STAGE PLAY FILMED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 868, 11 January 1930, Page 16

STAGE PLAY FILMED

The record price of £55,000 for the screen rights alone was paid by Carl Uemrnle, junr.. for “Broadway,” the sensation of the New York stage, y hich will be seen at the Civic Theatre shortly, with Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Erent and Merna Kennedy In the principal roles. To the action of the play itself the young producer added the lavish Paradise Night Club, a full i evue. and street exteriors. which made the cost of the completed photoplay £300,000. Thomas Jackson. Otis Harlan, Robert Ellis, Paul Porcasi and many other notable players are seen in support of the featured players. One of the jurors in the trial of "Lulu Marks” on a murder charge in "The Drake Case," Universal aili alking sensation, fell asleep under the soothing glare of the incandescent lamps and the absolute silence of the sound stage during the filming of a scene. The assistant-direc or was about to waken him when Director Edward Laemmle stopped b f m. “Let him sleep. It’s perfectly natural.” said Laeminle. “The Drake Case” will be seen In Auckland shortly. George O'Brien, having recently returned to Hollywood from Arizona, where he made scenes for “The Lone Star Hanger.” left soon afterward for ti-ako Louise, in Canada, heading the lot Company assigned to "The Girl tvho Wasn't Wanted.” Helen Chandler, who appeared with O'Brien in salute.'• will enact the title role. The picture is a drama of the snowlands *nd lumber camps and is adapted from a magazine story by Kenneth Clarke.