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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 286, 29 August 1931, Page 19

With Janet Gaynor as the little mald-of-all-work in a boardinghouse, and Charles Farrell as the young composer who lives there, “Merely Mary Ann” has gone into production at the Fox Film Corp, studio in Beverly Hills, with Henry King directing. It is Miss Gaynor’s second picture since her Honolulu vacation and operation, and Farrell’s first since he returned from Europe with his bride of a few months, Virginia Valli. / Dorothy Mackaill’s next picture for First National is “Party. Husband,” an entertaining story of a modern young couple, who try out marriage with modem .ideas. Many difllculties beset them before they realise that marriage is a serious affair.

“The Broken Wing,” the stage’s most ambitious venture into aviation subjects, has been purchased by Paramount for talking-picture production, and will be filmed with Gary Cooper in the stellar role as soon as the star returns from his present European vacation. John Cromwell, who last worked with Cooper in “The Texan," will direct, and Dolores Del Rio will play opposite. Mary Astor, featured opposite Louis Wolheim in “The Sun Ship,” Radio Pictures’ sea melodrama, is a skilled motion picture phtographer, and was recently retained by a noted surgeon to photograph a major operation.