Do You Know That?

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 312, 24 March 1928, Page 23

Do You Know That?

Frances Hamilton, a First National stock player who has done a good deal of travelling despite her youth, says that the South Sea Islands are the most fascinating place she ever visited. The death of Blasco Ibanez is a decided loss to the motion picture Industry. He will be best remembered for “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” which first brought fame to Rudolph Valentino. • * * James Cruze, producer of “The Covered Waggon.” and now an associate producer with Cecil B. de Mille, has selected “The Red MarL,” a. dramatic story of the prison colony at New ’Caledonia, as the next picture for Pathe.

Ernest Lubitsch made his American film debut directing Mary Pickford in “Rosita,” in which film Irene Rich, George Walsh and Holbrook Blinn appeared. Joan Crawford is to be the heroine of “Tides of Empire,” early West romance founded on Peter B. Kyne’s novel. Joan at present is finishing her role opposite Ramon Novarro in “China Bound.” Adolph Menjou supported Mary Pickford in “Through the Back Door,” Douglas Fairbanks in “The Three Musketeers,” and attained screen prominence in Charlie Chaplin’s “A Woman Of Paris.” Ernst Lubitsch was destined by his father to pass his life in a tailor shop, but he read books by night, developed an interest in the stage, happened to meet Max Reinhardt, and was out of the tailor business and “on his own” with a stage part shortly after he was 2°. Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky were severely bruised but otherwise uninjured when the horse they were riding in one of the final sequences of Alice D. G.' Miller adaptation of “Leatherface,” stumbled and fell while at a full gallop. After administering additional touches of make-up and acquiring a new wardrobe, Mr. Colman and Miss Banky continued their work under Fred Niblo’s direction.