BIG STUDIO SCENERY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 358, 19 May 1928, Page 16

BIG STUDIO SCENERY

USED FOR “HIGH TREASON” 1 Three of the largest sets ever constructed for motion pictures have been ' built at the Paramount studio lor use in the production of the picture, "High - Treason,” formerly called “The Pat- : riot.” They consist of a corridor and grand staircase; a throne room copied after the original in the Palace of St. Michael in St. Petersburg, now Leningrad, and a section of the main thoroughfare leading to the palace, flanked by massive buildings on each side. The street set occupied the studio construction forces for nearly two I months, and when seen on the screen will be one of the most impressive ever built in Hollywood. It is over five hundred yards in length, with something like 70 stone buildings, two, three and four stories high, on each side. The Louses are all practical, with massive and gates leading to courtyards which are ' completely finished and will be used in filming “High Treason.” Ernst Lubitsch plans to use more than 1,000 people and nearly 500 horsemen in scenes to be made in this gigantic set. Emil Jannings. the European a-tor now with Paramount, starred in the picture. He s the part of the Tsar Paul I. mad son of Catherine the Great. Nature has not as yet produced a fowl or any other form of life that can fly upside down. But leave it to A 1 Wilson to outdo nature, for with the aid of science he has accomplished this feat and many more for thrill producers in his latest Universal air film “The Air Patrol.” There are tailspins, loops, a climb from one plane to another, tight spirals and fight for life on the wing of a plane travelling j 70 miles an hour —out of controlFox Films have received a • # ble notifying that “A Girl in Every Port.” featuring Victor McLaglen. established the season’s box office record at the Roxy Theatre, New York. McLaglen has the part of Spike Madden, and the players who appear as the girls are Louise Brooks, “Marie,” the French girl; Myrna Loy is the Girl from Singapore; Eileen Sedgwick and Gertrude Short the quaint little Gretchens of Holland. Natalie Joyce, Dorothy Matthews and Elena Jurado are three of those who crossed “Spike’s” path in j Panama, and Salla Rand the one who j livened his leave in Bombay. Maria j Casajuana plays “Chiquin,” whom he i j met at Buenos Aires, and Gladys ; Brockwell is cast as “Madame Floro,” j I an exotic but cruel mistress of a gamb- | ling d.en in Shanghai.