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“WHISPERING SMITH” Lillian Rich, H. B. Warner, John Bowers and Will Walling risked their lives during the filming of “Whispering Smith,” which comes to the Empire Theatre to-night. During the filming of a blinding rainstorm late at night, in the mountains which fringe the Mojave Desere, it was necessary for all these players to ford a mountain stream which had reached the river stage, when a cloudburst occurred the day of the “shooting.” With a big battery of powerful lights, Miss Rich forced her horse into the raging torrent and had scarcely started across the stream when the horse lost its footing and floundered. Warner, Bowers and Walling, already mounted, rode to her rescue and finally succeeded in bringing her to shore after they had been carried almost a mile down stream. Some of this action is seen in “Whispering Smith,” which also has Lilyan Tashman, Eugene Pallette, Richard Neill, James Mason, "Warren Rodgers, Nelson McDowell and Robert Edeson in the cast. It is a screen version of Frank Spearman’s novel of the same npe.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 148, 13 September 1927, Page 17
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176EMPIRE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 148, 13 September 1927, Page 17
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