No More, Thanks!

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 123, 26 May 1937, Page 11

No More, Thanks!

Don’t mention bouillabaisse to Leo Carrillo. It used to be ono of the actor’s favourite dishes, but it isn’t any more. Ho lhad to eat six big bowls of French fish stew for a scene in Walter Wanger’s “History is Made at Night,” which stars Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur. Carrillo smacked his lips at the end of hhe first take and beamed at the director for providing real bouillabaisse from a Hollywood cafe. Five takc3 late ho was goaning. “What stopped me,” Carrillo said, “was the fact that they started tho scene after lunch. 1 had just gotten away with dish of it on tho boulevard before I came back to work.” "History is Made at Night” is released through United Artists.

Mr. Lloyd Hughes, well-known American movie star will arrive in Auckland by the "Aorangl” on June 1 accompanied by his wife. Mr Hughes is on his way to Australia where ho is going to play tho male lead in Australia’s new film "Lovers and Luggers” adapted from the book by Gurney Slade. Opposite Lloyd Hughes, a wellknown New Zealand girl, Elaine Hamill, takes tho feminino lead. Miss Hamill is at present in Australia, and as soon as Lloyd Hughes arrives location will commence-

about her contract. "It hardly seems possible that this wonderful chance is really mine,” she said, "I am deeply grateful to Mr Stuart Doyle and Mr Hall for tlieir great faith in me, and 1 only hope I can justify it by steady improvement in my work.” George Cross—casting director fur Ciriesound Productions, also adds his praise for Australia's new film star: "I admire the way Shirley Ann Richards worked for six months in our talent school to fit herself for a part. And in "It Isn’t Done” the public will see the splendid result of the hard training that has enabled his lovely girl confidently to portray a leading role in a cast which includes sucli famous stage and screen stars as Cecil Kellawav, Frank Harvey, John Longden, Harvey Adams, Campbell Copelin, Nellie Ferguson, Leslie Victor, Sylvia Kellawav, and llarold Meade.’ *

In line with the current popularity of “Community Sing” programmes on the radio, Sam Sax, production head of the Warner Bros. Yitaphone studios, announces a scries of thirteen one-reel shorts to bo produced by Yitaphone based on this popular form of entertainment. The film will be supervised by Leo Edwards, well-known song writer. The first of the series, entitled "Horse and Buggy Days,” will enter production shortly at tho Flatbnsh studios under tho direction of Key Mack.