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** CONVENTION CİTY "
This picture has what is claim- ed to be a record in all comedy teams, the players including Joan Bondell, Adophe Menjou, Dick Powell, Mary Astor Guy Kibbee, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert (of "Goodbye Again" fame), Ruth Donnelly and Patricia Ellis.
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An EKO Picture of cours David O. Selnick Executive Produces
ROMAN SCANDALS WALT DISNEY
The Players: Eddle Cantor, Ruth Etting, Qloria Stuart, David Manners, Veree Teasdale, Edward Arnold. Alan Mowbray, Grace Poggi, Charles C." Wilson, Harry Holman Willard Robertson, Lee Kohlmar. Directed by Frank Tuttle.
Eddle Cantor started his career as a Hester Street-ragamuffn who used to pick up dimes from passersby for dancing on the pavement. When he finally worked into the big money as a singing, waiter in a Coney Island beer garden. he felt well satisfied with fe. Part of that frightened
which astonishment
13 reflected in the habitual expres- sion of his face must come from " his realization of what the future sometimes holds for waifs and singing waiters..
now
Cantor makes ane picture s year. It seldom costs less than $1,000,000. It entails airplane trips from Palm Beach to New York and from New York to Holly- wood. In depression times no more than half a dozen writers are employed to write his stories, exclusive of lyricists, extra gas men, and Eddie himself spent most of last spring st.. on the chenille carpeting of Bam Goldwyn's New York office work- ing over scenes that Robert E." Sherwood and George S. Kantman had written the day before.
When the...studio carpenters have run up an acceptable sub- stitute for imperial. Rome, the preparations are fairly complete, and it, is considered permissible for Cantor to start being funny of a camera,
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Roman Scandals, according to report, cost Sam Goldwyn about $1,000,000. What he got for his money can be roughly itemized as follows: A story in which Cantor appears first as a dreamy grocer's boy in the lively American town of West Rome, then food Taster to the Roman Emperor Valertus; four songs, three of them sung by Cantor and one by Ruth Etting, any of which are likely to be hits: two dance séquences that are elaborate even for, Busby Berkeley; innumerable.. Goldwyn Girls of assorted colors, appropriately dressed for slave markets, palacès, and Roman baths; and finally a chariot race in which Cantor, who finds the job of food taster disagreeable because the Empress Agrippa seasons most of her husband's food with arsenic, is successfully pursued by the Roman army.
All this adds up to a handsome, funny, and spectacular sequel to Whoopee and The Kid from Spain. Whether this is because of the war-debt financing that pre- ceded it or merely because Can- tor's sad, popeyed little face, always glittering with ridiculous alarm, is as funny now as it was when he was plugging songs in' Coney Island, does not make much
difference.
"Loves Of Casanova”
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Upon is return to Hollywood following a three week boat trip to Havana Jesse L Lasky, Fox producer, announced thist he would soon produce an elaborate film to be known as Loves of Casanova starring the French arctor Charles Boyer, who is working currently in Erik Char- reil's Gypsy Melody. Springtime For Henry from the Benn Levy play, another of the Lasky -pro- ductions, will henceforth be known as Forbidden Lips and will be placed in production, soon Frank Tuttle is scheduled ta direct and Nigel Bruce and Leslie Banks are the only players ang nounced for the cast so far. Early in March another Lasky film, Grand Canary will get under day. This is the A. J. Cronin best seller in which Warner Baxter will be starred and which Irring Cummings will direct,
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“IT'S A GIRL
A. Thank - You - Mr. - Dis- ney" luncheon has just been given in Hollywood,
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I have it on the authority of Walt himself that a girl was “just what he'd been hoping for," and that her name will be Diane Marie.
ANN HARDING
Magnificent In Title Role Of "Gallant
Lady"
In Gallant Lady" her first picture for 20th Century produc tions. Ann Harding out does all her past performances on the screen in scaling the heights of emotional artistry.
This picture. which opens at the Alhambra "to-day deals with the experience of a young and unwed mother who is forced to assign her child for adoption im- Later. mediately after its birth. having become a remarkable, suc- cess as a business woman, she accidentally meets in Paris' the child for whom she has never
ceased to yearn. Faced with the possiblity of being reunited with her, boy, she is compelled to decide between keeping silent re- garding her real identity, as the. child's mother in order to be with him, or revealing the facts in or- der to play fair with the man she loves with the possibility of wreck ing the little fellow's future.
The role gives Miss Harding ample scope for the exercise of her unique talent for the portray- al of deep and 'sincère emotion." and the scene in which she makes the decision which affects not only her future but that of her son is fraught with a pathos and tender dignity that has seldom
· been equalled.
An exceptionally fine cast has bean chosen by Joseph M. Se- henck and Darryl F. Zanuck, pro- ducers of "Gallant Lady," to sup- port Miss Harding and includes such names as Cilye Brook, Otto Kruger and Tullio Carminati
Each of these male characters provides an element of love inter- est in the gallant lady's" life. Brook as a derelict physician who befriends her in a crisis: Tullio Carminati as an Italian nobleman who becomes enamoured of her while she is on a visit to Europe and follows her back to America; and Kruger as the foster-father of her son, well played by the adorable Dickie Moore,
The picture was directed by Gregory, Là Cava and is reitased by United Arusts.
THE GHOUL
Bords Karlof that master where macabre make-up is desired, has a part after his own heart in "The Ghoul" the Gau, mont-British picture to be shown bere shortly. He has plenty of% Ppportunity to provide thrills in the role of a professor with a fanatical belief in the gods of ancient Egypt.... The professor buys famous jewel stolen from a Pharoah's tomb, and on this death-bed makes his servant promise to bury it with him in his specially fashioned tomb. II it is stolen from him be swears to rise from his grave to kill. After the death of the professor the jewel is stolen by his servant and this starta quite a crop of Incidents, leading up to his cis- ing from the tomb, with uncap- ny results.
Clever photography by G. Krampf adds considerably to the atmosphere of mystery and mas terly lighting erects creates the to a thriller.
perleness my SE
of the type.
A strong cast incindes Dorothy Hyson, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest. Thesizer, Anthony Bushell, Har- old Huth and D. A. Clarke Smith.
Featuring Katharine Hep burn Mr. "Little Women"
NIJINSKY ON THE STAGE
Alexander Korda's New
Venture
At a time when the Rasputin case has set most of the film pro- ducers eyeing with distrust “any film characters not wholly fiction- al, Alexander Korda, the most in- trepid" showman of the British film industry, has just announced the production of one of the most sensational blographies of modern times.
He has bought the rights of Mme. Nijinsky's life of her husb- and, the dancer, and plans to produce it in the autumn on the West End stage, and later, in all probability S a film. Mme Nijinsky herself is "interested in the proposal, and has left London for Switzerland, where she hopes to talk the matter over with her husband, who is in a mental home. Nijinsky in the old days was always interested in the pos- sibilities of the film as a medium. and disced the application of the film to ballet in Hollywood with Chapin and other producers, The script for the Nijinsky play is to be written by Frederic Lonsdale and Lajos Biro, who was part author of The Private Life of Henry VIII" "No definite cast has been chosen, but Mr. Korda hopes to secure John Gielgud for the part of Nijinsky, and Charles Laughton for the very important part of Diaghileff-the friend and enemy who figured so darkly in
Nijinsky's ute. It is that Mme. Nijinsky herself should be played by. Merle Oberon, the dark Anne Boleyn of "Henry VIII," who has never before ap-" peared on a London stage. When asked whether she can dance, Mr. Korda replied grimly, "She can learn." Meanwhile Hollywood whistles, for Miss Oberon, and for the present whistles. In vain.
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"ESKIMO"
A Columnist Makes His Comments
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In their uncanny way the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer people have turn- ed out yet another big money pic ture and incidentally created one of the most beautiful screen dramas of the decade. It is called simply, Eskimo," and is visible at the Queen's Theatre, where delighted throngs are besleging the box office.
Its financial success is ably earned, for not since "Chang and White Shadows in The South Seas" has a camera caught such vistas of exotic loveliness as these,
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ACTRESS CLAIMING DAMAGES
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A novel claim is to be made against a Ohm company in the King's Bench Division shortly.
The plaintiff is Miss Dorothy Esch, film and stage artist of Bayswater, Devonshire - terrace. W. She is claiming damages against British and Dominions. Film Corporation, Ltd, for In- juries she received at the com- pany's Elstree studios in March. 1932.
"Miss Esch was knocked down by a taxicab which was being used In a flm. Her left arm was bro- ken and her forehead cut.
"HIPS, HIPS, HOORAY"
Unreeling their endless humor сня reparatee against unusual backgrounds ranging from a su perlatively ultrachic beauty salon to the he-man atmosphere of the auto-race tracks, is a striking fea- ture of "Hips, Hips, Hooray." Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey's la- test musical comedy for RKO- RadioPictures, featuring Ruth Etting. Thelma Todd and Dorothy Lee, showing to-day at the King's Theatre.
Hips, Hips. Hooray presents Wheeler and Woolsey as Andy and
Bob, cosmeticians and super-sales- man of flavoured Epsticks. Ey hook "or crook song and dance, they wend their way into Miss Frisby's fashionable beauty salon. and direct her business while Andy manages romance with Daisy, Miss Fatsby's assistant; and Bob does likewise with the boss.
Bleau- This incenses Armand
proper champ, the right and manager of the salon, who has dealgas on Daisy, and who jits Ruth, the establishment's' radio entertainer, and makes Andy and Bob the unwitting thieves of $10- 000. To avoid embarrassment with the law's minions, the boys" nee in an unoccupied racing automobile and find themselves participants. in a trans-continental race which ends among howls, laughs, melody and beauty in a thrill-packed cit- max.
Shot in the Artic, this "Eskimo” shows what a director like W. S. Van Dyke can do when you turn hiih loose with an expert photo grabber and highly pictorial
"Hips, Hips. Hooray" is a gag- stretches of snow and ice and a few whales and other fauna of girl-and-dance combination. Girls the great North.
dance and pose in eye-alllng se-
The tender care, the loving" at- quences. and sing the current po- tention with which "Eskimo has Dular melodies, "Tired of It All," been done, lift it into a class al-Keep Romance, Alive," and "Keep most, unique. Also it is played by on Doin' what you're Doin." Ruth the Eskimos in the cast with a Etting renders her melodic inter- thrilling intensity and a smooth pretations of the first two numbers, polish that might well be copied which were written by Bert Kalmar and probably will be, in Hollywood and Harry Ruby.
Your attention must be called to the sequence portraying 器 stampede of "caribou, which is easily the most exciting thing of the sort since the stampede of the elephants in "Chang," and looks even more authentic. Then there is a stirring episode, when Mala half frozen and desperate, throt- tles a wolf to death in the snow. It is to Mr. Van Dyke's camera- man that our mest vital debt is. due. Rarely it ever have such superb landscapes arid seascapes been imprisoned by the lens. The mobile masses of ice, the heavens now radiant, how sullen with dark- ness, the sense of a world apart from ours-all these areTM conveyed- with charm and with terror.
Azgerica has sufficient number of beautiful chorines but too few Brst class comedians like. Eddle Cantor, here is Eddie with some of the Goldwyn girls in his latest film "Roman Scandals"
FEAST OF GIRLS IN
WONDER BAR:
Bix hundred girls are being used by Busby Berkeley Hollywood's famous creator of dance specta cles, for the Tim version of Wonder Bar." Among the novel- ty effects will be a graceful tan- go nimmber led by Ricardo Cortez, and Dolores Del Rio, Al Jolson 18 to sing a song with the quainit title of 4 Going to Heaven on “a Mule," while Hal LeRoy, const- dered to be America's greatest tap dancer, does some fast stepping
The other song numbers will be divided among Dick Powell and "A1" Jolson, and are entitled:
"Wanderbar,
Dream Thoas Dreams" "Don't Say Goodnight" and Vive La France," Each sozig will be pre- sented against a background of magnifcence Lloyd Bacon is the director of the straight dramatic
SLEEPING CAR
SA very important item in "Sleeping Car another Gaumont- ~ British picture to be shown here shortly is the number of ravish ing creations worn by Medlelne. Anne Howard a Wealthy young Carroll who plays the role of
widow who falls in loves with
Geston, a fascinating sleeping. car attendant enacted by Ivor Novello This brilliant and piquant production details the amorous adventures of a sleeping ear attendant with many loves in the various capitals at which the
Continental train stops
Other players in a superlative cast are Kay Hammond, Stanly Holloway, and Claude Aillster.
sequences and both he and Bus by Berkeley will do the Anat edif ing of the film
GRETA NISSEN
Action Begun To Dissolve Mexican
Marriage
Miss Greta Nissen, the "nim. actress, who is at present in, London, announced that proceed- ings had been begun in Mexico fór,the dissolution of her marriage with Mr. Weldon Heyburn, the American stage actor.
They were married in Mexico in March, 1932, eloping by air one night after having worked toge ther in a fim.
Interviewed in London, Miss Nissen said, "Friendship offers no basis for happy marriage, and Mr. Heyburn and I prefer to sacrifice the matrimonial tie in the hope of preserving a friendship."
Asked why she had chosen to take the proceedings in Mexico, Miss Niasen said. "The marriage was made in Mexico, so it seemed the logical place in which to dis- solve it, and we have no horrible accusatiins to hurl at each other, "as often happens in an ordinary. divorce court. Therefore we con- aldered a Mexican divorce to be more simple and more dignified.
Janet Gaynor And Lionel Barrymore In "Carolina"
Fox Film has combined one of the finest stories ever nimed with one of the finest array of actors “ever engaged for its latest pro- duction "Carolina" coming to the Eing's Theatre soon,
With no less a "combinasjon than Janet Gaynor and Lonel Barrymore in the leading roles the cast boasts an array that Includes such stars as Robert Young Richard Cromwell, Hen- rietta Grosman,
Mona Barrie Stepin Fetchit, Russell Simpson and others.
The story concerns the life of a" decadent Southern filmily, into whose aways comes a charming girl of the North. Her innocenec and her disarming flair for ro- mance inject a new will to suc- ceed into the Southerners who for generations have entertain- ed no such notions. The battle between the old aristocracy again the new and youthful spirit introduced by this strang- er forms the background for what is one of the outstanding works in the screep history. The production was directed by Hen- ry King from the screen play by Reginald Berkely, who did similar service for the memor-.. able production of Calvalcade,
Janis Gaynor plays ker latest scrBER" yels in "Caroling," new For produc- tion in which Richert Cromwell has a featured part, Lionel Barrymore has the leading masculins rois.
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