FILM TOPICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21224, 2 July 1932, Page 10 (Supplement)

FILM TOPICS.

Walter Huston is to play the fanatical missionary in "Rain."

Production has commenced at the British and Dominions Studios, Boreham Wood, on "That*," tho farce by Ben Travel's, with Ralph Lynn and Tom Walls as the principals. They head a cast which includes Mary Brough, Robertson Hare, Claude Hulberfc and Evelyn Bostock. Tom Walls, who has just finished work on "Leap Year," is directing.

In "Alias The Doctor," a Warner Brothers' and First National picture, Richard Barthelmess considers lie has one of the finest roles of his long and brilliant career. Dealing with tho poor whites of the .Mississippi cotton plantations, it is said to provide him with a role as strong as "Tol'able David," that memorable production of his early starring days.

Greta Garbo will leavo shortly on the first location trip she has made in almost three years. The last time Garbo went "on location" was for sea scones off Catalina Island for "Tho Single Standard." Emerging from the security of a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sound stage, Garbo will go with the "As You Desire Mo" Company to two different locales, one near Lagnna, where sho again will make sea scenes, and another at the famous Gillespie Estate, near Santa Barbara.

According to reports from Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin is planning to make his next picture a talkie. Chaplin will play tho part of a deaf and dumb clown so that everyone can talk except, himself. Tho film may be called "The Jester."

Richard Rogers and Lor en z Hart, who have written twenty-five Broadway successes in fivo years, havo signed longterm contracts to compose music for Paramount pictures. They recently wrote the musical score and numbers for Maurice Chevalier's next starring vehicle for Paramount, "Love Me To-night."

Only three reels of "The Ten Commandments" are being used in tho talkie version which has been retitled "Forgotten Commandments." They are introduced as part of an anti-religious lecture supposed to bo delivered in a Soviet Russian school. Irving is cast as the lecturer, with Sari Maritza and Gene Raymonds in the romantic leads.

Yet another historical character may bo brought to life on the screen by George Arliss, who is now in France on his waj to England for his annual rest in his Kentish cottage. According to present plans, Mr. Arliss' next picture will be "The Rise and Fall of Rothschild," the story of the founder of the great firm of financiers. It is possible that tho film may be inada at Warner Brothers' studios at Teddington, Middlesex.