IN FILMLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20740, 6 December 1930, Page 11 (Supplement)

IN FILMLAND.

"•The Right of Way,"'from 'the powerful story by Sir Gilbert Parker, will be produced by First National with Conrad Nagel, Loretta Young, and Fred Kohler in the leading roles.

In the whole cast of " The Dawn Patrol," Richard Barthelmess' next picture for First • National, there is not one woman. "The Dawn Patrol "vis a romance of the war birds who fought and died for glory, during the Great War.

Loretta Young and Grant Withers will shortly be seen in the First National, thrilling mystery drama, " The SecondFloor Mystery," which has been adapted for the screen from Earl Derr Bigger's sensational novel, " The Agony Column."

John Galsworthy's famous play, " Old English," has been produced for the talking screen by Warner Brothers, with George Arliss in the leading role. This is another Arliss portrait, as full of interest and delightful whimsical humour as " Disraeli."

" Ladies' Man," the mystery romance by Rupert Hughes that was recently acquired by Paramount for filming as a talking picture, will bo produced at the New York studios of the company. Paul Lukas, a Hungarian actor, has been selected to play tho part of a society " Don Juan."-

The prayer call of tho Arabian muezzin is to be heard in Paramount's alltalking adventure film, " Morocco," which features Gary Cooper, Marlene Dicirich, and Adolphe Menjou. Tho chanting call is given by Joseph Diskay, a Hungarian tenor. Tho production was completed recently under tlio direction of Josef von Sternberg.

" Fast arid Looso " is tho final title selected for Paramount's screen version of " Tho Best People," in which Miriam Hopkins, Frank Morgan and Carol Lombard are featured. This replaces the titlo " Pampered Youth," previously announced. The cast includes Charles Starrett, ilka Chase, David Hutchinson and Winifred Harris.

In Tolstoy's " Resurrection," which is being filmed by Universal, John Boles will portray tlie role of Prince Dmitri, while Lupo Velez plays Katusha. Dmitri Tioinkin, a Russian composer and concert pianist, has completed an elaborated musical score which contains three Russian folk tunes and other songs which ,wi 11 be rendered by Boles and Miss Velez.

, Roy Stewart, who is well known for his portrayals in Western screen roles for a number of years, has been engaged for a principal part in " Fighting Caravans," the Paramount screen version of Zano Grey's now novel. Gary Cooper and Lily Dariytri havo tho leads, with Ernest Torrenco, Tully Marshall and Eve Southern in tho cast.

Tho historic fued between cattle and sheep graziers in the early days in he west of America is the basis of tho story of Paramount's " Tho Santa Fe Trail," a talking version of Hal Evart's novel, " Spanish Acres," in which Richard Arlen is featured. Rosita Moreno appears in tho feminine lead, and Eugene Talletto, Mitzi Green, Junior Durkin and Hooper Atchley lend support.

" The Dove," Dolores Del Eio's picture, in which she is seen with Walter Huston, lias been indefinitely postponed, it is announced by United Artists, due to the protracted illness of Miss Del Rio and the tirao necessary for her convalescence. Arrangements have been made for Mr. Huston to make two pictures at other studios, after which he will spend a three-months' vacation in Europe.

"In the Headlines," the Warner Brothers' production featuring Grant Withers and Marion Nixon, is claimed to be an authentic story of newspaper life. It depicts a newspaper's activity in running down a story, after it was the first to discover a clue to a baffling double murder mystery. Grant Withers enacts the role of an egotistical star reporter, whose tenacity is instrumental in bringing about the solution of the*puzzle.

Much of the spontaneity of dialogue found in " What a Widow," Gloria Swanson's new United Artists comedy, is due to the star's propensity for speaking lines ad lib. Owen Moore, Lew Cody and other members of the supporting cast found themselves kept constantly on the alert by Miss Swanson's scheming to insert unexpected lines. And the film editors, iii catting the production, had as many as four and five " takes " of the same action with different dialoguo in each case. ,