HERE AND THERE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 194, 14 May 1936, Page 14

HERE AND THERE

T EW AYRES, popular leading man, recently placed under contract by Columbia, asd Florence Rice, who has just completed the leading feminine role in "Pride of the Marines,” have been assigned to the leads for a new production entitled, "Panic on the Air,” which Columbia will place in work shortly.

WITH a pack of hounds in full cry and Lionel Barrymore as principal hunter, production of "The Vo< e of Bugle Ann” at the Metro-Gold wynMayer studios, was marked with an authentic representation of a traditional Missouri fox hunt. The new picture is a vivid romance of the Missouri farmlands.

FRANCHOT TONE plays opposite X ' Grace Moore in Columbia’s “The King Steps Out,” which was directed by Josef von Sternberg. Other members of the cast include Walter Connolly, Raymon Walburn, Fried,. Inescourt, Victor Jory, Nana Bryant, Elisabeth Risdon, Thurston Hall, Herman Bing, E. E. Clive, Johnny Arthur, Barnett Parker, George Hassel, Montague Shaw and William Clifford.

(2J.ENTLE as a lamb with those he loves, savage as a tiger in battle, Buck, the screen’s sensational new canine star, comes to the screen in the stirring Eox adaptation of James Oliver Curwood’s story, “The Country Beyond.” Featured with a cast which includes such Hollywood stars as Rochelle Hudson, Paul Kelly and Robert Kent, Buck aids the ca se of justice as he tracks a killer through the-frozen north and plays Cupid in bringing the Mountie and bis girl together. « e s

THOSE arch-comedians, Wheeler and Woolsey, are once more on the job, their latest offering being "Silly Billies,” a real old-time Cowboy-and-Indian melodrama, with the comedy element supplied by the two stars and the romance by the well-known Dorothy Lee. The show is brimful of excitement and humour, and should go down very well, especially with the more youthful members of the filmgoing community. ft ft ft

(GLADYS SWAKTIIOUT, beautifui Metropolitan opera star, who made her screen debut in “Rose of file Rancho,” continues her motion picture career in Paramount's ‘‘Give Us This Night,” in which site is co-starred with Jan Kiepura, Continental stage and screen favourite. The picture marks Kiepura’s first American screen appearance.

ATEASURING 250 feet long, 150 feet wide, and 50 feet in height, the “City Ways” set in "Things to Come," is claimed to be the largest ever erected in a film studio. Three days were needed to assemble and arrange the 295 arclights and hundreds of smaller lamps, with an aggregate power of over 9000 amps. The 750 extras in this sequence were marshalled by director W. Cameron Menzies, with the aid of microphones. “Things to Come” is to be released by United Artists.

AfAXINE JENNINGS’S realistic lU ’characterisation of a stenographer, whose jaws work faster thau her brain, caused a minor mystery recently on “The Witness Chair,” set at RKO Radio. Miss Jennings was on the stand, undergoing a grilling in courtroom scenes of the Ann Harding starring picture. The scene was filmed three times, and after each take the sound recorder complained that a light must have been crackling. During the fourth take, director George Nicholls, jun., traced the disturbance to Miss Jennings’s chewing gum.

THE latest picture to go into produc- ■*" tion in Cinesound studios, Sydney, Is “Wilderness Orphan”—a tale of Australian wilds, in which natural history will play a big part. Assigned to the east is Harry. Abdy, a brother to Marie Le Varre, and one of Australia's bestknown showmen. He is a son of the oldtime mimic and animal trainer, Monsieur Poncaire, and lately has been presenting his father’s act of trained birds and cats in vaudeville. Monsieur Poncaire will be well remembered by the many who saw him in the old Fuller Vaudeville days in Wellington.

A N old-time hobby, much indulged in by the quality of the Regency period, was rediscovered and introduced into scenes for United Artists, “The Amateur Gentleman,” by Clemence Dane,’the famous playwright, who is responsible for the script of this Criterion Productions -film which stars Douglas Fairbanks, junior, and Elissa Landi. “Drizzling,” which may seem to us a bright, if parsimonious idea, consisted in removing all the gold thread from tapestries, embroideries or brocades, by means of a line hook. The gold thread was then melted down and sold as “old gold,” and fetched a good price.