NEWS OF THE CINEMA

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20786, 22 April 1939, Page 17 (Supplement)

NEWS OF THE CINEMA

Film Star’s £ISOO a Week Leslie Howard will receive the enormous salary or £ISOO a week for i\ weeks for his role as Ashley in “Gom With the Wind.” That is what if making the picture so costly. Clark Gable's salary as Rhett Butlei will not be much less, if any. and the huge cast will just eat up the money Gives Pay to Help Film Actors j Charles Previn, noted musician am 'symphony orchestra conductor, player ! himself in the Deanna Durbin produc tion, “Three Smart Girls Grow l'p.” Mr Previn is seen as the leadrr of ar orchestra while Miss Durbin sings “L? Capinera.” The pay which Mr Previn receive! for this, his first screen work, will b< donated to the Screen Actors’ Guild. Play’s Film Rights Sold for £55,000 Raymond Massey will, it is under stood, star in the film version o Robert E. Sherwood’s play. “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” for which the filrr rights are being sold for £55,000. The agreement, besides requiring j Massey in the lead, calls for Slier- ! wood to adapt his own play, and Ihe j picture is not to be released until after , the play has run its course, both on j Broadway, where it is now in its nine- j teenth week, and on tour. I “William” Stories Brought to Films i Iris Hoey has been signed to play ! the part of “William's” mother in the | first, of the series of British family j films adapted from the Riclunal ! Crompton stories. Sh" will ho Mrs Brown, a har:i<so.| ! suburban matron, and wife of I'n-d i Emney, who is taking the part of Mr ! Brown. ! Ethel Brown, William’s sister, is to | he played by Jenny Laird, who lias j played small parts in several recent j