FILM TOPICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 10 (Supplement)

FILM TOPICS.

Among Richard Arlen's :irst jobs was that o! a rouseabout at the Texas oil fields. ■ " Carole Lombard, the Paramount featured player, was formerly under contract to Fox, Pathe and Mack Sennett. Tom Douglas, Paramount player, was London's youngest stage star, making his stellar debut there at tho age of 17, a few years ago. Lowell Sherman, who starred in the stage version of " The Passion Prince," will also star in tho screen version, which he will direct for Radio Pictures. The Four Marx Brothers, stars of " The Cocoairats" and " Animal Crackers,'' have started work in Hollywood on their next Paramount comedy entitled, " Monkey Business," The film play is from an original story by S. J. Perelmaa and Will B. Johnston, noted humourists, and will present the stars in further mad antics. Thelma Todd, Tom-Kennedy, William B. Davidson and Rockcliffe Feliowes are in tho supporting cast.

Charles Rogers, Paramount player, has the only musical dressing room in Hollywood. It contains a piano, an organ and numerous other musical instruments.

Herbert Wilcox has started active production on the British and Dominion Films picture "Carnival," at Elstree. The principal artists include Mathoson Lang, Chili Bouchier and Joseph Schildkraut, supported by Lilian Braithwnite, Guy Pelman Boulton, Dickie Edwards, Edith Savile, B rend a Wills, Disney Roebuc and George Bellamy,

Gloria Swanson's next picture, which will bo released in New, Zealand at the ""end of the month, will be presented under the title "of " Indiscreet." This is a modern comedy-drama produced by De Sylva, Henderson and' Brown, the famous lyric-writing team. It is produced with ultra-modern settings and smart wardrobes, and it marks a radical departure from the musical type of production with which these writer have been associated in the past. The supporting cast of " Indiscreet " includes Ben Lyon, Monroe Owsley «and Barbara Kent.