PRODUCTION PARS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 28 January 1939, Page 3

PRODUCTION PARS

Patric Knowles gets a leading part in “Beauty for the Asking.” Y Y Y Y Barbara Stanwyck has ended her contract with Twentith Century-Fox and signed a new one with Paramount. She has also commitments to Radio. Philadelphia University has started a “course in motion picture appreciation.” It comes under the heading of “hobby courses.” Y Y Y Y Spencer Tracy must be well again. M.G.M. are announcing him for quantities of pictures. One is “A Gun in His Hand.” Another is “New York Cinderella” with Hedy LaMarr. Y Y Y Y Deanna Durbin is causing her studio great concern because she is growing so fast. She is already five feet and a half. Her voice, however, has developed amazingly since her last picture, and her ambition to appear one day on the boards of the Metropolitan Opera House does not seem too fantastic.

Warners will make “Broadway Cava- ; lier,” featuring Wayne Morris, Joan j Blondell, Pat O’Brien, and May Robson, j Y . .Y Y . Y . Ginger Rogers appears without Fred ■ . Astaire in “Little Mother.” Errol Flynn has received orders by l cable to grow a handlebar moustache ■ for his next picture, “Dodge City.” j [ Y Y Y Y Edna Best and Wilfred Lawson star; lin “The Relief of Lucknow,” first of ; . i a series glorifying British heroism. ! Y Y Y Y i Anna Sten, glamorous Russian actress.. : who starred in three pictures for j Samuel Goldwyn a few years ago, will resume her screen career in a few j ) weeks. She will make “Woman With- \ ; I out a Country” for one of Hollywood’s j i independent studios, and her husband, [ l Dr. Eugene Frenke, will produce. Alan j 1 Marshall, young Australian-born actor, i i who has just finished a role opposite J ; | Luise Rainer in “Dramatic School,” will j be Miss Sten’s leading man.