GORGEOUS SETTINGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 456, 11 September 1928, Page 18

GORGEOUS SETTINGS

Accurate and convincing settings are one of Norman Dawn’s numerous fetishes. It was his thirst for realism that took "The Term” company to Tasmania, and later "The Adorable Outcast" players to the Fiji Islands, where lay a field of glorious tropical locations. There against the splendour of palmed hills, mighty waterfalls, the lazy tapestry of island-spangled lagoons and the sunny stretches of cocoa tree fringed beaches, many scenes of Beatrice Grimshaw’s famous novel were shot. With the services of hundreds of full-blooded natives, whose natural knowledge of all island details in dress, customs and history, materially helped Dawn in the avoidance of mistakes in action. “The Adorable Outcast," featuring Edith Roberts, Edmund Bums, Walter Dong and Jessica Harcourt, is a Master Picture Special, shortly to be released in New Zealand. For the first time in her screen career May McAvoy dons a wig for Warner Bros, production of "The Jazz Singer," for Master Picture release, in the title role of which A 1 Jolson is seen. Not only that, but it is a pure shining white to top off the delicately lovely little ballet costume that May wears as the vaudeville star heroine. Thanks to the perfection of her features, she appears fully as beautiful and much more exotic than in her own titan tresses.