Bernard Shaw Visits Studio

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 189, 12 August 1936, Page 11

Bernard Shaw Visits Studio

“Tlie Marriage of Corbal,” C. M. Woolf '3 new release, is a tale of love and adventure set in the background of the French Bevolution, and this stirring story centres in the romance between two young aristocrats overshadowed by the grim persecution of their class by the blood-maddened Sanseullottes and their fanatical leaders. During the making of this film, the set was paid a visit by George Bernard Shaw, who stayed for over two hour. looking around. The old-young man displayed all that amazing activity of mind for which he is so famous. Asked whether lie went to see films he exploded typically, “Sec films! What jo you think! Tho whole future of dramatic art is bound up in them.'’ He alsp talked to the leading actors, Nils Asther, Hugh Sinclair, Noah Beery and especially to the cighteen-year-old leading lady, Hazel Terry (great-niece of the immortal Ellen) to whom he told several stories about other members of the Terry family whom ho had met in his vide experience of the British stage. Hugh Sinclair, who plays the role of the Marquis of Corbal you will remember as the likeable hero who starred opposite Elizabeth Bergner in “Escape Me Never. ” Among tho extras playing in tho film is Miss Victoria Nelson who is actually a relativo of tho great Admiral himself and who is tho oldest active player in British films, being in 4er 90th. year.