SCREEN & STARS

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20455, 7 November 1934, Page 3

SCREEN & STARS

HOLL\ Y\ OOD correspondent . states that practically every producer in the film city is planning to make coloured picture; this year.

INDICATIONS that Douglas Fairbanks, jun., may never return to Hollywood, except as a possible visitor, were given further strength recently when the actor sent for his secretarv, Louis Blembel. to go to London. Young Fairbanks already has disposed of most of his possessions in llollvwood, writes a correspondent. His home, now leased to Virginia Pine, is listed for sale, and he has sold almost all of his stocks and bonds and personal belongings, in addition to getting rid of his automobile. Paramount cabled him an offer for “ Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” and Universal wanted him for “ Great Expectations,” but both studios were turned down. STATISTICS compiled in America prove that 12,000,000 people attended Mae West’s first picture. Thirty-five million playgoers witnessed her second production. pETER LORRE (pronounced “ Lawruh ”) is regarded in Hollywood as one of the coming sensations of the American screen. He astounded the European critics with his performance in “ M,” a film considered to be one of the artistic masterpieces of the German screen. KORDA has signed John Barrymore, the Hollywood actor, to star in a Shakespearean film to be made at Elstree. beginning next Januarv. j.j ♦,* Fox Films engaged Muni Weisenfreund in 1928 to make “ The Valiant ” and “ Seven Faces,” they altered his name to Paul Muni, because they thought the short name would look better in electric lights. Similarly, R.K.0.-Radio thought Jacques de Bujac too cumbersome and changed this to Bruce Cabot.

Y E T ANOTHER British film executive is going to America to arrange for the distribution of British pictures He is S. \\. Smith, managing director I of the British Lion Film Corporation, and the films he wishes to place include ** Warn London,” a thriller with Edmund Gwenn, and “ Gay Love,” starring Florence Desmond. Mr Smith also intends American studios. JACK DOYLE, the English boxer and tenor, has signed a contract to become a film star. Jack Doyle’s first picture will be “ Radio Parade of 1935.” He will play the part of a liftman who is discovered to be the possessor of a fine voice, and he is, of course, brought to the microphone. Doyle will be the screen’s newest type of lover. £<LAUDETTE COLBERT, who usually contrives to wear as few clothes as possible, recently announced that she was very much opposed to much undressing on the screen. ALL the way from Paris comes the advice that frozen-faced Buster Keaton will be featured in a Frenchmade picture called “Le Roi de-; Champs Elysees.” It is being produced by M. Nebenzahl, of Cesar Films, and. so far as any one knows, will be the first non-American made picture in which Keaton has appeared. The film will be released in Xovember. XEW producing company, headed by Antonio Samamiego, brother or Ramon Xovarro, has been formed in Hollywood to produce a series of six features in Spanish. The company will work in Mexico City. J’HEDA BARA the screen’s original “ vamp,” may go on the stage in England. :: A LONDON writer states that Sir Cedric Hardwicke may play Oliver Cromwell in a film bearing that title.