PRODUCTION PARS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 11 September 1937, Page 14

PRODUCTION PARS

Alter a little argument about salary' ! Prank Capra, immediately on completion of "Lost Horizon.” disappeared i from Columbia Studios. Wlu-n the last i mail left America he bad not been seen 1 by Harry Colin for three months. Colm i i |,;id his big new schedule on hand, and \ | was looking somewhat worried. I -Y- -Y- -V- Y j Studios rushing to cash in on the i j late John D. Rockefeller. Warners in ; a hurry with an oil "epic:’ M-G-M tearing out another, probably starring Clark Gable. I Y Y -Y- Y I From London: When the print of the ; Duke of Windsor's wedding was ship- ; |pcd to New York, the Paramount office i was cabled: "Duke of Windsor’s wed- i ding care Empress of Britain.” London ; was amused to receive the following prompt retort: "Advise at once what ! rotation Empress of Britain to Duke of o I Windsor?” < Y -i- -V- Y Grand old man of the screen, C. 'Aubrey Smith, who celebrated his 74th I birthday. 21st July, hi might audible I admiration during the making of Samuel Golclwyn's "Hurricane." For live j hours he was subjected to an onslaught ; lot waves and wind, and not once did ihis straight back bond. Everyone else j was pretty sick about, it, but C. Aubrey smiled his way through, i Y -Y Y Y i “Captains Courageous” is even more j spectacular and more thrilling than ."Mutiny on the Bounty.” The marine 'sequences alone are worth going miles' to sec. As the "We're Here” pitches ; land losses in mminlainous seas you will gasp "I wonder how it was done?” . A new gyroscopic camera provides the j answer!

There are uni: or two lavnurite lories in M-G-M's big line-up lor . next, season’s pictures. One is "Anchor Man," not yet. cast. William | Powell and Myrna Loy go into "Return of the Thin Man." and Jean Harlow , was listed for a number ol important features. Gable. Ta.vlor, Spencer, ' Jeanette MacDonald. M.vrna Loy. Hob- j ert Montgomery and Nelson Eddy will ; all he busy. Y -Y- Y Y Hollywood goes on and on—buying them up. David Sol/.niek is in the mar- . ket for Allred Hitchcock, one of the j slickest of all British directors. Last! advices were that Hitchcock wanted more money than Selzniek was prepar- ; od to pay. but no doubt that will he arranged. -Y- Y -V- Y "Easy Living" is the gayest, and most : appealing, comedy since "It Happened; One Night." Players. Jean Arthur, I Ray Milhaud, Edward Arnold. V- -Y- ’ Y Y Clark Gable has been dying to do a little travelling, and it looks as though lie’ll get it soon. M-G-M is opening a studio in England and will send its stars and directors over there to work. The current report is that Gable will be the first to go. and will make either Rudvard Kipling's “Soldiers Three,” or "Shadow of the Wing.” They're both strictly men’s stories, and if “Soldiers Three” is decided upon Rob Taylor may go over with Clark for it. Y Y Y Y Fresh from her triumph as Queen Elizabeth in "Fire Over England,” I Flora Robson, now playing the murjdering widow of the great Emperor j Augustus in "I, Claudius.”