PARS ABOUT THE STARS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 16 August 1934, Page 8

PARS ABOUT THE STARS

Edmund Lowe 'has come out of retirement si pee the untimely death or his wife, Lilyan Ta simian. ’‘ ' . * Jilda Keeling, who won a Television Contest” "in 1930, is in tnq cast of Cleopatra. , v * =*= ■ * • H. B. Warner makes His’ debut in British films in ‘Sorrell and Son,” . the silent version of . which brought huff so prominently before the picture going I>ublic » »; . Winifred Shorter is back in London with a healthy tan on her- face _ and. the sign of recent mosquito bites on her wrist. She has been to West Africa to see her army officer husband. ■ - * • * • ■* ' Ralph Lynn, who'recently. won-rtfre screen star popularity contest in Aimtralia will .shortly be seen' iff. .Tp to the .'Neck.” Winifred Shorter: gpd Mary ’Brough are with hint.., •... V~ " ‘ * ■* *.. r> . Jack Buchanan, with the opening of ; T'hcitr > fv a Good Girlthe Leicester* Square - Theatre, achieved .the . • Bat Trick.” He exhibited, directed , .and starred in the picture. * ; * * * rf: Eddie Cantor's new seasons' 5 -mhsical comedy production for Samuel jGbldwyn hos been temporarily entitled “The Treasure Hunt.” Ethel Merinan, hdtjqd stage, screen and radio star; lia% been signed for a featured role in, tile ture. Ann Sotlieni is another feature plaver. -Despite, the excitement she, enctufqa in'.most of her pictures. Fay Wx&yk.pp the “set"’’ i.s-..never.excited .or-tempera-mental. When not, rehearsing v f or studying dialogue. •' she spends,-..-hpr time- making tapestries .for. Her: Home, or, sketching her fellow actors in charcoal. Sometimes they recognise-theni-selves in her portraits, but they are always polite about it.' becausce she is ones of. tlio best-liked girls in Hollywood. Fav Wray, who plays- the leading feminine role, in “The Bowery ”■ in which Wallace Beerv, George! Rbfu and Jackie Cooper are starred,-, fiaq born in Alberta, Canada. , . , • •Jf * •■ * * . " " .* • Morose Stan Laurel, the . tropblemaker of the famous film comedy, team of Laurel apd -Hardy, has announced his sebreb-marriage ,to a Mrs. Ruth Rogers in Mexico. Stan says they .wiH, not live together-until his-divorce - front Mrs Louise Laurel becomes 'final. " Tlite.ai they will arrange to have anotherihiarriage ceremony: Stanley is in Englishman by birth, his arrival, into ‘this world some 1 89 -years ago having, put Ulvorston, Lancashire, definitely bn Hie map. Lugubrious Oliver Hardy, however is a native of New Rork-

Noyel inspirations. , The breeze' from' a. fan, a. randuhi thought while trying to gb to sleep, at night and ’a piece of conversation overheard in a- 'barber shop were ±hte ! novel inspirations for some of the song, numbers' written by Mack Gordon. and Harry Bevel for Paramount’s- “Sitting Pretty,” which will show'at the Grand Theatre next Saturday. The picture,, featuring Jack-’ Oakie, Jack Haley,. Ginger Rogers, Thelma/ Todd, Gregory'; R-atoff and Irew : .podyi contains many- numbers written by this famous pair. ■ ■ .v A “You’re Suck a Comfoit .to'Me, 3 ’ ai song done by Jack O’akie, Jack Haley* and Ginger--Rogers, was inspired.- by the comfort of an electric fan oh'a hot day, according to the song “Good Morning, Glory” was writ? ten at 3 a.'m-;; Mack Gordon /was ly.ihg in bed at 2.30 .trying to go to sleep, when lie got the idea. He .leaped upt telephoned Revel at the other epd : of Hollywood and then drove, across, town.By 3.30 a.m. the song was finished. ‘'‘Many Moons Ago,” another of. the songs dh the picture was suggested byi a conversation heard in a barber shop. Before the barber finished-.'shaving him, Gordon had completed theJyricS,