Did You Know That?

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 218, 3 December 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

Did You Know That?

Warner Baxter will play opposite Dolores del Rio in “Ramona.” Joan Crawford, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer player, was once a Ziegfeld Follies dancer. She will play the leading feminine rolo in “Business Wives.” Dorothy Arzner, Paramount’s only woman director, and the third in the motion picture industry, will direct Clara Bow in “Red Hair.” Mary Philbin has been signed for the leading role in “A Romance of Old Spain,” which D. W. Griffith will make as his first production since his return , to United Artists. Don Alvarado will play opposite. Lon Chaney, whose one venture into the classics was “The Hunchback or Notre Dame,” is to have an even more famous story for a starring picture. It is “The Wandering Jew,” Eugene Sue’s melodrama. m m m Paramount is releasing 297 motion pictures this year, said to be the biggest production schedule ever undertaken by any one company. * * * Emil Jannings, the European master actor, has just signed a new longterm contract with Paramount Pictures. Under the agreement he will make four feature pictures a year. Following the appearance of Renee Adoree in a Chinese role in “Mr. Wu,” she now resumes her own nationality as a native of Paris in “On Ze Boulevard.” Lew Cody plays the leading male role. Dorothy Sebastian and Roy D’Arcy also appear. * * * James Hall, who has played opposite Bebe Daniels in four pictures and Is rl? rH -r r!- rr rre

r r|- •y ~K -y* r ~1~ rfc tt now going into a fifth, “Swim, Girl, Swim.” was a “song and dance man” in “The Passing Show” when discovered by Jesse L. Lasky. As a result of her work in supporting Dolores Costello in “A Million Bid,” not yet released in New Zealand, Betty Blythe has been offered an important role in '‘The Belle of Barcelona.” * * * Following the announcement by M. H. Hoffman, vice-president of Tiffany, that ho had signed Patsy Ruth Miller for leading roles, comes word that she will play the leading part in “Once and Forever,” a romance now in production. * * * Ernst Lubitsch and Emil Jannings will make their first picture together in Hollywood for Paramount. It is based on “Paul the First,” by Merejkowski, and will be filmed under the working title, “The Patriarch.” • * * A combination of Swedish talent is at work in “The Divine Woman.” preta Garbo is the star, Lars Hanson is her leading man and Victor Seastrom is the director. * « * Dorothy Seccombe, the young Australian actress who was in Auckland ]ast with Lawrence Grossmith. the English actor, has an important role in "The Flag Lieutenant.”

Duncan Sisters, Rosetta and j'lvian, make their screen debut in a nim version of their musical stage success which played in 23 American cities r< ? r three and a-half years. Rosetta Pjftys the part of the mischievous slave SfJJI, "Topsy,” and Vivian that of Eva.” The cast includes Gibson Gow«and. Noble Johnson, Marjorie Daw, £*yrtle Ferguson, Nils Asther, and Henry Victor, the English actor.

The largest number of established star and featured-player names in any him will be seen in “Sorrell and Son, according to United Artists. The cast includes H. B. Warner, Anna Q. Nilsson. Alice Joyce, Louis Wolheim. Mary g ola n. Nils Asther. Carmel Myers, gonna Trevor, Mickey Mcßann and ■frlobell© Fairbanks.