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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 14, 16 July 1931, Page 18

Both Kinds. • Two types'of; love are [depicted in "Man to Man," the Warner Bros, and Vitaphone production ■of .■ the Ben * Ames Williams "Saturday Evening-Post" story, which will "bo shown here shortly.. One is the love of-man and woman; the other of father and son. Phillips Holmes has the role of the boy; Lucille Powers of the sweetheart,-in this; story, the scenes of- which-are laid in a small town in ' Kentucky. ,

Famous Play^, : "Strictly 'Dishonourable," with four principals assigned. to the cast;" has gone ■ into production, at Universal. City under the direction 'ofl John Stahl-. ; John Boles, whose knowledge of. French has stood him in good stead;frequently, has been: studying Italian, preparing- for the role of Count'di-.Kuvor 'Sidney .'Fox ; plays the southern-girl;' George-Meeker, the young man; from East' Oraage;; and Lewis Stone has>iust ibeen assigned'the role of the judge.. ,'.>'•;,; .-•■•;.■ , n :; ,v . s

"Rivets." < ■ "Rivets," ■ the. Jack M'berinotfc stage play, has been purchased for the screen by Howard Hughes, and will be made into a screen play for release - by ' United Artists^ The author will adapt • the play to the screen, and * the vehicle' probably will'be'Pat O'Brien's second one for.' Hughes. His. first, "The Front .Page,': is now playing to ;packed.' houses at the Rivoli, New York.

Endurance. ; . ' Gloria. , ; , ; . The Hollywood work endurance record Gloria' Swanson's next picture, which goes to : Edmund• Goulding, director of will be ■released \ 6oon, will.be presented Douglas Fairbanks's new picture,l "Reach- after'.,all. under, the title "Indiscreet." ing for the Moon," in which Bebe Daniels "Indiscreet", is a modern, comedy drama plays the feminine lead. Goulding has produced by De .Sylva, Brown, and Henbeen working, eating, and sleeping at the dcrsoii, and' directed '; by Lao M'Carey. It United Artist studios for weeks. He re- is regarded as one of. the current season's .fuses to take, the. time to.go to his, own smartest offerings, ■'■ with ultra-modern home: Since'the beginning of the Irving settings and elaborate wardrobe. And Berlin production, Goulding has been living it marks'-a radical', departure from the in a dressing-room at the studio. He musical type of production with which De works all day and late into the night, Sylva, -Brown; arid .Henderson have been eating hia meals at haphazard moments, associated. Miss Swanson's.suporting cast and is upland busy at dawn. Fairbanks, includes • Ben '• Lyon, Monroe Owsley, who is the most dynamic of actors, says Barbara Kent, Arthur Lake, and Maude Goulding, has!'superhuman vitality. The Eburne.' . -. ■,■ cast of "Reaching for the Moon" includes ~„,_„,. P . mll i u ~ , : . Edward Everett Horton, Jack Mulhall, Unique Comedy. Kate Price, Claud Allister, Emmett Corri- "Dude Ranch," Paramount^ ; picturisagan, Walter Walker,. Adrienne D'Ambri- tion of, Milton Krims' humorous novel, is court,'. June Mac Cloy, and Inana Walters, described as a .unique comedy. It deals m.w Ti+i. ' ' ' ' with'a troupe1 of actors who become 7,^J,, m, •,„ ~ , , stranded in the West and who-contract "I Take. This .Woman has been select- to j ns til excitement into an otherwise tame cd as the final title for the current Para- K , lest ranc h. Jack' Oakie, June Collyer, mount production in which Gary Cooper E ugene : Pallette; ; Stuart Erwin, : Mitzi and Carole Lombard have the,leads. The Gr | en and; Charles .Sellon'share comedy picture, which was previously announced honours : ■ ■ as "In Defence .< of Love,"'is from the " ' .'.' ' ■ Western romance. "Lost Ecstacy/ by Mary Which? Roberts' Ririehart. Others in featured i s love of country more powerful :than roles are Clara Blandick and Mildred Van love-of man? In the Warner Bros, and o, rn' ...... , . ' Vitaph one picture, "Three Faces. East," Ingenious Scoop. . with Constance Bennett and Eric Yon A dual system of coverage worked'out Stroheim, ■ this, question isanswered Miss by the Paramount.Sound News, whereby Bennett' portrays 'a .war. nurse who _ is for several years cameramen with royalist employed, as a, spy in: both the^ British ■• sympathies had . photogi-aphed Km and. Germ an Intelligence Service, .m the. Alphonso while a second group, friendly ti. hazardous days of 1017. Eric: Yon- Stroheim the revolutionists, had co-operated with is ■ the dangerous; German spy, and the that faction, was responsible foi- Para conflict between these two grows more mount obtaining the first authentic pic- and more teuse as. it nears the climax, tures of the abdication of the Spanish when they are forced to decide.between monarch. love and love of their country. "Three _ . - Faces East" will be shown here shortly. Fun. ■ _ . Reports from California state that "Ex- The Fifth MarX: ... ... Bad Boy" frill, be-a laughing sensation.-. At the age of .seventy-two. Samuel Marx, This play, by John Emerson and Anita father of the famous Four Marx1 Brothers. Loos, has given Robert Armstrong, who made his motion picturedebut. He appears has specialised on the screen in strong-man in a !se(juence of "Monkey Business," the parts, an opportunity to do comedy char- clowns' current picture at the. Paramount acterisation. The full cast includes Jean Ilollywoddstudibs.' ' Others in the comedy Arthur,^ Lola Lane, George Brent, Mary cast are Thelma Todd. Riith:Hall, Tom Doran, Jason Robards, and Spencer Kennedy,, William 8.-Davidson, and RockChavtrcs. ', " cliffe FelloVvos. . Norman M'Leod is,directAt Fifteen. ... . . ing- .',,"" . .'.' ''- ~ ,■','.'...' Tom Douglas, Paramount player, played er as* J°b- • ■ ... opposite Dorothy Gish in "The Country Eleanor Boardnian, Paramount player, Flapper" at fifteen, and then went on the left a position as an interior decorator.in stageuntil;this, year.' , v New. York' to enter motion picture*.

Satire. '' : " \ " \ '\:.r ' ■/■■ :- Hilarious and human is the comedydrama, "Misbehaving Ladies,", which will be shown hero shortly. Satire was .known in silent films,'but this picture makes it riotous. American rural life and European noble society are criticised'with' whimsical good nature ■ asJ the; plot develops. ■Thev cast has ,-Lila'.' Lee,. Ben; Lyon, Louise Fazenda, and ' Liicien 'Littlefield -playing important roles.. ■■ '" ■■ ' , ■■•; '

"Lady of. Lions." r> "Lady of the Lions," a drama'of the glamorous European theatre; has . been selected,as Marlene Dietrich's first Paramount picture since her return- from Europe. From an. original story'-by Bartlett Cormack, the new picture '■will' present Miss Dietrich in an ultra-modern ; background ■. and in a series of i unusual, <Emart gowns ■ which are' nows,being - designed for her. Josef voniSternberg. will direct. ~.

From the Stago. "Waterloo Bridge" has started at Un> iversal-City under the direction of James i Whale. > One of the most interested bystanders'is Robert 'E. Sherwood, th« , author .of the play, which, was! adapted to the screen- by Ben W. Levy.: Kent Donglass, Mac Clarke,,"',Enid. 'Bennett, Dorii Lloyd,' Ethel>Griffi'es,,Frederick^Kerrj and Rita 'Carlisle have beei--assigned impo^ tant'roles. ' ', ."'. •..; . -: >