LILLIAN GISH

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 924, 18 March 1930, Page 15

LILLIAN GISH

BACK IN FILMS The millions of admirers of Lillian C ish, famous screen star, who fs • bout to start work in her first alltalking: picture, “The Swan,” for United Artists, may be surprised to learn that she has made only ten pictures in ten years. With the exception of Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, who also *re United Artists stars. Miss Gish is tme great film personality who has been able to appear before the cameras but once a year and still retain world-wide popularity. The former D. W. Griffith heroine, whose name has been a household Word wherever motion pictures are i*hown since the days of “The Birth of ® Nation,” can look back at a string of immortal silent features as she launches a new chapter in her career as the “screen’s most foremost artiste.” The only pictures that she bas made in the past decade aye ‘Broken Blossoms,” “Way Down East,” “Orphans of the Storm.” “The bite Sister,” “Romola," “La Bo* heme,” “The Scarlet Letter,” “Annie Laurie.” “The Enemy,” and “The Wind.” Members of the cast of “The Last Performance,” Universal’s dramatic talking photoplay, gained several days Of stage experience in addition to •creen experience while working on the picture. Much of the action takes place on the stage of a crowded vaudeX'lllo theatre and for nearly a week the Players had to perform behind the footlights with an audience of extras looking on. Dr. Paul Fejos, the director, formerly a director on the European stage and he put the players through regular stage procedure in these scents. 1