GLORIA SWANSON’S ROLES
“QUEEN KELLY” TO BE A “TALKIE” "Queen Kelly,” Gloria Swanson's latest picture, has been recently comnleted at Hollywood. Not onlv does
Miss Swanson talk in the dia- j logue sequences ' in “Queen Kelly,” j but she contri- j bn tea a song, too. She revealed that j her first voice ; test was taken j last February i when “ Sadie ; Thomson” was playing in New i York. I m m e diately of "Queen Kelly” Gloria commenced preparation for picturising “Clothes. ’ a second talking picture whose locale is the English colony of Pekin, China, and her characterisation of a school mistress will afford contrast with her roles of “Queen Kelly” and “Sadie Thomson.” Miss Swanson contemplated filming scenes in China, making the occasion also a holiday voyage, if mechanical facilities can be arranged for sound recording. Lupe Velez, formerly a Mexican musical comedy star, sings a number of Spanish love songs in the synchronised version of "Wolf Song,” a Paramount production, in which she is co-featured with Gary Copper. Victor Fleming is directing.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 636, 12 April 1929, Page 15
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175GLORIA SWANSON’S ROLES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 636, 12 April 1929, Page 15
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