ESTELLE TAYLOR

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 116, 6 August 1927, Page 23

ESTELLE TAYLOR

NEW GRIFFITH ROLL Estelle Taylor, who in private life is the wife of Jack Dempsey, the exchampion pugilist, has been chosen by D. W. Griffith to play the title role in his first picture for United artists, “La Taiva,” as the mistress of Napoleon 111. She will have opportunities for characterful portrayal greater than those that won her acclaim as Lucrezia Borgia in “Don Juan,” Griffith promises. The story, an original by Karl Vollmoeller, author of “The Miracle,” is laid in it period with which Griffith has been familiar since he made “Orphans of the Storm” —that of Paris about the time of the Franco-Prussian war. It carries Miss many vicissitudes, from gutter to court, as favourite of the Emperor and as fiancee of one of his ministers. Camera work on “La Taiva” is to start in July.

the part of the Administration eventually quashed it. A strict censorship of pictures is, of course, most essential in the East. The censorship is much more rigid nowadays than it was in the early days of the film industry. Nothing that would incite rebellion, for instance, can be screened. “Scaramouche,” as an example, was refused admission into Java by the Dutch authorities. Neither are domestic problem plays in which white women play a part permitted to meet the eyes of the almondeyed Malays. During his stay in the East Mr. Thomas acquired a knowledge of both the Dutch and Malayan tongues—by no means a mean achievement.