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MADE IN LONDON, ENGLAND, BY CARRERAS LTMO
EDDIE CANTOR COMES TO TOWN Know The Directors
IN
KID MILLIONS'
A SAMUEL GOLDWYN PRODUCTION
ARTIST RELEASE
UNITED
Here is a hit and a long run plant, is in Technicolor, and picture a Cantor extravaganza you've never seen anything love-
1.-ROY DEL RUTH
Roy Del Ruth, who directed #4 Bulldog Drummond Strike.. Back" (released next week), and the new Eddie Cantor comedy "Kid Millions," is fumous for the *peed and precision with which he turns out action-packed pictures. He is not on "arty" fellow by any intercas, but a good, sound com- mercial" director of the better type.
He has made many compara" tively poor filme in his húsy life, but that is not perhaps, alta gether his fault. He regards film direction as a job of work, and puts his responsibility to his pro- ducers above his own reputation. If they choose to give him a weak story, he does not walk off the set; he just makes the best of a bad job.
Proof of what he can do with a first-class subject is contained in "Bleaned Enent," his most famous film to date.
Leslie Howard, who worked with him on " Courage," "xays, he produces his pictures at a stag. gering speed. If a scene is good, he snaps out "OK." If it im't,.
complete with hilarious situations, ler on the screen, It's truly an he ejaculates "Stinks." He is a gorgeous settings, catchy tunes Inspired wind-up. Wand a, grand cast.
man of few words, and, in Ho- The love songs in the picture ward's opinion, "one of the great- Eddie, a poor and homeless lad, are sung by Ann Sothern and cst living exponents of the cine learns he has inherited from his George Murphy, as sweet-singing." father-a-treasure worth millions a twosome as you've ever heard. which he must
Del Ruth was born in Philadel go to Egypt to "Kid Millions" is an earful and phia, and received most of his collect Sailing on the same boat an eyeful, and you'll be humming education there. When fifteen he are torch sloger Ethel Merman, the tunes and repeating the gags paid a visit to London. Return posing as his long-lost mother; for days.
her thug boy-friend, Warren
Hymer, Southern gentleman, 'all
planning to cheat Eddle out of
the fortune.. The attempts to
Brutal
bump him off on shipboard are Horace Greeley was very busy," hilariously unsuccessful
but at last he managed to look up Once in Egypt things happen from his desk toward the visitor
ing to America "after, that, he ben came a newspaper reporter and illustrator-which accounts, por sibly, for the reportorial quality and the news
news values of his films,
Back in 1915, he wrote comedies for Mack Sennett, The cast of his first effort included Gloria Swan son, Lew Cody and Wallace Beery.
first at the Fox studios, ukere he "Tell me in one sentence what stayed six months. Then he went Eventually Eddie (now Eddie you want," said Greeley.
quer to Wornera.. He is still one although Bey) escapes with the treasure, "I want a subscription, Mr. of their "ace" directors, and returns home keeping his Greeley, for a cause which will promise to all the poor children prevent a thousand of our fellow in the neighbourhood to build them beings from going to hell"-
fast and funny. Eddies scenes who had sat watching him waiting. He became a full-blown director with Shelkess Eve Sully are side for about half an hour. splitting.
he has been loaned to other pro ducera quite a lot lately
His later picture, not yet com-
Paris which he is directing for Twentieth Century.
án ice cream factory. The final Greeley jumped up, shouting. "I pleted, is Folies Bergore de sequence, with the youngsters won't give you a cent. There don't making merry in the ice cream Fall enough go there now."
MOVIE NEWS
Wallace Beery may make a pic-. ture in England after all. This has been rumoured several times and denied.
At one time London Films were after him. Now, it is reported, Gaumont-British practically have the dotted line signed,
Dimculty is his contract with Metro. The contract permits Beery to make a picture for 'an- other company. if he likes, but Meiro must approve of the ar- rangement.
Beery has had several changes ör plan lately, He was cast for "Mutiny on te Bounty," but Char- les Laughton finally played the part. "First to Fight' was next on the list, but that was postponed. Then he went into West Point of the Air."
He may play in "O'Shaughnessy's Bay" for Metro. Tėžis is a circus story, and Jackie Cooper may play in it...
Bette Davis is to be à lady again in her next Says she pre- fers not being a lady,
The film is "Lady in Waiting." Bette's part is that of an heiress who becomes a torch singer.
In
When Bette first arrived Hollywood,“straight from the New York stage. studio men, sent to meet her at the station, missed her. "You didn't look like lan actress," they said.
Bette Davis is married to Har-. mon Nelson. They were at school togethe: One of those awkward marriages. She is in Hollywood, he is in orchestra leader.
Praise For Bengal Lancer'
Major F. Yeats-Brown, the
TO-DAY'S RADIO PROGRAMME
famous author of THE LIVES OF Broadcast by Z.B.W.
A BENGAL LANCER has just seen the great Paramount film version of the book. And this is the cable he sent to the Parow " mount studios in Hollywood,im- mediately afterwards:—-
Have just seer: Bengal Lancer marvellous, characterisation de- talls impressively realistic and correct really gives spirit of frontier congratulate you wonderful production
YEATS-BROWN
on
The author's opinion is, the #opinion of everyone who has' seen the picture. Critics unanimously regard" it as being as good. If not better than the company's famous "Beau Geste." Experts rank it as one of the greatest pictures
When he is on the radio she listens in.. When his band is in California she hops on a train,
Likes a good book. Favourite
works (ancient): "Siles Marner" (modem): "Story of San Michele."
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Greta Garbo said to have a "possible' rival. All very hush- Beery started his show life in a hush. She is a Viennese actress circus. He washed elephants. "named Luise Rainet.
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•
Ramon Novarro, It is under- atood, has definitely left Metro. He had been with the company longer than any other star. Mut- val consent ended contract.
"The Night is Young" opposite Evelyn Laye, was his last. He was to have done another, "Love While You May," with this star, but that is of now. Metro has not taken up Miss Laye's option.
Ramon will probably produce his own films, making both Span- ish and English versions." Then there is the play he has said he will do in England.
“Jeanette Macdonald was a posz........... sibility for "Love While You Mày,” but there are other more likely plans on hand now.
Rights of operetta "Maytime," stage success of a few years ago, are owned by Warners. They have been so busy with leg-shows that they didn't want to spread on e légless operetta,
Now Metro is negotiating with Warners for "Maytime," and it is likely that Jeanette Macdonald will make it next.
+
Fred Astaire seems to be get- sing good breaks. ""The Gay Di- vorce" brought him a seven year contract from Radio...
"Roberta" is his current produc- slon, and now a new one is being planned. Title, "Top Hat." It is on the lines of "The Gay Divorce," so there is no chance of Fred losing popularity-unless by repeating the same film too often. ...
Ginger Rogers will play opposite him again. Also Helen Broderick, anewcomer from the New York stage.
Fred's feet have earned him a lot of money. They are insured for £200,000. Dancing looks slap- dash, but try it.
hearsed their dances for "The Gay.
Fred and Ginger Rogers" pre-
Divorce" six hours a day for sever-" al weeks before the production.
Hot work they had to change their clothes completely at least four times a day.
#
!
Claudette Colbert has 2 Dew flm scheduled for production shortly. It is from an origiifat story with the intriguing title, "It You Could Only Cook."
Claudette's stock leapt up a mile after "It Happened One Night." Funny thing, she was not keen on the picture, but nothing better seemed on the way. Now she gets £20,000 a picture..*
She really is French. Born in Paris. Name, Lily Cauchein. Played in French and English vesions of "The Big Pond" with Maurice Chevalier
WYNNE GIBSON,
was brought from Holly
M.
ambling
version of Cohen
smath stage hit.
The fact that she may become a big star is' surmised because she discovered and brought to Hollywood without a line of pub- llcity.
was
More mystery stuff, think the gossips, and you. never know when Garbo will tank she go 'ome for good.
Edyth Fellows, child actress, has been made mascot of the Canadian Legion Post No. 28. Hot
news.
GEORGE M. COHAN
IN GLAMBLING
Mary Pickford is a Colonel of this unit.
Edyth Fellows is already mascot. of the Shriners, the Eks, two coll- eges, two dancing schools, the St.
Thomas's Church Choir and the Campare Girls of Culver City, When she had time she made "His Greatest Gambles."
Shirley Temple is also after military honours. She has just been made an Idaho Colonel. No wonder Uncle Sam is keen .on
strengthening his defences.
Shirley is slated for a new mu- sical. Tentative titles are “Curly
Top" and "Little Miss Cupid."
It
The story is said to be a re- hash of "Daddy Long Legs." must be very hashed. "Daddy Long Legs" was not a musical, and the girl Judith was a youngster only for the first reel or so.
Ida Lupino, back in, Hollywood as stated last week is thinking of becoming a naturalised American." We wonder what father Stanley.
ever made..
"
Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone. Sir Guy Standing, Richard Cromwell, and C. Aubrey Smith naturally deserve the utmost praise for their magnificent char- acterisations but where such a great spectacle is concerted praise cannot be handed out to any one person. Hundreds of people, com- bined to mate Paramount's The Lives of a Bengal Lancer a great flm which will live long in the memory.
THE VALPARAISO!
New Song and Dance Hit
on 355 Metres
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! WEDNESDAY 12.30-215 pim. European Pro-
gramme.
12.30 p.m.-London and New York Stock and Commodity Quota- tions.
12.35-1 p.m. Recorded Music,
1. p.m.-Local Time and Weather
Report. T
1:
1.15 p.m.-Hong Kong Hotel Or- chestra (by courtesy of the Management).
1.30 p.m.-Reuter Fress Bulletins.
Rugby Press News, etc.,. 2.15 p.m.-Close Down, 4-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 6-6.15 p.m. -Children's Studio
Concert.
- p.m.-European Programme. 7-7.26 p.m.-A Concert.
Planoforte Solo-Mazurka in E Minor, Op. 41, No. 2 (Chopin). Planoforte Solo-Traumeswirren (Dream Visions), Op. 12. No. 7 (Schumann)-Vladimir Horo-
witz.
Song The Almond Tree (Schu-
inan). Song. The Mocking Fairy
(Besly)sie Suddaby
(So-
- "prano). Pianoforte Solo.-Paganini Etude
in E Flat Major (Paganini). Pianoforte Solo. Children's Corner Suite (Debussy)-Ser- enade for the Doll-Vladimir Horowitz.
Songs-Myself when young. ("In a Persian Garden") (Lehmann) Bong-Silent Noon (Vaughan
Williams) -Stuart Robertson ·" (Baritone)
7,26-7.43 p.m. Bolero (Ravel) played by Willem Mengelberg and his Concertgebouw. Or chestra.
The next great song hit is go- ing to be "The Valparaiso." This is a brand new song and dance number which has been specially composed by Mabel Wayne, the famous American writer of song hits, for the new B.I.P. musical comedy production, "Dance Band." which is Charles "Buddy" Rogers' Arst English film.
Mabel Wayne is the young Wo-
wrote man who
"Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day" "In a Little Spanish Town," "Ramona," "It Happened in Monterey," and Musical Comedy Selection dozens of other popular successes.. Garda Hall and George Baker. Miss Wayne also compassed the 8 p.m.-Local Time and Weather phenomenally successful number His Majesty the Baby," which has been played nearly every day *on the radio since Christmas.
Miss Wayne, who is now under contract to BIP., will also, write some numbers for the Henry Hall picture.
"The Valparaiso" is a rhumba which will be danced on a "hugë cabaret floor by Holland and Hart, the famous American speciality dancers who are one of the most successful acts in Cochran's "Steamline," now
running in" London, When Holland and Hart have Anished the dance, a hun- dred of the most beautiful giris in England (hand-picked by BIP. “ experts after all Sam Goldwyn hasn't a monopoly on the entire output of beauty in the world) will carry on the number.
June Clyde, the talented Ameri- car, film actress who is playing the leading female role opposite Charles "Buddy" Rogers, will
sing "The Valparaiso," accom panied by Buddy Rogers and his band.
is
In fact, "The Valparaiso going to be the big number in "Dance Batid"--
So watch out for The Valpar also."
and all the other Lupinos will FORSAKING ALL
think. The, family in England goes back "something like four hundred years to the days of stroll singers.
Ida's new picture is ""Two on a
OTHERS
7.43-8 p.m.-Vocal Gems.
"
The Maid of the Mountains
(Fraser-Simson),
Report.
8.03-8.20 p.m.-From the Studio.
.
A Violin Recital by Conrado de la Cruz accompanied by Nura Kanis.
: Programme
1. Variationen - Tartini-Kreis-
ler.
2. Romande Wagner-Wilhelm." 3. Grandmother's Menuet-Grieg
-Elman
4. Spanish Dance, Malaquena-
Sarasate..
8.20-8.46 p.m-Variety Items. Humorous Scientifically;
course! Humorous-If you pretend you're
Blue Murgatroyd and Winter**. Bottom..
Plano Medley Ronald Gourley." Vocal-Pop-Eyed Pete. Little Mountain Cabin-The Hill
Blilles.
Banjo Solo-Keyboard Kapers. Mandoline Solo-Mazur Mario
de Pietro.
8.46-9 p.m.- Introduction and Allegro for Harp with Strings and Woodwind Accompani-
ment (Ravel)--Virtuoso String Quartet, ..2
9-9.30 p.m.-Light Orchestral Selec-
tions.
Danube Waves Walte-(Ivano--
vici). "
Over the Waves Waltz (Bosas). With a Song in my Heart Sym- phonic Rhapsody (Eric Coates) Helena Waltzer (Offenbach). Kongreb Walzer (Strauss-Hey-
mann).
Bird Songs at Eventide (Eric
Coates),
Tower. The tower is the Exel Due At The Queen's Gipsy Moon (Borganof
Tower, the signpost which i flashed on the screen to let you know that the action has row. moved to Paris.
Bebe Daniels will appear in a play in London. Ben Lyon, hus band, and Skeets Gallagher with her...
Plan at the moment is to tour the play in America as a try out, then bring it to London for a season.
All going well, they will take it back for & New York, run next autumn.
Bebe and Ben were in England A year ago. You remember “My Song for You"?|||
Bebe is a veteran stage actress Her first appearance was at the age of ten weeks.
First screen appearance at age of fourteen. At fifteen she was leading lady to Harold Lloyd in his Lonesome Luke' comedies.
Altogether Bebe has played in about 270 fims. They vary from slapstick comedies to musicals and drama.
An all-star cast with, the speed and sparkle of "The Thin Man”-- that is the reason for the tremen- dous ovation being given "Forsak- Metro-Goldwyn- ing all others' Mayer's new special due shortly at the Queer's Théatre:
Joan Crawford Clark Gable and Robert Montgomery together for
Charles
8.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins, London 1 p.m. Stock and Com- modity Quotations, 9.35-10.05 p.m.-From the Studio,
Selections by "The Music
Makers," 10.05-11 p.m.-A Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Majestic Ballroom (by courtesy of the Management).
Rugby Mid-day Press News,
the first ime, head the cast, which 10.30 pm-Reuter Press Bulletins includes Bulle Burke, Butterworth, Frances Drake and Ted Healy
With a line-up of this kind, the greatest since Dinner at Night" and with the direction of W.-8. Van Dyke, it is natural that the new picture should be breaking records everywhere.
Joan Crawford is at her best as the society girl pursued by two men, but with a great sense of
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Further Londors Stock and Commodity Quotations.
pm-Close Down.....
BERLIN PROGRAMME
p.m-DJA DIN Announcem
(Germ. Engl.).
German Folk Song. Programme Forecast
Engl.);
Letter Box.
Humour
humour about it, while Gable and 9.15 Dm-German Folk Song Montgomery vie with one another for "her smiles..
9.46 pm News in English on DJA
and In Dutch on DJN
10 pm-When the First Violet
bloom
Variety Programmé.
She practices singing for at leat - A Radio Opera by Arnó Eufeld an hour every day. Bata raw eggs
Conductor Werner Richter- 11.15 pm-News in Germán Béichheim,
DJA and in Dutch on DJI
N
before and after a song sequence...
Seems we can't get away from 12.15 km News in English on 11.30 på the army. Bebe & Coloriel in the 22nd Army Pursuit Group, We don't know what they pursue
12. 30 am--Close down DJA, ENN
(Gernus Ingli)4
The Peasant fi pur
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