“The Golden Arrow” Lavishly Appointed

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 39, 16 February 1938, Page 11

“The Golden Arrow” Lavishly Appointed

BETTE DAVIS AND GEORGE BRENT FEATURED (Meteor: Screening soon.) One of the most lavishly appointed pictures both as to costumes and settings will he disclosed with the showing of “The Golden. Arrow,” a first National production with Bette Davis in the stellar role and George Brent as the leading man. The play, by the famous English dramatist, Michael Arlen, is, perhaps the most richly mounted society play to date, and First National is said to have spared no effort in making the picture conform to all the gorgeousness of the comedy drama. Many of the scenes in the picture are laid aboard a yacht. It is aboard this boat that Brent, as a newspaper reporter, mcels Miss Davis, “the richest girl in thj world.” George is the only poor man in the picture, except the several hundred servants employed in the various haunts cf the wealthy. It is not the usual story of a poor boy falling iu love with a rich girl and suffering because he cannot marry her. He doesn’t want to marry her. lie wants to get away from her.

The second apartment setting used in the picture is a 1-1 room affair that seems to exhaust the interior decorator’s entire bag of tricks. It is said to be the most gorgeous interior ever used for a picture. Arthur Edeson, the wellknown cameraman who has been filming big features from “Robin Hood” to

“Mutiny on the Bounty,” and “Ceiling Zero,” said that in all his experience he had never photographed interiors as beautiful or impressive. The Cafe Dunsant scenes are just as elaborate. The big dining place is 120 x 115 feet, hexagonal in shape with enormous fluting? to offset the twelve foot corners, -no walls are pannelled for huge murals in blue and silver. At ono side, 40 foot drapes of white crepe velvet extend across enormous arches. Opposite is the orchestra’s platform, in chromium and ivory. When it came to the out-of-door sequences, “The Golden Arrow” Company took over the famous Breakfast Club stables and rented some twenty-odd ponies for a series of scenes, then hired the exclusive Lakeside Country Club for a golf sequence.

“The Golden Arrow” is a hilarious comedy romance by the famous English dramatist. Besides Miss Davis, the Academy award winner for 1935, and Brent, the cast includes Eugene Pallette, Dick Foran, Carol Hughes,/ Catherine Doucet, Craig Reynolds and Henry O’Neill. The screen play is uy Charles Kenyon.