THE ANSWER CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 205, 29 August 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE ANSWER CORNER.

REPLIES TO INQUIRIES. THORN COURT (Parnell). —"Wings Over Everest" details not procurable. KO NAME (Thornton). —You forgot either name or nom de plume. Why not write to Myrna for that photograph? You should also get a free one from Ann Sothern, care Columbia Studios, 1438, North Gower Street, Hollywood, U.S.A. I cannot tell you about Fred Perry. VANERN (Remuera). —"Queen Christina" ' was released at the St. James' Theatre on May 18, 1934. Claudette Colbert will be 31 next month. Re M.-G.-M. "stills," the answer is "No, Hollywood only." And they should be free. At any rate try that first. Have you seen the coloured ones for sale at the Majestic Theatre, Auckland ? DIXIE LEK FAN (Palmerston North). — Dixie Dunbar did not sing "Whose Big Baby Are You?" in "King of Burlesque." Dixie Lee's song in "Redheads on Parade" was "I Found a Dream." "Song-and-Dance Man" has been released in Auckland. "Blossom Time" details unprocurable. Addresses: George Murphy, care Columbia Studios, 1438, North Gower Street, Hollywood, U.S.A.; Helen Vinson, care G. B. Studios, Shepherd's Bush, Lime Groye, London; John Arledge, c/o Radio Studios, 780, Gower Street, Hollywood.

KOVARRO FAN (Grey Lynn).—Addresses von want are: Joan Crawford, Jean Parker, Anita Louise, Luise Rainer and Leslie Howard, Culver City, Hollywood, U.S.A.; Loretta Young, Movietone City, Hollywood; Dolores Del Rio, care Radio Studios, 780, Gower Street, Hollywood; Tom Brown and John Boles, care Paramount Pictures, Inc., 5451, Marathon Street, Hollywood; and Grace Moore, care Columbia Studios, 1438, North Gower Street. Hollywood. All except, perhaps, Tom Brown should send you free photographs. CARMELITA (Tuakau). —I cannot give you the Italian words of "O Sole Mio." A Music store is the place to inquire for that. Write to Buddy Ebsen at Culver City, Hollywood, U.S.A.; to Michael Bartlett, care Columbia studios, 1438 I\orth Gower Street, Hollywood; and to John McGuire, at Movietone City, Hollywood. Of the stars you list I have not heard of Mary Carlisle, Richard Cromwell, Carole Lombard. Gary Cooper or Mae West sending free photographs to New Zealand. Yes, it Is true about Baby Leßoy. You can only continue sending to the same address, hoping they will forward it on. MOA (Taumarunui). —Addresses of the stars you want in that list are : Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Ramon Novarro, Heather Angel, Elizabeth Allan and Madge Evans, Culver City, Hollywood, U.S.A.; Shirley Temple, Janet Gaynor, Jane Withers, Claudette Colbert, Dorothy Wilson, Ronald Colman and Jean Parker, Movietone Cityi Hollywood; Margaret Sullavan and Binnie Barnes, Universal City, Hollywood; Barbara Stanwyck, Anne Shirley, Katharine Hepburn, Ann Harding, Joan Bennett and .Ginger Rogers, c/o Radio Studios, 780, Gower Street, Hollywood; and Freddie Bartholomew, Marlene Dietrich and Anna Sten, 1041, North Formosa Avenue, Hollywood. SHUCKS (Mount Eden).— "Maytime" will not be released until next year, ine magazine was right. What you read in the newspaper was that it is to start (filming) in August. Also your Tarzan film will not be shown until next year, New Zealand release title not finally chosen. Cast of "Beau Geste : Ronald Colman, Victor McLaglen, Ralph 1 orbes, Alice Joyce, Neil Hamilton, Noah Beery, Mary Brian. Norman Trevor and William Powell. Cast of "What Price Glory?"; Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Dolores Del Rio, Fred McNamara ®n<2 Sammy Cohen. Richard Arlen was star of "Wings." "Rose Marie songs are: Title number, "Indian Love Song, "Tea for Two," "Song of the Mounties. Those of "Maytime" not yet available. Gary Cooper's main films were: Winning of Barbara Worth," "The Texan, "The Virginian," "Morocco," Fighting , Caravan," "City Streets," "I Take This Woman," "A Farewell to Arms, To-day We Live," "Devil and the Deep', Alice In Wonderland," "One Sunday Afternoon," "Design for Living," Operator 13," "Now and Forever," "Lives of a Bengal Lancer," "Wedding Night, "Peter Ibbetson," "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" and "Desire." Victor McLaglen s pictures were: "What Price Glory. "Loves of Carmen." "Beau Geste, On the Level," "A Devil With Women," The Three Rogues," "Women of All Nations, "Hush Money," "Transatlantic," "Dishonoured," "While Paris Sleeps,' ine Gay Caballero," "Guilty as Charged, "Hot Pepper," "No More Women," "The Lost Patrol," "Dick Turpin," "Wharf Angel," "The Captain Hates the Sea, 'JJnder Pressure," "The Informer," "ProSoldier" and "Klondike Annie.

Work has begun 011 Jessie Matthews' new film in which for the first time she is directed by her husband, Sonnie Hale. Originally entitled "Paris in Spring," the picture is now less romantically named "Head Over Heels." Although Jessie will, be a show girl and have opportunities for dance and song, the picture is much more dramatic than Jessie's other films have been. In it she will have a new leading man, Robert Flemyng, who makes his film debut. Mr. Flemyng is 24, 6ft tall and very slim, j Jessie's last film, "It's Love Again," has yet to be released in New Zealand.

Shirley Temple celebrated her seventh birthday last April, but presents are still pouring in. One of the latest to arrive is a Shetland pony, complete with buggy—the gift of Joseph M. Schenck, the kind gentleman who heads the studio paying her 300,000 dollars for four pictures a year. The reason for the long interval between birthday and pony is that the animal came all the way from the Shetland Isles. An American pony was considered too dangerous for the wonder child. Shirley went down in person to the boat to greet the newcomer, which will be housed in a specially constructed stable on the new Temple estate in Brentwood, Los Angeles' residential suburb.

Success on the screen sometimes has its drawbacks —particularly when a hardworking player wants a honeymoon or holiday. Fred Mac Murray would like both, but Paramount cannot spare him. All he managed in the way of a honeymoon with his bride, a : former model, named Lillian Lamont, was a boat trip to Honolulu. ]&dw it appears that his plan for a continuation of the wedding trip, following his current work in "Champagne Waltz," will be upset because Producer-Director Frank Lloyd wants him for Claudette Colbert's leading man in "Maid of Salem." Fred has figured in six films since the (beginning of the year —"Hands Across the Tabic," "Thirteen Hours by Air," "Trail of the Lonesome Pine," "The Princess Comes Across," "Texas Ranger" and "Champagne Waltz."

Darryl F. Zanuck is getting ahead of the delay-loving Britons with production of a film based on the insurance of Lloyd's entitled "Lloyd's of London." English producers have for two years contemplated a film to be called "A 1 at Lloyd's." Zanuck plans to give the lead to his new "find," Don Ameche, who did brilliantly in Jean Hersholt's "Sins of Man" and as Loretta. Young's favourite boy friend in her Technicolour "Eamona." In "Lloyd's of London" the actor will appear as a young business man with a pa-ssion for betting on anything and everything, including the British Navy. The story is expected to be another "Cavalcade," depicting the naval and commercial development of the British Empire. The Battle of Trafalgar, in which Lord Nelson was killed, will be a spectacular feature of the film devoted primarily to the ship insurance activities of the. famous firm. Seventy-three-year-old C. Aubrey Smith is definitely set for a part in the production, to be directed by Henry King.

Frederick Lonsdale, famous British playwright, author of "Maid of the Mountains" and many other successes, lias gone to Hollywood to write a scenario for Claudette Colbert. Howard Hawks informed the Countess of Warwick she must change her name for picture purposes. "Why?" demanded the youthful brunette. "Because," replied Hawks, "in the movies they always change the titles anyway!" The portly Mae West believes the best way to keep healthy is to take it lying down and let someone elso do the work. She is massaged at least once a day, eats all she can hold, works up a fine perspiration of excitement at. the weekly boxing bouts, and sometimes—as infrequently as possible- —takes brief walks with her two handsome bodyguards. Although the making of colour films in England will necessarily be slow at first, since at present the facilities are limited, the lure of colour has brought C. B. Cochran, famous theatrical manager, into the film business. He hp.s signed a contract with Max Schach of Capitoi Films, to produce a colour film at Denham in the autumn which will be "a cavalcade of the English music hall" over 40 years. Walter Forde, who made "Rome Express" and "King of the Damned," will direct the film and Mr. Cochran has already secured the services of some of the famous music hall stars of the last decade. Mr. Cochran's "Young Ladies"—the girls who play such an important part in his revues —will figure in the film. It is possible that the colour process used will be a new one on which a British company has been quietly working for some years.

Wally Beery's brother Noah is doing so well in British films that Hollywood executives are seriously considering sending scouts to "rediscover" him. The*proverb "Two can live as cheaply as one" does not apply to Hollywood. In the film city two people can live more cheaply than one —if they are rich enough. Property law of California decrees that when a man marries half of his property shall belong to his wife. If he earns 50,000 dollars a year, 25,000 belongs to his marriage partner. State ir.come tax on two incomes of 25,000 dollars each is much less than on one 50,000-dollar yearly ineome. This hitherto unrealised fact is causing many bachelor stars to go seriously into the question of speedy matrimony.