, What a Nurse,” shortly to be released in New Zealand. This is Patsy Ruth Miller’s first role in a feature comedy. In this fast story of rum-runners and mistaken identity, Syd. once more, assumes feminine guise, and as a nurse certainly swings a powerful thermometer, breaking numerous hearts, and finally winning the only girl after many hilarious adventures on a rumrunner. a * * One of the most widely travelled actresess now appearing in pictures is Lucy Beaumont, who plays an important role in “Men of the Night,” to be released shortly by Universal. Miss Beaumont was born in England, educated there and in Paris, and began her acting career in Great Britain. She toured the British “provinces” and then went with a theatrical troupe which toured the Far East. She appeared on the stage in America before turning to screen acting. The sons and daughters of some of the biggest stars in Hollywood are appearing in a series of two-reel comedies. Madelene Brandies, the only woman producer in the picture business, has assembled the children of the stars for the pictures. The first picture, “Young Hollywood,” boasts of a cast which includes, Erich Von Stroheim, Jr., Tim Holt, Barbara Denny, Eileen O’Malley, Billy Reid, George Bos worth, Mary Desmond, and D’Arcy McCoy. The children of other players will appear in subsequent productions. Most of them look very much like their famous parents. The only difference between the children and their fathers is that the children always arrive to. work on time.