THE ANSWER CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 237, 7 October 1933, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE ANSWER CORNER.

REPLIES TO INQUIRIES.

CITT OF SONG (Auckland). —Jan Kiepura was the star you mention. '.'Tell Me To-night" is due for local release very shortlv. Jan is now making a new London film with Marian Nixon entitled "A Song for You." CAVALCADE (Epsom).—Clive Brook is 42. The main characters in "Calvalcade." which had 17 featured players and several thousands of "extras," were as below:—Jane Mnrryot, Diana Wynyard; Robert Marryot, Clive Brook; Alfred Bridges. Herbert Mundin ; Ellen Bridges, Una O'Connor; Faun.v Bridges, Ursula Jeans; Joey Marryot, Frank I.awton; Edward Marryot, Jolin Wnrburton: Margaret Harris, Irene Browne; Edith Harris. Margaret TJndsay; Annie Grainger, Merle Tottenham; "Cookie," Beryl Mercer; Mrs. Snapper, Terape Pigott; George Grainger, Billy Bevan; Edward Marryot (child), Dick Henderson, ,lun.; Joey Mnrryot (child), Doughs Scott; Edith Harris (child), Sheila McGill; and Fanny Bridges (child), Bonita Granville. JIOVIE CRAZY (Nortbcote).—The addresses you want are here :—Ruth Chatterton, Joan Blondcll and Joe E. Brown, c/o Warner Bros, 5542, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, U.S.A.; Madge Evans, Jean Harlow. Norma Shearer, John Barrymore, Cliff Edwards (?), Wallace Beery, Robert Montgomery, Daurel and Hardy, c/o Metro - Goidwyu - Maver vStudios, Culver City, Hollywood; Mae Clarke, Universal City, Hollywood; Ronald Colman, Eddie Cantor and Jimmy Burante. c/o United Artists Corporation, 1041, North Formosa Avenue, Hollywood; Frederic March, c/c Paramount, 5451, Marathon St., Hollywood ; Lillian Harvey, Movietone City, Hollywood; Irene Dunne, .Tames Gleason and Robert Woolscy, c'o Radio Picture, 780, «.oTver Street, Hollywood ; Winifred rn r > e/o British and Dominions 2 "". Herts-., England; and ■.ally Eilers, Bebe Daniels ■and Molly Lamont c/o British International Pictures Elstree.

Word has come from Paris that Pola - egTi is returning to the screen and is ready to begin work on a new French ™. Tlie Btory, "Fanatisme" (Fanaticism) has been adapted from Max Maurer 8 play, "La Savelli." Both French and English versions will be made, with -Miss Negri appearing in both. The film MI be directed by Gaston Ravel and b© made in Montmartre, with fiido excursions into the Tuileries and Fon- . nebleau. It is described as a costume picture of the Second Empire. In the supporting cast will be Jean Yonnel of ™ Comedie Francaise, Pierre Riehardwllm and Andre Lafayette, both of the National Odeon Theatre.

Fairbanks, father and son, are to make * film at Elstree, England. "Zorro and bon or "Zorro Rides Again" it will lie called, and Douglas Fairbanks, sen., will appear as Zorro, the Californian bandit, Wiose cseapades lie made popular in the silent film "The Mark of Zorro." Fairanks, jun., will take the role of Zorro's *°n. It is almost certain that Fairbanks, sen., will take a long lease of sets' at the British and Dominion studios at Elstree. Ho is a partner of United Artists of America, some of j !c filnis are now being produced at

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure island," which Las been on one Holly°°d studio schedule for a year, lias now been shelved with ilio announcement that the studio feels that the puoiic does not earo for rip-roaring feature tales this season. Sophistics ion and ample love interest are cessary elements in screen faro at the Present time, the. producers feel, and wing John Silver is lacking in both ri i ie , S " to have been P yed by Wallace Beery and Jackie ■ooper was to have been the youthful adventurer.

Hi» - IS ' lavc ] "ts picture house, and wo c * citemen ts of the screen, which r , re temporarily available under the th E ? "^ nl ? llu 'lah but were banished in inf av .° Puritanism that washed him "\r° C l Xl '°> ' J0 restored (says the in ?? C . cr , Guardian"). Not, however, b eir entirety. Kabul is to have its ar .„ Film Censors, and t,hev have j-j _ that no films with a. love KahTjitolerated. ls T ot for j. U A e ' on g caress nor the glycerine that follows the broken troth. Your Fil° an f' S p ' on sterner stuff, f? s a martial or adventurous conwh f" ' )e welcomed by the Mullahs Tarl ,TI . '"'e censorship committee. A f , an Av '" Ijc permitted to inspire the I)nn ir Warnor when Jeanettc ]Uac>Jiay not, arid "Westerns" with nnii £ ot " ( ' cowboy horsemanship |Wll ' be encouraged.

Richard Dix has a good luck necktie, which he wears at least once in every picture he makes.

"Behold We Live," the latest stage play of the English dramatist, John van Druten, is to be made into a film, with Miss Irene Dunne' in the leading role.

Queenie, the chimpanzee 'which lias appeared in more motion pictures than any simian in captivity, is dead. Queenie, rehearsing her part in a picture, swung over a fence at the California Zoological Gardens and headed in the general direction of Mexico with a crowd in pursuit. Near Broadway and Mission Boad she climbed an electric light pole anrl took a firm, hard hold on a liightension wire. Iler lights went out.

"Parole Girl" is all about a girl who is sent to prison for two years for store thieving. Vowing to be revenged on tlio manager of the store whose intervention would have saved her, she starts a fire in the prison and then plays heroine in extinguishing the blaze. For her "bravery" slie is granted a

parole. She comes out, meets her former enemy at a party, and after a series of hazardous adventures falls in lovo with him. Mae Clark is the girl and Ralph Bellamy plays "opposite" her. Mario Prevost and Hale Hamilton are also in the cast.

Those who talk about "influence" when discussing how girls get jobs in Hollywood can take a lesson from the arrival of Mary Rogers, daughter of Will Rogers, the famous comedian. When she turned up at the studio, she gave licr name as Mary Howard, and asked for a screen test. She was so good-looking that she got it! "*on the strength of it she was given a small part in "My Weakness," a musical production starring Lillian Harvey and Lew Ayrcs. Two weeks later somebody remarked casually to the director, "I 'see you have Will Rogers' daughter working for you." And that was the first time the director knew about it. Miss Rogers is an ash blonde, 18 years old, who has been to school jn tho eastern United States. Whether her father was partner to the deception is not known. No one has seen them together, although they were working oil the same "lot."

Henry Edwards is to star in a British production of "General John Regan," George A. Birmingham's famous book and play. The British musical picture, "Tel! Me To-night," re-leased 111 America as "He Mine To-night," is in the sixth month of screening in Melbourne, at the Athenaeum, where "Sunshine Susie" last year put up its all-Australian record of 19 weeks, since beaten by a fortnight by "Jack's the Boy." "Tell Me To-night" is being screened in conjunction with "The Man from Toronto." Miss Garbo, on Iter return from Europe, retained her professional woman-of-mvstery manner, which Hollywood decided not to take too seriously while she was away. Her set was closely guarded and prominently placed signs and heavy shicldings barred the stage entrances. There might have been 110 ripple visible when she, began work in "Queen Christina" had not the studio announced that Jack Gilbert had replaced Laurence Olivier as the leading man. The family of "Little Women" is rapidly being assembled at Hollywood. Joan Bennett has been signed to play the role of Amy. The studio that has Joan's sister, Constance, under stellar contract, is well aware of the histrionic and popularity merits of this famous screen family and lost no time in negotiating with the younger sister for a role as soon as she was free. The four girls who comprise the family whose lives are dramatically depicted is Louisa M. Alcott's literary classic, are now preparing for their roles. Katharine Hepburn will have the stellar part of Jo, Frances Dee has been cast as Meg, and Helen Mack will portray Beth. There is small doubt that "Little Women" will be most capably depicted 011 the screen in this version. Paul Lukas, Eric Linden and John Davis Lodge have already been secured for the principal male roles.

Walt Disney, the young man of 33, who is responsible for the "Silly Symphonies" films, was once a staff artist on a newspaper. He began making motion picture cartoons in the loft of a private garage. Now he owns a handsome studio, which cost £100.000 to build, and controls a staff of 200 workers. This year he has undertaken to product 18 Mickey Mouse films and 13 "Silly Symphonies," at a total cost of £100,000 —and with an estimated revenue of £500,000! Perhaps the most remarkable thing about "Silly Symphonies" is the enormous amount of work that goes to their making. Although it may appear to those unversed in screen cartoon technique that they have been dashed off in a few minutes cffect of spontaneity at which their creator always aims—they are, in fact, produced by a process which demands the utmost care, precision and patience. There are 10 different pictures to every foot of film. The film is run at the rate of 18 inches a second. So, even for a fiVe-minute cartoon there must be 7200 separate pictures. Moreover, many of these pictures contain a dozen or more distinct figures in full colour, cach doing something different.