“THE TEMPTRESS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 24, 20 April 1927, Page 11

“THE TEMPTRESS”

NEW PICTURE IN HAND < Vicent Blasco Ibanez, famous author of “The Horseman,” “Mare -Nostrum” and “The Torrent,” indirectly supervised at least one role of J? e story he created, when Antonio -Moreno played the role of “Robledo” n the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer producvPn °f Ibarez. “The Temptress.” For +i or V}° played the role according to ne direct ideas of the author —he had ' e . Wr iter’s description of every scene na every detail of the hero’s charfter. While in Europe filming “Mare Moreno talked over the role J* Temptress” with Ibanez, whom M Vlsited at the latter’s villa in France. I. reno was intensely interested in .... and he and Ibanez worked e yery detail of it. Fred Niblo, th»t V r ns the production, suggested j i ' * Vl ° re no bear in mind the author’s throu Shout; hence, Ibanez, in a seen rea^y directed Moreno in the ron r es * The new production is a vivid Gr!* *2 of Paris and South America, pi , Garbo. Swedish screen beauty, h • * the title role as the strange and H v charmer who wrecks men’s rri , R ’ Moreno plays the principal male ■} * notable cast includes Lionel r^T 1 ? 01 * 6 ’ oy D’Arcy. Marc McHroottand other well-known players.