STAGE OR SCREEN
WHERE TALKIE PLAYERS COME FROM With all this talk about which will survive on the screen, “stage or screen players,” a survey of just one single company in the industry reveals that very few “screen” artists gained their studio places without preliminary stage experience. In Cecil B. De Mille’s “Dynamite.” out of 27 programmed players only three are “stage” actors, taking the interpretation as meaning Thespians without any preliminary screen training On the other hand, there are 18 players who have done movies for two years or more, but before that time had served long periods on the St Of e the cast of 27, but six were purely “screen” players with no previous stage experience. Charles Bickford and Kay Johnson, the leads, and Barton Hepburn, are the artists from the leS Mo£ a o°f Sew stars will be seen and heard shortly in New Zealand. Ruth Chattorton has a leading "Charming Sinners. William BcmeH is now starring in A Town" Nancy Carroll and Buddy Rogers are appearing in Illusion. Arlen has an important part m -The Virginian," in which production is featured with Mary Brian and and Evelyn .Brent plays paramount, titled. “Why Bring That UP.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19290919.2.201.3
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 772, 19 September 1929, Page 17
Word Count
200STAGE OR SCREEN Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 772, 19 September 1929, Page 17
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in