CINEMA EVENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 99, 23 October 1936, Page 4

CINEMA EVENTS

NEW DEVELOPMENTS

FOX FILMS RELEASE

Some details of the closer association of the various factors in the motion picture industry have been given by" Mr. E. L. Rutledge, general manager for New Zealand of Fox Film Corporation, who has recently returned from the annual conference of his organisation in Sydney. The whole tendency nowadays, said Mr. Kutledge, was for producer, distributor, and exhibitor to get closer together with a view to assisting one another. He quoted three examples of this trend in motion picture affairs in which the company he represents in New Zealand was directly concerned. All of these have taken place in the last few months. First, there came the announcement that /a company had been formed to be known as GaumontBritish Dominions Film Distributors, Ltd. This company was formed with the object of distributing more effectively and economically in Australia and New Zealand the product of Britain's foremost film producers. Distribution in Australia and New Zealand will be taken care.of by Fox Film Corporation of Australasia, Ltd. The directors of Gaumont-British Dominions Film Distributors, Ltd., are Messrs. Stanley S. Cvick, chairman, Ernest Turnbull, managing director, and Alan J.Williamson: The company will release 32 films during' the forthcoming season comprising a selection from the output of the studios. The second example was an announcement that distribution of "The Flying Doctor" would be undertaken by Fox Films Corporation, Australasia, Ltd, entirely without charge to the producers in Australia. The third instance quoted by Mr. Rutledge was the signing of an agreement whereby Fox Film Corporation, Messrs. Stanley S. Crick, and Charles E. Munro acquired a substantial .interest in Amalgamated Theatres of New "Zealand. Messrs. Crick and Munro are managing directors of Fox Finn Corporation, Australasia, Ltd., and Hoyts Theatres, Ltd., Australia. INTERESTS CONSOLIDATED. Amalgamated Theatres, said Mr. Rutledge, operate a chain of approximately 60 important theatres throughout New Zealand. The rise of this theatre company has been • very rapid,* and this deal was one of mutual consolidation of interests. The agreement Signed provided that there should be no foreign domination. ® Productions already completed, in course of production, or contemplated by various studios during the forthcoming season, mentioned by Mr. R/t----ledge, include the following Twentieth Century Fox Pictures: — "To Mary—With Love" based on Richard Sherwm's highly-praised novel co-stars Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy. "Charlie < Chan at the Race Track," with Warner Oland once more, is said to be the most thrilling Charlie Chan picture yet brought to the screen. "Girls' Doimitory" presents Simone Simon in her American debut. She is acclaimed as the most important discovery in recent screen history. Ruth Chatterton and Herbert Marshall head the supporting cast. "Pepper," stars Jane Withers, with Irvin S. Cobb, Slim Summerville, and Dean Jagger in support "King of the Royal Mounted," from Zane Grey's story, has Robert Kent, Alan Dinehart, and Rosalind Keith. "Ramona," acclaimed aa the .year's.outstanding film, is filmed in technicolour, with Loretta Young and Don Ameche, a brilliant newcomer, and presents the film in which Warner Baxter and Dolores del Rio appeared in silent days. "Dimple" has Shirley Temple, just as captivating as ever. She has an entirely different role as the little maid of New York's Bowery in the 1850's. Frank Morgan, Helen Westley, and Robert Kent are in support. Never before has such a quartet of beauty and charm been assembled in one picture as in "Ladies in Love," an ambitious adaptation of a famous Continental stage play. Janet Gaynor, Constance Bennett, Loretta Young, and Simone Simon, are cast with them, being four talented actors, Tyrone Power, jun., Paul Lukas, Don Ameche, and Brian- Donlevy. "Pigskin Parade," a musical satire of inter-collegiate football, has Jack Haley, Patsy Kelly, Arline Judge, Dixie Dunbar, and Ross Alexander. "Thank You Jeeves," based on the humorous character of P. G. Wodehouse, stars Arthur Treacher, supported, among others, by Colin Tapley. "15 Maiden Lane" has Claire Trevor, Cesar Romero, and Alan Dinehart and is a swift-moving picture about jewel thieves* .. IN PRODUCTION* The. pictures in production Include "Reunion," the Dionne Quintuplets' new picture for Twentieth CenturyFox, in which they not only talk but sing a French lullaby. Jean Herscholkwill again be the country doctor, Dorothy Peterson the nurse, John Qualerf the father, and Slim Summerville the comedy sheriff. Rochelle Hudson and Robert Kent will play the romantic leads. Other films include "Alias-Brian Kent," based on a Harold Bell Wright novel, which has Ralph' Bellamy and Mac Clarke; "Under Your; Spell," the new Lawrence Tibbetf musical film in which is also Wendy Barrie; "White Hunter" (tentative 4 title) co-starring Warner Baxter and Simone Simon; "Living Dangerously,"l with Franchot Tone and June Lang, presenting a strange story; "Lldyds 'of London," with Loretta Young, and in which 50 principals appear 4n,specta,cular scenes, among them Sir 'Guy Standing, Freddie Bartholomew, and C. Aubrey Smith; "Stowaway," Shirley Temple's next picture; "Can This Be Dixie?" Jane Withers's first musical production with Slim Summerville, Helen Wood, and Donald Cook; Dick Powell as male lead in Irving Berlin's "On the Avenue," with Alice Faye. "Seventh Heaven" will be made again, with an entirely new cast. Products to be released by Gaumont British Dominions Film Distributors,

Ltd., and distributed in New Zealand by Fox Films include "As You Like It," a costume romance adapted from Shakespeare's comedy, "Wings of the Morning," from' "The Sport of Kings," the- first production to be made in England all in technicolor, with Annabella, a very delightful Parisian, star, Leslie Banks, Henry Fonda, and John MacCormac; "Two's Company," adapted from Sydney Horler's novel "Romeo and Julia," with Ned Sparks, Gordon Harker, and Mary Brian; "Everything is Thunder," showing the adventures of a British officer who escapes-' from a German prison camp during the war, and with Constance Bennett, Douglass Montgomery, and Oscar Homolka, of "Rhodes of Africa"; "East Meets West," an Eastern drama with George Arliss, Lucy Mannheim, and Godfrey Tearle; another George Arliss film,. "The Nelson Touch"; "Head Over Heels," with the famous star Jessie Matthews, a musical film set in Paris; "Soldiers , Three," from Kipling's stories, with : Victor MacLaglen, Maureen O'Sullivan, and C. Aubrey Smith; "Song of Freedom," starring Paul Robeson; "The ' Man Who Changed His Mind," with Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder, and Frank Cellier (/ the story of a strange scientific experiment, and ! "Interrupted-Honeymoon," with Claude ( Hulbert and Jane Carr. '