Have You Heard That?

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 252, 14 January 1928, Page 21

Have You Heard That?

Paramount announces that “The Jazz Orphan” will be Esther Ralston’s newest starring vehicle. “Home-made,” Johnny Hines’s next for First National, is now in the cutting room. * * * “East Side, West Side,” with George O’Brien and Virginia Valli, has been booked by the Majestic. * * * . “Private Izzy Murphy,” with George Jessel and Patsy Ruth Miller, will soon be screened in Auckland. * * * The previously untitled Ramon Novarro picture has been definitely titled “His Night.” * * * A “crying room” for infants, whose mothers like to attend the movies, but whose offsprings do not, is quite the latest thing in theatre accommodation in America. * * * Olive Borden is the star in “Pajamas.” She is supported by Lawrence Gray, Jerry Miley, and John Clark. * * * Constance Talmadge has been signed at’ a salary of 6,000 dollars a week to appear in “Harry Delmar’s Review,” the new Broadway musical show. * » * The influence of staid professions may be found in demure Mary Astor, whose father taught school, and in Madge Bellamy, whose father was a professor before he took up agriculture.

Leon Gordon is the latest devotee of the movies. When he passed through Auckland on the Niagara he had a small movie machine with him, which he used extensively on the voyage across the Pacific * * * Jack Conway has been appointed to title the Paramount picture, “Two Flaming Youths.” W. C. Fields and Chester Conklin are co-starred in this production. * * * Rex Ingram, director of the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” and “Scaramouche,” is trying to interest American directors in producing on the establishing of permanent studios on the Riviera. * * * Writing to a friend in Sydney, Norman Lawn, who was responsible for directing “For the Term of His Natural Life,” told of his, return to Hollywood, where he intended to rest prior to looking the land over to see just what was doing in his particular line. * * * Author of “The Whole Town’s Talking” and other screen and stage successes. Anita Loos, who has been living in Vienna while writing “But They Marry Brunettes,” recently underwent an operation for nasal trouble. According to a “Sunday News” cable the ex-Kaiser is engaged in finishing a scenario which will be a “spiritual message to the civilised world.” He is being financed by a German-Ameri-can group.