“Can of the Wild”

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 286, 30 August 1935, Page 18

“Can of the Wild”

POK almost two months Clark Gable, A Loretta Young and Jack Oakle braved the snowslides, starvation and death in sub-zero Mount Baker, Washington. filming the 20th Century' production, “Call of the Wild.” The screen play is an adaptation by Gene

Fowler and Leonard I’raskins of JackLondon’s immortal story of love and treachery during the Yukon gold rush, and all the colour of those feverish times has been transferred to the screen. Alaskan pioneers from as far north as the Arctic Circle came south to take part in the picture, in which Frank Conroy, Reginald Owen, Sidney Toler and Katheriia- de Mille carry prominent supporting roles. The film also introduees-a new dog star in the role of “Buck.” perhaps the best-known and best-loved canine heroin all fiction. “Buck” is an 18-mouths-old St. Bernard. with no former film experience.

Mae West’s next story 5 for Paramount was signed and sealed recently when the ;>tudio bought from Frank Mitchell Dazey his original “Lulu Was a Lady,” zhich has as its background the Klondike during the gold rush days. Miss West. who will shortly be seen in Paramount’s “Now I’m a Lady,” will write her own screen play-