The Moving Rw of Magic Shadow Shapes

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18512, 8 March 1930, Page 13 (Supplement)

The Moving Rw of Magic Shadow Shapes

Miss Winnie Lighter. Miss Sally j O’Neil, Miss Marion Byron and Miss j Dorothy Revier will play the principal j feminine roles in Warner Bros.’ screen | version of the musical comedy hit, j “Hold Everything.” The film will be made entirely in colour. The British International Picture. “Atlantic,” of which much has been heard, will be released shortly. The featured roles are played by John Stuart, Miss Madeline Carroll. Monty Banks, Franklyn Dyall, Miss Ellaline i Terris and John Longden. John McCormack’s thatched roof ! Irish cottage on the Fox Movietone lot ' v/as almost finished without a thatched roof because no Irish workmen could be found in Hollywood who knew* the , art of thatching. Finally a group of j Australian labourers were secured. All of them were familiar with the laying of thatch. Reginald Denny has been signed for the chief male role in Cecil B. de Mille’s new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production. “Madame Satan.” Roland Young is the only other player so far chosen to appear in the new production, which is announced as a novel type of comedy story with a musical setting.

Eugene Pallette, noted character actor of the screen, has been appearing before the cameras for the past sixteen years, and still is one of the most popular players in the movies. He is under contract to Paramount, and his most, recent performances have been as the detective-sergeant in the two S. S. Van Dine thrillers. Production has started on “The Benson Murder Case,” Paramount’s screen version of the last of Van Done’s mysteries, starring William Powell. John Cromwell is directing. Miss Fay Wray plays the feminine lead and Clive Brook is prominently cast. The principal supporting roles are played by Eugene Pallette, E. H. Calvert, Neil Hamilton and Louis John Bartels. Lew Collins, who directed “Under the Southern Cress,” unique story of Maori life, for Universal, has been chosen to direct Miss Mary Nolan in “Carnival.” “Carnival,” which was produced at the Forrest Theatre, New York, in 1929 will be screened as a spectacular dialogue production by Universal. The story concerns the romance of a carnival dancer.

Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe, who were separated while McLaglen made a picture titled, “Hot For Paris,” with Ei Brendel as his picture pal. will be teamed again in ‘ Broad Minded,” which Raoul Walsh will direct upon his return from Europe. While abroad, Walsh will visit. Paris, Berlin, Vienna, in the hope of uncovering a new “find” to play the leading feminine role in the new McLaglen-Lowe production which will be photographed in Grandeur film.

Paramount has completed production on “Sarah and Son," Miss Ruth Chatterton’s latest starring film. The picture was adapted from the famous mother-love story by Timothy Shea. Due to the unusually strong feminine appeal of the story, it was produced entirely under the supervision of women. Miss Dorothy Arzner, Paramount’s only woman director, wielded the megaphone. Miss Zoe Akins wrote the screen story, and Miss Verna Willis cut and edited the finished picture.

George M. Cohan, one of the foremost figures of the American stage for the last 25 years, will write, direct and produce talking pictures for United Aritiste. A 1 Jolson will be the star of the first Cohan talking picture. Thus does the first actor to make a talking picture join the company of Miss Mary Pickford, Miss Norma Talmadge, Miss Gloria Swanson, Miss Dolores del Rio, Miss Vilma Banky, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Ronald Colman and other established stars of United Artists.

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Marceline Day another young silent | screen graduate who has more than made good in talking productions has been added to the cast of “Temple Tower,” from the novel of the same name written by “Sapper,” H. C. McNeile. Kenneth McKenna. Henry B. Walthall, Marguerite Churchill. Cyril Chadwick and Peter Gawthorne are the other players tnus far assigned to leading roles in this production.

Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell will co-star in “High Society Blues,” Dana Burnet’s magazine story, which will go into production Boon at the Foz Movietone studios in Hollywood. It was also announced that “Playmates,”scheduled for production will be made at a later date. The widespread success of “Sunnyside Up.” is chiefly responsible for the launching of the famous screen lovers in the new melody drama. David Butler who directed “Sunnyside Up,” will direct, “High Society Blues.”

Miss Catherine Dale Owen, a prominent Broadway stage actress, who played the feminine lead in “His Glorious Night” and “The Rogue’s Song” at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio, has now been cast for the principal feminine role in the forthcoming talking picture adaption of Somerset Maugham’s “The Circle.” Other players so far selected for this film, which David Burton will direct, include Lewis Stone, Alison Skipworth, Ernest Torrence, Tyrril Davis and Miss Mary Forbes.

Already there has been a considerable growth in the production of bilingual talking pictures. Several have been made in French and English, and German and English, but the latest goes further than that. Reginald Denny made the dialogue version of “One Hysterical Night” for Universal in two languages—English and American. Fearful that his prospective English audiences would fail to understand certain slang expressions. Denny, himself of English birth, had such passages noted in the script and translated them into more standard English. All scenes in which the obscure American expressions occurred had to be photographed twice.

“Bride 66,” the first of a series of musical spectacles which Oscar Hammerstein will create for United Artists, has gone into rehearsal under the direction of Paul L. Stein, who recently completed work on “The Swan.” Miss Lilian Gish's first dialogue picture. The cast Is one of power and unusual talent. Miss Lois Moran, playing the lead, was known for her dancing before she essayed dramatic roles on the screen. Miss Dorothy Dalton, a favourite for years, returns to pictures with an important role in the production, revealing added charm and showing the benefit of her stage training. Joseph Macauley, baritone, is cast for a singing role, and Joe E. Brown, versatile comedian of stage and films, is also in the cast.

The United Artists studios invested a small fortune in flowers for ‘‘Puttin’ on the Ritz,” the all-dialogue musical picture, starring Harry Richman, a famous Broadway revue artist. Flowers of all kinds —several truckloads of them—were gathered fer a single scene in the picture, which will probably appear in the completed production for not more than two or three minutes. “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” which will introduce a number of Irving Berlin songs, written especially for the picture, contains a large cast of prominent players. Miss Joan Bennett, plays opposite Richman, with James Gleason, Miss Aileen Pringle and Miss Lilyan Tashman. Eddie Sloman is directing under the supervision of John W. Considine, Jr., general production executive at the United Artists studios, who also wrote the screen story.

Joe: “When you proposed did you tell her that you were unworthy of her?” Jim: “Yes. and she agreed.”