FLIGHTS OF FANCY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 197, 23 August 1935, Page 10

FLIGHTS OF FANCY

CLEVER TRICK EFFECTS.

TWO H. G. WELLS' FILMS. While H. G. Wells has been surprised by the resourcefulness and ihe ingenuity with which screen technicians can rise to the visual translation of his imaginings, the film people themselves • say that Mr. Wells’ gift for clear thinking in practical'terms is of incalculable value in the making of the two pictures with which he is at present connected. Now that most of the trick photography difficulties have been surmounted for his epic, “Whither Mankind?” (formerly called “The Shape of Things to Come”) the London producers are more confident than ever that this picture is going to cause a sensation. It is by no means finished yet, Vivid «ccnos of wholesale destruction, incidental to the seer’s vision of what may happen, have been enacted in recent weeks.

At the same time Mr. Wells and the technicians are collaborating on flights,

so to speak, o£ lighter fancy in the filming of one of his famous short stories “'The Man Who Could Work .Miracles.”

’ Hero we have Itolaud Young, the English actor from Hollywood (who plays characters so diverse as the English lord in “Huggies of Bed Gap” and Uriah Heep in “David Copperfield in the part of the commonplace villager startled by the discovery of his occult powers. One of his exploits, for the persuasion of Ernest Thesiger as the unbelieving Baptist minister, is to materialise a leopard on ire dining room hearthrug. Ralph Richardson appears as a erochety old colonel whose disdain for the reputed miracles undergoes a paiu--I'ul change.

Writes for Paramount. Ray Noble, radio’s latest sensation, will be represented in the credit sheet of Paramount’s “The Big Broadcast of 1935.” Nablo is listed as a composer. along with Ralph Raingcr, Rich ard Whiting and Ann Ronell. Leo Robin, who usually teams with Raingcr, in such tunes as “Love in Bloom” and “Juno in January,” is Credited with the lyrics.