13 HOLLYWOOD STARS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22332, 1 February 1936, Page 14 (Supplement)

13 HOLLYWOOD STARS

FURTHER ENGLISH CONTRACTS A further 13 Hollywood players completed arrangements to appear m British films recently, following a visit to America by Mr. Michael Balcon, director of productions for the Gau-mont-British Film Corporation. They were Constance Bennett, who will make "Everything is Thunder and "The Hawk"; Joan Bennett, who is to play the heroine of the Edgar Wallace thriller "The Northing Tramp ; Chester Morris, who is to be leading man in "Courier of the Czar ; May Robson, who will play Strogoft s mother in the same picture; Victor McLaglen, cast as Private Mulvaney in Kipling s "Soldiers Three"; Sylvia Sidney, who will start in a story to bo written for her and directed by Alfred Hitchcock; Richard Arlen v who will play in The Barrier" —a story-about tho building of the Canadian Pacific Railway; Maureen O'Sullivan, cast-opposito Mr. Arlen in the same picturo; Edmund Lowe, for a story not yet selected; Charles Ruggles, who is to appear in a comedy of television, > World Without a Mask"; Sally Eilers, who is to be the heroine of a new version of Tho Wrecker"; Roland Young, who will star in "King Solomon's Mines"; and Rob-

ert Young, who will be Jessie Matthew's leading man in her next picture. Mr. Balcon's move represents a determined attempt to extend the American market already won by the Gau-mont-British Corporation with productions like "Rome Express," "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "The ThirtyNine Steps" and "The Tunnel."