LATEST NEWS FROM THE FILM STUDIOS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 349, 2 May 1935, Page 7

LATEST NEWS FROM THE FILM STUDIOS.

Fox Film studio workers had to arrange unusually spacious dressingroom. quarters for Lionel Barrymore who is stared with Shirley Temple in “The Little Colonel” (now in production) because of his demand for a. piano. Accomplished pianist, Barrymore delights in playing during his leisure. The actor has several excellent concertos to his credit as a composer. xxx A woman’s eager pursuit of the glamour of romance is said to be the theme of the latest Janet GaynorWarner Baxter co-starring vehicle “One More String.” It is a dramatic modern story of high adventure and modern courage adapted from the wildly acclaimed novel, of Robert Nath which proved a hest-selL er. X X X Madeleine Carroll will be starred in another subject for G.B. on which no decision has yet been reached although it has been decided that "Victor Saville will be her director.

The title of Jack Hulbcrt’s latest

Gauuiont comedy-thriller in which ho stars with Fay Wray has been changed from “Alias Bulldog Drummond” to “Bulldog Jack.”

Fay Wray starring with Claude Rains in “The Clairvoyant” is stepping out with London and recently received a tremendous demonstration of her popularity when she was guest at Gauniont British’s Sports Club Gala at Tottenham.

A new type of automobile brake which Alan Hals invented and which will seen he put on, the market will make him a millionaire, according to report. Hale is pfaymg a featured role in Cecil B. Do Millc’s Paramount production, “The Crusades.”

Herbert Mundin has been allotted a comedy role in support of Mona Barrie and Gilbert Roland in a production to the released as “Private Lives.” XXX The screen’s newest comedy learn’ comprises Una Merkel and Francho.t Tone, who have the leads in “Order, Please,” the play that takes place during ono evening in a New York hotel. XXX For an important comedy role in “Crashing Society,” Edward Everett Horton has been signed by Warner Brothers. XXX An attempt to make “Hassan,” the play by James Elroy Flecker, into a film in colour is announced by Basil Dean. He gays that the music Delius wrote for the play will he in the film. XXX Jan Kiepura, the Polish tenor, woos a new leading lady in his latest screen romance, “My Heart is Calling,” which has just arrived from the Gaumont-British studios. 'Jpie happy girl is Marl he (or Mata) Eggerth, the beautiful Hungarian singer, who will also be seen in New Zealand shortly in another GaumontBritish production, “The Unfinished Symphony.” XXX A special statute award was made to Shirley Temple, Fox’s child star, at the annual awards banquet of the Academy of Motion Pocture Arts and Sciences The award was made after the distribution of the golden statuettes voted by Academy members to loading artists, producers, directors and writers.