Camera Flashes.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1940, Page 5 (Supplement)

Camera Flashes.

rpHERE is talk of raising Hedy Lamnrr's 750 dollars a ivcck salary —if the public likes her in "I Take This Woman." + + + + T)OX AMECHE and. Alice Faye have been set for leads in the Twentieth Ccnturv-I'ox. calvaeade of the radio business, starting with the crystal set and ending in television. + 4- + "V ,pARY GRANT will probably go to England to. play the butler i,n Paramount's version of "The Admirable Crichton" —Charles Laughton was first choice and then Leslie Howard was suggested. + + + + T")AVID ROSE, head of the ParamountBritish organisation, hopes to bring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, back homo to play Lancelot an<l Guinevere in his "Knights of the Round Table" •picture. Basil Rathbone is likely to 'be King Arthur. T ESLIE BANKS, who has scored a success as an eccentric detective with a queer taste in hats in the Britishfootball thriller, "The Arsenal Stadium Mystery," is to star in an adaptation of Edgar 'Wallace's "The Door With Seven Locks," in which he will be a slightly mad doctor. Lilli Palmer is his leading lad}-. + + + + TX addition to being the Armaments King, Undersliaft, in the Englishproduced Shaw play, "Major Barbara" Robert Morley will play the title role in the film story of Leslie Stuart, the. composer who wrote "Lily of Laguna." It will be called "The Melody Maker."