SCREENLAND JOTTINGS

Evening Star, Issue 21079, 16 April 1932, Page 6

SCREENLAND JOTTINGS

A survey of 2,450 Hollywood extra girls made by Fred Datig, casting director, revealed that red heads have practically disappeared, and that blondes outnumber brunettes almost two to one. *« • * • It has been decided to reissue ‘ The Ten Commandments ’ with the modern sequences of the picture remade with dialogue and a new east. The rest of the picture is to carry music and sound effects. * « • • Doris Kenyon Sills, the brilliant blonde beauty of silont films, is beginning cinema -work on a grand scale once more. In between pictures she will finish her concert tour.

Norma Talmadge, the film star, is to seek a divorce in Paris from her husband, Joseph Schenck, the film magnate. Her reason is that her husband’s time is becoming more and more occupied by business affairs. She denied that she has any intention of remarrying.

. Gertrude Lawrence, London’s most brilliant revue and stage star, is now engaged at Elstreo, starring in Frederick Lonsdale’s satirical ‘ Aren’t We All ?’ Miss Lawrence heads one of the finest casts ever assembled for a British picture, including Owen Naves, Hugh Wakefield, Harold Huth, and Marie Lohr.

Tala Birell, the exotic Viennese stage star, who has just_ made her American film debut In Universal production ‘ Mountains in Flame,’ is to be starred by that, studio in Zola’s ‘ Nana,’ which will enter production in May. Miss Birell, Universal believes, is one of the most distinctive and versatile dramatic artistes brought to America from the Continent to date.

Mr Douglas Fairbanks, the celebrated him star, was a passenger on the 11.M.5. Makura from San Francisco to Papeete, the port of Tahiti. Mr Fairbanks’s party included W. Farnham, the actor; Mr Rose, manager; and Messrs H. Ham and E. Sutherland, directors. No information was given by the him people as to what they would do in Tahiti, but it is understood that a new him is being made. It is expected that Mr Fairbanks will be on the island about three months.

Estelle Taylor, beautiful dark-eyed screen and stage actress, the former wife of Jack Dempsey, ex-heavy-weight champion, hinted at a new romance in her life to a San Francisco ‘Bulletin ’ representative. “ He’s a Chicago man,” declared Miss Taylor in an exclusive interview. “ Hd’s good-lookiiig and everything. His name? Well, that’s my own little secret right now, but I’ll tell you this: he’s very nice and he sends several telegrams and letters to me here in Hollywood every day.” ♦ * * «

Tom Mix, the famous cowboy film actor, who is 50, was married at Los Angeles last month to a circus trapeze artist, Mabel Hubbell. The bride, who is known in the sawdust ring as Mabel Ward, is a performer of great daring. This is Mr Mix’s fifth marriage. He went to Europe in 1925 with his little daughter Thomasina and Tony, his famous horse, which he rode down the ship’s gangway at Southampton when landing. Recently he underwent an operation for appendicitis, when his life was saved by a special serum, which was rushed by aeroplane to his sick bed.

The picturisation of St. John Ervine’s stage success 1 The First Mrs Fraser ’ has recently gone into production at Elstree under the guiding hand of director Sinclair Hill. Although 1 The First Mrs Fraser ’ skyrocketed its author to fame and was the subject of much bidding before it went to the English producing organisation, its most outstanding feature as a talkie is expected to lie in its huge and prominent cast. Henry Ainley has been signed to make his film debut in the part that he made famous on the stage. It will be a British Dominions production.