IN FILMLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20496, 22 February 1930, Page 11 (Supplement)

IN FILMLAND.

John Garrick, has been replaced by Kenneth McKenna in the Bulldog Drummond rola in " Temple Tower,' -which Fox is now producing. Another player added to the cast is Henry B. Walthall. Donald Gallaher, is directing and Miss Marguerite Churchill has the leading feminine role.

Arthur Hammerstein, famous New York producers of " Rose Marie," and many other successful Broadway musical plays has joined United Artists. Ha will produce in colour, all-talking, singing, and dancing productions for United Artists. " Bride 66," by Herbert Stobhart, will be the first production.

Dr. Fu Manchu, of fiction fame, will return to menace the lives of tha Boxer Rebellion commanders in " The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu," Paramount's screen version of the sequel to<Sax Rohmet's famous story. Warner Oland will again portray Dr. Fu Manchu, and Neil Hamilton and Miss Jean Arthur will be the juvenile leads.

Charles Mack, the lazy-voiced member of the Two Black Crows, wrote the original story from which Moran and Mack's next Paramount " talkie," " The Two Black Crows in the A.E.F.," is adapted. The new comedy is in production at Hollywood under the direction of Richard Wallace. Joan Peer and Henry Wadsworth play the principal supporting roles.

Richard Dix has nearly completed his initial starring vehicle for Radio Pictures, " Seven Keys to Baldpate." .Dix is supported by a strong cast, prominent among the members being Miss Miriam Seegar, Miss Margaret Livingstone, Miss Nella Walker, Alan Roscoe. Joseph Allen, De Witt Jennings, Miss Edith Yorke, Harvey Clark, Crauford Kent and Lucien Littlefield. '

Jeanette Mac Donald, who plays oppo site Maurice Chevalier in " The Love Parade," Paramount's original screen operetta wears a seven-yard bridal train in the gorgeous marriage scene in the production. " The Love Parade," which is breaking all rcords at the Prince Edward Theatre. Sydney, was directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lupino Lane and Miss Lillian Roth play the chief supporting roles.

Four girls are now engaged for the girlless " All Quiet on the Western Front," production which Lewis Milestone is making for Universal. In addition to Miss Joan Marsh, plays the poster girl, and Miss Yola D Avril, Miss Renee Damonde and Miss Poupee Andriot, will plav in the scene where the younc German soldiers swim the canal for an evening's diversion.

Sam Behrman, the brilliant playwright, author of " Serena Blandish," "■ The Second Man." and " Meteor," now running in New York, as a Theatre Guild production, is in Hollywood, under contract to Fox Films. He will write the dialogue for the forthcoming production of " liliom." Miss- Janet Gaynor has been assigned the leading feminine role, and Frank Borzage will direct the picture.

" The Return-of Sherlock Holmes,' is taken from two of Conan Doyle s excellent detective stories, namely " The Dying Detective," and "His Last Bow, an 3 with that very fine British' actor. Clive Brook, in the name part, the picture should be outstanding. There is a good plot in. which occurs a great scene between Holmes and. Moriarty, the master mind in crime, and naturally there is a heroine to be rescued. Miss Betty Lawfcrd play 3 the heroine and Harry Morey makes a" very successful reappearance in the important part of Professor Moriarty.

At early date Fox Films will launch into operation a new laboratory, estimated to cost more than £2OO,OCX), and which ha 3 been in the process of construction, quite secretly, for several months. The laboratory will be devoted exclusively to the production of Fox nature-colour whVh is now perfected after three years of experiment and research. One of the first productions listed to be made in Fox colour is " The London Revue," which will bring famous stars from every country and will be staged by Hazzard Short, producer of several Music Box Revue's in New York.

Paramount has Edmund Goulding to a long term contract as a director. Paramount';* acquisition of Goulding gives that organisation another of the leading directors and writers. Goulding has been long recognised as one of the outstanding directors in the industry, and his experience in both sonnd and silent productions makes him a valuable asset. Goulding's first will be the preparation and direction of his original story, ' 1 The Devil s Sunday, which will star Miss Naney Carroll. Production on the new " talkie " will start shortly, following Miss Carroll's completion of her role in " Houev." Gouldings most recent triumph was The Trespasser," which lie wrote and directed for Missj Gloria Swanson.

The millions of admirers of Miss Lillian Gish who is about to start work in hei first all-talking picture. "The Swan," for United Artists, may be surprised to learn that she has made only ten pictures in ten vear-. With the exception ot Charles Chaplin. Miss Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, who also are Lmted Artists' stars. Miss Gish is the one great, film' personality, who has be->n able to appear before." the cameras but once a vear and still retain world-wide popularity. The former D. "W. Griffith heroine, whose name has been a household word wherever motion pictures are shown, since the day 3 of " The Birth ot a Nation," can look back on a string of immortal silent features as she launches a new chapter in her career. _ The only pictures that she has made in the past decade are " Broken Blossoms, ' way Down East." " Orphans of the Storm. "The White Sister," " Romola, -La Boheme." " The Scarlet. Letter." " Annie Laurie." "The Enemy" and "he Wind."