EDENDALE CINEMA

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 150, 15 September 1927, Page 17

EDENDALE CINEMA

“THE TAXI-DANCER” The dancing team of Joan Crawford and Douglas Gilmore promises to become one of the most famous on the screen. Joan and Doug first danced together in “Sally, Irene and Mary,” directed by Edmund Goulding. Their next appearance as dancing partners was in “Paris,” when Miss Crawford was featured with Charles Ray. In this production she was an Apache girl of the Montmartre, with Gilmore as her underworld lover. In “The Taxi Dancer,” i i which Joan plays the title role, she again dances with Gilmore, who has the role of a professional dancer in a fashionable night club. ‘The Taxi Dancer” is basecl on the popular novel by Robert Terry Shannon, and is now showing at the Edendale Cinema. It was directed ’or Met-ro-Gold wyn-Mayer by Harry Millarde, director of “Over the Hill” and “If Winter Comes.” The cast also includes Owen Moore, Marc MacDermott, Claire M icDowell. Rockliffe Fellowes, Gertrude Astor, Bert Roach, William Orlamond and others. On the same programme Syd Chaplin will appear in the hilarious comedy, “Oh! What a Nurse!” which is stated to be a worthy successor to “Charley’s Aunt.”

Betty Jewel, featured Paramount player l , entered the movies on a. dare. Her first screen work was with D. W. Griffith in “Ophans of the Storm” in which she played three distinct roles, winning thereby the sobriquet of “Third orphan.” Miss Jewel plays a captivating role in Gary Cooper's starring Paramount Picture “The Last Outlaw” soon to be released in New Zealand.