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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 244, 14 October 1937, Page 3

Mary Astor will play opposite. Richard Arlen in "The Night Before.” I Frederic March stars in "The Buccaneer. ” which is now in production. [ Harold Lloyd has offered Jean • Arthur a co-starring role in his next | comedy, "Professor Beware." Wendy Barrie and Walter Pidgeon have been assigned principal roles in "Mightier Than the Sworn.” Herbert Marshall will star with Barbara Stanwyck, Glenda Farrell, and Eric Blorc in "Love Like That.” R.K.O. will produce a picture based on the life of the composer George Gershwin. His brother, Ira, will script, it. Alice Faye, Tyrone Power, and Don Ameche are the stars in "Alexander's Ragtime Band.” Eddie Cantor has sold an original story, "Sing While You Sleep,” Io 20th. Ccntury-Fcx and will star in it following completion of “Ali Baba Goes to Town.” Phyllis Loughton, Paramount diction coach, finds that British people have two decided advantages over Americans when it comes to acting. Namely, they have more poise and their diction is better. She finds the most usual faults with the average newly-signed young prospect for pictures is a high-pitched, nasal voice.

Gilbert Roland is the son of Don Francisco de Alonso, famous as a Mexican bull fighter and the teacher of Sidney Franklin, noted American matador. Roland is highly successful as an actor. He has a featured role in Paramount's "The Last. Train From Madrid,” which uses the Spanish revolution as a background for its screen story. “King Solomon’s Mines.” One of the season’s outstanding picture successes in Australia is G.B.D.’s attraction, "King Solomon's Mines," from the widely-read novel by Rider Haggard. Paul Robeson is the star and the array of supporting players includes Sir Cedric Hardwicke, John Loder, Roland Young, Anna Lee and a multitude of Africans which runs into thousands.

W. C. Fields will next appear in a picture titled "Don’t Look Now.” The story, which has been adapted from a novelette by Julian Street, has been known previously as “Need of Change” and "Bag of Tricks” and the chief character is the president of an American business house who devotes most of his time to his hobby of ! juggling. This should be ideal for Fields, because he made his living at juggling at one time.

Music Activities. The Music Teachers’ Association is n very live musical body in Wellington, and under its president, Miss Val- • eric Corliss, is doing good work in promoting interest among students. A social evening has been arranged for October in the Pioneer Club, when a feature of the meeting will be organ solos and an illustrative talk by Mr. Stanley Oliver. The String Group of the B.M.S. (leader, Dr. Keys) will supply an interesting number of items, including compositions for strings, and the first Movement of a Bach Concerto for two pianos, with string accompaniment. Miss Molly Atkinson will sing a group of songs.

Carole Lombard is a gracious person. She has a beautiful portable dressing room on the Paramount lot which Mitchell Leiscn, her favourite director and one time art director for DcMille. designed for her. She let Irene Dunne use it. while making "High, Wide and Handsome” for Paramount. But Irene Dunne, anyone would bo gracious to her. "Lovely to look at.” is the phrase that fits her perfectly.

Loretta Young co-stars with Tyrone Power in "Second Honeymoon.” Thrills and Realism. In the Barre Lyndon play in the West End, "They Came by Night,” Owen Nares had one of the longest roles of his career, being practically never off the stage. He represented a Bond Street jeweller, a character (who had to foil a gang of international thieves, avert police suspicion I from himself, and win the girl he 1 loves in a • nies of scenes played in 'circumstances of frightening realism. [One of the thrills of the piece was the blowing open of a strongroom at la firm of bullion dealers near Hatton [Garden. Ursula Jeans played the j of an opera singer. ( One-woman Cast. « I Doreen O’Brien is not only a clevef character actress featuring oneI woman shows, but is also an authoI rtss. She is very popular in the North jof England, and made her first West End appearance in London recently in a series of character sketches, and. a complete play. She also, did a complete play which she wrote herself—* "The Queen Cousins’’—telling the dramatic story of the relationship between Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots. The Arts Theatre housed these one-woman performances. Other one-woman artists popular in England arc Cornelia Otis Skinner and Ruth Draper.

Eight Comedians. "Love in a Bungalow,” Universal’s laugh-getting picture which will be released in Wellington soon has eight comedians in its cast. The feminine [featured player is- Nan Grey, who gained public attention by her peri formance as a comedienne in "Three Smart Girls.” Kent Taylor, who shares Ihe lead with Nan Grey, scored I previously in a romantic comedy rolfl in "When Love is Young." Jack Smart played comic roles in "When Love is Young" and "Top of the Town.” Hobart Cavanaugh has had humourour roles in more than two dozen movies. Richard Cacle, long a comedy star on stage and screen, add his funmaking proclivities to “Love in a Bungalow.” Margaret ("pixilated")' McWade contributes her brand of whimsy. Florence Lake, heroine of numerous comedies ,is cast as a goofy prospective house-buyer. Minerva Urecal portrays the mirth-provoking, domineering wife of Hobart Cavan, augig