EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 288, 25 February 1928, Page 14

EVERYBODY’S

“SOMEBODY’S SON” Beauty, talent, and that ‘ndefinable | something called charm, -which is also j often described as “screen personality,” i have combined to bring Pauline Gar on ! to a point where years of toil and earnest effort have failed to bring many less fortunate than she. Her radiant beauty and piquant charm soon won her recognition at the studios, although at first her engagements consisted only of small parts in obscure pictures. Her newest and most important engagement brought her into the cast of.U.F.A.'s Cinema Art Films Limited release, “Somebody’s Son,” in | which she appears, by the way, in a most unusual picture. It will be ! shown to-night at Everybody’s Theatre. A good many critics are of the opinion that if Miss Garon continues to do as good #ork as she does in “Somebody’s Son,” it will not be long before she becomes a star of the first magnij tude. One of the most promising of the younger screen players and one who has come far to the front in little ! more than a year is Pauline Garon, a winsome Chicago girl, who less than four years ago was more concerned over what her teacher would say if she didn’t know her lesson at an Illinois : high school, than she ever has been ; since -with the grumpiest of “movie” | directors. Quite a few of the screen stars these days, it seems, are being called from the stage, notably John Barrymore, Ronald Colman, Dolores Costello and Helene, and many others, but quite the latest is vivacious little Lupe Velez, a beautiful little Mexican girl, who was taken straight from the stage in Los Angeles where she was appearing in . a revue to appear in the starring role • with Douglas Fairbanks, in “The , Gaucho.” Her success, judging by the criticisms in the Los Angeles papers, • has been phenomenal, and everyone who has seen Doug. Fairbanks’s latest and greatest picture agrees that she is i one of the finest leading ladies Fair- | banks has ever had*