Heavy Production Schedules Call For New Players

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 41, 12 November 1937, Page 18

Heavy Production Schedules Call For New Players

WITH production schedules crowded ’ ’ with all types of motion pictures, the greatest variety ever offered, going before the cameras, Hollywood film players are finding themselves more and more in demand. Major studios to-day are reported to have more men and women under contract' than even.’ before, and new names are constantly being added. Among them. Paramount, under the guiding hand of William Leßaron, is employing much new talent

Oscar Homolka, famous Viennese actor, who studied and worked under Reinhardt for ten years, has arrived in Hollywood for his part in Paramount’s “Ebb Tide,” a technicolour production featuring Ray Millahd and Frances Farmer. Mary Livingstone, wife of Jack Benny, has been placed under contract and assigned to play a leading part in “This Way, Please,” a theatrical comedy. Sandra Storme, beautiful guest in Los Angeles from England, danced at the Coconut Grove, and was employed by Paramount executives who were visiting the noted rendezvous for “Artists and Models,” with Jack Benny.

Gustav Wally, Swedish comedy star, was engaged also when , he visited Hollywood, and Franciska Gaal was taken to Hollywood from Europe for the leading role in Cecil B. De Mille’s “The Buccaneer.”