Have You Heard That?

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 158, 24 September 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

Have You Heard That?

Paul L. Stein, the former UFA director who managed Pola Negri through several of her most successful foreign pictures, has been assigned director to Jetta Goudal. Edmund Burns, filling a special contract with the Australasian Film Company, Ltd., plans to finish his work in Australia this month and return to Hollywood. Richard Dix and a company of players are on the Sacramento River making scenes for Paramount’s Chinese adventure yarn, “Shanghaied.” Harrison Ford will be Marie Prevost’s leading man for the fifth consecutive time in “The Girl in the Pullman.” * * * Lionel Barrymore has been loaned to the Gloria Swanson company to play the role of the missionary in “Sadie Thompson.” An Irish girl from Mexico City will have the leading feminine role opposite Adolphe Menjou, a Frenchman, in his next American-made play. Shirley O’Hara is the fortunate girl.

Says a Santa Monica message: “Mabel Normand, in a hospital here suffering from an attack of pleurisy, was reported by her physicians to be ‘very weak, but entirely out of danger.’ ” Sally O’Neil plays the title role in “ ’Frisco Sally Levy,” her latest picture. It is a comedy-romance of Jewish - Irish family life, its setting being San Francisco. The cast includes Roy D’Arcy, Charles Delaney, Kate Price, Norman Kerry will have the male lead in “Love,” Greta Garbo’s initial starring film, for M.G.M., now in production. “Love,” based on Tolstoy’s famous novel “Anna Karenina,” is being produced on an elaborate scale. After an absence of several pictures Oliv© Hasbrouck is back as Art Acord’s leading lady in the Universal Western picture, “The Ridin’ Rascal.” The cast includes Clarence Thompson, William Steele, S. E. Jennings, George Connor, Les Sailor, and D. E. Hendricks. David Wark Griffith announces that his first United Artists story will be based on “La Piava,” by Karl Vollmoeller, author of “The Miracle.” This is a story of Paris in the seventies and particularly of the court of Napoleon 111. Estelle Taylor has been signed for the leading role. Universal is rapidly completing the cast for “Midnight Rose,” the James Young pre-auction in which Lya di Putti, Kenneth Harlan and Henry Kolker are to have prominent parts. George Larkin, “Gunboat” Smith and Wendell Phillips Franklin have been added to its cast. Vilma Banky and Ronald Col man. whose next picture, “Leatherface,” directed by Marshal de Sano from Baroness d’Orczy’s novel of that name, goes into production shortly, will in future be starred in separate productions. This decision was recently made by Samuel Goldwyn.

Though Dolores Del Rio has appeared in important roles in various productions, notably in “What Price Glory” and “Resurrection” (which United Artists will release shortly), ••Ramona” will provide her first starring opportunity. “Ramona,” is the adaptation of Helen Hunt Jackson’s story, and will be the second. Inspira-tion-Carewe production for United Artists. * * # Bebe Daniels, film star, and Charley Paddock, sprinter, will not be married after all. Paddock announced that their engagement had been broken. “We have decided it will be better to remain just friends,” he Two girls, who appear to be destined for motion picture stardom, appear in “Wedding Bills,” Raymond Griffith’s new Paramount picture. They are Ann Sheridan and Iris Stuart. Ann Sheridan is a blonde beauty from Kansas, just 19 years old, who played in “Casey at the Bat,” in which she did so well that Paramount signed her to a longterm contract. Iris Stuart was chosen as a 1927 Wampas baby star, one of the most coveted honours allotted to the younger aspirants in pictures. This is her first part since winning that distinction.