GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES’
RUTH TAYLOR’S CHANCE Anita Loos, the tiny, childish-looking sage who wrote “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” now being made into a moving picture for Paramount, is enthusiastic about Ruth Taylor, young blonde actress “found” and installed in that golden role, Lorelei Lee, the leading woman of the picture. “There is a treasure of talent waiting to be discovered in the film and theatrical ranks,” Miss Loos said. “I agree thoroughly with Max Reinhardt, the great German producer, when he said our greatest geniuses on the stage often were in low comedy and down in the line of unknowns waiting for a job It is wrong to think that before a person is fit for an important role, it is necessary ®to spend years of apprenticeship in minor bits. If a girl is born with the acting genius flaming within her, it takes only the shortest technical training to make her effective in great roles.
When William Haines returns from West Point, where he is now being directed by Edward Sedgwick in a storv of life at the great military academy, he will begin work at the MetroGold wyn-Mayer studios on “Smarty. Haines’s role will be that of a wisecracking young prizefighter. _
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 250, 12 January 1928, Page 15
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