AMERICAN SUCCESSES

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 25 July 1935, Page 8

AMERICAN SUCCESSES

ROLES FOR ENGLISH STARS SEQUEL TO “HENRY VIII” | Alexander Korda’s.'flair for picking talent is supported in a remarkable way j,ust, now by the judgment of Hollywood. All five of the wives seen in The Private Life of Henry VIII.” are, or lately have been, appearing as principals itr American pictures with the exception of Catherine of Aragon, who was dropped’ with a cynical note to- the effect that as a virtuous woman she was uninteresting.

Merle Oberon (Ann Boleyn) played opposite Maurice Chevalier in “The Man from the Folics Bergere,” and has started work in “The, Dark Angel,” opposite Herbert Marshall. Binnie Barnes (Catherine Howard) has- done two American pictures—- ‘ ‘There’s- Always To-morrow” and “One Exciting ■ Adventure,”, and is making a third, “Diamond Jim Brady,” in. .Which ■ Ldwafd Arnold plays the Broadway celebrity of that name. Elsa Lanchester, who made such an amusing Anne of Cleves, had supporting roles in “David’ Copperfield” and “Naughty Marietta,” and is now playing the title role in “The Bride of Frankenstein,” a sequel to the horrific ‘ ‘ Frankenstein.”

Wendy Barrie (Jane Seymour) is being starred in “It’s a Small World,” and Everley Gregg (the prim Katharine Parr of “Henry VIII.*) plays opposite Noel Coward in “The Scoundrel,” the Long Island production by 'the- makers of “Crime Without Passion,” in which the actor-dramatist makes liis film debut.