Production Pars

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 24 April 1937, Page 13

Production Pars

Fifteen cameras were used to film the giant swing of Johnny Weissmuller on the jungle vine, one of the thrills in “Tarzan Escapes,” Metro-Golchvyn-Mayer's jungle thriller. *

R. C. Sheriff, author of “Journey's End,” most famous war play of all time,' is to co-operate in the production of Hollywood’s next war picture (and still they go on!), “Three Comrades,” based on the novel of Erich Remarque. Robert Taylor, Spencer Tracy and James Stewart will be the “three comrades.”

A stage and screen version of the same play, running together in the West End, offers an interesting comparison for Londoners. “This’ll Make You Whistle” is the show, and Jack Buchanan and the same principals appear in both versions. People who want to make a day of it can see the screen show in the afternoon and the stage play in the evening.

One of the most popular .and sophistir cated teams in Hollywood—the William Powell-Myrna Loy combination —are to be married on the screen for the seventh time in a Continental romance, “Great Love,” by Ferenc Moinar. Bill and Myrna are getting used to walking up the aisle —for film purposes only.

# # * Hollywood film captures from Britain are more rare than they used to be, but the first outstanding actress to be snapped up this year is Frances Day, now completing “The Girl in the Taxi.” She goes to the States this summer with a year’s contract and a two years’ option.

Most famous orator in pictures today, Robert Benchley, whose film, “How to Vote,” got more laughs than the average feature comic, has made two more filmic speeches-—“ How to Pay Your Income Tax” and “The Romance of Indigestion.”

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Ariane Borg, French actress, -was given a contract by M-G-M because she was considered “so like Garbo.” She has never appeared—because she was “so like Garbo!” A year has passed. Mile. Borg is still in Hollywood, and Metro has renewed her contract until the end of 1937, so there is stilj. a chance for her! ¥

TuJlio Carminati, star of “One Night of Love” and ‘The Three Maxims,” is back in England-r-after a short interval filni-making in Hollywood—rto play in. “Yienpa Sunset” with Lilli Palmer.

Akim Tamiroff, the General of “The General Died at Dawn," is acknowledged one of the . best living make-up artists, and was at one time head pf a school of make-up in New York,‘numbering among its students a, girl narped Greta Garbo, of whom you may have heard. * * * The theatre’s loss will bp the screen’s gain if C. B. Cochran, who announced the revue “Home and Beauty” as his theatricai swan-song, accepts one of fee many offers for him to go into film production. There is already talk of his first film, and it will prpbably be a screen version of the Compilation revue, “Home and Beauty,”