BIG MONEY
BRITISH TALKIE STARS. LONDON, December 16. Tom Walls (owner of the Derby winner, and Ralph Lynn, two wellknown British screen stars, will figure in a financial comedy, as a result of which they will receive nearly £200,000 through a contract to make four films a year for three years for the Gaumont-British Company. Walls, who directs his own films, will receive £IO,OOO per film, and Lynn £6OOO. The deal includes the Aldwych Theatre's comedy team (Mary Brough, Winifred Shotter, Robertson Hare and Claude Hulbert).
Walls and Lynn, whose “talkies” ar= at present earning them £IOO,OOO a year each in Britain alone, are also under an arrangement to make two films a year for Herbert Wilcox, who in August severed his connection with the Gaumont-British Company, and entered into an arrangement with American United Artists, hoping to secure screenings in America. The Gaumont-British Company is not desirous of losing the Walls-Lynn attractions, and recently made them an irresistible offer.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19374, 24 December 1932, Page 5
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160BIG MONEY Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19374, 24 December 1932, Page 5
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