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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 27, 23 April 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

After working for nine years at the same studio, Jack Holt has left Famous. Players-Laskv. His contract expired and was not renewed. This does not mean that Famous have given up Western pictures. They have just signed Fred Thomson to make a special line of .Westerns for them.

Prize-fighters do not have to work up in the picture industry. They start right out at star salaries. Jack Renault, the heavy-weight, is playing as Richard opponent in the fight scenes of “Knockout Riley,” getting 2.000 dollars a week for six weeks. Tommy Loughran, another heavyweight, who resembles Richard, is doubling for him in the long shots of the fight, at a salary of 3,000 dollars a week. Richard wanted Jack Delaney instead of Renault, but Jack wanted the modest sum of 7,000 dollars a week, and that was too much, even for the movies.

S. Georsre Ullman, the executor of Rudolph Valentino’s estate, has decided to go ahead with his project to build a memorial park in memory of Valentino. He hopes to raise 500,000 dollars. All of Rudy’s possesions which were not sold at the Beverley Hills auction, will be offered again at an auction in San Francisco. V T illiam Tilden, deposed tennis champion, has been signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. to satisfy his ambitions as an actor-.