Did You Know That?

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

Did You Know That?

L6is Wilson is the latest actress to join the Columbia staff. Eva Novak, the film -star, is making personal appearances in Queensland. “Speedy,” Harold Lloyd’s latest for Paramount, is now completed. ... The Paramount star, Bebe Daniels, will appear in “Feel My Pulse” as her next picture. * * * In “Do It Again,” Lloyd Hughes and Mary Astor act in one more tale of the circus. * George Sidney was a star of the legitimate stage for over 30 years before making his screen debut. * * * Universal has paid the record price of 225,000 dollars for the picture rights to “Broadway,” Jed Harris’s play success by Phillip H.. Dunning and George Abbott. * * * Having finished her role with John Barrymore in “Tempest,” Helen Foster will be leading woman in a new Rex picture for The Paramount picture, Doomsday,” stairring Florence Vidor, is nearing completion. Miss Vidor intends visiting Europe when her work is completed. * » * Arthur Hoyt, Charles Delaney, Aileen Manning, Joan Standing and George Pearce have been cast in support of Laura La Plante in “Home, James.” * * * Most prolifis of Britain's modem novelists, Edgar Wallace, will head the board of British Lion Film Corporation, a new flotation launched recently in London. * * * Tod Browning, who has directed practically all of Lon Chaney’s recent successes, has signed a new long-term contract with M.G.M. * * * The sum of £1,000,000 will hardly cover the cost of Sydney’s three new motion-picture houses. The theatres are the Capitol, the Regent and the State. . * * Harry Langdon is an omniverous newspaper reader. He believes that the daily paper keeps him in touch with public taste, and so subscribes to 46 newspapers.