FILMS AND STARS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 140, 22 August 1938, Page 1

FILMS AND STARS.

PERSONALITIES ON THE SCREEN COMING ATTRACTIONS. Sabu, the little Indian boy who became famous overnight in “The Elephant Boy, ” had a narrow escape with his life during the Aiming of “The Drnm.” The sequence was being taken on a narrow rocky path high up in the mountains. He was riding at full gallop along this path on a white Arab stallion called Bulke, and unexpectedly came upon a troop of Indian Lancers. He pulled up sharply, but as the horse reared one of its hind legs slipped oVer the edge of the precipice, which had a sheer drop of over 100 feet. Swiftly an Indian Lancer caught Sabu by the waist, dragging him from his horse. The sudden pull also saved the horse, for it gave him a chance to regain his balance. Old-time vaudeville makes its comeback in the most modern of swing musicals, “Everybody Sing.” Twelve famous teams of the two-a-day era are featured in one of the comedy sequences of the new production, which boasts an all-star cast including Allan Jones, Judy Garland, Fanny Brice, Reginald Owen, Billie Burke, Reginald Gardiner, and Lynne Carver. The story concerns a mad family composed of a playwriting' father and an actress mother. Their child, Judy, gets expelled from several schools because of her mania for singing- “swing” in the middle of her classes. The family have a play ready for production, hut can’t get the money to back it. Judy gets together with the family ehef, Jones, and they put on a musical. It’s a hit, and the family is saved from Anancial ruin. Nine lavish musical sequences are featured in the picture, which was directed by Edwin L. Marin and produced by Harry Rapf. Dave Gould directed the dances. Jean Arthur and Columbia have certainly made up their quarrel handsomely and no hard feelings. Columbia have dashed into the bidding for the Clifford Odet’s play “Golden Boy” and snapped it up over the heads of Sam Goldwyn and Warners They are said to have spent a record sum on the rights and Jean Arthur will play the Francos Fanner part, which seems bad luck on Frances. As Columbia are said to have spent fifty thousand pounds on the rights of “You Can’t Take It With You” and Jean is starring in that too, she must be feeling the warmth of her welcome home. Annabella, the French star, is seeking permission from her studio, 20th Century-Fox, to make a Aim in Paris in the autumn. The Parisienne has received three offers from French studios within a few weeks, the highest bidding £30,000 for one picture, an unprecedented price within recent years for European Alms. “I would like to make at least one picture in French each year,” she said. “I don’t want France to think that I have forgotten the country that gave me my training and my chance.” On completion of “Suez,” in which she is co-starring with Tyrone Power and Loretta Young, she is scheduled to sail for London to star in a Aim there for 20th Century-Fox. Studio executives said that every effort would be made to And time in the late autumn for her to make a picture in Paris, before she returns to Hollywood. David O. Selznick has signed Maude Adams, the world-famous stage actress, to a contract, and will star her in a series of motion pictures, the Arst of which will he produced next autumn. Miss Adams, who will be sixty-six years old on November 11th, has never appeared in pictures despite several tempting offers. However, she has long been interested in motion pictures from the technical end. For years she has experimented with cameras, Aim lighting, and dimensional Aim. Except for brief reappearances on the stage in 1931 and 1934, she has lived in virtual retirement for the last twenty years. “I feel it is a great honor to reintroduce Miss Adams to the millions who knew and loved her on the stage, ’ ’ Selznick said, 11 and a privilege to introduce her for the first time to the millions of a new generation.” Four famous baby stars of silent pictures, now grown up, are appearing in small roles in RICO-Radio s “Having Wonderful Time,” in which Ginger Rogers is co-starred with Douglas Fairbanks, junr. Marie Osborne, known in her starring days as Baby Marie and who has been Miss Rogers’ stand-in for two years,-is one of them. Wesley Barry, of the famous freckles, plays a waiter at the summer camp in whichjnuch^of^the

action is laid. Barry has lost most of his freckles and has been working steadily in films since he reached young manhood. Mary Jane Irving and Baby Peggy Montgomery, both famous juvenile stars in their day, also have roles in the pictures.

Freddie Bartholomew recently found bis football team blacklisted by 20th Century-Fox. On location in the Hollywood hills where he is starring with Warner Baxter in “Kid-, napped,” Master Freddie spent the first noon hour in staging a football game between a team that he recruited from among' the actors and technicians and another captained by Robert Herndon, an assistant director. After the game the casnaltv ’ist included Baxter suffering from a headache —he was acting as the referee and didn’t dodge a pass—Freddie himself, whose eye turned black after a scrummage (it had to be covered with make-up), Ralph Forbes, who wrenched a shoulder trying to block a pass, and Herndon, who developed a. “Charley Horse” and spent the rest of the day in bed. Fearful that with such casualties one of his tars might break a bone, the director. Alfred Werker, discouraged Freddie from further gridiron prowess, except for practice passes. Freddie, who has his own eleven among the boys in his neighborhood, also agreed not to play with that team until after Stevenson’s “Kidnapped” had been completed.

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