THE TALKIE WORLD

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 230, 24 June 1932, Page 16

THE TALKIE WORLD

I i | Pars from the Studios |

Chester Morris, Carole Lombard, and Regis Toomey will head the cast in a murder mystery melodrama by Martin Flavin and Joe Sherman, tentatively titled “Through the Window,” Paramount recently announced. The picture will combine the talents of Morris and Toomey for the first time since they made their debuts simultaneously in “Alibi,” one of the talking screen’s first underworld productions.

Nelson Keys, well remembered for his inimitable performance in “Splinters” with Sydney Howard, makes his reappearance on the talking picture screen ia “Almost a Divorce,” a British Dominions film. Keys presents a type of humour that is altogether different from anything yet seen or heard in the talking pictures, and "Almost a Divorce,” his latest vehicle, is a rip-roaring comedy of matrimonial complications.

Having completed “Two Fisted Law,” his latest Columbia outdoor drama, Tim McCoy departed this week for his (JO,OOO-acre cattle ranch, 50 miles out of Thermopolis, Wyoming, where he will take a vacation until the middle of next month, when he will start on a new series of productions for the company.

“Murder in a Pullman” is the title of the next feature to go into production as one of the outstanding Columbia releases for the coming summer months. An imposing cast is being assembled to bring this thrilling melodrama mystery to the screen. The entire action of.the story takes place aboard a Pullman car where five murders are committed. The story was written by Harry Adler, and has already been published in a leading magazine.

& * $ . ‘-K. . Paul Lukas, Paramount leading man, was a fencing and sabre star during Ids college career ip Hungary.

A “new Billie Dove” will flash across the screen when the widely-heralded Howard Hughes-United Artists production “The Age for Love” is screened. This is. Miss Dove’s first picture since she retired from the screen eighteen months ago, discouraged by a number of inferior pictures in which she was required to appear under a short-sight-ed studio policy.

Down through the years in such films as “The Americano” and “Bound in Morocco,” Douglas ■ Fairbanks has never ceased his strict athletic training. So it is that his jumping and running abilities havenot been impaired by time. He proves his. athletic prowess, again in “Around the World in 80’ Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks,” which is released by United Artists. « Charles Bickford, outstanding figure in three very successfur Universal pictures, “Scandal for Sale,” “East of Borneo,” and “Hell’s Heroes,” has been signed to a five-year contract by Carl Laemmle, Jun. Universal will place him in at least three, and possibly four productions a year. • • • It has now been definitely decided that Clara Bow shall make her screen reappearance, in’ "Call Her Savage,” a novel by Tiffany Thayer, of which tiie heroine is described as 4 ‘half human, half cobra.” The , action is laid in a Central American jungle.

Nationalities don’t mean so much on the talking screen. For instance, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “But the Flesh is Weak,” a lilting comedy of London life, Robert Montgomery, who is a New Yorker, plays a young Britisher. Nils Asther, who is Swedish, plays a Russian Prince. Nora Gregor, who is Austrian, plays “Rosine,” French widow of an Englishman.

Dodging a taxying aeroplane on an airport landing field is the nearest Marie Dressier has ever gotten to aviation—or ever will, if her word is to be taken for it. Miss Dressier claims she got her fill of aeroplanes during the filming of her latest picture, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Emma.” The plot of this story required her to wander on to the aviation field and dodge a plane just before making a landing.

Elissa Landi has moved to her beautiful new home in Pacific Palisades, an exclusive suburban district near Beverly Hills. One of her nearest neighbours is Will Rogers. Both are fond of horses and equestrian sports. Will has given Elissa, a key to one of the gates nearest her 'estate so she can ride through on Darkey, her favourite horse, and join the gallery at the Rogers private race track and polo field.

In “Alias the Doctor,” a Warner Bros.’ First National picture, Richard Barthelmess considers he has one of the finest roles of his long and brilliant career. Dealing with the poor whites of the Mississippi cotton plantations, it is said to provide him with a role as strong as “Tol’able David,” that memorable production of his early starring days.