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

During the year 1926, following the sensational rise of Vilma Banky, Hungarian beauty, and Ronald Colman, English actor, various United Artists producers lured to America distinguished European screen artists and stage producers, whose efforts will be viewed by many Americans for the first time in 1927. Conrad Veidt, great German character actor of “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” has already finished his first American screen effort in the role of King Louis XI., in John Barrymore’s* “The Beloved Rogue.” Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the great Russian novelist, will be seen on the screen for the first time in a special prologue to Edwin Carewe’s film translation of his father’s classic novel, “Resurrection.” Countess Tolstoy will also make her screen debut in a small role in “Resurrection.” Willy Fritsch, German star of “The Waltz Dream.” and now under contract to Joseph M. Schenck, for appearance in United Artists pictures, arrives in America soon. He, too, will be seen in his first American film in 1927. Hugh Miller, English actor, is Gloria Swanson's contribution to the list of foreign players making American debuts. Miller has played featured roles in many important English and German films, but his work as The Seer in “The Love of Sunva” marks his first appearance in an American film. Vladimir Nemiroviteh Dantchenko, cofounder of the Moscow Art Theatre, who has been for three months supervising pictorial treatment of drama in several United Artists pictures, will also contribute his art to better films in 1927.