Talk of the Talkies

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19555, 10 February 1938, Page 8

Talk of the Talkies

Annabella in Hollywood: Sonja Henie Honoured: Most Copied Film Star: Myrna Loy Turns The Tablets

THE Earl of Warwick ('Michael Brooke op. the films) hag signed a new contract with an American film company.

ALICE FAYE and Tony Martin have a recipe (or happiness. Neither of them ever reads any of Hollywood's gossip columns.

WOMEN who can blush prettily will soon be demand for colour pictures, prophesies a director, William A. Wellman.

OFTEN, in her leisure moments, ' Anita Louise turns cameraman, and photographs other people for a change.

TAMES STEWART, who was a star J hurdler and high jumper at Princetown University, is to be given his first opportunity to display his athletic ability on the screen—as an Annapolis football star. Stewart has not played football since he was at high school.

UOLLYWOOD'S smallest bodyguard is Marcelo, chauffeur to Claire Trevor. Marcelo is barely five feet tall and weighs a feather more than three turkeys. However, he is expert with a rifle, having learned the knack of shooting when he served with the United States Army in the Philippines.

CO successful has been Deanna Dur- '• bin's picture, "100 Men and a Girl," that production executives are losing no time in preparing her next picture, which is to be "Mad About Music."

THERE are all kinds of Christmas cards, and here is a story about some very expensive ones. Harry Joe Brown, Hollywood producer, who is. in private life, the husband of Sally Eilcrs, is asking the United Slates income tax authorities for exemption for his holiday greetings bill, slating that his cards cost 683 dollars (about £150).

THERE is no let up for John Barrymore these days. Finishing one motion picture, he immediately starts work on another. The strange thing about it all is that Barrymorc's health is bellei' to-day than it has been for years. Upon finishing his latest feature,

WHEN Charles Laughton used to tramp the Yorkshire moors years ago, he once passed a wayside inn with the unusual name of "The Fox and Rabbit." The name stuck in his memory, so that when he found the last scene of his new picture. "Vessel of Wrath," was set in a country inn, he insisted that it should be called "The Fox and Rabbit."

"Night Club Scandal." with Lynne Overman, Louise Campbell and Charles Bickford. Barrymore visited his physician. He was told work was agreeing witli him.

pLARKE GABLE is a familiar visitor at airports and aircraft factories these days. He is getting some inside information for his latest picture. Since the news was announced, he is being bombarded with letters from all types of aviation workers. Some of them offer to work for nothing—others seek stardom.

[YEANNA DURBIN'S new contract has been approved, and, in future, she will receive from £315 to £7OO a week for the next seven years, and, in addition, will get £2500 a picture as a bonus. Thus Miss Durbin finds herself, at 15 years of age, possibly the highest-salaried minor in the world, with the exception of Shirley Temple,

DECENTLY, Mae West went brunette, and Hollywood was distrssed at the thought of losing the most famous blonde tresses in the world. But Miss West's transformation from gold- to raven was only temporary, an expedient made necessary by the dictates of her production, "Every Day's a Holiday." The wig was part of a disguise which she perpetrates in the picture as "Mile. Fifi," from Paris.

MISS SONJA HENIE, the blonde Norwegian film .star and ex-world skating champion, has been created a Knight of the Order of St. Olav by King Haakon of Norway, in recognition of the honours she has won for her country. Less than 20 people a year are given this honour, and as Norway has abolished all titles and this is the country's only honour, it is highly prized.

rYRAMATIC close-up shots of the U fighting in and about Shanghai will be used in some of the sequences of "Shanghai Deadline," now in production.

* * * • TOAN CRAV/FORD is Hollywood's J most copied film star. One out of every three requests for beauty tips have asked for information about her — the type of lipstick, powder, and rouge she uses, and, secondly, her coiffures. According to make-up authorities in Hollywood, a star's popularity can be judged from the numbers of letters received asking for that particular player's make-up secrets.

The war film was obtained by newsreel men on the spot. The cameramen were commissioned to take the scenes for possible use in "Shanghai Deadline" some months ago. Dolores del Rio and George Sanders will be costarred in a story dealing with the adventures of four Americans caught in the struggle for possession of the metropolis. * * * * ANNABELLA, lovely French star of ™ "Le Million" and "Wings of the Morning," has arrived in Hollywood to make "Jean" with William Powell. Her first few days were filled with make-up and hairdrcssing tests, but after seeing the results Annabella asked whether she might be allowed to make one test "as I like to look." Fifteen minutes later, Annabella, with the help of her own comb and little vanity-case, had made herself up and stood in front of the cameras. Her other tests had taken at least two hours of preparation each. When Darryl Zanuck, studio production chief, saw the result of all the tests, he immediately picked the one in which Annabella had made herself up.

PRETA GARBO'S first screen .success was in the silent film, "Joyless Street." Now this film is to toe remade with Di'ta Parlo, German star of the silent screen, who has made a comeback in "Mademoiselle Doctcur," at present showing in London. This film, which was made in England, also stars Erich von Stvoheim. "Joyless Street," however, will be made in Paris, with possibly Albert Prejean as Dita's leading man. Dita Parlo was discovered by Erich Pommer when she was at a film school in Berlin—a girl of 16. He made her a star.