WILL SHE GO ON?

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 235, 3 October 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)

WILL SHE GO ON?

WIDOWED NORMA SHEARER. CAST WITH GABLE IN FILM. Just before his death last month, Producer Irving Tlialberg east Clark Gable and Norma Shearer (his widow) in "Pride and Prejudice," the famous Jane Austen book which was recently seen in play form on the New York stage, Thalberg was to nave produced it, which was another way of saying that it would follow "Bounty" and "Romeo and Juliet" as another of M.G.M.'s super-super-specials. Production was due to start within the next two months. Gable, mean-

while, is emoting before the cameras with Joant Crawford in "Love on the Run." Miss Shearer is resting on the well-earned plaudits accorded her fine performance as "Juliet" in the Shakespeare classic. No announcement has been made following Tlialberg's death, but, unless Miss Shearer retires permanently* from films, the picture will be made. The handsome Clark, now 101b lighter than during "shooting" of "San Francisco," and Miss Shearer have appeared together twice before—in "Strango Interlude," and before that in "A Fre;; Soul," the combination proving each time a powerful lure for cinema addicts "Pride and Prejudice" tells the story of an English country girl reared in the conventional strait-laced atmosphere of the upper middle class in the 1840's.

She falls in love with a young nobleman, but the course of their true love takes a devious route, because of misunderstandings fostered by the gentleman's relatives and a well-born vixen who wants him for herself.