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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 64, 7 June 1927, Page 15

What happens when a girl is very much in love with a man who nays absolutely no attention to her? Then they’re suddenly placed in the same basket and he discovers—well, you’ll be surprised! “Fashions for Women,” Esther Ralston’s initial starring production, reaches the screen very shortly. Einar Hanson and Raymond Hatton have featured roles. Dorothy Paramount’s “Arizona Bound” company became literally Arizona bound when the troupe, headed by John Waters, director, Gary Cooper, the star, Betty Jewel, his leading woman, “Flash,” the wonder horse, just placed under contract by Paramount, and a company of 100 players and technical assistants left for Phoenix, Arizona, to take the exterior scenes of the picture. Alyce Mills, Paramount contract player, has been assigned to the role of Cornelia Evans in “The Whirlwind of Youth, the Paramount screen translation of A. Hamilton Gibbs's best seller, “Soundings,” which Rowland V. ‘Lee is directing. Lois Moran, Donald Keith. Larry Kent and Vera Veronica are other featured members of the cast. * * » The advent of six British produced pictures to be released by Paramount will be introduced by the presentation of “The Flag Lieutenant,” in which Henry Edwards plays the name part. Produced with the hearty co-operation of the British Admiralty, the picture is of double interest to Australians in that an Australian actress, Dorothy Seacombe, is one of the leading ' players.

Our own Dorothy Gish. Herbert Wilcox, director, and Thomas Burke, author, both Englishmen, have conspired to pack mighty London Town into six reels of celluloid and bring it bodily to the screens of the world. Entitle is “London,” a Paramount pit - ture. And it’s just that, plus an‘interesting story of what happens to Mavis Hogan when she runs iway from her “aunt” in Limehou.se. “London” is unusual because the picture shows dozens of places you've heard of but never seen. The scenes are real. “Birds of Prey,” first of a series of four Columbia productions, which will star Priscilla Dean for Master pictures release, is based on the story of the same novel written by George Bronson Howard. “Birds of Prey."’ is a crook drama, directed for Columbia by William Crolt. The cast includes Hugh Allen, Gustav Von Seyffertiz, Winifred Landis, Sydney Bracv, Ben Hendricks Jnr. • • * Miss Moran is playing the role of an ambulance-driver in “The Whirlwind of Youth,” the Paramount oieture from the novel “Soundings.” by Hamilton Gibbs. The regiment Is a real one, made up practically in its entirety of world war veterans who were disabled, and Miss Moran is actually the “darling” of the troops. According to one veteran, she is the kind of a war-worker all of the soldiers dreamed about meeting overseas. . *

Evelyn Brent has completed one of the featured roles opposite Thomas Meighan in “Blind Alleys,” his latest Paramount starring effort. Her next assignment is one of the principal roles in the picturisation by Arthur Rosson of Ben Heoht’s “Underworld,” a. story of gang life in which Ricardo Cortez has the male lead. This will be Miss Brent's fourth consecutive Paramount picture since September, when she began work ir “Love ’Em and Leave ’Em.” the second being Edward Sutherland’s production, “Love’s Greatest Mistake.”