Englishmen Win Fame in Several Countries

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 538, 15 December 1928, Page 23

Englishmen Win Fame in Several Countries

NEW ZEALANDER INCLUDED Latest ot the Englishmen from | Hollywood to return home is Mr, ; Donald Stuart, who. along with Mr. | Victor McLaglen, provided the comedy i touches in “Beau Geste,” and has been j seen also in “War Hawks.” “Twinkle- ! toes.” and other films. His last screen work before leaving Hollywood has been in an all-talking ; picture, based on the play “Interfer ence.” made with a 75 per cent. British cast, and directed by an Englism in I Mr. Roy Pomeroy. Another British actor, Mr. Shayl« ! Gardner, who is a New Zealander, aftei having played in Mr. Rex Ingram’s new picture. 'Three Passions” —st I much to the director’s approval that his name is being featured in it at j well as Miss Alice Terry’s and Ivai I Petrovitch's—is in Germany playing ! a big part in a new Anglo-Continenta i picture, “Alley Cat” (reports an Eng i lish exchange). English actors, in fact, seem to b. I enjoying success all over the world even at home now that the Englisl ! studios are so busy. Mr. Carl Bris | son has apparently abandoned th< | stage, at least temporarily, for th< : screen, and newcomers who may ye ■ rival his, Mr. Jameson Thomas’s, am Mr. Ivor Novello’s popularity ari , being given opportunities in Britisl 1 studios as never before ‘ The only thing that remains is t “ find girls who can display as mue! - animation and carry themselves an e dress as smartly as the American fllr e girls do. But that seems a harde task i