Round the Studios

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22991, 19 March 1938, Page 14 (Supplement)

Round the Studios

Bing Crosby's wife, Dixie Lee, has presented him with a fourth son.

Sonja Henio and Mae West share the same stand-in. Her name is Christian Signe.

Preston Foster and Helen Broderick have both been released from their contracts at Iladio.

Loretta Young's thirteen-year-old half-sister, Georgina Bolzer, has a part in "Mad About Music."

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have borrowed Virginia Weidler in order to team her with Ronald Sinclair in a special series of child stories.

Dorothy Lamour gets another native rolo in '"Tahiti." This will be made when she finishes "Tropic Holiday," which is the new title for "Ensenada."

Warners plan a re-make of "Trilby." It has been twice filmed before, first with Guv Bates Post and Andree and then with John Barrymoro and Marian Marsh.

Warners are planning a picture based on the Sino-Japanese war. It will bo called "Trapped in Mongolia." The author, Bert Hall, served in the Chinese Army and was* known as General Chang.

Kay Francis will star in "The Lady With tho Bed -Hair," based on the autobiography of Mrs. Leslie Carter* veteran American stago star. Mrs. Carter's hair .was famous, but the book revealed it to be a wig.

Hay Bolger and Dennis O'Keefo will have important parts in "Feather Fingers Takes a Drink" for Metro-Goldwyn-Maver. It is a fantasy on tho lines of "Topper." Bolger is the brilliant dancer from "The Great Ziegfeld," but ho won't daneo.