THE ANSWER CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 153, 30 June 1934, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE ANSWER CORNER.

KEPLEES TO INQUIRIES. MOVET MAD (Glen Eden). —No, the "Stir" does not sell film photographs. Miss Trevor's films to date are "Life In the Raw," "Jimmy and Sally," and "Hold That Girl." BET (Mount: Eden). —The mala songs la Lilian Harvey's "My Weakness" were the theme song, "My Weakness," also "Gather Lip-Rouge While You May," and "Be Careful." "Gorgeous Alexander" ■was not in this picture. MAGGIE CIDLIA (Remuera).—lt Is mot possible to tell you the sums earned each year by the various stars, as the studios all adopt the policy that a still tongue as to huge profits, and salaries during the depression times is •wisest. There would not be any poor, struggling journalists left if those figures were published. However, Chevalier, Garbo, Shearer and Constance Bennett are all reported to be receiving in excess of 100,000 dollars annually. Garbo is probably paid twice that figure. HOTEL WAGER (Auckland). —Mr. Henry Hayward first showed pictures in His Majesty's Theatre in 1905, when he ran a highlv successful season, lasting five and a half weeks. Later in the same vear he screened tilma in the old Royal Albert Hall, in Albert Street. This was the first house to be adapted or built for the sole purpose of a cinema theatre in the Dominion. It is now a garage, opposite the Public Trust Building. Incidentally, Apologue won the Melbourne Cup in 1907, our racing editor tells me. INQUISITIVE (Mount Eden). —Addresses vou want are: Constance Bennett and Katharine Hepburn, c/o Radio Pictures, 780, Gower Street, Hollywood, U.S.A.; Joan Bennett and Heather Angel, c/o Fox Film Corporation, Movietone City, Hollywood; Joan Crawford and Maureen O'Sullivan, c/o Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City, Hollywood; Loretta l'oung, c/o Twentieth Century Pictures, 1041, North Formosa Avenue, Hollywood ; and Bebe Daniels, c/o British International Pictures, Boreham Wood, Elstree, Herts, England. WELL WISHER (Hamilton). —Thanks Tor well-wishing. The report that Mary Brian and Dick Powell were "going together," as you so neatly put it; was a screen magazine "story," and I will believe romance in Hollywood when I see the marriage announcement For pictures cut from books, I suggest subscribing to any film periodical. You might also be able to purchase from your local theatres or film distributors photographs of your favourites. Dick Powell and Mary Brian are both under contract to Warner Bros. Robert Young belongs to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but has worked for Fox Flms Corporation.

mii —ii »ii i—ii ■■■! i —ii ■■■ ii • * ~~"*** Samuel Goldwyn announces that lie has signed Gary Cooper to co-star with Anna Sten in "Barbary Coast." Seven years ago Goldwyn lifted Cooper from the ranks of the extras to play the male lead opposite Vilma Banky in "The Winning of Barbara Worth." Cooper arranged with his own studio to permit him to make one picture a year away from that studio, and his long friendship -with Goldwyn resulted in that producer getting hia services for the Sten photoplay. Mae West, the "come-up-and-see-me-sometime girl," has sprung a sensational surprise upon Hollywood and the world, writes a Hollywood correspondent. The star of "I'm No Angel," who has just completed the story of her next film, has upset everybody's calculations by choosing a new leading man for her picture. It was at first thought that George Kaft would play the part, but now Roger Pryor is to fill the role. So Roger Pryor is due for stardom. The son of the famous bandmaster, Arthur Pryor, whose musical recordings are known throughout the world, Koger is another "tall, dark and handsome" man. He was born in New York in 1903, is six feet tall and eleven stone six pounds in weight, and has dark hair and dark brown eyes. Plans for production of "Treasure Island" are announced. Technicians have been .working out details for filmin" of the Stevenson classic during the past several months. Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper will have starring roles Beery will have the role of Long John Silver and Cooper that of Jim Hawkins. Other selections for the cast are to be announced in the near future. Victor Fleming, whose films include "Blonde Bombshell," has been named to direct "Treasure Island." Smce it? initial appearance in 1883, R.L.S.'s great nover has been published in practically every language, and has established itself as one of the outstanding adventure stories of all time. The forthcoming film version will represent one of the major productions on the Hollywood schedule for the current season. Some of the sequences, in probability, will be made "on > location."

Playing the role of a. night club dancer for the first time on the screen, Miriam Hopkins prepared for the role in "She Loves Me Not" by rehearsing in front of a full-length mirror. Coconuts which Cecil B. de Mille brought back from Hawaii after com-

pleting Tour Frightened People" were used as real "props" for "We're Not Dressing," a forthcoming Bing Crosby "musicaL* It is a general belief that British films do not receive an enthusiastic reception in the land of the Stars and Stripes, but on the contrary we find that "A Passport to Paris," featuring Ben Lyon and Sally Eilers, ehown in Auckland last week, was loudly extolled there. The "Hollywood Reporter" wrote: "This picture is a light, engaging and sparkling comedy which gives a delightful 'raspberry, to the mythical kingdom school. It is jaunty, irrepressible stuff, enlivened by crafty direction and swell acting, and backed by good, solid comedy." The "Reporter" describes the etory and then goes on, "Allan Dwan's directing is extremely clever and individual. He makes the picture a piece of art, which is nevertheless acceptable to the average audience." And that, from U.S.A., certainly leaves a nice taste in the mouth. An untoward incident happened during the filming of one of the scenes for "That's a Good Girl," a Jack Buchanan comedy, made in the south of France. Jack Buchanan, who directs as well as stars in the picture, was anxious to open a swimming-pool sequence with two girls diving from a board 15 feet from the surface and racing down the length of the pool. Two volunteers were found and "shooting" began. Whether she had misunderstood the necessities of the "shot" never became clear, but it must suffice to say tht the French "girl who had offered to appear in the* sequence could neither dive nor swim. She fell rather than dived from the diving board and her companion turned round in time to assist her out of the water with the aid of the other members of the unit. Needless to say, this ehot does not appear in the picture, which is to be released throughout New Zealand shortly.

Thelma Rayc, the Titian-haired queen of the London Tivoli "Follies" of nearly 20 years ago, who left the stage to marry Mr. Stewart Dawson, of Sydney, and who later married Eonald Colman, has filed a petition for divorce from the latter. The hearing will take place this month.

Sylvia Sidney had to make two trips to Hollywood before she was claimed as a likely motion picture personality. Among the attractive features of the "Gay 'Nineties" style of feminine garb which Mae West reintroduces in her next picture, "It Ain't No Sin," will be face yeils.