Camera Flashes

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 142, 18 June 1938, Page 7 (Supplement)

Camera Flashes

have warned Eddie Cantor to {ret out of Los Angeles or else lie will be carried out in a pine box. Cantor recently complained: "It's getting now so people laugli at your jokes, then stop to inquire your nationality before they applaud.'' ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ "f"~)ARR\ L F. ZAXUCK'S discovery. Arleen Whelan. the pretty redhaired manicurist, has been given the lead opposite Don Amecbe in "Ellis Island," the role originally intended for Annabella. Arleen steps at once into star parts. On the other hand. Marjorie Weaver, another of Zanuck's discoveries, is climbing the ladder slowly but surely. This sounds almost like an experiment, and it will be interesting to follow the careers of these two fortunate girls.

BERGEN" is building a new Charlie McCarthy at a cost of £50. Discarded parts of the old Charlie will lie used to build a stand-in for the new. •So even dummies have stand-ins. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ fJWEXTIETH Century-Fox has practically concluded arrangements to present Ronald Colman and Marlene Dietrich in "The Rains Came," by Louis Bromfield. When Dietrich's contract expired, producers were in no hurry to *ign her up again. Her salary 'w*« £40.000 a picture. Dietrich will accept much lower terms for the Bromfield picture. as a good part in a good film is more important to her now than her old salary. It may mean the turning point in her career. Caiman continues to receive £30.000 for each picture.