FIGHT AGAINST ILLNESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 260, 2 November 1935, Page 5 (Supplement)

FIGHT AGAINST ILLNESS.

IDA LUPINO'S VICTORY. Ida Lupino has won her fight against illness and disappointment. Doctors have told the tiny, blonde film actress daughter of Stanley Lupino that her health has definitely recovered. Together with this good news came the information that she has been chosen to play opposite Bing Crosby in his latest picture, "Anything Goes." For months past Ida has suffered from intermittent ill health. "Only three weeks ago I was cast for a part opposite Harold Lloyd in 'The Milky Way,'" she said. "But I was taken ill and had to withdraw. I almost gave up the last time I was ill. It seemed as if I was fated to be ill every time I was offered a part. A little over a year ago I was afflicted with infantile paralysis. As soon as I was back at work after recovering from this I caught the 'flu. Then I caught another bout when I started on 'Smart Girl'; and I went through the whole of the picture with a temperature of about 102. t

"Now I feel everything is going to be all right again, and that I have succeeded in my fight for a chance in Hollywood."

ONE ENGLISH FILM A YEAR. Leslie Howard has returned to London from Hollywood with two determinations—to keep away from Hollywood as much as possible and to desert the New York stage. He wants to live in England. "For many years -I have been trying to live in three places," he said. "My work has taken me to films and the stage in London, the stage in New York, and. films in Hollywood. Now I think the time has come to stop. I cannot see why any British star should go to Hollywood to make films when he can do them just as well and for good money in England. "In the winter I propose to make my farewell appearance in New York with my own production of 'Hamlet.' It has been my lifelong ambition to do that play.

"As far as films are concerned, I have a contract which rather interferes with my making films in London, but I have persuaded the studio to let me make one film each year in England. I want, if I can, to be permitted to form my own production unit for these pictures. I should, as a matter of fact, prefer to be a director. The director gets all the fun in the film business, and the actor really has little freedom of expression. Hollywood is a Machine. "I have nothing against Hollywood except that it is a great machine. The whole thing is so terribly mechanical and the actor cannot begin to argue with the people there. "I have to make a film in Hollywood based on the play 'The Petrified Forest,' which I have been playing in New York. They paid more than £20,000 for the film rights."

Mr. Howard said that he could not say anything yet about his English film plans. He was really in England for a holiday, but his ambition was to settle down in it. "I think we should do all we can to persuade the English stars in Hollywood to come back," he said. "What a fine British film industry we could form then! I have always had much more sympathetic treatment in English pictures that I have made."