SCREENLAND JOTTINGS

Evening Star, Issue 20688, 10 January 1931, Page 18

SCREENLAND JOTTINGS

*- Jack Oakic, the freckle-faced Paramount comedian, ran away from home to enter tho pictures. Ho was educated for the church. . . . - Tho English actress, Lilian Harvey, is now the loading film star of Germany. Although she was born in London she possesses a perfect knowledge of German, and plays the principal parts in German and bi-lingual productions. Fill Dorsay will shortly begin work as a featured player in ‘ Charlie Chan Carries On,’ a Fox film adaption from a novel bv Earl Dorr Diggers. Charles*llogers and his mother arc at present taking a holiday in Europe. This is Rogers’s first visit abroad since his university days, when he went to Spain as one of a party of college youths which went as grooms to a shiplead of Kansas mules. Phillips Holmes, who appeared opposite Nancy Carroll in ‘The Devil’s Holiday,’ will bo with tho star again m ‘ Stolen Heaven,’ Miss Carroll’s latest Paramount production. Jt is adapted from an original story by Dana Barnett and was previously known as ‘ Two Against Death.’ The First National and Vitaphone production. ‘ Bright Lights,’ presents Dorothy Mackaill for the first time as a star of the first magnitude. ,‘ Bright Lights,’ which is filmed entirely in technicolour, is a story of, the stage, its loves and its hates, and is composed of a stellar casu including Frank Fay, Noah Beery, Inez Courtney, Eddie Nugent, and many others. Erich Von Stroheim has had a real homecoming celebration at Universal City. Sixteen years ago he went to America from Austria as an emigrant with ambition but no definite plan. In 1917 Carl Laemmle gave him a leading role in a war play, ‘ The Heart of Humanity,’ and Von Stroheim became 1 tho man you love to hate.’ Laemmle also gave the actor his first opportunity to write and direct a picture and gave him £300,000 to spend on His second film drama, ‘ Foolish Wives,’ a sensation of tho period. After “ free-lanc-ing ” as a director, and recently as an actor, Von Stroheim is back at Universal City following a trip to Europe, and will soon begin work on an original story, ‘ Blind Husbands.’ Columbia’s drama of dance-hall life, which will servo as tho first starring picture for Barbara Stanwyck under her new contract, following on ‘ Ladies of Leisure,’ has added to its cast Sally Blane and Monroe Owsley. Lionel Barrymore is directing, with Ricardo Cortez in the leading male role. , Sally Blane made her screen debut in the ‘ Collegians ’ series. Among her recent pictures are ‘ Tanned Legs,’ ‘ The Very Idea,’ ‘ Vagabond Lover,’ and ‘ Little Accident.’ Owsley has to his credit outstanding roles in numerous stage successes, and ‘ Holiday,’ his first picture, proved so successful for him that he was awarded his present role.