FILM TOPICS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18975, 27 March 1936, Page 13

FILM TOPICS

iSKLY an expert would dare criticise V the claim of Jade Gardner, :i Hollywood artist, that Anita Louise is the most beautiful girl in the film colony. * *. * TOHN Perry, an Englishman, has one J ;, of Hollywood's queerest jobs. He '■watches sunrise and sunset for picturesque cloud formations suitable for filming. # * * A PAfifS newspaper caused a com- ( motion when it announced a search , fOT a young lady who should most j closely resemble Shirley Temple. Miss Ginette Mafbeuf, aged five, was chosen. »* w j MARION Dayies always entertains lavishly at her 30-roomed Santa Monica beach home after her film premieres. Last time the guest list j numbered 500,. and half -way through ' the evening she and George Brent took the floor and gave an impromptu display, of trick dancing. Two ban us took turns at playing. •*s , . ' •# * # ndING the rounds of Hollywood par'ties s is a filih which, many would 'pay a lot to see. It features a bevy ' of such" stars as G reta Gai?bo awl Joan Cjnwford. It is called "Blow Ups"— a, "blow up" in studio parlance being, j '{s mistake in dialogue. The mis-1 quoted speeches and the reactions of j the actors to them are • usually recorded before the cameras stop, and isorii'e wit has had enough foresight to sqve such scraps from the cutting- • room floor.

*'TT seems to me that talkies needlessly imitate the stage. Talkies admit dialogue, nothing else. 1 would like to introduce on the screen the author himself—that is, put in patches of explanation instead of dialogue. '' —Charles Chaplin.

AT the time of her marriage to the famous dancer, Mrs. Fred Astaire, formerly Mrs. Phyllis Potter, who gave birth to a son on January 122, was re puted to have a fortune of £5,000,000. Her previous marriage was dissolved.

rVELYX Venable, film star, must take her baby for an airing each day, but her Hollywood hilltop home is badly situated for a perambulator. Studio 'prop men solved her problem and equipped her with a modernised papoose basket for Dolores.

DAUL Robeson, who returned to Britain from America recently, said the thing that most impressed him was the remarkable rise of the negro in music, dancing, acting and literature. One company is making a picture of "The Green Pastures," Ernst Lubitsch is planning an all-negro musical film, and "Porgy and Boss,'' a' negro opera with music by George; Gershwin, 'has just finished a successful run on Broadway.

in Hollywood he played in the screen version of "Show Boat," the part, he acted on the London stage. Robeson is .considering several British film offers. He may play in "King Solomon's Minos," or he may do a picture about Africa*