FILM TOPICS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21698, 13 January 1934, Page 10 (Supplement)

FILM TOPICS

Two Polar bears have been bought by Radio at a cost of £250 apiece to appear with Francis Lederer in "Man of Two Worlds." "The Dark Angel," one of Ronald Colman's most successful silent films, is to be refilmed by Samuel Goldwyn ' with a new star. • " I Love An Actress," in which Gregory Ratoff will appear for Radio with Lenore Ulric, is said to tell his own life story. Greta Garbo's next picture after "Que6n Christina" is likely to be "The Heavenly Story," a screen life of Lola Montez, the notorious adventuress. The motor-car in which Archduke Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated on June 28, 1914—the event which started the Great War —has been exported to Hollywood and will appear on the screen in "After To-night," a Radio spy drama. Mae West's fame has enabled her sister, Beverley West, to emerge from retirement and star in American vaudeville on the strength of her relationship to the heroine of "She Done Him Wrong." The West sisters were on tho stage together in 1916. Protests have been raised by Paramount's proposal to film "Sailors Beware," a New York stage play which has been severely criticised for its coarse dialogue and suggestive situations. The story concerns a sailor's wager that he will make love to three women.

Russ Columbo, celebrated American crooner and rival to Bing Crosby, will croon to Constance Bennett in her new twentieth century picture, -"Moulin Rouge." "White Horse Inn," the spectacular stage show, is to Ke filmed by Warner--probably under the direction of Erik Charell, who produced the play at the London Coliseum. "The Witch of Wall Street," an original screen story of a woman speculator on the New York Stock Exchange, has been bought by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for May Robson. The Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo, which recently concluded a phenomenally successful London season, is going to Hollywood to appear in Jesse Lasky's film of the life of Pavlova. Marlene Dietrich's eight-year-old daughter, Maria Sieber, is playing her first film part in her mother's Paramount picture "Scarlet Pageant." She will appear as Catherine the Great (Miss Dietrich's role in its later stages) at the age of seven. Charles Laughton has signed a contract with London Films to appear in five British pictures in the next three years. The contract allows him to play, also, in a certain number of Hollywood pictures. The first of these will be Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's " Marie Antoinette," in which Mr. Laughton will play Louis XVI. to Norma Shearer's Marie.