NOTES FROM STUDIOS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22430, 17 June 1938, Page 5

NOTES FROM STUDIOS

Claire Trevor is being lent to War•iiers for the lead opposite Wayne Mortis in “Valley of the Giants.” • * * Tony Martin has replaced Richard Greene as Sonja Henie’s leading man in “They Met in College.” Greene’s singing voice was not considered strong enough. * * * Simone Simon's option, has been taken up at Twentieth Century-Fox. Her next picture will be a musical called “The French Doll.” # • • Luella Gear, the character actress Who was with Fred Astaire on the stage in “The Gay Divorce,” will go to Hollywood to play Ginger Rogers’s aunt in “Carefree.” » * • Gregory La Cava has signed a pro-ducer-director contract at RKORadio, where he made “Stage Door.” His first picture will be “Right Angles,” a comedy-drama on ✓Bulldog Drummond lines. * * * Nan Grey is, being tested for the part in “Mother Carey’s Chickens” which Joan Bennett decided not to do » » * Glenda Farrell, who left Warners to get a change from wisecracking, will go dramatic , in . Universal’s “Walls of San Quentin.” Barton Mac Lane her partner in the “Torchy Blane” days. Will be with her. m * • Walt Disney has bought the screen lights to the A. A. Milne stories about Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh. » 0.0 Luise Rainer’s new film, “The Toy with Melvyn Douglas, has been finished after only 29 days’ shooting. •■• « : Warners are trying to get Irene Dunne for the part of Louise in “The Sisters, by Myron Brinig. * • « Universal will release early this glummer the photographic records of Denis-Leila Roosevelt which visited the depths of the Belgian Congo to preserve pictures of the fast disappearing jungle. • » • After “North-west Passage” Wallace will s tar in “Stand Up and fignt, an outdoor epic of pioneers Who linked the Atlantic and Pacific With their “prairie schooners.”