“FOSTER ON BRIDGE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 482, 11 October 1928, Page 14

“FOSTER ON BRIDGE”

VISITOR TO FILM STUDIOS “Foster on Bridge," recently visited the Paramount Studio in Hollywood. R. F. Foster, author of 68 books on card games and rated as one of the world’s greatest authorities on auction and contract bridge, spent an entire day in the studio. He was a motion picture actor himself once, he revealed. About ten years ago, he played in three pictures made In New York by the Selznick Company. He still carries outputs of film from them to prove his venture into the movies. Mr. Foster is short and stocky, and although his beard is snow white, he does not show his age. He is active and alert. Architectural construction of settings was of particular interest to him, he said. NEXT CHANGE AT GRAND The double feature programme, including “Rich, but Honest," and “Tracked by the Police,” will be presented at the Grand Theatre for the last time this evening. Inner secrets of diamond smugglers such as concealing hidden gems in cigars, are exposed in dramatic scenes in “Diamond Handcuffs,” a vivid romance of diamonds and the underworld, which commences to-morrow. Devices of smugglers, obtained from the Federal Customs Service, »vere woven into the graphic story. Three notable casts in a single picture is one of the novelties in “Diamond Handcuffs." There are three separate sequences, each a little play in itself, bound together by a central theme. In one cast Eleanor Boardman, Lawrence Gray, Sam Hardy and George Cooper head the players; in another, Conrad Nagel, Gwen Lee and John Roche; in the third Lena Malena and Charles Stevens. Weis Root, former New York newspaperman, is the first writer signed to produce talking sequences for the new sound pictures. He is engaged in writing spoken scenes for the latest Charles Rogers starring Paramount picture, “Varsity."