YOUNG MEN WANTED FOR LEADS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 188, 29 October 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

YOUNG MEN WANTED FOR LEADS

HOLLYWOOD DIFFICULTY ONLY ACTORS NEED APPLY! Unless something happens to relieve the situation, motion picture producers likely will offer a bounty on the head of every young man brought in alive who looks as though he might do leading roles in photoplays. Never has there been such, a dearth. Tho difficulty in obtaining suitable young men to play leads is emphasised

in a message from a Hollywood correspondent. “PRETTY” YOUTHS The picture-makers are not seeking merely “pretty" youths. They want some who can act. The boulevard is lined with sheiks “beautiful but dumb,” who eat at lunch counters and wonder why their pristine loveliness is not roped, hog-tied and dragged into films. Directors have seen them as “extras” marching daintily about the sets as devoid of talent as one-humped camels in a zoo. The fact that recently First National out of 14,261 screen tests got only a possible three or four prospects indicates how few know the difference between posing and producing. Right now Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is searching for some one to play the leading masculine role in “Rose

Marie’* opposite Renee Adoree, one of the choicest plums of the year. The character is of a complex nature —a man with a poet’s soul plus the fighting ability of a viking from the great outdoors. William Xigh, director, is at work on screen tests. In all probability someone with experience will be chosen, but if a newcomer arrived who could fill the role, the company literally would “fall on his neck.** SEARCHING FOR TYPES Inspiration Pictures and Edwin Care wo are searching for two who can portray Allesandro and Felipe in “Ramona,” which will star Dolores del Rio. Applications flood the office of Carewe, but none has yet been decided upon as up to requirements. Don Alvarado and Nils Aster, both foreigners, a.re being considered.