NEWS OF THE TALKIES.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19125, 9 December 1933, Page 16 (Supplement)

NEWS OF THE TALKIES.

Greta Garbo for London. It is said that Greta Garbo is likely to aocept a contract to aot in two British pictures —at a colossal salary. Maurice Chevalier, too, will appear in tho Elstree Studios before the end of the year. ■ Both Garbo and Chevalier wi’l share in the profits of the pictures they make. Funny Lines from Now Films. Husband (to friend who is leaving the house during a domestic squabble): Why are you going? Friend: Those whom the Lord hath joined together should battle It out together. a * # * Pete: You keep those two apart and r,ll give you 50 dollars. 'Hickey: Say, for 50 bucks I’d separate the Siamese twins. * * * * Pete: How does one explain two women in one’s cabin? Allan: You know how to explain one? Pete: Maybe. Allan: Well, double it.

Will Greta Garbo Marry? Greta Garbo may return to Sweden to get married sooner than was expeoted, says a message from Stockholm. Miss Garbo, who owns several houses in Stockholm, has now, through her brother, bought one or the loveliest estates near here. It consists of 115 acres, and is at Dyvik, where her old friend, Max Gumpel, the engineer—who has been mentioned frequently as her future husband —is going to build a stately mansion. Miss Garbo is also negotiating about the purchase of two farms with many hundreds of acres of forest land near Dyvik. Marriages In Hollywood.

Three noted film performers signed marriage registers last month. Buster Keaton, the comedian, remarried Mae Scrivens Hawley, Ills former nurse, whom he re-married in order to make the Mexican marriage they contracted in January legal under Californian law. Frances Dee became the wife of Joel MeCrea-

Polly Moran married Martin Malone a Los Angeles attorney.

Breakaway from Hollywood. Hone Island, New York, which will soon become a rival American production centre to Hollywood, has made a start with "Emperor Jones,” the

Paul Robeson feature, based on Eugene O’Neill’s drama. The film is playing to enraptured audiences In New York, and the critics are enthusiastic over the technical qualities of the local production plant. Robeson is the son of an escaped slave, who became minister of a Princetown negro church. Paul was a football star at his university, which recently awarded him the honoiaij degree of LL.D. Colour prejudice drove him out ct the legal profession and on to the “Emperor Jones,” in which- he sines four songs, is concerned with the"rise and fall of a Pullman porter. Tom Walls and His Views.

”1 want to do a bigger and more serious subject, something the whole Empire knows about, and 1 don’t care if it cost £50,000,” was the remark passed bv Tom Walls to the film correspondent, of the Daily Telegraph recently, after a private view of ins amusing new comedy, “Ju£t Smith.” He preferred, lie added, a story in which he could ride. He had thought of the exploits of Ned Kelly, the Australian only to be deterred by the impossibility of finding the right scenery in Europe. Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn.

■•Turkey Time," the next Tom Walls-Ralph Lynn comedy, went into production at Shepherd’s Bush, near London, on October 10. The. cast is as follows: — Tom Walls. Ralph Lynn. J. Robertson Hare. Mary Brough, Dorothy Hyson, Norma Yarden, D. A. clarkeSmith, Veronica Rose, Marjorie Corbet.

| Items of Interest. ! Norma Shearer will shortly be seen in a version of Michael Aden’s “ Green j Hat." i * * * * Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler have started work on “Hip, Hip, Hooray.” They have the support of : Dorothy Lee, Thelma Todd, Ruth ' Etting and Ginger Rogers.