Have You Heard That?

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 340, 28 April 1928, Page 25

Have You Heard That?

Louise Brooks and Richard Arlen will be featured in “Beggars of Life.”

“Tide of Empire,” Peter B. Kyne’s story of early California settlement, will be directed by Allan Dwan. ... In Fannie Hurst’s story, “Roulette,” Richard Barthelmess will play a dual role. Alfred Santell is directing.

Karl Dane and George K. Arthur co-star, and Marceline Day furnishes feminine charm in a mystery farce, “Detectives” for M.G.M.

“The Flight Commander,” a British picture, featuring Sir Alan Cobham, will be released by Paramount in New Zealand this year.

Louis Wolheim has been named chief support to Thomas Meighan in “The Racket,” stage play to be filmed by Caddo Productions.

Jean Hersholt plays the part of Solomon Levi in Paramount’s production of Anne Nichols’s “Abie’s Irish Rose.” Victor Fleming was the director.

Blaise Dendrars’s novel, “Sutter’s Gold” has been purchased for Jean Hersholt, character actor. It will be filmed by Universal.

Fred Kohler has been assigned a featured role for the picture in which George Bancroft will star, following the completion of “Showdown.”

Lowell Sherman has been elected villain of “The Whip.” Dorothy Mackaill is the featured player and Charles Brabin is directing. ... In “The Dragnet” George Bancroft will be starred and Evelyn Brent and Fred Kohler featured. The director is Josef von Sternberg.

James Cruze will direct William Haines’s next comedy, “Excess Baagage.” Formerly under contract to De Mille, Cruze has moved over to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.. Eleanor Boardman has the smartest collection of gowns she has ever worn on the screen for "Diamond Handcuffs,” in which she plays the leader of a gang of New York crooks. Warner Baxter will enact the leading role opposite Pola Negri in “Three Sinners,” which Rowland V. Lee is directing for Paramount. ' William Austin, who appeared with Clara Bow in her new picture, “Red Hair,” has been signed to a further contract with Paramount. ... Ruth Chatterton has been signed by Paramount to play opposite Adolphe Menjou in “Super of the Gaiety,” which Hobart Henly will direct. ... Polly Ann Young, who visited the i set where her sister Loretta was playing the leading feminine role in Lon Chaney’s “Laugh, Clown, Laugh,” has herself been signed to a contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. ... Karl Dane and George K. Arthur will begin work on “Brotherly Dove” at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios immediately “Detectives” is completed.. The new picture will be directed by Frank Caura, who directed “Long Ijants.” Dorothy Cumming, who plays the role of Beatrice Fairfax in “The Lovelorn,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s story of modern youth, is an Australian girl. She made her debut on the Australian stage, later going to England and finally to America, where she was induced to try her luck on. the screen. “The Lovelorn” features Sally O’Neil and her sister Molly O’Day.