Fuller-Hay wards Secure United Artists for N.Z.

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 140, 3 September 1927, Page 23

Fuller-Hay wards Secure United Artists for N.Z.

Visit of Mr. Frank Knox rrHE whole of the United Artists *- 1927-28 output for New Zealand has been secured by the Ful-ler-Hayward film combination for its theatres. An announcement concerning this contract, said to be one of the most valuable ever signed in the Dominion, was made to-day by Mr. Frank Knox, assistant genera! manager for United Artists (Aust.),. Ltd., who is visiting Auckland. Mr. Knox will leave for the South Island next week. He is due to depart from Auckland by the Kiagara for Sydney later in the month. Features secured by the Fuller-Hay-ward theatres, he says, will include:

Mary Pickford in “My Best Girl”; Norma Talmadge in “The Hove”; Gloria Swanson in “Sadie Thompson”: Corinne Griffith in “The Garden of Eden.” NEW CHAPLIN FILM Charlie Chaplin in “The Circus”; Douglas Fairbanks in “The Gaucho”; Gilda Gray in “The Devil Dancer”; D. W. Griffiths in “La Pavia” (temporary title) ; John Barrymore in “Tempest”; Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky in “The Magic Flame”; Buster Keaton in “College”; Morris Gests in “The Darling of the Gods”; Fred Niblo’s “Laugh, Clown, Laugh”; Herbert Brenon’s “Sorrell and Son.” AN ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME Dolores Del Rio in “Ramona”; Duncan Sisters in “Topsy and Eva”; “Two Arabian Knight,” with William Boyd, Mary Astor and Louis Wolheim. Mr. Knox, who, by'the way, is an ex-journalist, expressed himself as de-

lighted with the internal prosperity of New Zealand, and the plane occupied by the picture business in the community life of the people of this Dominion. He has nothing but the highest praise for “the equitable and fair dealing methods” of the Fuller-Hayward directorate in its relations with the film companies- “ The citizens owe a debt of gratitude to this New Zealand-owned company for the manner in which it caters for the amusement lovers in its high-class theatres, and especially for its enterprise in showing the best procurable pictures very often before they are screened in either Australia or England.”