CHANCE PLAYS HER PART

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

CHANCE PLAYS HER PART

CHOSEN BY FORTUNE CAREER ON THE SCREEN Chance certainly does play a part in the career of a screen actress. MARY BRIAN came to Hollywood from Lallas, Texas. She failed to get work at the studios, and joined a theatrical revue at a picture house. Into the front row one night meddlesome Fate led a casting director. He saw Mary, sent around a little note, and the next day she underwent a film test. Adolphe Menion is another whose personality was unexpectedly rescued from obscurity. A dejected “bit” player, he sat one day on a bench and brooded over the hard ways of the film world. Along came a man, studied him a moment, and sat down beside him to talk. That was Charlie Chaplin, and the result was “A Woman of Paris.” Ruth Taylor, whose face was discovered by Anita Loos in the pages of an outdated casting directory, is to be the Lorelei Lee of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” Ruth had been in and out of comedy work and was just about ready to beat a retreat to home and Portland when Miss Loos discovered in her a potential Lorelei. And then there is Nancy Carroll, who went to call one day on a friend in the studio. Nanty was the piquant heroine of “Loose Ankles” at a San Francisco playhouse, and the redhaired murderess in “Chicago” last summer. Anne Nichols, in Hollywood to supervise “Abie’s Irish Rose” for the films, glanced out of her window a .d saw a girl, Irish, pretty, graceful and lively. Now Nancy Carroll will play Rosemary Murphy in one of the most heavily advertised features of the year.