Did You Know That?

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 164, 1 October 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

Did You Know That?

Charlie Murray was once the principal clown with a circus. • * * Buster Keaton’s second feature length production, “College,” is already completed. * * * Heinie Conklin will appear in a character comedy part with Laura La Plante in “Silk Stockings.” * * * Betty Bronson’s next role is that of a cowgirl, in “Open Range,” a. Zane Grey Western picture. Lane Chandler plays opposite.

Irene Rich’s latest picture, “The Outpost,” has been recb.ristened “The Desired Woman.” Mary Philbln will play Dea, the blind girl in “The Man Who Laughs,” to bg made by Universal from Victor Hugo’s story. Mel Brown, Universal director, who recently finished “Buck Privates,” with Lya di Putti, will direct “13 Washington Square” as his next assignment. * * * Mary Astor and Lloyd Hughes make their first appearance as a light comedy team in “No Place to Go.” Larry Semon in his next comedy will be an entertainer with a fake medicine show. “Dummies” is the name of the picture. * * * Gloria Swanson and her company, including Lionel Barrymore, and a group of Samoan natives headed by chief Tui Poi, left a few days ago for Catalina, to make scenes for “Sadie Thompson.” * m * Reginald Denny’s new picture has had its name changed. During the filming it was referred to as ‘Til Be There.” It is now known as “Out All Night.” # Andre de Bourget, French sculptor and artist, recently declared that Lloyd Hughes was the most typical and handsome American young man. Arthur Stone, First National player, was a window dresser at Marshall Field’s in Chicago, a theatre usher and a vaudeville actor before he landed in the movies. * • • Greta Nissen is to play the part of a Russian aristocrat in “The Tempest.” This film, starring John Barrymore, is his first modern story for* several years. Erich von Stroheim has signed Archduke Leopold, for his next picture. Leopold will make one screen appearance only, in the featured role of an original story, called “H. I. H.,” a dramatic story of the Hapsburgs after the war. * * * Beatrice Van, popular author and scenarist, has been placed under a two-year contract with the Universal Pictures Corporation to make adaptations. She has been responsible for the adaptations of “Beware of Widows” and “Silk Stockings.” The Universal Pictures Corporation has purchased the picture rights to “The Five Frankfurters,” one of the best known plays of the Continental stage. It will be one of the special productions for next year, probably made under the direction of Paul Leni. * * * Syd Chaplin’s next starring picture for Warners will be released under the title of “The Fortune Hunter.” The cast includes Clara Horton, Helene Costello, Louise Carver, Thomas Jefferson. Duke Martin, Robert Perry and Paul Kruger

Mr. TV. R. Smith, who. for the past four years has been travelling representative for United Artists, has been appointed Xew Zealand manager for that combination in place of Mr. G. F. Parker, who is returning to Sydney. Mr. Smith is well-known in film circles in Xew Zealand, and to the country exhibitors in particular.