FILM TOPICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20768, 10 January 1931, Page 11 (Supplement)

FILM TOPICS.

" Tom Sawyer," the Paramount talking picture, will lie released in New Zealand early in tlie New Year. This is the first of a series of juvenile pictures to be mado by this company. Jackie Coogan and Mitzi Green are the chief actors.

Rural England is the setting of " Along Came Youth," Charles Rogers' latest Paramount picture, with much of the action taking pdaco in Sherwood Forest. Francos Dee, William Austin, Leo White and Evelyn Hall are featured in the cast.

Two ships, crashing into one another in a blanket of fog, provide a thrill in George Bancroft's new picture, " Derelict." Most of this film was photographed at sea by Paramount camera-men. Jessie Landis, William Boyd and Donald Stuart are in the supporting cast.

A new leading woman will bo introduced in " Derelict," George Bancroft's newly-completed Paramount production. She is Jessio Iloyco Landis, a former stage star, who has appeared with Otis Skinner and other noted dramatic artists. Others in the screen cast are William Boyd, Donald Stuart, William Stack and Paul Porcasi.

Maureen O'Sullivan and John Garrick, known to the Australian and New Zealand stage as Reginald Dandy, have the chief roles in support of Will Rogers in " A Connecticut Yankee," which Fox Company; has adapted from Mark Twain's book. Miss O'Sullivan will be the princess and Garrick the page.

Leon Errol and Mitzi Green have been selected for two of the three featured roles in "Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad," Paramount's forthcoming talking version of Donald Ogden Stewart's amusing story. A search is now under way for a comedienne who will play Mrs. Haddock, and work on the screen adaptation has started.

A running start to screen fame will be given Elissa Landi, a youthful Broadway actress, when she arrives in Hollywood to plays opposite Charles Farrell in the leading feminine role of " Squadrons," a romantic air story from the play by Elliott White Springs. Miss Landi has been playing a part in the stage play. " Farewell to Arms." Representatives of the Fox Film Corporation studios in New York were so impressed by her work that they asked her to give up tho stage and go to Hollywood.