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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1934.
Letters Suggest Many Fredrie March Wins Players For Dickens Lead Opposite Norma
Picture
. With
production tentatively set for mid-May, David O. Selz- nick and his production aides at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer astudio have begun, a careful inspection of the thousands of letters re- ceived since the public recently was invited to suggest players for the 88 important parts in David Copperfield,
Between 800. and 900 letters al- ready classified are led in the offices of George Cukor, who will direct. Most of them were from the United States, although some hundreds are from England, and a number are from Canada, Aus- tralia, and South Africa.
Among the suggestions which predominate in the letters thus far Inspected are:
For Aunt Betsy"-Marie Dress- ler, Edna May Oliver:
Fór David Copperfield." the boy-Tad "Alexander. Jackle Coo- per.
For "Mr. Dick"-Alec Francis, Lionel Barrymore, Lennox ·Pawle.
For Dora"-Maureen O'Sulli- van. Jul Esmond.
None of these players has been selected, the only definite assign- ment being Elizabeth Allan for the part of young Mts Copper- feld. Miss Allan is now in Eng- land!
Three Of The Marcus Beauties
QUEEN'S OPENING
MATINEE
Shearer.
Reuniting the sentimental ro- mantle team of Smilin' Through.. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have sign- ed Fredric March to play the role. of the poet, Robert Browning. with Norma Shearer in The Bar- retts Of Wimpole Street, her new starring vehicle, which is being produced by Irving Thalberg.
In the film version of the fan- ous Rudolf Besier Broadway, stage hit in which Katharine' Cornell triumphed in the theatre, March motivates the gripping dramatic theme with his Hery courtship of Elizabeth Barrett. He last played in Death Takes A Holiday.
Sidney Frankl is directing the ¦ ney Shearer film from the adap- tation of the play by Ernest Vajda ang Claudine West. Char- les Laughton has been sigried for the role of the father.
Included in the cast are MaU - reen O'Sullivan, Katherine Alex- ander, Ferdinand Munler others.
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MICKEY BOWS TO HIS DOG
STAR - PLUTO
Twenty-odd years ago, when very the world was young, a small, not very clean boy might have been observed sitting in the Doing precisely nothing. sunshine in a Missouri farmyard.
His toes waggled slowly in the dust; his back was planted against a whitewashed wall a Maybe he mused on the injus- tice of life in terms of unsuc- cessful raids on the pantry and his father's regrettable habit of calling him by his middle name -Blas:
Suddenly, a commotion. scene comes to life.
The
An ungainly mongrel pup, all leg and yelps, dashes madly across the yard, pursued by two irate hens.
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The small bostirs: reaches for an old brush stuck in a tar pot and starts to daub on the white" wash.
That small boy was Walt Dis- ney. And the daub he drew was the original Pluto. A king among dogs.
Now skip the years.
Last year. I made so bold, as to announce that "the two best screen performances had come from Mickey Mouse and His Dog Pluto. I admitted with со- mendable frankness that it was most unfair of me toʻpit the his- trionic strugglings of a poor weak woman like Garbo against the broad and wayward fancy of a genitus like Disney.
But it can't be helped. Disney towers above his competitors like a Himalaya. He has all the bold simplicity and essential humanity of a Strube, linked with the rich imagery of a Tenniel.
more" his has been
For ve years and greatest charactor Mickey Mouse. Mickey is до mouse. He is a cartoon Charlie Chaplin. He is the Little Man of the films, surmounting the insu- pérable with a grin-yet always amite pathetic, even in his mo- ment of triumph.
And now I come to my weekly
bombshell.
I have a very shrewd suspicion that Mickey 1s, about to retire.
Please keep your seats, ladies and gentlemen. There is absolu- tely no danger,!
I don't mean that we are going to see no more of him. But I am quité certain that every succee- ding Mickey Mouse cartoon will show him more and more 'in the role of benevolent compere, das- hing hero.
Mickey is going to be content to take a back seat,- His function will be to introduce and play foll to all the delightful characters of that Missouri farmyard.
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Claribel the cow, Horsecollar the old nag, and a host of piping
rat-talled kittens..
But these are just
featured players. The lad who is being groomed, for stardom is Pluto.
I keep dogs. They sit in the master's armchair and look re- proachful when I come in. They sit boli upright" in the car and bark madly at all traffic cops, One particularly reminds me of“ Plutô. He was born on Christmas Eve and answers to the name of Hops (for a very good reason).. Re is always doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
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So "does Pluto. There is the 30ul of every dog that ever whin- ed to go out, ever scatted after
stick, ever looked sheepish ca being found out, in this new Disney character.
To me. It was a shame that his latest exploit should imme- diately precede the new
Eddie Cantor laugh riot," "Roman Scan- dals," at the Leicester-square Thatre.
I laughed so much at the sim- ple predicaments of Pluto that I had little strength left for the elaborate comicalities of Mr.
Cantor.
There is one scene in "Playful -- Pluto” which is a perfect' gem of
screen
comedy. Mickey dives down into a dark cellar to turn the water off at the main, Pluto: follows and most obliginly volunt teers to hold the torch. And pro- mptly swallows it.
This accident, by a process well known to all dogs, gives him hic- cups, and every time he hiccups the torch shines bright in his tummy.
But do not misunderstand me. Pluto is not just a custard-ple artist.
He is something of a romanti- cist Periodically, there crops up that affair with the Pekin-
gese....
Then Pluto assumes the look of a John Boles and revels in his manhood most coyly.
But maybe I go too far. Maybe, I should not be wasting your time with nonsense about one-reol car- toons when the great public of filmgoers is, avid. as ever. to learn more and more about the stars:
By Paul-Holt.
The latest cartoon feature starring Mickey "Monse "Mickeys Mechanical Man" coming soon to the Colony.
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Marlene's Super
Film
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More than two thousand "ex- tras" were enaged by Paramount for what has already been called Marlene Diettrich's greatest dim. This picture-The Scarlet Em- press-is based on the life and loves of Catherine the Great of Russia
Quite apart from this immenso number, the featured cast includ- ing Sam Jaffe, John Lodge, C. Aubrey Smith, Kent Taylor, Louise Lresser, Gavin Gordon and. Marie Wells, is one of the biggest ever assembled In Hollywood.
"The Merry Commenc
tion Shortly
The Merry Widow commences 'production shortly, according to an announcement. Maurice Chevaller and Jeanette MacDonald, will be co-starred in this sound version of Franz Lehar's operetta under, direction of Ernst Lubitsch., "Irv-.. ing Thalberg is producing The Merry Widow.
No Harry
agitatedly, "Wake up. There's a burglar in the spare room.
·John rubbed his eyes.
Only months of research have John, Jolm, called his wife enabled Paramount to make this picture, the direction or which is in the hands of Joser von Stern-⠀⠀ berg, who, Incidentally, is a well- known authority on the life and times of the Empresa
"All right dear," said he, "Walt till the" morning then we can charge him for a night's lodging."
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THE SCREEN'S
MOST EXCITING MYSTERY
FROZEN to death in TROPIC HEAT
Stranger Weird!
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with JOHN HALLIDAY } ̈** CHARLIE RUGGLES
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NEIL HAMILTON
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-THEY SAILED ON A SHIP OF DOOM! Death.. Intrigue.... Murder! Wierd Excitement. Strange Happenings .... Love.......... Revenge All Com- bined in the Most Amazing Drama of the Year
Elisabeth Bergner by
Charles Gay
Elisabeth Bergner is a beautiful bluestocking. Austrain, of course. Jewish, too. But she left Ger- many long before Hitler appear- ed. For a year she has lived in London. For a year before that she lived in Paris. Paul Czinna the film-director, is her husband. They Uve in Park Street, Berg- ner is no comet. She studied at the Conservatoire, made her de- but in Switzerland, and became a
nine sensational success
years. ago in St. Joan. From that time she has never looked back. Her Portia is sald to be the memérable within living times... So is her Rosalind. But her Juliet-true, the house was sold out in advance for a 'hundred night-is said to be execrable. She says so herself.
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Her greatest admirer 19 Lord D'Abernon, and what Lord D'Abernon doeś nay know about the Art is not worth knowing Bergner ls Box-Office. Moreover, she has a supreme contempt for "Art for Art's sake.” She ha wit, a love of beauty, of comfort; and, of music to a degree only attained by Viennese. She adores Queen's Hall, If anything. she is too clever for most people. Like Printemps, she resta of the day, Her concentration on her part is terrific. Her range on her part is terriffe. aa-, Gr-p fa remarkable. One of her great- est successes was in the name- part of The Last of Mrs. Cheyney.
most
She does not really like films. ("It is so hard to be imaginative in snippets.") She hates being. interviewed. She has never play- ̈ed in a Coward play. They adore her at the theatre. She has been to see Printemps-once Printemps has been to see her once. They both admirè each other enormously, though pro- bably Bergher's admiration for. Printemps is greater than Prin temps' for her.
What else? Well, if you haven't been: to see her in Escape Me Never, or Catherine the Great, you had better do so. She can do more with her eyes than the average actress can do with her hands, mouth, and all the rest of her, working overtime. Quality is like an elephant-difficult to describe, but easy to recognise. Bergner has quality
Elizabeth Bergner as the appears in Alexander Kords's newest, super picture" Catherine The
Great" to be released by United Artista shortly in Hong Kong.
PROGRAMME
Broadcast by ZB.W. on 355 Metres
1-2.15 p.m., European Programme. 1 p.m., Local Time and Weather
Report.
1.03, p.m., Recorded Music.... 1.15 p.m., A relay of the» Hong
Kong Hotel Orchestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Grill Room. (By courtesy of the Manage- ment).
1:30 p.m. Rugby Press News, etc. 2.15 p.m. Close Down.
A VIOLIN RECITAL BY PRO-" FESSOR MICHAEL WEXLER: A RELAY OF THE DERBY- 4.30-5.30 p.m.; "European recorded.
music.
PROGRAMME Orchestral Ballet Egyptian" Bulte (Luigini) ..... Concert Orches-
tra.
Allegro non troppo
2 Allegretto.
3 Andante sostenuto.
4 Andante esprissivo.
Vocal Gems-Florodora (Staurt)
......Light Opera Company, Violin Bolo-Thais-Meditation
(Massenet).
Violin Solo-Tambourin Chinois (Kreisler) ......Fritz Kreisler. Orchestral-Raindrops-Pizzicati
for Strings (de la Riviere). Orchestral-A Fairy Banet
(White)
Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra conduct- ed by Bir Dan Godfrey. Bong-Come Back (Tosell's
Serenade).
Song-A Brown Bird Binging
(Haydn Wood),
Master Leslie Day (Boy Soprano). Planoforte Bolo-Danse Creole
(Chaminade).
Pianoforte Solo Pierrette (Chammade). Una Bourne, Waltz Conversation Piece-131 Follow My Secret Heart.? Waltz Conversation Piece-Be-
gency Rakes.......
The BBC Dance Orchestra. 5:30-7.30 p.m., Chinese Programme 0-6.15 pm Children's Studio Con-
tert.
1-7,50 p.m.,
A Lecture on Education" by a Member of the Teachers' Assa- ciation. (In Chinese) 7.30-10.30 p.m., European Program-
me."
7.30-8 pm. From the Studio.
A Violin Recital by Professor Michael Wexler accompan by Mra Nura Kanis,
8 pm, Local Time and Weather
Report. 8 pm, Local Time and
Report.
3.03-9 p.m., A B.B.C. Programme
(Continued on Paz 6)