THE ANSWER CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 230, 28 September 1935, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE ANSWER CORNER.

REPLIES TO INQUIRIES. K.D.B. (rarnell). —Tour question is answered in the reply to "Jeanne" (Epsom). TOROA (Whakatane).—Nick Lucas is tlie player you describe in "The Gold Diggers o£ Broadway." INDENT (Mount Eden). —Paul Robeson is to bo found c/o London Film Productions; Worton Hall, Isleworth, Surrey, England. JEANNE (Epsom) .—"More Than a Kiss" was never released in Auckland. Miss Mac Donald made three films for Fox about 1929, but only two of them—"Oh, Tor a Man" and "Annabelle's Affairs" — were released locally. JEANETTE MACDONALD FAN (Gisborne). —Here is the address of a Jeanette Mac Donald Film Club : Miss P. Marshall, 32, Glenwood Road, Hounslow, England. And here is a Chevaller-Mac-Donald Club: Mrs. Glenna Riley, 149, S 7th Street, New Castle, Indianapolis, U.S.A. N. R. HOY (Grey Lynn). — Write to "Ginger" Rogers and Fred Astalre, both c/o Radio Pictures, 780, Gower Street, Hollywood, U.S.A. It is wise to include an international money' order for 1/ (cost 1/0 at C.P.0.), when asking for photographs. I cannot tell you Fred Astalre's age or height. SYMPHONY (Ngaliere Terrace). —Neither "Autumn Crocus" nor "The Unfinished Symphony" (known also as "Lover Divine") has been released in Auckland. However, the latter will be seen here shortly. "Autumn Crocus" apparently was rejected under contractual rights. There is just the faintest possibility that in the vague future it may be shown at the theatrcttes. RAY (Thames). —Thanks for addresses. Regret I have no details of Nelson Eddy or Robert Cochrane. Raymond Milland (real name Jack Millane) appeared away back in the silent era of films. He was born on January 3, 1905, in Drogheda, Ireland; is Oft lin in height and has black hair and brown eyes. His talkies include "Ambassador Bill," "Payment Deferred," "This Is the Life" and "Orders Is Orders" (last two British). He was seen recently in "The Gilded Lily." FILM FAN (New Lynn).—Cast of "Roberta": Huck, Fred Astaire; Scharwenka, "Ginger" Rogers; Stephanie, Irene Dunne; John, Randolph Scott; Roberta, Helen Westley. In "The Gay Divorcee," Fred Astalre and _ "Ginger" Rogers were also teamed, with Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton and Erik Rhodes In support. I have not the cast of "The Band Plays On." That of "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" is as follows : Megan Davis, Barbara Stanwyck; General Yen, Nils Asther; Dr. Robert Stride, Gavin Gordon : Mr. Jackson, Luclen Littlefleld : Mali-Li, Tosliia Mori; Mrs. Jackson, Clara Blandick; Jones, Walter Connolly. Addresses you want are: Nils Asther, Walter King and Cora Sue Collins, Movietone City, Hollywood, U.S.A.; Nelson Eddy and Frank Lawton, Culver City, Hollywood; Fred Astaire and John Beale, c/o Radio Pictures, 780, Gower Street, Hollywood; Russell Hardie, c/o Columbia Pictures, 1435, North Gower Street. Hollywood; Paul Cavanagh, c/o Paramount Pictures, Inc., 5451, North' Marathon Street, Hollywood ; George Arliss, c/o Gaumont-British Film Corporation, Shepherd's Bush, Lime Grove, London; John Stuart, c/o British and Dominions Flm Corporation, Boreham Wood, Elstree, Herts. MADGE EVANS FAN (Kingsland).—Anna May Wong, 28, sft 4jin, black hair and brown eyes; Mary Boland, 58, sft 4in, blonde hair and blue eyes; "Ginger Rogers, 24, sft Sin, brown hair and blue eyes; Gracie Fields, 37, auburn hair and hazel eyes; Marlon Davles, 35, sft 3in, blonde hair and blue eyes; Loretta Young, 22, sft Sin, light brown hair and blue eyes; Shirley Temple, 0, golden hair and blue eyes ; Marlene Dietrich, 32, sft Sin, red-gold hair and blue eyes; George Arliss, 67, sft 9in. grey hair and brown eyes; George O'Brien, 35, sft lOlin, black hair and blue eyes; Ronald Colman, 44, sft llin, dark brown hair and brown eyes; Conrad Veldt, 41, Oft 2in', dark brown hair and blue eyes. Madge Evans films: "Son of India," "Heartbreak," "Sporting Blood," "Dinner at Eight,' "Hallelujah, I'm a Tramp;" "The Mayor of Hell," "Helldorado," "Beauty for Sale," "Broadway to Hollywood" and "David Copperfield." Maureen O'Sullivan's main films: "Tarzan the ApeMan," "Tarzan and His Mate," "Song o' My Heart," "Just Imagine," "Payment Deferred," "Cohens and Kell.vs in Trouble," "Stage Mother," "Tugboat Annie," "Hide-Out" and "David Copperfield." In "The* Barretts of Wimpole Street" she was cast as Henrietta Barrett, the fiery younger sister of - Elizabeth.

Herbert Marshall is expected to return to England from Hollywood in the near future. He will do a film there with his wife, Edna

Grace Moore's new film, "Love Me For Ever," is hailed to-day as "an audience's dream come true," writes a New York correspondent. When it was shown at the Radio City music hall, the huge theatre, seating 0000, was packed and as the first audience left hundreds more entered. "Love Me For Ever" is just an adroit mixture of the ingredients of love and laughter' that made "One Night of Love" such a success. Much of it is a transplantation of "La Boheme" to the screen and the suggestion is offered to the Metropolitan Opera House managers that they should present Hollywood with a medal for having shown them how to make opera popular with the masses. Naturally, Grace Moore is again the opera singer who rises from humble beginnings to a great career and her performance was greeted with wild applause by the vast audience, i

"The Beloved Vagabond," which is to be Maurice Chevalier's first British picture, will be commenced in January. The French star is now appearing in a show in Paris and will be there until the end of the year. "Ah, Wilderness" is to be one of the big pictures of the year. Lionel Barrymore will play the role in which George Cohan made theatre history last season. The film executives wanted Will Rogers to do it, but 110 money inducement could persuade the genial Will to make a gelatine record of his contribution to this O'Neill characterisation. The first picture in which Gladys Swarthout will be seen is to be called "Rose of the Rancho." This mezzosoprano of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, recently signed a long-term contract. Miss Swarthout is one of the few American-born and American-trained stars of the Metropolitan. She began her musical career as a choir singer in Kansas City, and made her first important operatic appearance with the Chicago Opera Company. John Boles is to have the leading male role in "Rose of the Rancho." A film director requires to have nerves of piano wire, almost. Henry Hathaway, who is making "Peter Ibbeteon," received a nasty shock during the filming of a scene on location. Little Virginia Weidler, during a clo6e-up, poked her tongue through a place where a tooth should have been. Hathaway paled. "Where's that tooth ?" "In my pocket. It was loose and I pulled it out," replied Virginia, proudly. A dentist was rushed to the scene of the calamity and in three hours he had made a plate to hold one front tooth the size of a pea. Noel Coward indirectly helped to put on the screen the young Englishman John Mills, who made his screen debut in the naval film "Brown on Resolution." John Mills started work in the grain business in the English provinces at -10, but finding the life dull he went to London and tried to get on the stage. Calls at the offices of agents were fruitless, but he was persistent and made enough money on which to live by canvassing for a commercial film. Eventually an agent sent him to see R. C. Sheriff, who was casting "Journey's End" for a tour of India. Young Mills made a good impression and he was given the part of the young officer Raleigh. Then Fate took a hand and played a bigger card. On its way back to England the "Journey's End" company played at Colombo after a long tour of India and the Far East. Noel Coward was spending a few hours in Colombo before continuing his cruise. The famous actor-author-composer attended the performance, noticed Mills' talent and sent for him after the show. The young man's good fortune starred from that moment. Hv fi; - st succor was in "Brown on Resolution."

Jcaiiet Gaynor was recently ordered to remain in bed for at least a week for treatment for internal injuries received in a fall. In a scene from "Way Down East," which is being filmed at Santa Cruz, she had to chase a colt. She tripped and fell and the concussion and pain from her injuries caused her to faint.

A Broadway "hit" almost surely means a picture purchase, so it is not a surprise to hear that "The Petrified Forest," starring Leslie Howard, will be put on the screen. The Robert Sherwood play brought £20,000—110 mean price for even a Broadway success these days. It has plenty of action and the role which Howard plays—that of a sriy, philosophical Britisher who considers himself a complete failure in life—is admirably suited to his restrained talents.

We may expect a series of horror films within the next few months. Some of the pieiures are of the most gruesome description, according to advices received from film distributing companies. Practically every major company in Hollywood has been devoting some attention to this type of film since the release of "The Bride of Frankenstein." Universal is particularly fond of horror pictures. This company gave the world the remarkable series of Lon Chaney "vehicles some years ago and was responsible for "Frankenstein" and kindred photoplays. The same company recently announced that it would make "Dracula's Daughter" this year and said that the young lady would be "more sensational than her tinforgettable father!" Universal will also revive Victor Hugo's famous story, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," and Henry Hull will probably play the role made famous by the late Lon Chancy in the silent film. M.G.M. is waiting for the reports on the success or otherwise of "The Hands of Orlac," a gruesome drama starring the German, Peter Lorre, of "M" fame.

ENGLISH FILM IN COLOUR

Alexander Ivorda is going to make "Elizabeth of England" in colour. This decision is a result of the sensation created by "Becky Sharp," the pione-jr American colour film.

Flora Robson is to play the Queen. The story is conceived on lines of historic pageant and does not carry the satirical intention evident in "The Private Life of Henry VIII."

Many months ago Mr. Korda said that he was going closely into the question of colour and that when the public demand came he would be ready for it. He lias been concerned with the consideration of another process, but arrangements have now been made for the use of the latest teehnicolour, in which "Becky Sharp" was made. This means the establishment of a teclinicolour laboratory near London.