PLAYERS REUNITED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 297, 15 December 1934, Page 14

PLAYERS REUNITED

LAPSE OF TWENTY YEARS The 1 ‘ little colonel” and lhe “ little sister” of the most widely viewed motion picture ever made, D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation,” were reunited on the screen following a lapse of 20 years when Mae Marsh was signed by Fox Film to play the role of the wife of Henry B. Walthall in John. Erskine’s “Bachelor of Arts.” “The last time I saw Henry 1 died in his arms after I had jumped over the cliff in “The Birth of a Nation,’ ” Miss Marsh recalled when she and Walthall renewed their friendship. Miss Marsh, now living in Flintridge with her three children, gave up the screen at the height of her career to become a wife and mother. Walthall began to regain his popularity nearly a year ago in. a series of excellent performances in successful pictures. A few weeks ago, fallowing his performance with Will Rogers in Irvin S. Cobb’s “Judge Priest,” Fox Film signed him to a long-term '■ontract.

The Roxy ano Radio City Music Hall •—two of the largest and most important cinemas of New York—are to show not less than 14 British films during the coming season. This triumph for the British industry is the outcome of an agreement which has just been made between the theatres and Mr. Mark Ostrer, chairman of the Gaumont-Brit-ish Corporation. Gaumont-British films of world-market calibre will in future be given a simultaneous world premiere in London and on Broadway. A further agreement with the Fox Film Corporation prvides for the distribution of the films over all parts of the United States. Gene Stratton Porter continues to be the favourite author in Hollywood since the advent of the Purity Campaign. “Laddie,” one of her novels which was filmed in the silent days, is to be remade by Radio with Tom Brown in the lead.