FILMS AND THE STUDIOS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 720, 20 July 1929, Page 25

FILMS AND THE STUDIOS

"BILL” HART—AUTHOR ___—___.— Williarn S. Hart's autobiography, "My Life. East and West,” is causing something of a. sensation in Hollywood. The book deals with the life of the author from his childhood days among the Sioux Indians in the Western States, where his father led a. wandering life as a. builder of water power mills, through Hart’s career as an actor in New York, and to his success as one of the screen’s greatest heroes. . . . (‘AVEMAN DIREC'TING 1 An extra named Arleny Gereho- i novitch, recently flied suit against Warner Brothers, charging that when he was acting the role of a butcher, the director hit him on the head from behind with a club. Arseny says he does not know why, nor can he grasp the idea the director was trying to convey. . . . REAL-LIFE mu MA "Birdies Sing in Cages, W‘hy Can’t You?" is the title of one of the meiodies which will feature “Say It With Songs," Al Jolson's third Warner Brothers' production. Behind this song is the story of Chapin. a. New York newspaper editor. who was convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to life imprisonment in Sing Sing. Chapin introduced song birds

into the prison and transformed ugly} stretches into flower gardens. He iS‘ the man about whom Irvin Cobb wrote the story, “The Man Who Made a Garden on the Road to Hell.” C t O R_RI'I'ISH TALKIE In the Gramercy studios, recently opened in New York by Photophone in—terests, will be made tfie first British talking picture with an all-British cast. British International Pictures, Ltd., have sent from London cast. director, technicians and production complete to contrive talking sequences for “Kitty," filmisation of Warwick Deeping’s novel. Talking pictures are a new experience to the company, but all are recruited from the stage. Estelle Brody plays the role of Kitty and John Stuart that of Alec.