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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 657, 8 May 1929, Page 14

BACK TO THE WILDS

AUTHORS OF “CHANG” AND “GRASS” Xow that their work on “The Four Feathers,” the adventure picture of the British Sudan, completed at the Paramount studios, is finished, the two adventurous film makers, Merian Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, are contemplating another expedition. They intend to make a start within the next few months, but as yet their destination is unknown. The place that they will select will be some inaccessible corner of the earth where wild life may be filmed in its natural surroundings, but it must also serve as a background to a dramatic story. Cooper’s and Schoedsack’s previous pictures were made in widely scattered places. “Grass” was filmed in Persia: “Chang” in the depths of the Siamese jungle, and “The Four Feathers” in Tanganyika and the Red Hills of Africa. “The Four Feathers” was, however, their first picture in which a studio drama was worked into location scenes of wild life which they had taken. The cast of the production includes Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Clive Brook, William Powell *and Xoah Beery. Karl Dane and Wade Boteler have been assigned to the cast of William Haines’s new starring vehicle for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. “The Gob.” Under the direction of Edward Sedgwick, the company is now on location at the San Diego marine base, where scenes with a Government destroyer are being filmed.