Did You Know That?

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 554, 5 January 1929, Page 21

Did You Know That?

The Paramount studio, employing more than 1,200 persons, issues ifs own weekly newspaper. Patsy Ruth Miller has returned to the United States after a short holiday in Europe to play the lead In “Marriage of To-morrow " Jetta Goudal will play Simone in “Her Cardboard Lover,” starring Marion Davies. Jeanne Eagels starred In ‘Her Cardboard Lover” on the stage in New York. Nora Lane, who plays opposite Ricardo Cortez in “The Gun Runner,’’ has discovered that the surest and quickest way to having her bobbed hair grow long is to expose her scalp to the In a powerful drama of the underworld, “The Hawk’s Nest,” Milton Sills, supported by his charming wife, Doris Kenyon, has a role calling for virility. It is enacted in New York's Chinatown. A 1 St. John, veteran merrymaker in the films, will be starred in a forthcoming comedy. St. John first appeared in pictures as one of the famous Keystone cops, and later was featured in Mack Sennett’s with Mabel Normand, Buster Keaton and Fatty Arbuckle.

A strange set has been built for George Bancroft’s “The Docks of New York.” It is entirely in the open, yet is pitch dark. In order to obtain the unusual lighting effects necessary, a black canvas covers it, shutting out daylight.

John Barrymore will be a Swiss mounaineer In his next picture, now being prepared from a Continental best-selling novel, “Der Koenig der Bernina ” As the hero Barrymore Is a Swiss in the beginning of the 19th century Napoleonic era.

Esther Ralston’s next picture for Paramount is titled “White Hands.” The story is by Arthur Stringer. Doris Anderson is adapting the story for the screen, and Gregory La Cava will direct. “Something Always Happens” Is Esther Ralston’s latest. This also v. as directed by La Cava.