“The Hound of The Baskervilles ”

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 96, 26 April 1939, Page 11

“The Hound of The Baskervilles ”

Beautiful, cosmopolitan Wendy 'Barlie was Darryl F. Zanuclt’s choice for the romantic feminine lead opposite Richard Greene in “The Hound of the Baskerviiles.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes masterpiece (with Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Beryl Mercer, Ralph Forbes and many other well-known players. British born, Hong Kong, of an English father aud an Irish mother, Miss Barrie won screen fame abroad in her ’teens before being catapulted to world honours as a result of her portrayal of | Jane Seymour in “The Private Life of j Henry VIII,” the picture that also , launched Binnio Barnes, Robert Donat Charles Laughton and Merle Oberon and other stars of to-day. Miss Barrie’s role of Beryl Stapleton, the girl whose approaching marriage to the Baskerville heir leads to Sherlock Holmes’ unmasking of an unsuspected arch slayer, is the most important she has had since her arrival in the United states.

They are turning men into gorillas at Cincsound for the new George Wallace comedy “Gone to the Dogs.” Fred Atkins, well known wrestler, and 21 stone actor John Dobbie arc the victims. Wearing gorilla heads of thick rubber covered with hair, and fur suits and gloves, they will strut their stuff in ja comedy sequence with Wallace. Both men have decided that they will npt be üble to see the funny side, if the temperature doesn’t fall before they begin work under the hot studio lights!

Franklin Pangborn accepted a featured role in Hal Roach’s “Topper Makes a Trip” only upon the promise of Producer Milton 11. Bren that he wouldn’t have to faint in the film. Seems that in three previous pictures Pangborn had to faint in scenes and he was tired of being typed as a “fainter.” “Topper Takes a Trip,” is a United Artists release with Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke and Alan Mowbray heading the cast.