Round the Studios

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 18 (Supplement)

Round the Studios

Hed.v LaMarr and Judy Garland have been officially promoted to stardom by Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer.

Hal Roach, who has officially given up directing for production, will personally direct "Captain Midnight, the Australian drama starring Brian Aherno.

Willian K. Howard, after completing his own production, "Home lown," will make one more picture for himself in New York before going to Hollywood to direct "Destry Rides Again, for Universal.

Burgess Meredith is being asked by Warners to appear with James Cagney and John Garfield in "Each Dawn I Die."

Darrvl Zanuck has ordered extracts from Henry Stanley's diary to bo incorporated in the script of " Stanley and Livingstone."

Paula Stone, daughter of Fred, is one of the six 1 " Gable Girls" in " Idiot's Delight," the touring troupe headed by Gable in the picture.

In "The Oklahoma Kid." James Cagney is supposed to speak Indian. Instead he speaks English and the sound-track is reversed.

The starring vehicle for Freddie Bartholomew is called "Eton," and is described by an American writer as "a prep school yarn," based on life at the famous school.

Jack Buchanan's new picture, " The Gang's All Here." is beinf: made at Elstree for Associated British. Besides Buchanan, the east includes Edward Everett Horton, Otto Kruger and Jack Laßue.

The first three pictures on the schedule of 'Fairbanks International, the new company formed bv Douglas Fairbanks sen.. Montagu Marks and Sir Adrian Baillie, are "The Cahfornian," "The Tenth Woman" (based on an episode in the life of Byron), and "The Three Musketeers.

Columbia is taking Peter Godfrey, English director, to Hollywood, to handle its version of his New York production of "Shadow and Substance. Best known in England as a stage prod"ccr, lie has already worked in Hollywood as actor and dialogue director in "Blockade." The stage star of. Shadow and Substance" was the former Hollywood actress, Julie Haydon.