THE TALKIE WORLD

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 105, 27 January 1933, Page 14

THE TALKIE WORLD

Pars from the Studios f)NE of the principal roles in “Lady ' No. 6142,” now- being made at the Warner Bros, studios as a starring vehicle for Barbara Stanwyck, has just been assigned to Dorothy Burgess. » » » Norman Taurog. director of “Skippy” and “The Phantom President,” will handle Maurice Chevalier’s next Paramount picture, “The Way to Love.” In the cast will be Charles Ruggles and Edward Everett Horton. Joyce Barbour, the well-known stage and 'musical comedy actress, appears in an unusual role in “Diamond Cut Diamond,” the Eric Hakim production, which is being released by Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer Pictures Ltd. In the South Sea scenes which open the picture, the famous actress appears as a Polynesian enchantress, who attracts the roving eye of Claude Allister. In these sequences, Adolphe Menjou, the star of th; production, and Claude Allister appear as two beachcombers.

While most Hollywood actors visit England with eager eyes toward the studios, there is one who has just stolen into, and out of, London with no other object in view than to buy suits! English suits, he says, are the best in the world. He is the Universal star, Victor Varconi.

Packed with action that piles thrill upon thrill, Universal’s stirring epic, “Air Mail,” reveals a new and startling angle of the life led above the clouds by the daring air pilots who fly the air mail. Isaiph Bellamy, Pat O’Brien, Russell Hopton, Slim Summerville. and Gloria Stuart head the cast of this absorbing air classic, which, by the way, was brought across the Tasman in the famous Southern Cross by Air-Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.

Genevieve Tobin, recently placed under Fox contract, will first play the lead in “The Infernal Machine,” under direction of Marcel Varnel. In January she is to start on “Pleasure Cruise,” with Roland Young, directed by Sidney Lanfield.

Claude Hulbert, that brilliant exponent of the “goofy” partner of the famous Hulbert brothers, has, as the result of his clever performance’in “Let Me Explain Dear.” and more recently iu "Radio Revue,” been east byB.IT. for his first film starring role in an immediate production which Harry Hughes will direct at Elstree.

One of the outstanding trick riders of the world will be seen in George O’Brien’s next Fox picture, “Canyon Walls,” by Zane Grey. This rider is a little girl ten years old. Her name is Betsy Ross King. Betsy has been riding since she was a tot of five. She owns a string of ponies, among them a number of valuable jumpers.

James Dunn’s next Fox picture, “Handle With Care,” has entered production at Movietone City. Boots Mallory, who has made her screen debut opposite Dunn in “Walking Down Broadway,” is again his leading lady in his new picture.

Two discoveries were made, both of a financial nature, by members of 8.1.1’.’s “The Fires of Fate” unit during their sojourn in the East. Firstly ‘a cameraman found that in Egypt one tenders one pound sterling and receives in exchange “97 disasters.” Then on the site of Tutank-hamen’s Tomb, the company saw the gold and jewelled throne and other remarkable “finds,” but as Norman Walker says, “it was left to one of our party to discover that a cup of coffee in Egypt costs 1/0.”

“The Great Jasper,” Fulton Oursler’s best-selling novel, is to be made into an R.K.O. Radio production. Richard Dix is scheduled for the starring role of the colourful character Jasper. i

Ann Harding’s next R.K.O. Radio picture will present her in a role entirely different from anything else she lias ever done in her screen career. Her next starring vehicle will be “The White Moth,” from an original idea, adapted to the screen by Zoe Akins, the famed playwright.