REX KING

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 318, 31 March 1928, Page 16

REX KING

NEW FOX STAR Rex King, the 21-year-old cowboy who was recently signed by Fox Films for a series of Western pictures, is a thorough outdoo?- man. It is customary for a featured player in pictures to begin searching for a hillside home in Hollywood, but not so King. He has always been a man of the open spaces, and intends to remains so. He claims that he would suffocate were he to live indooYs. and at the moment he has pitched a tent in the rear of the bungalow court, close by the Fox Studios, where he sleeps. His ruddy complexion and hir. perfect physical makeup is a sermon;on outdoor living. King and his pinto pony, Margy, wandered through 30 States and travelled nearly 5,000 miles together before he came to Hollywood at the request of Stein, the noted illustrator, who saw in him the perfect type of American cowboy. He refused to travel by train, preferring his trusty steed to any “iron horse.” Lucien Littlefield has undoubtedly created more chills and thrills for an audience with his grotesque characterisations than any other actor in the profession. He is seen in one of the best roles of his career in the latest Universal Jewel production “Cheating Cheaters.” His part as a crooked lawyer and backer of a gang of thieves adds considerably to the reality of the story in which Betty Compson and Kenneth Harlan portray the leading roles. Harry Earles, the clever midget who played with Lon Chaney, in “The Unholy Three,” has veered from a sinister character to a comedian, in his latest screen role. Earles appears in the cast of “Baby Mine,” in which Karl Dane and George K. Arthur are being co-starred. He plays a vaudeville midget induced to impersonate a baby in the new picture, a hilarious filmisation of the famous stage play, with Charlotte Greenwood, Louise Lorraine and a notable cast. According to Olive Borden, star of the Fox production, “Pyjamas,” which is shortly to be realised here, the ideal age for a woman is twenty-five. At this age, according to the little star, a woman should be in full possession of all those little graces which makes for symmetry, refinement and irresistible attractiveness. “At least, I hope to be w'hen I reach that age,” says Miss Borden, and when one remembers how young Miss Borden is, and how much she already possesses those desirable characterises, it is interesting to look forward to the time when she reaches the mature age of twenty-five. According to Director Blystone, there is no ideal age “Every age is a new age,” said Blystone, who has guided the screen destines of many celebrated personages, “and the flight of years has little to do with it. I know an actress who is grandmother, but who photographed so young that they told her she should be playing sweetheart roles.”