GEORGE ARLISS FILMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 189, 12 August 1933, Page 5 (Supplement)

GEORGE ARLISS FILMS.

UNITED ARTISTS' BANNER. George Arliss, upon his return on September 1, will star exclusively for Twentieth Century Pictures, the new United Artists producing unit, Jieadea by Darryl Zanuck and Joseph M. Sclienck. One of the most illustrious figures of the stage and screen, Mr. Arlisa went to the United States after a successful career in England that included engagements with Mrs. Patrick Campbell. It was George C. Tyler, who took -Arlisa to the American stage in 1901. The tour was to last four months, but_ hw success was so great that he remained to appear in "The Second Mrs. Tanquerav" and "The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith." Then canje Belasco's "Darling of the Gods," with Blanche He was a leading member of Mrs. Fiske's famous Manhattan company for several seasons, appearing in "Becky Sharp, "Leah Kleschna" and "Hedda Gabbler. One of his greatest successes was in Franz Moluar's "The Devil," after which came "Septimus" and his biggest triumph, "Disraeli." • To Warner Brothers, for whom he lias made all his pictures to date, must go the credit, other than the acting, for the tremendous artistic and box-oflico success of "Disraeli," George Arliss' first film. This triumph was followed by such "hits" as "Okl English," "The Green Goddess," "The Millionaire," "Alexander Hamilton," "The Man Who Played God," "A Successful Calamity," "The King's Vacation," "The Working Mail" and "Voltaire," the last two of which have not yet been released here. In becoming associated with United Artists, Mr. Arliss joins forces with such commanding figures of the screen as Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, Eddie Cantor, Anna Stcn, Ronald Colman, "Mickey Mouse," etc.

Locales visited during the filmisation of "India Speaks," the Walter Futter production featuriug Richard Halliburton, range from t northern India, where the temperature registered 140 degrees in the shade to unexplored Tibet, beyond the towering peaks of the Himalaya mountains, in the very centre of the Asiatic Continent, where the mercury dropped to 30 degrees below zero.