SHORTS THIS WEEK

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22804, 1 September 1939, Page 5

SHORTS THIS WEEK

AVON “Jitterbug Follies” (comedy cartoon); Story of Al- ’ fred Nobel (historical novelty); “Duel Personalities” (Our Gang comedy); Avon News Service (world topics). STATE —“Mother Goose Goes Hollywood” (Walt Disney cartoon); “Bit and Bridle” (sportscope); two Pathe News-reels; Fox Australian News-reel (New Zealand edition). LIBERTY Fox Australian News; Pathe Pictorial News; Cine Magazine; “Free to Roam” (a Whjpsnade zoo short); “Music Hall MAYFAIR —“Hey! Hey! U.S.A.!”, “The Edge of the World,” and news-reel. CRYSTAL PALACE—"Thanks for Everything” and “The Little Princess.” PLAZA “The Gaunt Stranger,” .“My Wife’s Relatives,” and Chapter 12 of “The Lone Ranger.”

David Niven is to be r Loretta Young’s co-star in “Whose Wife,” her first picture as a free-lance star. * * * - Frank Craven,, formerly a supporting character actor in pictures, has been starring in Thornton.; Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize play,. “Our Town.” Now Craven is back in' Hollywood to co-. star with Fay Bainter in “Our. Neighr bours—the Carters,” a new domestic picture. * Sandy, the baby who stole “East Side of Heaven,” has been prevented by measles from starring work on “Sandy,” with Mischa Auer. * .; * *■ ‘ Ruth Chatterton wants her former husband, Ralph Forbes, to be her leading man in a stage play. •,* • ' •Franchot Tone had arranged to return to Hollywood to make two pictures for M-G-M. He had to stay in New York for a kidney operation. His part in “Thunder Afloat,” with Wallace Beery, is being taken by Chester Morris. ■ ; .* * * Warners are going to put l.os Angeles on the screen in technicolour. A story of the town’s bold, bad days, called. “City of the Angels," goes into production next month, starring Errol Flynn. Olivia de Havilland, and Ann Sheridan.