A Movie Fan’s Note Book

Southland Times, Issue 22280, 22 March 1934, Page 12

A Movie Fan’s Note Book

Do you know their ages? Marie Dressier is 63, Lionel Barrymore 56, Douglas Fairbanks 51, Mary Pickford 41, and Ronald Colman is 37. Frank Borzage, who discovered Janet Gaynor, is to direct the latest star from the New York stage, Margaret Sullivan, in her second picture, “Little Man, What Now?” Lauri Beatty, daughter of May Beatty, and better known to New Zealanders as “Bunny,” has a part as Estelle Muffat in Anna Sten’s first American picture “Nana.” Graham McNamee, the famous Uni- ; versal Newsreel talking reporter, was married at Ekton, Maryland (the Gretna Green of America) recently to Anne L. Simms, of the Greenwich Village : Follies. “Reunion in Vienna” has been banned by the Austrian censor, who states that it constitutes a disrespectful cari- : cature of the late Crown Prince Rudolf i

and of the Imperial Austrian Military uniform.

Jessie Matthews has a young brother at school in Norfolk. Writing to his sister, and explaining how important he had become since the film version of “The Good Companions” was shown, he declared that one of his school chums had told him, “Honestly, I like your sister better in ‘King Kong.’ ” The first opportunity to make money as an artist that came to Walt Disney whose latest Silly Symphony cartoon is “The China Shop” in TeChnicolour came to him at the age of seventeen. He was living with his parents in Kansas City, Missouri, and did some amusing animal drawings for the local barber, who appreciated their advertis-

mg value and placed them in the window of his shop to attract customers.