SELECTING TALENT

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

SELECTING TALENT

ALEXANDER KORDA’S FLAIR WIVES OP “HE-NRY VIII” Alexander Ivorda’s flair for picking talent is being supported in a remarkable way by the judgment, of Hollywood. All. live of the wives seen in “The Private Life of Henry VIII.” are, or lately have been, appearing as principals in 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 Obcron (Ann Boleyn) played opposite Maurice Chevalier in “The Man from the Folios Bergere,” and has started work in “The Dark Angel,’ opposite Herbert Marshall. Biunie Barnes (Catherine Howard)

• •(ItlllllllSlllllll'llllM**mill mill lias done two American pictures—- “ There’s Always To-morrow,” and “One Exciting Adventure,” and is making a third; “Diamond Jim Brally,” in which Edward Arnold plays the Broadway celebrity of that namo. Elsa Lanchester, who made such an amusing Anne of Cleves, had supporting roles in “David Co.pperfield” and “Naught}" Marietta,” and is now playing the title role in “The Bride of Frankenstein,” a secpiel to “Frankenstein.” Wendy Barrie (Jane Seymour) is being starred in “It’s a Small World,”

and Everlcy Gregg (the prim Katharine Parr of “Henry VIIL”) plays opposite Noel Coward in “The Scoundrel,” the Long Island production by the makers of “Crime Without Passion,” in which the actor-dramatist makes his film debut.