“The Secret Hour"

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 400, 14 July 1928, Page 23

“The Secret Hour"

POLA NEGRI’S LATEST New Regent Attraction

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The deliberation over a new starring vehicle tor Pola Negri ended when Jesse L. ha sky, Paramount’s first vicepresident, announced the purchase of “The Secret Hour,” an original stoi-y by Roland V. Lee, “Hollywood’s literary director.” The drama, a romance of orange blossom time, with a setting of endless acres of orange groves, finds Pola as an American girl of foreign parent age, her first American role in neai-ly two years. Mr. Lee followed his established habit of writing his own adaptation just as ne tna in “Barbed Wire” and “The Whirlwind of Youth.”

•on old man icoos a beautiful girl with a handsome young substitute. in “The Secret Hour,” Pola Segri’s the Regent. Before he became associated with the screen, he was a rising young playwright in New York City. He is the author of a number of successful short plays. “The Secret Hour” offers a powerful love drama against a natural setting that has never really been taken advantage of in motion pictures. Miss Negri saved an extra girl from probable serious injury during the filming of a restaurant scene for “The Secret Hour.” A tray heavily piled with dishes fell from the hands of a property boy. The tray would have fallen on the head of the extra girl who was sitting on the floor, had not the star put out her arm quickly. She received the full force of the crash on her arm, and had bad bruises for a week.

Jean Hersholt and Kenneth Thomson play featured roles in this production.