MARLENE DIETRICH FOOTLIGHT FLASHES

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20464, 2 April 1938, Page 17 (Supplement)

MARLENE DIETRICH

FOOTLIGHT FLASHES

TO LEAVE UNITED STATES LATE FILMS NOT SUCCESSFUL (From a Correspondent) NEW YORK, February 13 Marlene Dietrich, whose Hollywood films used to earn her £50,000 each, has broken with Paramount Films. Mr Adolph Zukor, chairman of Paramount, announced after a talk with Marlene that it had been decided to postpone indefinitely “French Without Tears,” the script of which she had previously said she disliked. Mr Zukor added that Marlene will be permitted to work elsewhere and the expectation is that she will fulfil her intention of going to Paris to work with Josef von Sternberg, the Austrian director. Saw Disney Premiere “Morocco” (made- in 1932) and “Shanghai Express” (1934) made a lot of money, but officials have indicated that Marlene’s later films cost so much to produce that the box-office returns were hardly commensurate with the expense. Marlene, who will be 33 on Monday, last night attended the premiere of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” Walt Disney’s first full-length film. She said recently: “Only Something extremely interesting will keep me in Hollywood.”

The Frank Neil revue company, headed by Ella Shields and Jim Gerald, has had a very successful week in Wellington, where the season will last until next Saturday. • • • • Sole Brothers’ circ-us is showing at centres around Auckland. • • • » Maurice Moscovich, at one time head of a popular dramatic company in Australia and New Zealand, has a role in the film "Lancer Spy,” to be screened in Hamilton shortly. Renie' Riano, who was popular on the Australian and New Zealand stage for some years as a comedienne and grotesque dancer, is in the' film “ You're a Sweetheart,” now screening in Hamilton.

Charles Laughton’s New Film Rex Harrison will renew his partnership with Vivien Leigh, formed in •• Storm In A Teacup,” in “ St. Martin’s I.ane,” a film that will star Charles Laughton. Mr Ilarrison will play the part of the young man who ” discovers ” Miss Leigh while she is appearing in Mr Laughton's busking act outside a theatre in St. Martin’s-lane.