PRODUCTION PARS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 88, 24 January 1942, Page 3

PRODUCTION PARS.

Spencer Tracy plays, a screen father for the first time in “Edison, the Man” biographical drama of the great inventor. As Edison, he is the father of a daughter and a son. * it X * With the accent on songs, thrills and laughter, the latest George Formby release, “Call a Cop,” will appeal to the stars many followers. * • * « Eddie Albert, now in Warner Bros.’ “A Dispatch from Reuter’s” with Edward G. Robinson, plans a unique vacation. He is having installed in a station waggon a small portable sound recording equipment and will tour the U.S.A. West and south-west, makingrecords of folk songs and cowboy ballads wherever he finds native talent. * * * * Dive-bombing demonstrated by Robert Taylor and others in “Flight Com mand,” was originated by the United States Navy Air Force ten years ago. *** * ' Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert are starred as the young people who brave the fierce Iroquois and wrest a home from the West in Darryl Zanuck’s Technicolour production “Drums Along the Mohawk.” * * * * Alice Faye and Don Ameche are starred in the technicolour production “Hollywood Cavalcade,” which depicts the movies from the old Mack Sennet bathing beauty days to the present. a. * * * John Payne, who is one of a leading trio in Warners “Tear Gas Squad,” often gives his time between movie “takes” to writing mystery stories.