Have You Heard That?

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 318, 31 March 1928, Page 23

Have You Heard That?

May McAvoy was chosen us the leading woman for A 1 Jolson’s venture into motion pictures, “The Jazz Singer.” George Leffingwell went on the stage about the tim*> Douglas Fairbanks left it. When Fairbanks was starred by William Brady in “The Gentleman of Leisure” in New York about 12 years ago, the novice of his company was young Leffingwell. Cecil de Mille is turning a spotlight on the reform schools of the nation in his “The Godless Girl.” This picture will present the result of research by De Mllle’s agents in many sections of the country. De Mille hopes his picture may do for American reform schools something like what Dickens’s "Oliver Twist” did for the charity schools of England. * * * A startling new type of dramatic art —a lilm quite different from anything that has previously been seen on the screen—is promised from Paramount, who announces that the first screening of “Chang” in New Zealand will take 1 lace at the Regent Theatre, Auck--1 md, on Friday, April 13. Probably no other film yet produced has excited so much interest, on account of its difference from anything previously attempted.