TIBBETT FOR SCREEN

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 230, 14 September 1935, Page 14

TIBBETT FOR SCREEN

Scheduled Productions Lawrence Tibbett, the well-knowi baritone, who has been rivalled recently by Nelson Eddy, will be returning tc the screen in the near future. The name of the picture will he “Metropoli tan.” He will sing such famous ariai as “Toreador,” from “Carmen” “Road to Mandalay”; the Prologue and “Vesti La Giubba’’ from “1 Pag liacci” ; ami “The Barber of Seville. “Metropolitan” will be one of the first eight productions scheduled by Twentieth Century-Fox Films for next season. The other productions are;— “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo,” starting Ronald Colman; “Sing, Governor, Sing,” featuring Pau] Whiteman and his orchestra, Rubinoff and his violin, the Yacht Club Boys, Ann Dvorak and Phil Baker; “Message to Garcia,” based on the story by Elbert Hubbard and the book by General Rowan, the man who carried the message to Garcia; “Earthbound,” by Basil King; “Snatched,” by Kubee Glassman, who wrote “The Public Enemy,” “Shark Island,” based on th e life of Dr. Samuel Mudd, the man who innocently aided John Wilkes Booth the night Booth killed President Lincoln. Mudd was sacrificed on the altar of mob rule, but just recently President Roosevelt dedicated Shark Island to his memory and renamed it “Shark Island.” The casting of the last three has not yet been completed.

“The Raven” is the film version of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous melancholy poem, which has been transferred to the screen by Karloff and Lugosi. The ingenious death-dealing devices described in his “The Pit and the Pendulum” are improved on in modern scientific appliances by Lugosi, who plays the part of a half-mad scientist practising inquisition methods in his underground torture chambers in the basement of his modern mansion right in the middle of the twentieth century. Karloff is rendered his unwilling slave.