NEWS FROM HOLLYWOOD

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19451, 15 December 1934, Page 17 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM HOLLYWOOD

• Over £BOOO In taxes has been collected from the estate of the late Marie Dressier by the United States Government.

Joan Crawford has recently finished work on “Chained,” with Clark Gable, and is now making “Forsaking All Others.”

Spencer Tracy has been cast to play tbe lead in the film version of Dante’s “inferno.” Also in the cast will be Claire Trevor, Alice .Faye and Henry B. Walthall.

Frederic March will portray the starring part in “The Call of the Wild,” which will he adapted to the screen from the famous book by Jack London.

Addie McPhail, wife of the late Roscoe (“Fatty”) Arbuekle, has been engaged by M.G.M. for a part in “Forsaking All Others.”

Maureen O’Sullivan's next picture will be “Backfleld,” a football story. Robert Young, Sluart Erwin and Preston Foster will also lie in ihe cast.

Tiie musical film, "The Night, is Young,” slurring Ramon Xovarro and Evelyn Laye. will contain a marionette episode by (be Hollywood Marionette Theatre Group.

William Powell will he Joan Crawford’s leading man for the llrst time in “Saratoga."

lVudyard Kipling’s “Gungu Din" will be tllmed by an independent American company.

Katharine Hepburn got mixed up in a very realistic screen battle in “The Little Minister," with the result that slie sprained her ankle. Iter leading man, John Real, was cut about the face In the same encounter,