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Greta Garbo's next film, “Queen Christina," is to be shown in Lon- don next February.
While all that talk was going on last year about her settling down in Stockholm, ' about her getting married, about her not getting married, about her clothes. the length of her eyelashes, her. 'breakdown," her retiring from pictures and making them in Ber- in, Greta was studiosky collecting material for her new picture.
In "Queen Christina,"" which Reuben Mamouliah is directing, she is not only the star; she is virtually her own art director, for she has collaborated with the stu- dio officials id making the seta for the alm.
The centre-plece of a great feat of studio architecture is the palace
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"I'm No Angel"
Theatre fans will have another opportunity of seeing Mae West- in another of her much discussed "Aims Tm No Angel", which commences its run at The Queen's theatre very shortly. She is cast as a circus lon tamer in this picture. and
Its throne room, boudoirs and ban- queting halls, which was built th 1100.
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While on holiday in Stockholm, and not getting married, GarboA plunged bashfully into the mu seums and libraries here, heavily disguised as a student of archæo- logy, and secured authentic plans of the palace as it appeared in the seventeenth century, when Queen Christina was од "the throne.
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director ·to Metro Goldwyn on the film, the exact detalls of Christina's palace bave been reproduced. From the
Queen's footstool to the beeting
castle walis, the whole atmosphere of what romantic fortress has been laboriously built up.
The palace was a cold and hos- tile place. The sets had to be cold. Something, had to be creat- ed to convey the notion of age- old battlements; iced over by ac- cumulations of frosty weather and Berce Nordic winds. this palace reigned
And in the cold, unemotional daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, crowned as king, ruling with vigour, learned in the arts and determined (like
Garbo) not to marry.
proud, 19 sald to be even funnier than ever. If you enjoy- ed her last we are told you will like this one better. She is as witty as ever-in fact more, so in "I'm No Angel and the interest-
To represent this coldness the
ing part about her pictures is.art director used. a bluish-tinted
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wood in the erection of this sets which comes out in the photo- graphy like an architectural bliz- zard. Chairs and tables, as well as exterior work, are all repre- sented in this pecullar blue wood. Garbo.discovered engravings of -the actual thrones used by the queen, one of which was in solld silver and will be represented in
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ings of the good ship Araminta in which Christina sailed from Swe- den with her Spanish lover were also discovered by Gazbo In Swedish museum, and have been meticulously reproduced for the occasion.
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Garbo has long wanted to part ay, the life of Queen Christina in a Alm. The queen was a master- ful woman, surrounded by pomp, distracted by love affairs, maszu- line in outlook, romantic in mood, a legend of Swedish history and folklore.
"Queen Christina" senda Garbo back to the great. days of Swedish film production, for it was "The Atonement of Costa Berling,” a Swedish-Elograph dlm made by her intimate' friend, Maurits Stil- ler, which launched her into fame. After that she was placed under contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and has been with them ever in-
ce.
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And in "Queen Christina," too,
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new
For Red Wagon," his BIP. Alm, Paul Stein wanted a Į thrilling scene of a circus are.
He got fifty caravans; several sideshows, and a huge Big Top worth £1,000, and soaked certain paits of the set with 500 gallons of paraffin. When the fire was started, and, the cameras COOL-1 menced to whir, the crowd of three hundred extras got 50 scared that some went and hid themselves at a safe distance. And two really good caravans
Aer the Fox banner. The large Bow is-at présent working on her balding at the left is only one latest picture Hoopia" based on of the many large stages in the John Kenyur Nicholsona Movietone city: This plant is play "The Barker" with Herbert Ave miles from Hollywood. Clara Mundin leading the funsters.
WHAT THE STARS ARE
DOING
Heather Angel is to be. Victor Jory's leading lady in "Stranger of the Night".
SAILORS AT FILM STUDIO
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Our Film Correspondent writes! To assist in the making of James Kirkwood and his wife White Ensfgr" at Sound City, the are, divorcing.
Admiralty allowed the director to make use of H.M.S. York! A party of eight officers and twenty-Ave men visited the studio to watch the shooting of a scéne" on a re- production of the quarter-deck.
Irenne. Dunn is to sing on the screen for the first time in Radio's.) "Stingaree" with John Boles
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Will Hay, the famous *school which were not supposed to be master of the music halls and damaged were burnt out.
the radio. is to make a British film for Columbia with troupe of "boys","
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Several members of the Italian Embassy in London visited Elstree the other day to watch the film-Louise Brooks ing of Italian scenes in Arthur silent films, has marrin veu adg Woods' first BIP. Alm "Secret Davis, a wealthy Chicago bache Agent" which is a story oflor. She was formerly the wife (Austro-Italian espionage conflict, of Eddle Sutherland the director. told "against the background, of the Great War.
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TIVES OF THE FOX
Robert Milton, the Hollywood || director who is to make the new BIP. film "Contraband" starting
FILM CORPORATION this week, will be assisted by John Harlow. He will also have as
Left to right-Winfeld Sheehan! - General First assistant Roy Goddard, who
producing Manager is promoted following his useful and. Vice President-man respon work as second assistant director sible for "Cavalcade" Sidney R. on "Red Wagon." Claude Friese- Kent... President, Greene will be in charge of "Con-
Clayton P. Sheehan, brother of traband" cameras. and will beWinfield Sheehan and General assisted by Ronald Nehme. and Foreign Manager of the Fox nim Brian Langley.
Corporation,
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John Gilbert, Greta Garbo's lead The Power And The Tarzan The Fearless
t man five years ago, hopes to re-establish his fame after a per- lod of comparative obscurity..
CHARLIE CHAPLIN that she writes them herself, Cary Grant, is cast as her lover, and he does his share towards making this the success it is. Do not miss it when it is shown at the - Queen's theatre, af
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Cary Grant
Mr. Cary Grant, the English ac-. for who left this country to be an acrobat, and graduated via the stage to the position of leading man in Hollywood (his last picture is "I'm no Angel').is back in London after a visit to his native Bristol
"I saw. my father, my uncles, my cousins and my aunts, and had a wonderful time," he told me. I have been asked to play opposite Marian Marsh in a Bri- tish International picture, but, 1 couldn't get permission from Para- mount.. I expect to leave for Paris."
Big Film Deal
DOUGLAS AND MARY SELL OUT
"Tarzan The Fearless" the exciting novelty, in which Colleen screen's biggest thriller Is to be Moore will be seen in a totally shown at the Central Theatre merent characterization
....... (Special Air-Mail Service) has been clasained as a four star than to fans who lijoy thria
This and should trove quite an attraz picture so movie fans will have Buster Crabbe plays the leading
Hollywood, Dec something different and wonder role assisted by Jacqueline, Wells ter, and his wife, Miss Mary Pick-
Douglas Fairbanks, the film ac ful as far as entertainments go-as the heroine in the story ford, who are the principal own Others who support Miss Moore There Is a trained elephant callers of the United Artists Studio are Spencer Tracy, Serah Pad | ed ""Tantor who is clever and he Corporation, have sold their in- den, Helen Vinson, Clifford Jones, rescues "Tarzan" the ape manterest to Twentieth Century Plá Henry Bolker, Billy O'Brien, from the various, wild beasts of tures, the new im corporation Cullen Johnson and Farrell Mac- the jungle. The much talked of headed by Mr. Darry! Zandk, it is Donald
"Voodoo" has its innings in this revealed This aim will usher a new style powerful story of the Jungle. The of atory expression called narra, natives are shown in war rath tage, A third person is employed and make the Jungle resound,
as narrator and tells the action with their tom-toms. Strife and story of the principal characters intr
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baston, on Friday. She was sti ing on a low, balcony, when electricis who was adjusting aro lamp twenty feet above. bped and fell on
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