THE PICTURE WORLD

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 140, 10 December 1931, Page 19

THE PICTURE WORLD

"Queer People." Fake Melting Pot. Not a single actor in Hollywood dare The statement, that the camera cannot Hollywood's claim that it is the real plfy in aScttd new film called "Queer lie has been proved a fallacy by film pro- international melting-pot where natives People "says the "Daily Mail." ducers time and time again. This was o f every civilised country work together Every time a player has been approach- proved once again when "Madame Ju he, in harmony was-given a. new lest when edbv^heXectora always with a tempt- the first of Lily Damita's starring vehicles hnndreds of former enemies, representing it inkrv offer a mvSous organisation for Radio Pictures, was being produced. most of the countries at grips during the hn/ R tP^Ld in-an^ the Xvei'has step- In this picture there is a marble staircase W orld War, donned French army officers' has stepped in-and tne player nas siep .1 fey « marble papel .» manu . lmifol . jns and sat next to each other a? Wnm.™. Jiivp ilreadv been snent on factured by the Paint Department ot the usiu a p i c t llre scene. Veterans of ♦V,?T^nr^nH unlimited carital ii rtffl studio. Not only does this look as natu- th Amevk . an l, r rench) British, German, SiISSJ w ? desn te the serious unem ™\ as the real article, but what is more R . Ita ,£ Bel^ Austrian, and llSgSi^ sas£sss?'.s B>^En*<m ■ his ban on the venture and threatened Rochelle Hudson, Radio Pictures' play- Jean Harlow. dire punishment to all those concerned cr> has bee n selected one of the thirteen Je;m Hnrlow> whose natural white Hu S hes, the young oil ™%&&$^J& «£s£ magnate and film producer, who spends ,f or a scre en test, and won a long-term c"lsm^ \£ < and as such B Ue so lavishly of time and money on his contract. Her. work in nve productions £J sl]bject ' of the spec Sal ar . pictures—witness "Hell's Angels" at a f O r Radio convinced production head, VVU- , , lg d Evening Post." ~S.S SI S illS' s^."iS £^dt4'3^M™^.S Kngßfa. -Phth,™ 8t0d,," i, a Cotoubi. ,«««. politics in and out of the Btudios,- - Its gjg Deal. Young. characters were *^ B^f X"tara 9 A business deal of vital interest to the p,. M soventeen-year-old Haimoßt important personagea of the town, motim . kture me ha 3 been CO n Sl ,m- riab Pennsylvania, girl, has arrived thinh/ disguised by name only, and many whwcb Williamson Films (!«./.). Nt Urfiyersal City for her screen-debut. °mA Cf it ,fat announced his Lt(l" llave P«r«hf ed £w their K? w £& Carl Laemmlo, junr., saw Miss Moore iv .telephoned to the Hughes organisation. released in ""^^ded shortly. Toung Mr. Hughes deliberately went^.Wellington.. Of special interest' ( ,to .New,, v ahead with his plans and hired Mr. Ben * Zea j anders j s the knowledge tKat this' Hecht, author of that perfect picture, dea j i nc i U( } es the product of the Para"The Front Page," to write the screen mount London Studios. The first picture version and Mr. Leo M'Carey to help him mac i e j n London by Paramount yeas and,direct the film. ."These Charming People." Other British Starting dates have been , made for p ro d uc tions arc "The Man From -Maymonths. "Shortly" or "Only a week or f air )) f rom a nove i by May Edginton, two now" was announced, and the inten- con taining a cast headed by- Jack tions were serious,'but every, time 'the Buchanan and Ellaline Terris;."The-Light mysterious influence would step in and r^t Failed," Kudyard Kipling'B story, delay matters. • " • which will star Percy' Marmont, and Mr. William Haines was -as "gtamboul" and ''A Child in Their the perfect lead. He wanted above all Midst." to play the part and started negotiations, . „ ■when the warning came and be" backed "Rlpln for Justice. out. Other prominent players were called Mary Doran has been cast-for the femiin for various roles. The mysterious in- nine role opposite.Buck,Jones in hw latfluence halted arrangements in each case est Columbia outdoor drama,_ Ridin tor almost as soon as they started. Justice." . This production, is a .tale of No question of salaries arose, as Mr. adventure m the old West, which is being Hughes said he would pay adequately for directed by Ross Lederman. Jones has the bert Talent available. Not a solitary now £v ly recovered from the injuries^ susactor or actress will now attempt to under- tamed in an early sequence. Mary Doran take an engagement that would ordinarily made success in charactensations an two be the uA paid and longest in their Columbia "joftan^ careers. , Deep," and as a result was given the femil_ewjSi . , nine lead opposite Jones. • ■ John Tord, veteran Fox. director, has "Bad Company." been borrowed from Fox by Samuel-Gold- "Bad Company" is the release title of the wyn to direct the picturisation of Sin-. latest picture completed by Helen Twelveclair Lewis's Pulitzer prize-winning novel,' trees for R.K.O. Pathe. This title sayg'a "Arrowsmith." Sidney Howard-has been, lot-intwo short words. The picture was given the assignment of working 'and con-" previously known «s 'The Mad; Marriferring with Mr. Lewis on the scenario age,"' and; features Ricardo Cortez and and treatment of the story. It is- to. be JohnGarnck in support of the star. Bonald * Cohnan's, next picture . following the Ben Hecht-Charles Mac Arthur adventure, "The Unholy Garden," which is' to go into£ production within the next week or two with Estelle Taylor and Fay Wray . playing-the leading'feminine roles. George J Fitzmaiirice is directing. ''Suicide Fleet." "Suicide: Fleet," which Bill Bqyd will tnake as- his next starring ■ vehicle - for KJK.O. '''■:'• Pathe,, will be produced on a large scale. ".Charles- R. Rogers,; produc- ; tion head,* is 'pointing -towards turning out..:, this exciting;story as. one of the season's big specials. A big cast will be aseembled'for• "Suicide Fleet," with James Gleason;: and- Robert Armstrong, already assigned to important roles.

''Guilty Generation." . ■ • Leslie' Fenton.and Boris ; KarloS have .. lech added Itp the cast of Columbia's "The - Guilty -Generation';"' which *is' being '■ pro- ■ duced under the direction ■ of- William Beaudine. Leo Carillo and Constance Cummings\have the leading roles. ■ Fenton'first; came to the screen in "The First Kiss," and; was ■ immediately engaged -1 for another.'film» Since then he has been.in "A Dangerous Woman," "Woman Trap," and "The' Man I Love. Recently.he play- .. Ed in "Pagan-Lady" for Columbia. Karlbff has a long; string; of' characterisations to his .crediti-in-.suoh films as "The Meddlin'' ■ Stranger," "Tarzan', and the. Golden Lion,". . "Two - 'Arabian Knights," "Behind' That Curtain,"!and"The Little' Wild Girl." '

Comedians.

"Prop" Bottles. "A Woman Commands." Stacked up like discarded museum re- Pola Negri is about ready to start hei lies, tens of thousands of oddly shaped fii&t talking pictuie, "A Woman Coraliquor bottles line the movie shelves, marids," the onginnl story mitten by Thfese bottles, once filled with the cheering Thilde Forster. Charles I?. Rogers, R.K.O juice of the world's flints, repose in fathe's pioduction hrad, describes the dusty solitude in dark basements, waiting stoiy as just what lie had been seeking then tuin to be used as motion pictuie Rogeis believes it will do much toward "pi ops." The collection of old bottles at launching Miss Negu on a talking picthe R.K.O. Radio Pictuies* studio is per- tme career as "Patsion" did towai'ds es haps one of the laigest in Hollywood, tabhshing her phenomenal popularity in Stoied in the studio's property room they the silent films, remain in dark silence until such time as , Trarv ' they aie needed for drinking1 scenes. s>P«neer iraey. "Poise" ' Edmund Lowe's vacation will be longer , than was originally anticipated, so Spencer "Poise," which is the title of the latest Xiacy has been assigned to leplace him Grantland Rice Spoitlight produced by ln "Dihoiderly Conduct." Tiacy will play R.K.O. Pathe, grves a clear insight on the the pavt of Victor M'Laglen's pal. When co-oidmation of biam, eye, and muscle j oau ]} enrle tt leaves the hospital to rethat every successful athlete must pos- sumo work ]n «g ]le Wanted a Millionsess How it enteis into all blanches ot Q „ T w]]l comp i ete his work in sport is shown in this picture, which h t Tj pro( j Hctlon waß lndefi . coveisarcheiy golf, angling, discus trow- * fa Mlgß Bennett „ aSTtSS^nffi. indttle brr°a a cd «» ** «*. was throw, by a horse, mg. Farrell and Eilers. Good Chips. Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, sweetA ceitajn Mrs Murphy m London can hearts together thiough many a successreel gieatly complimented that the well- ful picture, tempoiatily are to go their known duector, Jara.es Whale, remember- separate -ways upon completion of their ed her. When the production of "Water- new romance-with-music, "Delicious." Farloo Bridge"' at Universal City lequired a rell's next will be "Devil's Lottery/ a typical English "fish and chips shop," stoiy by Dmitri Ostiov, in which Sally the art director came to Mr. Whale for Eilers will share the lending loles. Others the name of the shop. "Call it 'Mrs Mur- in the cast will be William Pawley and phy's fish and chips shop,'" Whale ie- Gicta Nissen. quested, "I remember having eaten some p.ig. i very grand chips there yeais ago." The ~"_,, T , . ~ ~ cast of "Waterloo Bridge" includes Mao John Boles, Umveisal s Miigmg-star, is Clarke, Kent Douglass, Doris Lloyd, Fred- back at the studio again after a srt-weeks crick Kerr, Ethel Griffies, Enid Bennett, vacation forced upon him by illness, and nd Bette Davis, will soon prepare for ,two forthcoming screen plays, ".Back Street/ by Eannie Hurst, ant). "Marriage ' Interlude,"'by Luigi Pirandello, rioted Italian playwright. Greta Nissen. Having proved' that blondes are devastating vamps in "Transatlantic," and more recently in-"Ambassador Bill," Greta Nissen has merited another role. She will be 'featured in "Cheating," ,in which Linda Watkins, debntante star, and Claire Maynard have been cast. Allan Dinehart ajso plays an] important rrole. Mac Clark. Carl Laemmle, juur., is seeing to it that Mac 'Clark's talents are not allowed to cool. After previewing "Waterloo' Bridge," the James Whale picture' in which Miss Clark appears in the feminine lead, Laemmle . immediately cast - her for the feminine lead in "Reckless Living," which Cyril Gardner ie directing, and which has in featured roles Ricardo Cortez, Norman Foster, who flew to Hollywood fiom New York for his role, Mane Prcvost, and Slim Summeiville. Modern. About the ultimate in modernistic interior decoiation may be seen in the French hotel scenes for "Private Lives," Nurma Shearer's new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring vehicle. Included in the appointments of the suite is a modernistic fireplace, boasting cylindrical electric tubes of frosted glass that take the place of logs.

His Success.

tWhat the world needs i* a few good 'Lewis Milestone, who "The laughs. This advice'has found its mark Fiont Page," is the only director in'Hollym Hollywood whero comedians seem to wood whp has received the acclaim of an he in great demand these days. In. one e'ntne industry without a dissenting vote. Metio-Goldwyu-Mayer pictuie, six well- Milestone's woik on "The Racket"* won known comedians are m the cast. "The lum'widespiead applause, but his direction pictuie is "New Adventures of Get-Rich- or "All Quiet on the Western Front" Quick Walhngford," and it boasts a ca&t bi ought him the official recognition of the of able comedians ns William Haines, entile jndustiy. He was acclaimed'the Jimmy Dm ante, Ernest Tonence, J C. yeai's gieatest dhector by the Academy of Nugent, Guv Kibbee, and Robert Motion Picture Arts and Sciences without M'Wade. Cliff Edwdids has been kept a dissenting •vote and 340 ciitics 'picking busy jumping from one pictuie to anothei fhe greatest director of the year, awaided at M.G.M., and Beit Lahr, Bioadway the palm to Milestone, levue «>t.ii, was engaged for the leading „ . _. ~ lole in "Flying High." Qood shotHow many apples, thrown through the "Black Oxen." air, can you spear with a- knife? Charlotte Elaborate piepaiations aio tang made Gieenwood, long and funny comedienne, ,t the Metio-Gokhvyn-Mayer studios to f? 1. ,? ome. Tr, nif m F^" g nmriiifP "Blnrk Oxpii'? as nr.o nf Hip High" at Metio-Goldwyn-Mayer, when most" Ca emb.fious talkfe* enters of ,he ? he transQxed eleven out of twelve thrown reason. A notable cast is being assemb- & . B«* Lahr dunn« reheaisals and led tor it and Ernest Vadja is working on takes for a certam Bcene> d screen treatment. "Black Oxen" is a Another. s'jry',°f, hnman life'based on Gertrude The « Jossel » n i ms ' Baga lfi to have yet Atherton s novel. another addition in "Jpsser Goes to Sea," "Skeets" which BIP. are putting into immediate pioductiou. The Josber is, of couise, pel"Skeets" Gallagher has been "Skeets" sonated by Einie JJotmga, and m thip so long th.it veiy few people, even his film, ■which1 will bo directed by Noiman intimate fucnds, know his leal name, It Lee, he will be the centie of hilauous is Richaid. The blonde comedian is now happenings. ''Jossei Goes to Sea" is to m Metro-Goldw yn-Mayer's "The Mnage," be aU action-comedy, and in preparation •tarring Joau Crawford, Clarence Brown for its eaily pioduction, a cast is now U directing. being selected.

"Delirious." t An auspicious revival of musical pic- >• tiires is heralded 'by' an announcement y from .the Fox studios'in Hollywood that '• "Delicious," a Janet Gaynor-Charles Far--0 rell song-specialty, with music 'by George 5- Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Geishwin, has gone into pioduction. David Butler, :' who directed Fox-s "Sunny Side Up," is *" directing. ''Delicious" will have four Gershwin numbers and a. Gershwin symphony, according to studio announcement. The symphony will' be ' given allegorical treatment1 of a patriotic nature, for its * theme was inspired by the ideals repre- * sented by the Statue of Liberty. y Long. . n Lewis -Ayres has just paid his first visit to the barber shop in more than l * three months. In "Heaven on Eearth," P which Ayres recently completed at Unil" versal City, the young star appears as a n 'boy raised among the shanty boats of the Mississippi flood area who could not ■ afford a haircut. As a consequence his locks grew long. -Anita Louise has ap- '" pcared opposite Ayres in "Heaven on i- Earth." r r. Dawn. ': Motion pictures photographed in the a eerie half-light of dawn, without the aid y of- artificial illumination,' will be offered s on the screen for the first time when d Fox Films' "The Gsco Kid," reaches the ; theatres. This sequel to "In Old Ari-j-'zpna/'1 presenting Warner Baxter, Ed--1 mii'nd'Lowe, and debutante Conchita Mon- * ,tenegro, was made' among the Joshua 1 trees and -cacti of Southern Arizona's ( * scenic' wasteland. There, during the S super-heated summer months, one of the c most sublime aspects of nature is prer" sented. Dawn ■ traces shadowsj high- •. lights, patterns, and figures seen nowhere Busy. ■ Five pictures are'in pioduction at the Fox 'studios,, five are in the cutting-room, and four are projected.' "Sob Sister," .with James ,Dunn and, Linda Watkins in a the leads; "Ambassador Bill,' starring t " Will Rogers; "Over the Hill," Mac Marsh's comeback picture; "Surrender,"' with Warner .Baxter and Leila Hyams in the .leads, and, "Delicious," co-starring t Janet Gaynor and Charles Fan-ell, are in 0 ' production. "' Constance. ' - , I A man may never be a hero to his ' valet, but Constance Bennett is a herot? me to her helpers. Proof of this is offered in the fact that the star who will , next be seen in the Warner Bros, and Vitaphone production, "Bought," has had II the same dressmaker, maid, and hair- '• dresser for five years. The faithful three accompany her from studio'to studioi and are' never off her personal payroll, "Bought" is a story of the loves and am- ' bitions of a girl of to-day, and is Miss ~^ Bennett's first starring vehicle for Warncr Bros. o His Dislike. jj Lionel Barryinorc, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer player dislikes big cars, and never rides in them if he can avoid doing so. He travels around Hollywood, doubled up'like a jack-knife in a car of the small variety so well 'known to joke-smiths. Roimmee. The touch of the gipsy is found in the second Eomberg-Hammerstein romance, "Children of Dreams," which will be released shortly. Like "Viennese Nights," "Children of Dreams" has romance and beauty, simplicity and drama, and is the story of'a girl who throws aside love for ' fame. Margaret Schilling, Paul Gregory, and t '-Marion- Byron 'are - included in the ' cast-of "Children of Dreams." "Street Scene." The biggest set'since the'advent of the talkies was constructed for Samuel Goldwyn's screen adaptation of the Elmer Rice prize drama, "Street Scene." This i huge set, which 'is a reproduction ot an entire city block on Xew York's West Sixty-fifth Street, is the site of the entire action of the picture.

Normandy. , . Captain Norman, Walker, who has already secured some very "wonderful and picturesque scenes in Sussex for his picture, "Bill the Conqueror," has left for Normandy, accompanied by his two leading artists, Henry Kendall and Norah Swinburne. To further enhance the pictorial value of this film Walker will take some beautiful scenes round and about the birthplace of William the Conqueror. Between the hero of the film and this warrior of 1066 there is a strong connection.