Have You Heard That?

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 270, 4 February 1928, Page 25

Have You Heard That?

To Willlani De "Mille has fallen th 'k of producing "Rip Van Winkle.”

sy the courtesy of Cinema Art films. 3°° inmates of the Long Bay Cnltentiary. Sydney, were entertained special screening of "Metropolis.”

Eva Novak, the screen star, is mak.f'personal appearances in Australia «itl» “The Term.

Andre Beranger. the Australian Mn star, is back in Sydney for a Sort holiday. He will return to Hollywood next month.

The new Karl Dane-George K. irthur starring feature, which will be aown as "Circus Rookies," has gone Sto production. # tM history of old California for material « his next picture, produced by Charles ™ Rogers and entitled "The Canyon of A* wnture -'. . . poj la Rocque s next production for laths will be "Hold 'Em Yale,” adapted George Dromgold from the stage t Yale.” Edward H. Griffith will ***■ ...

“Home, James,” a New York stage play by Gladys Johnson, will be screened It Laura La Plante’s new starring feature, according to an announcement by Ctrl laemmle.

jjsbe Daniels and 100 members of her ggnpany have departed for Balboa h«sch, 50 miles south of Los Angeles, to Jim exteriors for her next comedy, "Feel jly Pulse.”

A new and improved Australian Gazette is being released by Paramount. It will now approximate 1,000 feet in length, and news items from all over Australia will be included. New Zealand could well do something more in respect to gazettes. Roy Del Ruth is directing Irene Rich in “Powder My Back,” the first comedy on her schedule of starring vehicles for Warner Brothers this year. * * * Sidney Franklin has returned to Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer following a period of illness, and is making preparations for an early start on Norma Shearer’s next feature, “Trelawney of the Wells/’ an adaptation of the Binero play. • * * J. Farrell Macdonald, character comedian, is the first actor cast in the sew F. M. Murnau picture, “The Four Devils.” • • * Violet La Plante, a sister of Laura La Plante, is just beginning a movie career that may possibly make her famous. She is Bob Curwood’s leading woman in his next picture. Bebe Daniels is an expert swimmer, horsewoman and fencer. She learned these things making pictures, which have alsq taught her golf, tennis, printing, boxing, high jumping and n talent for working a typewriter. • * * Thiss little par, culled from the “Film Weekly” (Sydney) is somewhat Poignant: “Stuart F. Doyle has, on hehalf of Union Theatres, Ltd., and Australasian Films, Ltd., signed a contact wi~.h the trans-Tasman fliers, Captain Hood and Lieutenant MonJeff, to appear on Union Theatres' circuit after the tour is finished. A ■ubatantial salary has been mentioned.