250,000 MILES FOR FILMS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20274, 7 April 1934, Page 30 (Supplement)

250,000 MILES FOR FILMS.

Be a Star and See the World! Be a film star and see the world. It’s a great life if you are not addicted to sea-sickness. Sixteen stars, directors, authors and executives will have travelled a total of 250,000 miles to make nineteen “ talkies ” within the next six months. They are all journeying to or from London. Pay your money and take your choice—which of these important ladies and gentlemen would you like to be? A quarter of a million miles .to choose from .... Charles Laughton, to Hollywood this month to make “ Marie Antoinette ” and “ The Barretts of Wimpole Street ” with Norma Shearer. Home in June to make “ The Scarlet Pimpernel,” 12,000 miles. Leslie Howard leaves Hollywood for Moscow soon to make scenes for “ Secret Agent ” among the Bolsheviks. Returns to London to play Saunders in “ Kongo Raid ” (“ Saunders of the River”). May go to Africa on this. 15,000 to 20,000 miles. Bruce Lockhart, author of “ Secret Agent,” now in Hollywood .scripting. Returns soon. 12,000 miles. Doug. Fairbanks, sen., in Spain to star in “ Exit Don Juan,” back to London, then possibly to Hollywood. 15,000 miles. Maurice Chevalier, to London as soon as he has finished “ The Merry Widow ” in Hollywood, to make a film about local boy who made good as one of Napoleon’s marshals. 12,000 miles. Merle Oberon to Hollywood to play opposite John Barrymore in “ The Count of Monte Cristo ” as soon as she has finished with “ Don Juan ” in Spain. 15,000 miles. Norma Talmadge and Thomas Meighan return to London this month to make a film for Herbert Wilcox. They have only just gone back home, not liking the story picked up for their London debuts. 48,000 miles between them! Madeleine Carroll, now in Hollywood making “The World Moves On” (‘‘Cavalcade” sequel), home in April (which is more than Robert Browning managed). 12,000 miles.

Florence Desmond, home from Hollywood t.o star in Bruce Graeme’s “ Blackshirt ” at Walton. Then heading back to California. 12,000 miles. Ned Man, famous Hollywood trick camera expert, now in London working on the 11. G. Wells film, “The Shape of Things to Come.” Then home again. 12,000 miles. Jack Hulbert, off to Heliopolis, Egypt, to make “ The Camels are Coming,” R.A.F. comedy. 6500 miles. Victor Saville, director, going soon to Rhodesia to make “Rhodes.” 13,000 to 15,000 miles. Clive Brook will probably travel from Hollywood to London, London to Rhodesia, Rhodesia to London, and London back to Hollywood. He is most' likely candidate for name-part of “ Rhodes.” 27,000 miles. Walter Forde, director, plans to go to Malta for “ Brown on Resolution,” then to India for “ Soldiers Three,” then to Norway for “ Northbound.” I have failed to work that out, but it is probably in excess of 20,000 miles. Michael Balcon, production chief, leaves for Hollywood on the completion of “Jew Suss.” 12,000 miles. u Wife for Sale.” “ Wife for Sale,” Kathleen Norris’s recent novel, has been purchased by Fox Films. “Second-hand Wife” and “ Walls of Gold,” both adapted from Norris novels, met with popular approval in screen form. Sir Gerald du Maurier. Sir Gerald du Maurier, who played a memorable role as a convict in Galsworthy’s “ Escape,” is starred as a De-tective-Inspector of Scotland Yard in “ Third Degree.” With Sir Gerald in the cast are George Curzon, Leslie Perrinc, Henry Victor, Wally Patch, Daphne Courteney, Greta Natzler, Herbert Cameron, Frederick Piesley and Johnny Schofield.