Have You Heard That?

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

Have You Heard That?

Norman Kerry and Lewis Stone are co-starred in “The Foreign Legion,” a story by 1. A. R. Wylie. The comedy partnership of Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton is to be sent far afield in a new comedy, “The Big Game Hunt.” George Fawcett has been engaged by John Barrymore to play the Cossack Colonel in “The Tempest,” his new picture. Gilda Gray has begun work on “The Devil Dancer.” In this film, as in her former pictures, “Cabaret” and “Aloma,” Miss Gray’s dancing is to play an important part. Richard Arlen, leading man in Esther Ralston’s new Paramount picture, holds an honorary commission as second-lieutenant in the British Flying Corps. i Lon Chaney will take the lead in “Laugh, Clown, Laugh,” for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This is to follow “The Big City.” Direction began last month on “Thanks for the Buggy Ride,” Laura La Plante’s new comedy romance William A. Seiter, her husband, is tin

director, and Glenn Tryon, Universal comedian, plays the male lead. Otto Matiesen, Danish film player, may be featured in an independent production to be made in Hollywood and backed by foreign capital. Matiesen has played lately in “Surrender,” “Romance” and “In Old San Francisco. Harold Lloyd has chosen the name “Speedy” out of the mass suggested to him by fans and personal friends all over America, in response to an appeal for a suitable title for his new comedy.

Paul Leni, European director, whose first Hollywood productions were ‘The Chinese Parrot” and “The Cat and the Canary,” is now at work on ‘ The Man Who Laughs,” adapted from Victor Hugo’s story. Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt and George Siegmann have the leading # On his twenty-ninth birthday recently John W. Considine junr., was promoted by Joseph M. Schenek to the post of general production manager on the West Coast of the Art Cinema Corporation. This makes Considine one of the youngest of the important picture executives. Ted McNamara and Sammy Cohen are to be featured in a new Fox Comedy. No title has been selected yet. In the cast are Eleanor Flynn, Jack Pennick, John Batton, E. H. Clavert, John Steppling. Marie Spotwell, Frances Hade, and John Hilliard. Karl Hane is going to war again. The | famous “Slim” of “The Big Parade” lias been given the role of Jan in “The Enemy,” Lillian Gish’s new starring picture, which is now in production. The picture is a screen version of Channing Pollock’s play of the same name. Fay Webb, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s latest young: find, will make her second debut in “Mixed Marriages,” a farce j comedy in which Lew Cody and Aileen j Pringle are co-starred. Miss Webb I finished school last June and went into i pictures with a contract the next week.