PEEPING AT FILMDOM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 236, 5 October 1935, Page 5 (Supplement)

PEEPING AT FILMDOM.

PRINCE NICHOLAS’ PLAY. A BRITISH “BLUE LAGOON.” (By JOAN LITTLEFIELD.) LONDON, August 28. C. M. Wolfe, a pioneer of British films, who resigned last year from the post of deputy-chairman and joint managingdirector of the Gaumont British Picture Corporation, has been appointed managing-director of British and Dominions Films. He will also be chairman of a new company —Herbert Wilcox Productions, Ltd. —for which Mr. Wilcox, the “ace” director of B. and D., will make a number of pictures. The first year’s programme of the new company is budgeted to . cost about £750,000. Production is to begin immediately on “Street Singer,” in which

Arthur Tracy, well-known as “The Street Singer” to American radio and screen “fans,” will star with Anna Ncagle. The story is a modern one, with a London setting. The second production will be The Blue Lagoon,” to bo made in Honolulu and the South Seas, and produced in the new three-colour Technicolour process. It is possible that Joel McCrea or Richard Cromwell may play the leading male role, opposite a young British girl. Further productions will include a modern musical story of London, starring Jack Buchanan and a famous Continental actress; a musical film.in which Tullio Carminati will star with Anna Neagle; and two comedies featuring Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn. It is possible that Bing Crosby will come to London to make a film for Mr. Wilcox of an American in London and Paris.

Capital Film Productions are to make a film of “Embera,” the play written by Prince Nicholas of Greece, father of the Duchess of Kent. It is the story of conflict between three people—a middleaged sculptor, a young girl, and the young man she eventually marries. The moral—an old one—is that youth ca Is to youth and age must stand aside. The story is set in Greece and the Montmartre and Montparnasse quarters of Pans. The play is being,adapted under the supervision of Prince Nicholas, who will also take an active interest in the actual “shooting” in the studio. Ihe Prince writes under the pen-name of “Nicholas Nickleby.”

Jack Buchanan has the lovely American, Fay Wray, now much in demand for British pictures, as leading lady in his new film, “Come Out of the Pantry. Jack’s part is that of an English peer forced by circumstances to become footman to a wealthy New. York family, with the usual romantic consequences.