REALISM FOR A FILM

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 29, 28 October 1932, Page 16

REALISM FOR A FILM

VVANTED.—HaIf a dozen lamp-posts. : ’ Must be genuine London; if pos- . stole with ‘pedigree.’ To be shipped to America.” , Hollywood has made many strangerequests, but that was- probably the -strangest, declares the “Sunday Dispath.” The lamp-posts are wanted to give the authentic touch to the street Scenes of “Cavalcade,” which the Fox Film Co. is producing in its Hollywood Studios. ■ Winfield Sheehan, who has charge' of tile production, said: “If the lamp-posts -have served for years in Piccadilly, (Leicester Square, the Strand, Trafalgar 5 Square, or any other London landmark;

Sidney Fox-arrives in Paris this week, and will go direct to Nice to make “Don Quixote” for a French firm. The hero will be Fedor Chaliapin.

this would make them doubly interesting.” Life Guards’ uniforms, costers’ “pearlies,” war recruiting posters, and hundreds of photographs from the Boer jWar onwards have already been sent ■to Hollywood* for the production. i, Diana Wynyard, beautiful young r English actress, will lead the all-Eng-Hsh cast of “Cavalcade.” Miss Wyn- ; yard, a newcomer to. the screen from ~ the London and Broadway stages, wbn the most coveted film role of the year in competition with most of the greatest English-born actresses in the world, as every possible candidate for the part was carefully considered by studio officials.