HERE AND THERE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 201, 22 May 1936, Page 16

HERE AND THERE

POPULAR Jack Hulbert’s next comicx singing and dancing release will be “Jack Of All Trades,” with Gina Malo, who was so popular in “The Lily of Killarney,” and the evergreen melancholy funster, J. Robertson Hare.

VfONRO OWSLEY, familiar as the ’ menace factor in films, will have a characteristic villain role in “Private Number,” the Fox production which marks Loretta Young’s return to the screen. The picture goes into production shortly with Robert Taylor. Patsy Kelly and Basil Rathbone in the supporting cast. * * *

PARAMOUNT’S “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” based on John Fox junior’s famous novel of the same title, marks a milestone in the history of the movies. It is the first picture in which the colour element is taken as a matter of course, and subordinated to the story interest. Sylvia Sidney, Fred Mac Murray and Henry Fonda are starred.

SHORTLY to be screened in Welling- ° ton is M.-G.-M.’s “Wife v. Secretary,” a "ivid romance in which the popular Glark Gable finds himself confronted with the charms of both Jean Harlow and Myrna Loy. All three stars can always be relied upon to give excellent performances, so the result should be highly entertaining. # ♦ ♦ A TUNEFUL musical-comedy is “Cheer Up,” which British Empire Films will soon release. This breezy show has for its stab the agile Stanley Lupino, who has the support of a good cast, including the dainty Sally Bray, who, with Mr. Lupino, is seen in several dance sequences. The music is quite catchy. * * * FILMGOERS are eagerly awaiting X the release of Universal’s new version of the popular and tuneful Jerome Kern musical-play, “Show Boat,” which was an outstanding success on the stage, and which achieved great praise when produced some years ago as a part “talkie.” Irene Dunne heads the cast, and Paul Robqson will also have his original role, his big number being “Old Man River.” "itrARLENE DIETRICH and Charles Boyer have been signed by David 0. Selznick to co-star in his second production for United Artists’ release, “The Garden of Allah,” the immortal classic of stage and literature by Robert Hitchens. The picture, to be produced entirely in technieolour, will be filmed at the desert location near Yuma, Arizona, under the direction of Richard Boleslawski. Tilly Losch, prominent dancing star of the concert stage and musical comedy, will make her screen debut in this picture. She will play the role of Irena, the fiery Arabian dancing girl. * * 1

SYDNEY W. CARROLL, film critic, writes as follows in the “London Times” about “Things to Come,’ ’the amazing 11. G. Wells's story, to be released by United Artists: “It is a leviathan among films. A stupendous spectacle staggering to eye, mind and spirit, the like of which has never been seen and never will be seen again. It makes film history.” * * ♦

AT last part of “God’s Country and the Woman” will be filmed in new technieolour when Warner Bros.First National produces the screen version of James Oliver Curwood’s novel, according to present plans. Bette Davis and George Brent will play the two leading roles in this picture. The two appeared together in “Front Page Woman” and "Special Agent,” and have just completed a picture called "The Golden Arrow.” *

“piIARLIE CHAN” has solved baffling mysteries all over the world —in Paris, Egypt, Shanghai and San Francisco; he has cleared innocent suspects, reunited lovers and put guilty men behind prison bars. But in “Charlie Chau at the Circus,” the new Fox thriller, there is a completely new background—'the circus—with a new type of murder and new clues leading to the culprit. The traditional characters of screen mystery are replaced by the colourful circus people.

'THE cast of Edward G. Robinson’s new starring picture, which is to be called “Bullets or Ballots,” is now almost complete, and the picture is about to begin production at the Warner Bros.-First National studios in Hollywood. Two of the most important supporting parts have been allotted to those two sinister “heavies,” Humphrey Rogart and Barton Mac Lane. “Bullets of Ballots” is a New York newspaper reporter who was imprisoned for refusing to disclose the source of his secret and sensational information. ♦ * *

WITH the signing of Monte Blue ’’ Lawrence Grant, Halliwell Hobbes, Doris Lloyd and Wyndham Standing, R.K.O. Radio has rounded out one of the most remarkable casts in months for the new Katharine Hep-burn-Frederic March picture. "Mary of Scotland.” There are more than thirty featured members of the supporting cast, which is headed by Maroni Olsen, Frieda Inescourt. Molly Lamont, Alan Mowbray, Douglas Walton and Robert Barratt.

QAUMONT’S powerful British dramatic production, “King of the Damned,” which deals in most realistic fashion with a magnetic story of life at “Santa Maria,” a penal settlement on an island in the Carribean Sea, has been eagerly snapped up by Americans for early presentation through the United States. In this Dominion it will be released simultaneously at Auckland and Christchurch during Empire Week. Conrad Veidt is credited with a truly arresting impersonation of a convict —a leader of men with a flair for reform. Noah Beery and Helen Vinson present outstanding Impersonations.

JF American newspaper criticism can be used as a guide to the public appeal contained in the film version of “Anything Goes,” which has been adapted from the stage play by Paramount, it seems that there is a rare treat in store for Ne v Zealand theatregoers, as the picture is standing by for early release throughout the main, centres of the Dominion. “Anything Goes” ran for twelve solid months on Broadway, and Paramount has faithfully reproduced this musical show in all'its detail with a cast that includes Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charlie Ruggles, Ida Lupino, Arthur Treacher and Grace Bradley.