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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 88, 14 April 1938, Page 3

Dolly Haas, star of the tragic Broken Blossoms,” will make her long-delayed debut for Columbia in an Oscar Kammerstein musical, “Paris on Broadway.” Not So Wicked. Those seeing Walt Disney’s first feature, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” will find that, but for a few changes, the story clings closely to the Grimm fairy tale beloved of their childhood. Because of the demands of the motion picture medium, and also because Disney likes to eliminate the gruesome element as much as possible in his productions, the princess Snow White will not, however, have to suffer quite so much at the hands of her wicked step-mother. In the original tale, she almost died of being laced too tightly by the bad queen, and of having a poisoned comb run through her hair before she finally took a bite of the poisoned apple which finally put her into a bewitched sleep. In the Disney version, the queen does only one dastardly deed.

Ruth Mix, daughter of Tom Mix, cowboy hero of silent films, is to make a series of Western thrillers.

Oscar Homolka is the latest named possibility for the part of Louis XVI in Norma Shearer's “Marie Antoinette.”

Close-ups. Because he considers her the most promising star material in pictures today. Samuel Goldwyn extended the shooting schedule of “The Adventures of Marco Polo” by two days, merely to photograph close-ups of Sigrid Gurie.