NEXT YEAR’S FILMS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 275, 3 November 1933, Page 6

NEXT YEAR’S FILMS

MB MOODABE’S BOOKING. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN. Tho complete output of films from the Gaumont and Gainsborough studios in England aud the Fox studios in Hollywood has been booked by Mr M. J. Moodabe for screening in tho picture theatres throughout New Zealand controlled by Amalgamated Theatres, Limited. Mr Moodabe, who returned from Sydney by the Monowai on Tuesday, said ho was more than pleased with his film booking for next year. “Tho new contract ensures a plentiful supply of first-class films for all our theatres,” Mr Moodabe said. “From the Fox studios wo shall have pictures starring Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Lilian Harvey, John Boles, Will Rogers, Herbert Mundin and Clara Bow, to mention only a few. In tho English films there will be such famed artists as Jessie Matthews, Jack Hulbert, Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Cicely

Courtneidge, Edward Everett Horton, Leslie Henson, Madeline Carroll and Evelyn Laye.” There would be several outstanding musical productions, notably the “Fox Movietone Follies,” in which almost every star of the Fox studios would appear: “Music in the Air,” a screen version of the musical play which had run for lengthy seasons in New York, London and Sydney; and “My Weakness,” with Lilian Harvey; “Kiss and Forget,” with Henry Garat; and “I Am a Widow,” a musical farce with John Boles in a fine singing role. In the field of drama there would be “Tho World Moves On,” with an all-star cast; “Little Man, What Now?” based on a highly successful novel; and “Pilgrimage,” the powerful story of motherhood by I. A, E. Wylie, Prominent in the list of films from the British studios were “The Good Companions,” starring Jessie Matthews; “Soldiers of tho King,” with Cicely Courtneidge and Edward Everett Horton; “Waltz Time,” featuring Evelyn Laye, a film transcription of

tlio Johann Strauss opera; “King of the Ritz,’’ in which Stanley Lupino and Betty Stockficld are starred; “Happy Ever After,” with Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, and Lilian Harvey; “Magnolia Street.” based on Lois Golding’s brilliant novel of Jew and Gentile; “Brown on Resolution,” described as an “epic of naval heroism”; “Jew Suss,” with Conrad Veidt in tlio leading role; “Evergreen,” the C. B. Cochran success, with Jessie Matthews in the lead; “A Cuckoo in the Nest,” “A Cup of Kindness,” “Turkey Timo” and possibly, “A Bit of a Test,” by the WallsLynn combination; “I Was a Spy.” with Madeline Carroll, Herbert Marshall and Conrad Veidt in the leading roles, and Edmund Gwenn and Sir Gerald du Maurier in the supporting cast; and “Men Without Work,” a drama on the tragedy of unemployment. Jack Hulbert would appear in “Falling For You,” w'ith Lilian Harvey, and in “Jack Ahoy!” A film of widespread interest would be “Wings Over Everest,” depicting the deeds of the recent Houston aerial expedition.