Films and the Studios

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 986, 31 May 1930, Page 27

Films and the Studios

MA .YV VOICES Lon Chaney, the man of many faces, will be henceforth known as “he of many voices,” for it is said that he will record his first talking film, “The Unholy Three,” for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in more than one tongue. Lila Lee will have the chief feminine role in the character actor’s first talker, as the feminine accomplice of the sinister Dr. Echo. Richard Carle and Ivan Linow are others already cast, WIDE SCREEN Radio Pictures now emerges with the announcement that its first wide screen picture will be a railroad thriller in which Louis Wolheim and Robert Armstrong will have the leading roles. This photoplay will employ the Spoor-Berggren process of threedimensional films, an exhibition of this method having been given already in New York. A few months later

“Dixiana,” Radio’s musical film with Beba Daniels in the leading role, was to have been made with the wide screen, but this was discarded. “SCOTLAND YARD ” As a result of the sale of the world screen rights to his play, “Scotland Yard,” Denison Clift is richer today. He made the large deal with the Fox Company, who will produce the piece as a talking picture. “Scotland Yard” was produced on the legitimate stage in the United States last year. Clift is well known as a playwright, screen director and author. He recently returned from England. For some time to come he will serve the Paramount Company as a director and screen writer. SENSIBLE CLARA Only when in front of the camera is Clara Bow an actress. Some of Hollywood's stars take their art home with them at night, eat and sleep with it and wear it on their sleeves, but such is not the case with the little redhaired actress, comments a Hollywood writer. She lives in an unpretentious bungalow on one of the least imposing of Beverly Hills' streets. She has no swimming pool, no formal garden, and no separate domicile for her servants. In fact, she has only a few servants, including one housemaid, one studio maid, a, cook and secretary. She no longer keeps a chauffeur, much preferring to drive her car herself. BRITISH FILMS PRAISED “Variety,” generally believed to be the world’s most influential journal lu the entertainment field, has adversely criticised every British film mads except four. These were “Mr. Smith Wakes Up,” “High Treason,” “The Unwritten. Law,” and “Dark Red