PARS ABOUT THE STARS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 28 June 1934, Page 8

PARS ABOUT THE STARS

Robert Young has been lent to Fox Film studio by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the leading role opposite Helen Twelvetrees in the screen version of “She Was a Lady.’’ * * * » • George White, whose first motion picture, entitled “George White’s Scandals,” is to be seen here shortly, produced his first “Scandals” in New York fifteen years ago and since then has produced one each year. * * • p “Cockeyed Cavaliers,” an RKO Radio musical comedy, starring “Wheeler and Woolsey, is scheduled for early release in New Zealand. * * * * • Gus McNaughton has a leading role in “Seeing is Relieving,” now in production. Vera Rogetti, a newcomer to the screen, inlays .opposite him, and the pair are said to team wonderfully well in comedy. * * Ivor Novello has completed his starring picture “I Lived With You.” He plays the part of a Russian prince who is befriended by a cockney family. *#•' * • # The Loch Ness monster will actually be seen in the film, “The Secret of the Loch.” ***** Nancy Stair ndll be a starring vehicle for Norma Shearer, according to an announcement by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. * * * * * Charlie Chaplin, who has just- celebrated his 45th birthday, is again reported to be starting his long-delayed new comedy. ***** Wendy Barrie is to be Clifford Malison’s leading lady in “Freedom of the Seas,” a 8.1. P. version of the play by “Walter Hackett. ° • ■ * •* * * Norma Shearer’s work in “Smilin’ Through” has been voted the best acting performance of 1933 bv readers of the London ' “Picturegoer,” and Miss Shearer will be awarded the gold medal given annually by that periodical for the most distinctive screen-acting achievement. . * * * * * A new musical is being produced on a lavish scale, and will feature Sidney Fox, Polly Moran, Ned Sparks and Sidney Blackmer. It is “Down To Their Last Yacht,” a farce dealing with the newly-poor of the depression and produced by RKO Radio Pictures.

Youngest and Eldest. Paramount’® youngest and eldest players appear in “Hell and High Water,” which will screen at the Grand Theatre on Saturday and Monday, in which Richard Arlen, Judith Allen and Charley Grapewin are tured. The players are Charles Ivnett.les sixteen-month-old youngster, who recently was added to the Paramount contract list, and Sir Guy Standing, veteran of the English and American stage. '

• Root Gibson, the •amous cowboy of countless* "Westerns, is to make, a film at Teddington, the tentative title of which is “The Cowboy in London.”

As the .picture will include the chaiacter of Christ, it will not be shown in any cinema theatre in Britain. Tite person of Christ is one of the most rigid of bans on films laid down iby the British Board of Film Censors

This happened seven years ago in the case, of “The King of Kings,” the silent film made by Cecil B. do 'Mule in Hollywood, with H. B. Warner in the titie-rcne. Tt was shown in public halls all over Britain, hut only in cinemas on Sundays in a few instances, under most rigid conditions, including a ban on all other films in the same programme. “The King of Kings” was shown throughout 'New Zealand in cinema houses without restriction, and proved one of the big films of the year, judged by box-office attendances. It was reissued two years ago, and once more proved its popularity.