THE ANSWER CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 193, 15 August 1936, Page 5

THE ANSWER CORNER.

REPLIES TO INQUIRIES. INQUIRER (Oneliunga).—Gracie Fields "has never lived iu Hollywood. She Is to-day making films at Ealing, outside London. She is 38. TACK PUTT (Pukehuia). —Rochelle Hudson will probably send you her photo without charge. Write to her at Movietone City, Hollywood, U.S.A. HG K. (Gisborne). —Neither Frank Albertson nor Charlotte Henry were in "The House of Rothschild," at any rate prominently. I have no information on future nlaiis' of either player. Arthur Treacher Is "on the up and up" just now, with paramount Pictures, Inc., 5451, Marathon Street, Hollywood, U.S.A. J PARR'S (Westmere). —The villain in "Show Them No Mercy" whom you want wa s "Buzz," portrayed by Edward Bropliy. Cast of the film is : Rochelle Hudson, Bruce Cabot, Cesar Romero, Edward Norris, Edward Brophy, Warren Hynier, and Robert Gleckler. TIN BIN (Henderson):—Addresses you want are: Nelson Eddy and Francliot Tone, Culver City, Hollywood, U.S.A. ; Lew Ayres and Elissa Landi, Movietone City Hollywood ; Kent Taylor, Gail Patrick Mae West and Biug Crosby, c/o paramount Pictures, Inc., 5451, Marathon Street, Hollywood; Robert Doiiat, c/o London Films, Denham, Bucks., England. COUNTRY GIRL (Coatesville). —It is manifestly impossible to state which is the most famous singer alive. buch a verdiet can have no actual basis of fact. Manv might consider Tetrazzini or Gallif'urci the best, but it must always remain a matter of personal opinion. The same, of course, applies to male singers, hut Gicli, Clialiapin or Tauber may top most lists of greatest living singers to-day. BILL (Grafton).— No details liave reached me concerning another re-make of Ihe Miracle Man." By all means you can suggest to a company that its contract players should appear in such-and-such stories, but don't imagine that your voice alone will carry the decision The studios anc. stars welcome helpful suggestions. Yes, your children In "These Three" will probably send you photographs free, if you write to them c/o Samuel Goldwyn, 1041, Nth. Formosa Avenue, Hollywood, U.S.A. TE HAI (Ellerslie). —Guy Kibbee was in •The Gold-Diggers of 1933," not of Broadway. Heights you want are. Clark Gable, Oft lin; Gary Cooper, Oft 21n; Randolph Scott, Oft 2m ; Warner Baxter, sft llin; Bing Crosby, oft Jin, Herbert Marshall, sft lOiu; James Cafcnev sft Bin; Eddie Cantor, oft Sin, Frederic March, Oft; Cliarlie Chaplin, sft 4in ; Jack Buchanan, Oft 2in; Fred \staire, not known. . All the plajers you mention have previously sent their photographs to this country tree. Richard Dlx is 4:! years of age; Buck Jones is 46, and Jack Holt is 48. RIO COLORADO (Hamilton East) .—There K is, to my knowledge, only one authentic fan club in the Dominion—the Myina Loy Fan Club, run by W. Leslie Griffin, in Marton. Perhaps you could get necessary details there. "Follow the Fleet" was 100 running minutes In length, while "Magnificent Obsession was two minutes' longer. Write to Jonn Howard and Sally Eilersat Movietone City. U.S.A.: to Russell Hardie, at Culver City, Hollywood; to Gene Raymond, c/o Radio Studios, 780 Gower Street, Hollywood. • "Buster" Crabbe, Sally Eilers and Russell Hardie have not been known to me to dispatch free photographs to New Zealand. MYRNA LOY FAN (Bay of Plenty).—For photographs (which probably will be sent free) of Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne, write respectively to Culver City, Hollywood, U.S.A., and to Radio Studios, 780, Gower Street, Hollywood. Loy's most recent films include L° v ,® , Me To-night," "Mask of Fu Manchu, _ "Vanity Fair," "The Animal Kingdom, "A Night in Cairo," "Topaze, Night Flight," "Men in White, *™,°' "rhi'n "Manhattan Melodrama, The Thin Man," "Evelyn Prentice,' When Ladies Meet," "Stamboul Quest," Whipsaw, and "Petticoat Fever." Irene Dunnes films include "Back Street, If 1 Were Free," "Stingaree, Ihis Mm a Mine, , "The A«e of Innocence," Roberta, "Sweet Adeline," "Magnificent Obsession and "Show Boat" (coming). INTERESTED (Takapuna).—"The General Died at Dawn" and "Chinese Gold are one and the same picture, with Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll starred. Although the studio paid thousands of dollars for use of the title only of the novel "Chinese Gold," having previously purchased tlie story plot. for nnnther film they have now decided to drop it and' use ''The General Died at Dawn." Paramount's 'Beau Geste, in colour, has definitely been shelved, at any rkte for the time being. "Under Two Flags" and "Show Boat are scheduled for release within three o r four •ww»ks "The King Steps Out is sud tot to delay. Clark Gable's next film after "Wife Versus Secretary, is San Francisco with Jeanette Mac Donald. "Pitcairn's Island" may not be made at aU. "The Public Menace" is due for early local release. . DICK FORAN FAN (New Lynn) Three Saddle" '"V victim "was played by AWison Richards Y/d grown 8< up» tcS thf}to of the Play ß and central character, being sure sr t Wrestling Association. No date nas forwarded for Victor Jory's return Auckland. It is to say why no reply been received to a letter sent to Herbert Marshall in March. Not infrequently, letters go astray, and fan writers pared for that. Studio andresidential addresses change surprisingly °fte , stars move most disconcertingly betwee England and America; they adopt varying rules in answering their correspondence, and even in their views on the matter of fans. give I have known only Robert 1 to send photographs free to New Zealand. Write to Allan Jones and Joseph Calleia at Culver City, Hollywood, U.S.A.; to Richard Cromwell, c/o Columbia Studios, 1438, Nth. Gower Street, Hollywood; to Richard A**en t c/o Paramount Pictures, Inc., 5401, Marathon Street, Hollywood; to Marion Davies, c/o Warner Bros., Burbank, California.

Margaret Lindsay has introduced the sport of gliding to Hollywoodians.

Franehot Tone is to play in "Gresn Grow the Lilacs" as soon as he :has finished "The Gorgeous Hussy," in which lie plays husband to his real-life spouse, Joan Crawford.

Rosalind Russell, reputedly suffering with a sprained ankle that threatened to remove her from the cast of "Craig's Wife," is making a miraculous recovery following the dictum of her studio that, unless she consented to appear in the picture in which she plays an unsympathetic role, she would be black-listed by every studio in Hollywood.

The Rogers-Astaire partnership may not be broken after all, following their current "Never Gonna Dance." R.K.O. has experienced such difficulty in" filling Ginger's dancing shoes for "Watch Your Step" that she may have to partner Fred. once more. Incidentally, Vincent Youmans, "ace" lyricist, who did "Flying Down to Rio," will not write the songs for "Watch Your Step," as he is asking too much for the studio's palate. George and Ira Gershwin have been asked to do the job.

Ronald Colman may go to England soon to play Sir Walter Raleigh in Elizabethan drama.

Madge Evans, of whom too little has been heard lately, has ' just finished "Piccadilly Jim," with Robert Montgomery, and will irext appear as Bing Crosby's lead in "Pennies From Heaven."

Many of them wearing the fez, which Dictator Ketnal Ataturk has forbidden, 80 young Turks are now at work a£ Sliepperton on "The Eunuch of Stamboul," which stars James Mason, sensational stage "discovery," and Valerie Hobson, English actress recently returned from Hollywood.

Among announcements for the coming year are Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer in "Beloved," the etory of Marie Walewska of Poland and Napoleon; Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," starring Norma Shearer; the longdelayed "Marie Antoinette," with Miss Shearer and Charles Laughton; "After the Thin Man" and "The Prisoner of Zenda," with William Powell and Myrna Loy; "Adventures For Three," with Powell and Luise Rainer; and "Maiden Voyage," for Miss Rainer alone; Wallv Beery in "The Foundry"; Clark Gable in "No Hero," "The Great Canadian" and "Saratoga," the last with Joan Crawford; and Kipling's "Kim" and "Captains Courageous," with Freddie Bartholomew.

Hollywood to-day - is suffering a shortage of men. Although there are pretty girls in hundreds around the studios, they cannot find sufficient leading men to play opposite them, with the result that there is constant competition for the services of young stars. In the past year Fred MacMurray,has made 10 pictures, or almost one a month. At the present time he is appearing with Carole. Lombard in "The Princess Cpmes Across," and as soon as that is finished he may go into any one of three other productions that await his services. Clark Gable has been appearing in pictures without a break; so have Henry Fonda, Dick Powell and others. Gary Cooper has a choice of six pictures immediately his next one, "This Breed of Men, is finished.

Errol Flynn is enjoying a bitter squabble with Warner Bros., the studio that gave him his big chance in Captain Blood," complaining that lie does not want to play the lead in '"The Green Light" because it is unsuitable and because he was promised a lengthy rest after the strenuous days spent in making "The Charge of the Light Brigade. Pending settlements, Flynn has been touring Seattle and Vancouver with O. Aubrey's English cricket team from Hollywood, and he says he may even take his holiday in the shape of a three months' jaunt to his old * camping grounds of adventure —Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Meanwhile, wife Lili Damita is doing very well in the matter of a screen "come-back in "Devil on Horseback," in technicolour.

Hollywood report lias it that the Blondell-Powell wedding is scheduled for September 3.

All Hollywood is talking about Paramount's 5,000,000-dollar suit against Samuel Goldwyn for the alleged luriug away of Gary Cooper.

"Paramount Week," celebrated annually in Australia and New Zealand for the past 10 years, will be held this year from August 29 to September 4. Paramount's silver jubilee also falls this year.

Jean Harlow has surprised all tlie "movie" prophets in Hollywood by legally adopting her screen name. Now, they ask, if she intends to marry William Powell (or does she?) why should she go to all that trouble?

Ramon Novarro is back again at long last in his adopted Hollywood. Was he furious when with a "fan" at the Brown Derby restaurant who mistook him for Robert Taylor—but not as angry as the disappointed autograph-seeker.

The Earl of Carnarvon —his father was "cursed" for opening the tomb of Tutankhamen—is returning to Hollywood to make a countess of Mrs. Tanis Montague, an English millionairess, living in Fay Wray's house for the purpose of peddling scenarios to the studios.

"Romeo and Juliet," scheduled for an early appearance, will not be released to the public until September. And Producer Irving Thalberg is worried. 'The picture will die on us unless we send it out soon," he is reputed to have told Louis B. Mayer. To comfort Mr. Thalberg, wo would like to remind him that a good things always keeps, no matter how long or hot the summer. Besides which, William Shakespeare —he, by the way, wrote the play some 400 years ago —is still very much alive in the minds of the reading and play-going public, so the few months or more before the picture is on the screen can't make much difference. The privileged few who have seen the film "Romeo and Juliet" are unanimous in its praise.

Constance Bennett is back in Hollywood from England, making "Ladies in Love."

A week before their divorce became absolute Adrienne Ames and Bruce Cabot called it all off by deciding to live together again, giving economy of existence as reason No. 1. N —

Maureen O'Sullivan has wained hei "fans" that she will retire from the screen on her marriage to Australian 'scenario-writer Johnny Farrow which she promises won't be long delayed.