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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 52, 24 May 1927, Page 15

George Jessel, star of the spectacular Broadway success, “The Jazz Singer,” is starred in the Master Picture, due for early release, as "Private Izzy Murphy.” Patsy Ruth Miller and Vera Gordon are featured with Mr. Jessel. The picture was directed by Lloyd Bacon, whilst the scenario was placed in the hands of Phillip Lonergan. It is the story of a young Jewish delicatessen keeper who renames himself “Murphy,” and has his affairs, miiltary and otherwise, with the Irish, especially Eileen. James Hall is just about the busiest man on the Paramount West Coast lot. He has been playing simultaneously as leading man in two pictures, each demanding a widely varied characterisation. In Elinor Glyn’s production of “Ritzy,” starring Betty Bronson, he is an English duke, while in his role opposite Bebe Daniels in “Senorita” he is a swaggering caballero of South America.

D. W. Griffith, who always has something new up his cinema sleeve to spring on an expectant public, introduced a novel and intriguing method of presenting his central character of Satan, in the film version of Marie Corelli’s novel, “Sorrows of Satan.” a Paramount picture. The prince of the underworld looms forth as an elongated shadow and dissolves into the suave, sophisticated person that is known as Adolphe Menjou. This startling effect is one that will startle every audience wherever presented.

Ten Modern Commandments hav been introduced to Hollywood. Not so bad as it sounds. They fori the basis of a story written by Jaci Lait which is to be produced by Para mount as a starring: vehicle for Estha Ralston. Dorothy Arzner, the first ant only woman director on the Paramoun “lot” has been assigned to handle th megaphone for the blonde star, follow ing her tremendous success with Mi« Ralston in “Fashions for Women.**