Did You Know That?

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 526, 1 December 1928, Page 23

Did You Know That?

Leroy Mason, who was “discovered” by Edwin Carewe in a Hollywood cafe, and who eloped with Carewe’s daughter, Rita, will play the leading role in “The Thrall of Leif the Lucky.” Norman Kerry, who appears opposite Pola Negri in “The Woman Prom Moscow.” is en route from Hollywood to London, where he is to appear in “The Bondsman.” George Jessel, New York musical comedy star, who appeared in several moving pictures last, year, has returned this summer to Hollywood to make others. Anita Stewart is returning to pictures in “Name the Woman,” mystery play directed by Earle C. Kenton. Huntly Gordon and Gaston Glass have the male . leads. Sober-faced Buster iCeaton has the role of a news reel camera man in his latest comedy, “Snap Shots.” The part offers no end of fun. In secondary roles Kewpie Morgan, fat comedian, and Vernon Dent, will appear. , « * Several film favourites who have been off the screen for varying periods are returning to work. Ricardo Cortez is making “Excess Baggage” with William Haines as star. Alma Rubens, his wife, is working at Tiffany-Sthal. David Butler and his company which will make “Chasing Through Europe” for Fox Films, are on the high seas bound for Continental Europe. Nick Stuart has the leading role, that of the daring newsreel cameraman, art.und whose exploits the storyhinges. => c • There is a possibility that Richard Barthelmess and Marian Nixon will be paired again as a result of their first few scenes together in "Out of the Ruins.” Sir Philip Gibbs wrote this tale of Europe emerging from the ruin of war. John Francis Dillon is the director. * # * If Greta Garbo undertakes talking pictures she will have a chance to double her present success. This, according to Dean Ray K. Immel, of the University of Southern California. ‘•Miss Garbo,” says the professor, “has the most dynamic voice I ever heard—it has a power as strange as her own personality.” Contrasting parts are taken by the featured players in “The Way of the Strong,” underworld melodrama being produced by Columbia. Theodor von Eltz appears as a pianist, and Mitchell Lewis as the leader of a gang. Margaret Livingston is in the role of an underworld siren, and Alice Day appears as a blind girl.