SUCCESS IN LOVE

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22662, 17 March 1939, Page 5

SUCCESS IN LOVE

Don Ameche is pleased with his part in Twentieth Century-Fox’s “Gateway,” because in this film he gets the girl! In his two previous pictures—“ln Old Chicago,” with Tyrone Power and Alice Faye, and “Alexander’s Ragtime Band," likewise with Power and Alice ’Faye—as far as Don was concerned it was a case of "boy loves giri, buy loses ■"’But in “Gateway,” a dramatic story of the most dramatic spot in the world, Ellis Island—Don brushes aside ail obstacles to win the hand and heart, of Arleen Whelan, Twentieth CcnluryFox’s sensational new star discovery. "While it is nice.” smiled Don. “to win the sympathy of the audience as a disappointed swain, it is nicer still, occasionally, to have the audience sharing in your happiness at the fadeout.” Gilbert Roland and Lyle Talbot are the two rivals Don must overcome to win Arleen. „ “Gateway” opens to-day at tne Crystal Palace Theatre, with Don and Arleen starred and Gregory Ratoff, Binnie Barnes, Gilbert Roland, Raymond Walburn, and John Carradine DAILY LIFE ON TAHITI Documentary films, which are the dramatisation of everyday jobs, and have no actors and actresses as such, but show ordinary people at work and play, are a comparatively new and interesting branch of the film Industry. They are quite distinct from travel or news films, and yet have elements of both. Two Sydney artists, Dahl and Geoffrey Collings, decided to make a documentary film of Tahiti, and returned recently after spending two months on the island making the silent* film. They will create the sound in Sydney. "We have set out to contrast Tahiti as it was in the early days, and as it is to-day,” said Mr Collings. “To do this, it was necessary to have a thorough understanding of the early history of the island, and so we studied Ellis’s ‘Polynesian Researches.’ The two volumes tell the detailed ■ life of the island 30 vears aftsa Cook’s time.”

Don Ameche’s Role in “Gateway”

t featured. Alfred Werker directed the - film. ~ , Don Ameche finds another deep ' sentimental attraction in “Gateway. L For Ameche represents the splendid L principles on which the theory oj. ; America ns a land of opportunity is . based. . , “Gateway” is a stirring story of the ■ joys and sorrows of those who arrive 1 al Ellis Island -the “gateway” of America. Don, of course, is as American as . Uu; Yankee Stadium. He was bom in ■ Kenosha, Wisconsin, and until he took ■ his reect vacation, had never left the United Slates. But his father, Dominic Felix Amccho, came from over the sea. The senior Ameche was born in an Italian village near Rome. Ho came to America as a very young man, and his life there'has epitomised good citizenship. Don’s father became a successful businessman. He married a girl of Irish-German stock and they are parents of a large and happy family. There are eight children, of whom Don is the eldest. “The Live Wire," a comedy of London, starring Bernard Neclell and Jean Gillie, is the supporting feature. Charlie McCarthy will wear a cowboy hat- and ride a Shetland pony in “Yon Can’t Cheat an Honest Man.” •* * * Sidney Toler, the new Charlie Chan, was cast by Warners in “Broadway Cavalier” as a “perfect Irish type.” * * * Virginia Bruce and Mclvyn Douglas are to be starred in "Penthouse,” a remake of "Crooks in Clover.” Myrna Loy and Warner Baxter starred in the earlier version, which gave Myrna her first sympathetic part. • * ♦ Darryl Zanuck has not yet decided whether to cast Tyrone Power as leading man of “Hudson’s Bay Company.” He is waiting to see whether, or not fllmgoers take to Power as an outdoor he-man in “Jesse James.” « * » Universal hope to persuade Charles Boyer to sign a contract with them. If he does, he will star with Deanna Durbin in -“First Dove.”:

Eleanor Powell is starting what she hopes will be a profitable sideline, “The Eleanor Powell System of Tap Dancing.” * * * Three real-life nurses have been engaged to appear in M-G-M’s new nursing picture, “Four Girls in White.” • * M-G-M are preparing the London stage musical success, “Balalaika,” as Milixa Korjus’s next film, * » * Robert Taylor’s Christmas present from M-G-M was a £3OO rise, bringing his salary to £IOOO a week.

“The Gentle People," in which Franchot Tone returns to the stage, has opened in New York. It. has been quite well received, the critics praising both Tone and Sylvia Sidney, who plays opposite him, * » * To follow up "Dawn Patrol” Warners are trying to get Errol Flynn, David Niven, and Basil Rathbone together again for the remake of another ■jlying war film. Formerly called “The Lust Flight,” it. will become “Single Lady,” with Ann Sheridan as the single lady.