SCREENLAND JOTTINGS

Evening Star, Issue 20666, 13 December 1930, Page 23

SCREENLAND JOTTINGS

1 The Right of Way,’ from tho powerful story by Sir Gilbert Parker, will bo produced by First National, with Conrad Nagel, Loretta Young, and Fred. Kohler in tho leading roles. In tho whole cast of ‘ The Dawn Patrol,’ Richard Barthelmess’s next picture for First National, there is not one woman. ‘ The Dawn Patrol ’ is a romance of the war birds who fought and died for glory, during the Great War. ‘ln the Headlines,’ the Warner Brothers’ production, featuring Grant Withers and Marion Nixon, is claimed to be an authentic story of newspaper life. It depicts a newspaper’s activity in running down a story, after it was the first to discover a clue to a baffling double murder mystery. Grant Withers enacts the role of an egotistical star reporter, whose tenacity is instrumental in bringing about the. solution of the puzzle. John Garrick, who is known in Hollywood as the “Prince of Wales of Picbecause of his resemblance to the British' Crown heir, has the leadirlg male role opposite Jeanette Macdonald in ‘Lottery Bride,’ Arthur Hammerstein’s new United Artists’ picture. Hafnmerstein was impressed by his work in ‘ Married in Hollywood ’ ‘The Sky Hawk,’ and ‘Song of My Heart.’ Garrick wont to the United States, from Australia with ‘ The Wishing Well ’ musical comedy company. Ho, had been a “matinee idol” in Australia, having appeared there in 1 Hio Rita and No, No, Nanette.’ under his real name, Reginald Dandy. , Loretta Yeung and Grant Withers will shortly bo seen in the First National thrilling mystery drama, ‘The Second Floor Mystery,’ which has been adapted for tho screen from Earl Dorr Bigger’s sensational novel, ‘ Tho Agony Column.’ ‘ Ladies’ Man,’ tho mystery romance by Rupert Hughes that was recently acquired by Paramount for filming as a talking picture, will be produced at the Now York studios of the company. Paul Lukas, a Hungarian actor, has been selected to play the part of a society “ Don Juan.”

, The prayer call of the Arabian muezzin is to be heard in Paramount’s alltalking adventure film, ‘ Morocco,’ which features Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, and Adolplie Menjou. Tho chanting call is given by Joseph Diskay, a Hungarian tenor. The production was completed recently under the direction of Josef von Sternberg. Since motion pictures deal with practically every conceivable subject and all known types of characters there is Consequently little that goes on in , tho world that is not eventually revealed upon the screen. In lino with this truism those intimate things which take place within the forbidden walls of the massago rooms of a beauty salon are shortly to be added to tho list of interesting disclosures. An . important sequence of Clara Bow’s film, ‘ Her Wedding Night,’ takes place in an exclusive beauty salon, with Miss Bow and Geneva Mitchell as tho_ customers. To ensure the proper depicting of such a scc:;e ' v r:-tor Frank Tuttle visited Hollywood’s leading beauty emporium to acquire “ atmosphere ” and to secure professipnal operators to take part in the action. Marie Ney, tho New Zealand actress who made a big Lit in London and with audiences throughout England, will shortly be seen in New Zealand in tho English all - talking production, ‘Escape.’ This well-known story by John Galsworthy was a big success as a stage play both" in London and New York, and tho picture has created now records during its extended season run at Marble Arch Theatre, London. Sir Gerald du Maurifer and a distinguished cast of English actors are featured in this outstanding English production, which was produced by the well-known London actor-manager, Mr Basil Dean, for Radio Pictures. ‘ Birth of a Nation ’ is being revived with synchronised sound effects in America, and man}' pioneer screen play • ers are sebn. Tho cast includes such names as Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mae Marsh, Wallace _ Reid, Spottiswoodo Aiken, Ralph Lewis, Lillian Gish, Mary Alden, Walter Huston, Walter Long, Robert Harron, and Raoul Walsh.. A 1 Jolson is tho first big American star to go to Germany to mako_ an alltalking and singing picture entirely in the German language. _ Ho expects to return to Hollywood in November to start on ‘ Sons o’ Guns,’ in winch Lily Damifa will play the feminine lead. Sixteen hundred “extras” were recently selected for work on a war-time comedy. Selection of tho players gave Ilex Jiailey, casting director, one of the hardest tasks_ of his career because of Ihe qualifications required. Five hundred of them had to be men with army experience, 200 of them cavalrymen, and another 100 are made up of machine gunners, officers and men versed in the technicalities of war. The remainder were selected for French; types to people a section of Paris. It is estimated that the pay roll for those players will exceed £15,000. Matheson Lang, well-known stage player, is reported to have received £5.000 for eight necks’ work in Iris first British talkie, ‘ Tho Chinese Bungalow.’ Which goes to show that all the big film money is not made in America.