Did You Know That

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 786, 5 October 1929, Page 29

Did You Know Tha t

Nancy Carroll, Paramount screen star, has red halr and blue eyes. James Hall is Clara Bow’s new leading man in “The Saturday Night Kid.” Colleen Moore's new home in Beverly Hills has a wishing well and a blarney stone. Gary Cooper sings a popular range ballad in Paramount’s talking picturisation of Owen Wister’s “The Virginian.” , * * 4. novel Western comedy “Faro Nell, or* In Old Californy,” will feature Louise Fazenda. It is based on a one-act play. In George Bancroft’s picture, “The Mighty.” Warner Oland has the part of a gang leader, which adds another portrayal *o the list of this character player. * * * * Paul Stein, Pathe film director, began his career as a player with the Max Reinhart Company in Berlin, and was a successful actor on both the stage and screen in Germany before becoming a director. Neal Burns, for many years a star in two-reel comedies, now is directing the same kind of entertainment. His next will feature the stage team, Charlie Grapwin and Anna Chance. Wheeler Oakman has been signed tor an important part in Mary Nolan’s all-talking starring picture, •The Shanghai Lady.” John Robertson will direct. Jeannette MacDonald, leading woman for Maurice Chevalier in “The Love Parade," the screen’s first original operetta, is one of the newest and best-known ingenues of the New York musical show stage. Loretta Young is only 17 years old, and to comply with the law she has a tutor on the set during school months. Her present picture is “The Forward Pass.” It is a college story with Douglas Fairbanks, junr., in a leading role. There are 11 Paramount contract players who are six feet or more in height. They are George Bancroft, Gary Cooper, Richard Dix, Jack Luden, William Powell, Charles Rogers, David Newell, Charles Mack, William Austin, Walter Huston and Hal Slcelly.

William Boyd will be a bero in the United States Cavalry Training School in his next starring vehicle, „ “His First Command,” which is scheduled for early production at the Pathe dtucfios in Culver City. Dorothy Sebastian will be his leading lady. George Abbott, besides directing two pictures, has also written the daptation and dialogue for “Why Bring That Up?” and “The Lost God” for Paramount. Abbott is coauthor of the stage plays, "Coquette” and “Broadway." * a * Wallace Beery has been engaged to play the part originally scheduled for Lon Chaney in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, “The Bugle Sounds.’ Flianey has been forced to postpone ause of tonsil trouble which followed a recent attack of influenza. A 1 Christie has engaged Charles Murray to star in one of the new “hristie talking plays for Paramount. Murray is one of the best known m> lion picture comedy stars. Although he has been idle for some time it is believed that his popularity has not waned. • * * Frank W. Benson, one of the most distinguished of American etchers, has recently demonstrated the various steps in the process of etching in a moving picture firm. “The Etcher’s Art,” produced under the sponsorship of the Boston Museum of Arts. * * « Conrad Nagel is the latest leading man for Greta Garbo. He has been cast for the leading male role in a new European drama being directed at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. This is the second time he has appeared with the Swedish star, as he played opposite her in “The Mysterious Lady.” Sound studios have found another use for their special traffic officers. Universal has stationed one in the hills near the lot w here Hoot Gibson’s company is working on "The Ramblin’ Kid.” His duty is to press a buzzer and warn the director hundreds of yards away when an airplane appears m sight. By turning off the sound apparatus thousands of feet of film are saved from ruination.