Mysterious Affair

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 66, 19 March 1931, Page 18

Mysterious Affair

His Sixth. Kobeit Z Leonaid,'h<t\ing finished filming of "The Bachelor Ifalhei," Marion Da\ies' new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talkie, is ivoiknig on the finjl?cutting ■while prpparing to scieen her 'next picture, "We a Wise Child." This ljill be the sixth occasion on which, Leonard- has directed ;,', Miss .Davies.-:'/.;,;';..-'^,.-"-1:1;I;: ';.\,].oj: l '•" ]i[ ■ ■•:{ V. IVwJNqyeljo: ;■;■";■;' il1:-^:'--}^'-^'''^ ?'%■'■'; '*•'.• Jvpr'l'Novellql- of lithe'.^EnglisK stage^aiidi ■,••Bntisli',: fijm'iproductiph/tjiaa' ."sfghed^iip1. 'i|app'eran'ce fin" ""^effipXff^'Ttie ; Keturri; of '-.* the^Eat;^s^ JSyniphmiy-iin^Two-J Ifltfts;", y-.eiei,', ha^.-'^c^V^dHMiv'r'fHistkoiirig -isfclor'^a: !:'lGgio>^'of^|rrends:AiSpecial>"stQries..jyiiri?t>e it^pe-t'oKxoi't, valthough -.: Nov)Bllo'B...'verea(,i]ity.T-%J|L > .)nake -]him-.'.i at ■rhonici'in^apy/cIaSK/of^pvoduc^ipn. ;.■-.; ..-..; ■■/ Niirsoryi Rliyriici."•;.V; x;;A;'J;;.;'.;' '.'■ '}[\'.;,.l■■■■ '-';■ "'^nursery'rhym'e;SYhich'sshei.Ußed,,to ;rpa'd I:s~tb-?her.*chMrettvfxumMe'd:/:the--i,ihspifatipn ;vfor;the:':titlfe.;oi-iHelen'iGrafee'i Carlisje's. ■'■•Wot,^to^ers/: Qry,f'va\\picfeißatiori--*o£; Avh']chkh'asin6w/-be^n;-iua'de ;by.; Eirsfc 'Na-' tidnal':;aria):!ryitapH6nei\;;;M.ptliera.:,will ?re-, . calKthelines:n''One';:tiTO;;'th'ree;,four.,five, ': six,' ,sertny'iiJl3go6d'cliildreiT..go to. HeaV veil..•■■;Wij'pii-t]iey.-:dife'niflthers::cry.. < '-Povov '". tliy^'■•'t'Pe'iergoil,'' payi'd'.^rafinet1?', ■" |H?l.en- ■■ Chandle'ii ~aiid Sidney-;B|acknicr ..are fea;;'tijred;vin;;"Mothers.:.Qry,."^ ",.: ■■.',.;. , ,r> ": ■'..'>■;. js. 1.y.:- ■;"■'. '^ ■.:■■■■ ■ '; Eichard'iOro-rawelli}featiir.ed''in ;''Tol'able; 'David "the.; Colunibia..fi|m. adapted- from ■■'■' Hergesheimer's.' celebrated:-: story,, "sooii.Vto, -'be released in' New Zealand, -iiad a ••narrow .escape fr.oni;deatfc dnrin-g"the .shbqtnig;of; : the film.; The/proprnanjliad^hipped -tiie; ' horses.pulling..the;s.t:ageVcbach, too.hard.. .: The .horses -.started..Qffj'fiinning,. lv.ildly,; ■Vl6sjng''cdntrpV:"-ofXlKeniselyesi::cp:mp.le«ly...- ---; As'they diißhed 'arou;nt£;ji^urvp. : ih-:Uie;roiid hthe 'stage •.ioijt.'pVeY;Oft;it3S'S!cle; N'Croiiiweli, i.Hvhoj^vnß^clijiging.lAightly./to^.'thej-side; o(: .' the.•.coach,1'- was '-. brough't;'clearr't-ioI;:'.i»e>. ;:gipundj''WheEeilie;prbiiiptlysletif%; -' Vi; '.; '• ;:. .. w.■ i.. i l *.~l J *'.. .'^. .! '± 1 <* ■- ■".

I "Ranfll)" "Raugo" lias been selected j> the title lot the jungle diami made by Jsinebt B rfiichoedsagk for Pal amount m 'the une.\ ploied wildeinc&s of Sumatia 'Ihis replaces the title, "Jungle War," previously announced Schoedsack, •who co produced "Clmiik" and "lhe Four Feathers," s^ent more than a jeir in the tiger infested Malay jungles iilmmg his litest (dventure pictuie /"The Westerner." Among the stals ibsembltd foi ' Che Wc&teinct " a Paiamoiiiit adjenture iilui staling Kicliud Allen, aie Maiy Bmn, 1 ugene Pdllctte Louise Tai-emla, Clnrles Wiriuiu(,ei James Bui kin, Guy Olnei, William Bojd Biooks> Bonedict, and Jlck Rlihurlbon Edwaid Sloman Ins been seletted^to direct, and the iilmmg will commence shoitly in Hollywood "Laughter" Director. l ' H D'Abbadie D'Airast hib been re engaged by Paiamount to direct a production to follow the same successful lines as "Laughter," in which he directed Nancy Carroll and Fiedenc Maich D \\- rast is now in France on \acation, but is scheduled to letuin soon to the N~ew \oik studio"! He will join such ditectois is Finst lubitEch Gcoige \bbott, md Uoiotln Vi/nei 700 th Paramount Filni Willi iin Powells new stilling film, L-idiGb' Aim ' wlurb is now t in piodut tion iimkii the 700 th pictme made m Ilolhwood by Piiamount The list does not include the t,e\eial Imndied Paiamount pjctuies pioduced in New Yoik "Ladies' Mm ' is ilso Panmount ninety fifth allfilkind in nrjiu tinn made m Holl\wood LothJi Afondo^ is diiccting with }\ iv I'nnfi1' licarlmg the cist Borrowed. Doiotln l'pfcison i> (he divi ])lnei >irii cil ui> loi 'Lip foi Muulei, ' (he <.ton b\ "\Tonl LIS ill \ \r»";:h gOC-i into piO duotion wilh Lc« \ucs mr! Gencueie Tobm, 10 stalled. She wis bonowed from

Who is. the mjsteuous foieiguei wh» ■visited London with the object of obtain* ing someone to make a piopaganda film foi inflaming feihng in L'urope aud Asn ifeainst Buti&h aule in India' This man's pioposil was levealed t» the 'Sunday Cluouiclo"\by Shcilih Iftek* liar Rasool, an actoi and film pioducer, who stated that he had been ofierei £15,000 to cmy out the pioject \ bigniflcnnt pait of the story >i« JjJiPikh > Rasool's btatcment that, he his now leained tint the entertainment organisation which mtioduced the foreiguei to him is actuallj financed and run bi the Souet as i co\oi toi piopagauda, actmtics bhcikh R.i>>ool s btoi> is that he 10 cencd <i lettei a shoit tune ago from an cutcitainm^nt oigatiisatiou by whom ha had been emplojed The lettei intio* duccd "a film dnectoi of high lepute" who, the letter stated, "lns> a. \ery interesting pioblem to discuss with you" Ihe Indian film dnectoi ananged to meet the Mbitor, and had a Jong con\prsatiou with him at >\n hotel in th« Strand to Sheikh Rjfool, it was during this talk that it was suggested to him that he bhduld make a talkia to be called "Freedom of the East" The mysteiious Msitoi,- who spokt Fiench with a Russian accent, said lie undeintood that Sheikh Rasool had nationalist and anti-Bntish gjmpatlues Ho w anted him to make a film ~bf life in India, showing British sokbeis bulbing n«tncs and degenerate living bj Luiopeaus. "Do >ou know that surh a film woull cost £10,000 or £ 15,000 v" abked Sheikk Risool 'That is quite all light," the man i<plied "Jlv organisation \slll pay yo« £15,000 and geneious expenses" Sheikh Rasool then said thit it wat not tiue that he had antißntwh sympathies, that he had always been heated very kindly by the British/and that 1m could not for a moment consider making «uch * film. '' , The interview then ,ended, -and thi( visitor left for Pans the same -day*

* Noel lnncib, i\lio>p 1930 pictuies include "Kouo'h Kounnce" md To\ Movieton* .Tollies, ot 1930," js in the cilbt of "Uesuucction," -which Edwin Cai.ewe produced ,itj Univcisil Citj, with John Boles and Lnp*' Velez stalled In a repioduction of th» Winter Pahcc of tlie Czars, Carewe iilm« cd scenes of high life in ltyissia Bolet "as Prince Dmifii, aud William Keigblej, who plajb 'Major Schocuboch," aie concerned ,iu,these palice sccne<> AMien a scieen peisomlity makes a hit with the public the pioblems stait Th* piodncci & tioublt. ln\e just begun On« of the biggest is to Keep the &tn fioni becoming that n.ost dieadcil of ill things k cineni iltc —; i Itjpo " fco jotipg Cul Liemmle, jun , genei il inanay»i_ of piodnction foi Tumuli, Int. done mvi.li thinking about stouts foi Jew Ajn.s, since the 22 \eai old }oungt>tai was tatipultcd into fune In "A.ll Quiet on tho Weotcm Fiont" The executee is guulmg the joung stai's cjieei so that lh» public may^Bee all sides of Ins- \eisatilit\. Tiom the cornedj, "Many a Flip/'. An es turned to his first starting: pictuie, "T,p Toi Mulder/' the title of which is fiiitfieientb desaiptne of its natuip Wh'il this production is finished, is it will l>o shoith he will h^e an iitleih ditfeient lolp in AY V Bmnettt. ton of . the pi up nnfc The linn Mjii rail hu« ho will stni as j bo\n Lillian Bond Lillian Bond -nho pined the fcmimm lcid m lollow Thiough" his been s pnod In MetioGoldw\n M^ax foi motion pictute iroik Miss Bond is n6w in Los Angeles ilthough hci fiist is-signraent bis not \et been anttbuniftl , "The Boy Wonder' 'Hie Bo\ Wondei ' lus ber>n ts the fandl title foi Jack Oikies tin Kilt I'll amount comrdi which js bi«t i on tht siicl'"-'=liil htigc ph\, Tiiiif Jfoon ' b\ liniß Tiulnci mm C.co\gp S TCiufm-'u. Edw.iul bullieiland is dmrting willi ..I'ia«. tct, Uc( I helm l lodd Wmjiic Gibson, Hau> Ak^t, Harold. Waldndge, and Junt Mac Cloy. in.Hlie cist