Did You Know That?

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 520, 24 November 1928, Page 25

Did You Know That?

Agnes Franey, 18-year-old blonde from Ziegfeld’s “Rio Rita,” has accepted lier first picture assignment. She makes her debut in “The Singing Fool,” with A 1 Jolson. The latest, team in pictures is composed of Douglas Fairbanks, junr., and Jobyna Ralston. They appear as lovers in “The Toilers,” formerly called “Power.” Harry Collins, creator of styles in woman’s dress, has signed a contract with Fox Films to supervise all modern costumes worn by the stars and featured players in that company’s pictures. Bodil Rosing has been cast as Clara Bow’s mother in that star’s new picture, “The Fleet’s In,” by Paramount, under direction of Mai St. Clair. James Hall and Jack Oakie are principals in support of Miss Bow. » * » Dorothy Famum is adapting “Adrienne Lecouvreur,” tale of the Paris of bygone days, for Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer, and is dressing the characters in modern clothes and applying modern psychology to the plot. # * * George Scarborough has written a story for Dolores Del Rio, “Deported,” to follow “Revenge.” It shows her a Russian peasant who seeks happiness in America, a part somewhat resembling her Katusha Maslova in “Resurrection.” ' King Vidor and his wife, Eleanor Boardman, have at last found a name that suits them for their baby. They will christen the child “Antonia.” The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer directer and his wife are now touring France and decided on the name while abroad. The wreck of a train near Summit, highest point of the Sierra toucher by rail, w-ill be one of the thrill scenes of “Hard Rock,” Milton Sills’s new First National picture. Thelma Todd, one of the screen’s very attractive girls, will play opposite Sills. * * * Anna May Wong is slated to appear in several European pictures with Chinese backgrounds. She left the United States recently to join the Ufa staff at Berlin in “Schmutzies Geld” (“Dirty Money”), to be released abroad in early autumn and later to be shown here. When called upon to do her sequence of native dancing in “The Adorable Outcast,” Edith Roberts simply started right in to do an island dance exactly as it is done in Suva. Miss Roberts brought her island costume from Suva, and was taught the genuine Fijian dance by a recognised island belle.