“St. Joan” for Screen

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 232, 28 June 1935, Page 16

“St. Joan” for Screen

MR. C. B. COCHRAN, Sir Janies Barrie, Mr. Bernard Shaw and Miss Elisabeth Bergner are planning a great dramatic “Jubilee Double,” which will make theatre and film history. After a battle in which fortunes have been offered by Hollywood for the right to Aim Shaw’s “St. Joan,” with Elisabeth Bergner as the Maid, English film makers have won the victory, and the production will now be made, under the direction of Dr. Paul Czinncr, by British and Dominions, with Bergner playing the title role.

The talented star, accordingly, will remain in Britain for this production, and will also appear in the principal part in the first play which Sir James Barrie has written for seven years. It is understood that, on this occasion, Sir James has received inspiration from the youngest member of the Royal Family, the Princess Margaret Rose, who will be five years old in August. Bergner will make “St. Joan” next month. Then she will probably take a rest in August, and it is possible that the Barrie play will be produced in the West End in September. This gifted actress will shortly be seen in British and Dominions’ elaborate picturisation of Margaret Kennedy’s record-breaking stage success, “Escape Me Never.”