The SCREEN and its STARS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11833, 14 January 1933, Page 11

The SCREEN and its STARS

REGENT THEATRE

To-day, 2 p.m., •5 p.m., and 8 p.m. aml Monday,—'‘Faithless’ ’—Melodrama, starring "Robert Montgomery and Tallulah Bankhead. Tuesday and ‘Wednesday—“Misleading Lady.”—Comedy, starring Claudetto Colbert and Edmund Lowe. Thursday and Friday—“ To-morrow and To-morrow”—Drama, starring 11 nth Chattcrton.

' MAJESTIC THE A THE To-day, 2 p.m. and S p.m.-A-'‘Shadow Between”—-lira in a, featuring Godfrey Tearle and Kathleen O’.Regan. loud ay and Tues.—“ Crowd I’ oars , —Racing melodrama featuring Jaine? Cagney and Ann Dvorak. Wednesday and Friday—‘‘Air Mail- — Melodrama, .featuring Gloria Stuart, Pat O'Brien and Ralph Bellamy. HOLLYWOOD'S NEW POOH. Air. Edmund Coulding. an English director of moving pictures, alter a. visit to Hollywood, said in. an interview with a representative <>i the ‘•Daily Mail": ‘The most extraordinary poor in the world are tlm poor of Hollywood. ft is essential to thoii profession that they should starve in splendour. Their poverty must he hidden behind the gay clothes and the gay smiles of their calling. A ithout proper food and without pi ope l sleep they must he able to walk and talk brightly: they must fit themselves into nnv one of a hundred moods. To help these people. Airs. Abe Lehr, whose husband is general manager to Air. Samuel Goldwyn. has formed a League of Assistance, whose member s go in search of the secret poor. Often thp people who are helped in this way do not know that Airs. Lehr and her friends have searched them out. Every director in Hollywood cooperates with Airs. Lehr, and t'o: director marks these names on Ids Pst of extras with an X to remind him that they are necessitous cases. DECLINES STAHDOAI. Hollywood was given a surprise bv the unusual spectacle of an actor rejecting stardom when Stuart Erwin declined the reward sought by thousands of film players. Erwin asked officials of the Painmount studios, where he is under contract as a featured player, not to cnrrv out their announced intention of starring him in Ms next picture. Decision to elevate Erwin to stellar rank came as a result of his poriorman.ee in “Alako Ale a >tar. a i event ly-completed fdm. in which he is featured with Joan Blundell as a

TOOvie-struek fan seeking stardom in Hollywood. Erwin explained that lie does not feel ready to assume the responsibilities of stardom.

“There is a wide gap between the work of a featured player and a star.” he said. “Tll my opinion, it is a gap too wide to be spanned in one jump. I would prefer to achieve stardom, if that is my destiny, through a series of progressive step-. It’s a lot safer and surer that way. ■ SHAM MAY YTSIT U.S.A. George Bernard Shaw may visit America this winter, according to Francis Yeats-Brown, the English novelist who is now in Hollywood to watch the filming of his novel. “The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.” Yeats-Brown thinks the noted playwright will extend his long-planned trip to Japan hy hooking passage to the Pacific Coast, and. in Shaw’s own words, “avoid all the fuss hy sneaking into America through the backdoor.” “When I talked to Shaw just before coining to this country. I reminded him,-’’ Yeats-Brown said, .“of his oftquoted declaration that he would not visit America for a million dollars, or five million, and he replied to the effect that he might weaken if someone offered him the latter amount. It’s. foolhardy to say definitely, however, what Shaw will do. for he has the .neat trick of being able to talk ituently on any subject, yet keep his tongue in his check.” Yeats-Brown, who has known G.B.S. since the war, said that contrary to the ■ usual belief, he is a very easy man with whom to become intimately acquainted. “I know half a hundred writers who made his acquaintance as X dicl,” he said, “by going to him for a statement on some question, then, coming hack later for a personal visit. Often, in my newspaper work, I have written him n note about some public matter, and always lie has replied hy return mail —ineidentallv, using a postal card.”

NOTES AND NEWS

“Arms and the Alan,” the first full-length Bernard Shaw picture, has recently completed a. successful run at the* Regal Theatre, Marine Arch, London. Filmgoers were quick to seize, the opportunity of seeing this witty Shaw film, and, it is anticipated, “Arms and the Man’’ will continue to, draw, not only Shaw’s legion of followers, hut the anti - Shawit.es; who are prejudiced.

Tallulah Bankhead, star of "Devil - and the Deep,” is the daughter of. a. United States Congressman, the niece of a Senator and the granddaughter of a Senator. Her father taught her many roles from the plays of Shakespeare; .and used to play Borneo to her Juliet, Hamlet to her Ophelia and other selections from the plays o E the famous hard. She hecam ean actress years before she went on the stage,

(By the Movie Fan).

.Boris Karloff, in the fearsome make up of "Fu Manehu’'’ at the AL-G.-AL studios, reported on the sot to do his big surgery scene, and was promptly handed a surgeon s apron and gauze mask for it. “Well,” exclaimed Karloff, “this is the height of something or other. Two hours to put on a make-up—then you cover it with a mask!”

In “Sherlock Holmes,” the great detective, portrayed by Clive Brook, accomplishes the end oi alien ci iminnl rule in England and evens the score with lu’s ancient enemy Aforiarty. While the character of “Sher lock Holmes” is preserved the stem prepared for the screen hy Bertram iMilhaused is new. 1f K bused <>n 01l<? of Conan Doyle's most Lm-mating tales and William K. Howard, who directed the picture, is said to have given Hie production both speed and polish, making Holmes a whimsical and ironical personality. Miriam Jordan, an English actress of note, plays the character of Alice Faulkner in ‘•‘Sherlock Holmes.”

The gaiety and glamour of night el nils with their wild hilarious festivities. form the settings for Crooner.' 1 eo-fenturing David Manners and Ann Dvorak. Several gay and glittering night cluhs. including Golden Slipper.’ are shown in the picture. patterned after the famous cafes of Broadway. The story, which i- I,\- Rian James, pokes unrestrained fun at the famous crooners who are so overwhelmed at their sudden i iso to success that they become unbearahle in all. Also appearing in the r ..,si are such well known pi a vers as Ken Murray. Sheila Tovrv. A\ dliam .Tanner and Eddie Nugent.

Kav Francis wa> the busiest na l ' m the studios, for a tew weeks during the American spring—and the happiest. On a Tuesday night MBs Francis completed the role of Nathalie Upton in '‘Street oi "Women. At clove a o clock the next niononit, she had left the character of the New York designer of women's gowns behind her, and walked on to the set representing Vienna s most exclusive jewellery store as the diamond-mad Baroness Tori in “'Jewel Robbery.

'William Rowell is co-starred with MKs Francis in the production, and they are supported. by Helen A iuson, Alan Mowbray. Bardie Albright and Andre Lugnet.

One of the most elaborate military spectacles ever staged, and which will never again be seen in its original lavishness. will figure m the making of '•Rasputin.'' with John. Ethel and Lionel Barrymore. After elaborate search, a piece of official Russian army film, showing the huge review of the army before the Czar in lb 12 was located in an obscure vault, f rom this the great spectacle will he recreated. The original id in. treated with a special laboratory process, was given the effectiveness of modern film and “reprinted” through a special camera. An elaborate ‘iniei cutting'’ with nil actual battalion made-up and dressed to match the original will lie filmed m action to be rehearsed from the original authentic film. An elaborate cast appeal’s in the dramatic play of the fall of the Romanoffs, in which the .Barrymores play together for the first- time in the history of the screen.

The silent film classic. “.I he Hag Lieutenant.” re-made and modernised as a “talkie.’’ has now boon completed at Elstreo. “The Flag Lieutenant” was first produced as a play in inns, when it ran. for 4(10 performances and was honoured by a command performance. Shortly after the wa' it was made as a silent film. This was a phenomenal success in Australia and New Zealand, and owing to the way in which it was greeted throughout the world. this latest talkie edition appears to have ready made audiences who are hut waiting for the film’s release. There has been a quality of entertainment in all the versions of '‘The, Flag Lieutenant.’' which places it as a classic of ili o English contemporary screen. Anna Neagle, the beautiful star who made her debut in the Jack Buchanan opus. “Good Night, Viennaoccupies the feminine lead, while Peter Hawthorn, well-known out here, and Sybil Groves occupy the main supporting roles. * * * When. Ralph Bellamy first entered Hollywood lie paid 25 cents to get in and have a glimpse of a company making an early “flicker.” That was in 1915. Seventeen years later he came hack again. But this time the pay—considerably more than a “quarter” —came Bellamy’s way, and in stead of watching pictures being made he made them himself. It was, to play the leading role in “AirMail,” a drama of the airmail services. Handsome Gloria Stuart, Pat O’Brien. Lilian Bond, Russell Hopton and Slim Summerville head a large east of players in “Airmail”, which is to he shown at the Majestic next week. Ralph Bellamy has already shown us his talent in important roles in “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Harm” and “Salomv Jane,” with Marian Nixon and Joan Bennett respectively.