NEW UNIVERSAL STAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 375, 8 June 1928, Page 14

NEW UNIVERSAL STAR

DAVID ROLLINS David Rollins is one of the newest of the juveniles who has been signed on a long-term contract by Fox Films. Rollins, who is still in his teens, proved himself in one picture, “The High School Hero,” a sympathetic, unsophisticated type that is hard to find in the motion picture industry. After graduating from school, he went to work in the Bank of America but did not like it, and so when his first vacation came he decided to try at the studios for work. After his first mob scene he made up his mind that he would never go back to the bank. He played in the “extra” work of the Collegians series, and then heard that Fox Films were testing for “Cradle Snatchers.” He took the test but heard no more about it. Several months later, Rollins received a call to try for the sympathetic role in “The High School Hero.” The minute Director David Butler met him, he knew he was the boy for the role. After that picture Fox Films signed him on a contract and immediately Universal borrowed him for “Thanks for the Buggy Ride,” with Laura La Plante. Rollins will have the leading role in David Butler’s new picture, “Pigskin.”

Louise Fazenda is having a splendid time of it. At a period when she is supposed to be on her vacation she is getting up with the sun and rushing to Warner Brothers’ studio to work with Clyde Cook on “Five and Ten Cent Annie.” This is an epic of the store covered with red signs, and it must indeed be comic for Louise to find so much fun in working in it out of season. There is a reason for the comedienne’s activity. Not so long ago she was loaned to another producing firm. The time lost to the home lot had to be made up, and hence the activity which she is now finding so pleasant.