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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1937, Page 21

<k FAN FARE £^T^*~s3| /y weekly column of 1 r^%>i, a| gossip on outstand' - t j ing new films, A SIMILAR scene as that shown i» •^ "Maid vt Salem," which commences to-morrow at the Hcgeut, took ]>!ace 250 years ago in Massachusetts. This period of history, with a witchcraft background, is beinjj brought to the screen by Frank Lloyd for Paramount, with Claudctte Colbert playing the title part and Fred Mac Murray the fugitive Virginian ■ rebel. Fred, who has played roles as a newspaperman, Texas Ranger, band leader, society boy, engineer and whatnot, cornea to the screen as a dashing Virginia cavalier iv this tender romance o£ Seventeenth Century America, in which he ia co-starred with Olaudetto Colbert. With the exception of "The- Texas Rangers," it is his lirst appearance in a historical film, and he was selected for the part by Frank Lloyd. * * «• .;*-.■• "(x OUS Country and, tho Woman,'* Warner Bros." brilliant picturisation of the James Oliver Ctfrwood novel of the same namc^-dealing with a feud between lumber companies in- the deep forests of the Great North-West, is coming soon to the Regent, with George Brent and Beverley Roberts in the leading roles. The thrillingly dramatic romance of the story is heightened by the fatf that the scenes —almost all of which are in tha open—wore photographed ■^V.cJ.'.y in natural colours. \ ' * * * ■#■"■. JfOR the h'rst time in her career Elisaboth Bergner attended a premiere of one of her own films when "Dreaming Lips," the Max Schacb production, was shown at the London pavilion in tha presence of Her Majesty Queen Mary. Only twice iv her life has Bergner seen herself ou the-screen.. The first occasion was liftecu years ago; the other was tha first day of production of! " Dreaming Lips," when she sat in the studio projection theatre with her husbanddirector, Dr. Czinuer. and saw the German version, titled. "Der Traumenda Mund." When, in 1022, she made her first film,- which incidentally starred Etnil Januiiics and Conrad Veidt, iUiss Bcrgiinr found watching her screen image an unhappy experience. She vowed never to sec-herself on the screen again, a pledge which she kept faithfully until last September. Snppprting Bcrgncr is. a strong cast, which includes Raymond Massoy, Romncy Brent, Joyce Bland. Sydney Fairbrother and Felix Aylmer. "Dreaming Lips" ia coming shortly to the Regent. *■ * *..**• With the lens of the huge technicolout camera only IS inches from the scene photographed,, the :smallest especiallyconstructed sot in- the history of motion pictures was 'filmed at Selznick Inte» national Studio, a space one foot wide and a foot and a half in height. The seen* showed-Fredrie-March-in an auto-trail*, shower bath, as part of the technicolmic production, "A Star Is Born," in whia: ~ March is co-starring, with Janet Gaynnr. In order to-supervise the action, Director William A. Welhnan had to climb astride lh«> camera itself and look down over the lens. ' ' Au rcroir twlil next week, Yours for cnlhrthhwicitt. "THE MAN IN THE 'STALLS."