BRITISH TALKIES.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18165, 1 November 1930, Page 17 (Supplement)

BRITISH TALKIES.

Noel Coward’s clever comedy, •‘Brown Sugar,” is to be made a British all-talking picture. This will be the first Noel Coward subject to reach the talking screen. # * # Picture-lovers who enjoyed “Rookery Nook,” will be delighted to hear that the team of comedians who were responsible for the rollicking fun in the Ben Travers farce are shortly to be seen in New Zealand again in a comedy by Frederick Lonsdale, “On Approval.” Colin Clive, who will be remembered for his work as Captain Stanhope in “Journey's End,” is now playbig leads with Gainsborough Pictures. The first picture being made is the “Stronger Sex,” a story of the BritTsh coalfields. The second Ben Travers farce to be released in this country is “Plunder,” with the same cast as was seen in "Rookery Nook.” V * Ernest Lotinga, who was in New Zealand last year, has one of his famous music-hall sketches, known as •'The PoJjce Force,” as the basis

for a comedy talking picture to be known as “Josser, P.C." • Mr Lot log a will be remembered in some British talking shorts which were seen in New Zealand a little while ago, and' is said to be remarkably funny in this delineation of a harmless London cop.

Gaumont is making a picture of "The Road of Poplars.” “Road of Poplars” won first prize in the competition run by “John o’ London’s Weekly,” the judges being such people as R. C. Sherriff, Sybil Thorndyke, etc. The action of the play centres round the Menin Gate, and concerns an English soldier wounded in the war, who returns to Ypres, marries a French girl, and in the shadow of the Gate, sets up a business as a cafe proprietor. $ * * * The famous English actor, Basil Gill will be seen as the doctor, in the problem talking picture, “Should a Doctor Tell?” * * * * Dorothy Seacombe, London actress, who was in New Zealand some year’s ago with Laurence Grossmith, announces her early departure for Hollvwood. There is a demand in Hollywood for experienced young British actresses with good voices.