PARS ABOUT THE STARS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 6 March 1935, Page 10

PARS ABOUT THE STARS

Director Harry Bachman is using more thafn fpfciy (different sets for “Dante’s Inferno,” the Fox picture with Spencer Tracy as princal. 4 w. . *• - * * .. Maurice Chevalier has ckoseh the ten most fascinating women in the Avorld. Slight of them are film stars: Kay Francis, Marlene Dietrich, Merle Oberan, Greta Garbo, Anna fcrten, Clara Bow,-Loretta'-Young and Annabella. v • * . *• * * Fully £150,C00 has already been spent on preliminaries for Warners’ “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” .The figures were revealed when producer Reinhardt successfully fought against an injunction for him to produce an operetta .in London. • % • * •' Liam O’Flalierty’s novel, “The. Informer” has been bought by Radio, and John Ford will direct. A picture qf the same book was made by 8..1.P. during the talkie cliange-over, jvith Lars "Hanson- and Lya de 1-utti as principals. ; - '

The N.R.A- official investigating Hollywood 1 working conditions announces that only 1.6 per cent, of the money paid over the. box-office counters goes to the actors in tho picture. And 80 per cent, of the actors in Hollywood make only a bare existence.

More than 500 " titian-tressed girls ate being rounded up for atmospheric roles in' “Redheads on Parade.” The cast will‘include Irene Franklin) Chic Sale, Anne Nagel, Douglas Dumbrille, Herman Bing and Jane Withers, new eight-year-old discovery.

Richard Bdnclli, one of the world’s outstanding operatic baritones, has a role with Elissa Landi in Paramount’s “Enter, Madame,” which marks his embarkation on feature-length motion pictures. Bonelli and Miss Landi, who trained for an operatic career before she became an actress, sing in the second act of “Tosca.” Miss Landi plays the role of an Italian opera star in. the film, and several scenes of her at work on the stage are included. « >* * * *

j Hidden hopes and. secret hates are revealed in the life of a- group of in- ; dividuals in Radio’s “Dangerous | Corner, ” written originally by. J. B'Priestley as a successful stage play. A bond/ theft among four partners, a death, supposedly a suicide, a lapse of time iii which the sleeping dog-, as Truth, lies undisturbed—and theft revelations. Virginia Bruce, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Nagel, Erin O'BrienMoore and Betty Furness are in: the cast. . .

A picture based on the life andlpvcs of Mozart is to be made by BasiLiD.cau at. Ealing* London. The been written by Margaret Kennedy, authoress of “The Constant Nymph" and “.Escape Me Never." Scenes are to be . filmed in Salzburg, and- much of Mozart’s music will be introduced in the sound recording of the production. . . , • r