FILM TOPICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21136, 19 March 1932, Page 11 (Supplement)

FILM TOPICS.

Columbia's " South of the Uio Grande." with Buck Jones, is 1 lie first Englishspeaking picture in which George Lewis lias appeared in almost two years. Lewis, who was boiu in Mexico City and talks Spanish like a native, is always in great demand lor " Spanish versions," which accounts for his non-appearance in talkies in his own tongue. George Arliss .in " The Man Who Played God," appears as a great musician who is stricken with deafness at tile height of his career, John Adolfi, who has supervised most of the other Arliss pic turcs, was also responsible for this one. The supporting cast includes Violet Hem ing, Belte Davis, Ivan Simpson, Louise dosser Hale, Paul Porcasi and Donald Cook. Production has started on " The Wet Parade," Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer's film version of the Upton Sinclair novel, at the Culver City studios, under the direction of Victor Fleming. The cast so ' far announced includes Walter Huston, Dorothy Jordan, Piobert Young, Myrna Loy, -Neil Hamilton, Wallace Ford, . John Miljan, Lewis Stone, and Virginia Bruce, " The Wet Parade" was adapted to the screen by John Mahin

Immediately following the completion of his latest Paramount operetta, ' One Hour Willi You," Maurice Chevalier barked oil a concert tour of the principal American cities. Upon his return t<> Hollywood next month, he will start workon another musical romance, entitled " Love Me To-night." Jcanette MacDonald appears opposite the star in both productions Paramount announces the purchase, of the European play. " On the Black Sea." Philip Zeska and Ernest Spits, as a picture for George Bancroft. Miriam Hopkins, who recently completed a leading role with Phillips Holmes in " 'lwo Kinds of Women," has been selected to plav opposite him. Oliver H. P. Garrett will prepare the screen play and John Cromwell will direct. Lancashire in the Victorian era, with its cobbled streets, its quaint shops, its corner " pub," and its shrewd natives, are put on the screen with a pleasing realism and a keen ' sense of humour in " Hobson's Choice," an effective British production which is due to arrive in Auckland shortly. Thomas Bent ley, the producer, has been congratulated by several English journals for giving this homely glimpse of a bye-gone England so amusingly and with such a warm human touch.