PLAYERS VISIT ENGLAND

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22250, 26 October 1935, Page 12 (Supplement)

PLAYERS VISIT ENGLAND

MARCH DESIRES REST p MISS HAYES FOR STAGE Three -well-known film artists arrived in England recently, Fredric March, one of Hollywood's brilliant young actors, Helen Hayes, and Douglas Montgomery," another young player who played in " Little Man, What Mow?" Mr. March is alcompanied by his actress wife, Florence Eldridge. Mr. March's work in such varied films as " Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," " Design for Living," and " Les Miserables " has won him a wide following in this country, and he was greeted at Plymouth by a large crowd. In a few minutes he signed about 200 autographs. In England on holiday, Mr. March has no intention of working in that country. '? I simply want to have a rest and see as much of London and England as possible in the five or six jweeks we propose to remain," he said. He is one of those who believe that the purity campaign has done Hollywood good. " People are tired of gangsters, crime and sex," he says, and the campaign has been responsible, in his opinion, for the production of a number of splendid pictures. On his return to Hollywood Mr. March will begin work on " Anthony Adverse," Hervey Allen's 1200-page best seller. But he is tired of whiskers, and would like to see himself in a straight role for a change. Mrs. March is well known on Broadway. She has played in only one picture, " Les Miserables," and confesses that she prefers tho ftago. Miss Hayes, the leading player of " Farewell to Arms " and " Arrow-

smith," has come to. London to Bee Mr. Gilbert Miller about the Broadway production of Laurence Housman's " Victoria Regina,'''in which she is to play the Queen. The play is banned in England becanso it deals with the Royal family. Unlike Mr. March, Miss Hayes is air against the American film censorship. Plays and books have been altered beyond recognition, she complains, to meet the censor's demands. She is tired of the hcreen, and means to dcyote her time to the stage.