Unusual Title

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 12 September 1935, Page 8

Unusual Title

The title of Charles Chaplin’s new film, which has heen an production more than a year, and which, so far, has been referred to as i ‘Production No. 5,” , was announced recently. It is “Charlie Chaplin in Modem Times.” Never ■before has a player’s name been included -in the title of a film, and this -is -the first occasion on which Ch-aplin has officially identified hints elf, with the chief character of his* story..- ' ’ 'V '■ y

in the Far East for a number of years. Miss Barrie last visited the colony in 1929. Wendy Barrie will be remembered for her portrayal of Jane Seymour in “The Private Life of Henry VIII.” Since, thetr she has appeared in a nuni : ber of British-pictures, one of‘the most recent being “The House of Trent,” in which she played opposite the popular English actor, John Stuart. “There Goes Susie”’will screen at the Grand Theatre to-night and to-mprrow. William Powell. William Powell, who plays Ned Riley in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, “ Jipckl.ess,” screening at the Opera House next Thursday and Friday, was Born in Pittsburgh, July 29, and Vyas- educated in Kansas City. After high school, he-studied drama at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and began his stage career in “The.. Ne’er Do Well.” After numerous stage plays, he made liis first picture appearance -with John Barrymore in “Sherlock Holmes.” He became a Metro-GoldWyn'-Mayer* star a year ago and has since been seen in such hits as “Manhattan Melodrama,” “The Thin Man” and “Evelyn Prentice.”