FILMS AND THE STUDIOS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 502, 3 November 1928, Page 27

FILMS AND THE STUDIOS

Somewhere in California lives a man teho once earned thousands of pounds a " eek. His name is William 8. Hart, and his hobby is collectin') puns and revolvers that bfionged to old-time scouts and, •’bad ’’ men.

Dark arc the shadotes that pother round a star eclipsed by rim' and the changing demands of the fickle public. Where arc Qlara Kimball Young, Kasimova, Warren Kerrigan, Marguerite Clark and. Dorothy Daltont Nobod# knot's and nobody seems to car.e.

The screen uses, exalts, and casts aside an amazing number of people in the course of a decade. Home remain in obscurity yet continue to work in the extra ranks. Henry Walthall, for instance, appeared as the crippled father in -Wings." He was one of the stars of -The Birth of a Nation." The casting of “Ben Hur ” brought Francis X. Bushman out of the .shades for a brief moment, but he has disappeared once more.

Theda Bara is attempting a return to the screen, but, so far, she has barely been noticed by a generation that has forgotten the actress for whom the word "vamp" teas coined. Lou Tellegan, very handsome and melodramatic still, made a reappearance in "Three Bad Men," but it seems to have been a solitary venture. There are many who have retired comfortably, and their fall from grace tvorries them no more than it does the public. But the majority continue to haunt the casting offices, hoping against hope that the next turn of Fortunes wheel will carry them into the limelight once more.

REGENT MANAGEMENT PLANS STAGE SHOWS FOR ENLARGED CIRCUIT

According to a statement made by Mr. Beaumont Smith, managing director of J. C. Williamson Films (N.Z.), Ltd., who returned from Australia early in the week, a new company of artists for the Regent stage shows will be in Auckland in a few days. The party numbers 16. and it will take the place of the | present show, which will I move South to visit Welling- ! tor* and Dunedin. Regent theatres, each seating 1.400 people, are be- ' irig completed in Wanganui ' and Invercargill. They will ! open about the end of the ! year. I