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Wanted, a Screen Oliver Cromwell

DIFFICULT PROBLEM.

Who shall be the screen Oliver Cromwell 7:

The question is agitating Mr. Jullus Hagen, who, as head of the Twickenham Studios, has £200,000 worth of contracts to fulfil during the coming year, including an ambitious picture with Oliver Cromwell as the central figure.

If Charles Laughton wore avail- able there would probably be, no further search; but Mr. Laughton is associated with a rival company and his activities are more or less pledged for months to come.

There is George Arlias, of course, how America to play Cardinal Richelieu for Twentieth Century Films. The question is arising, however, says the Newca Chronicle, whether it is wise to have the familiar Arlins features in too many historical disguises.

Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Lealle Banks, Edward Chapman-these are some of the names discussed

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well known to cinema-goers than the others mentioned, but he la a clover and a versatile actor,

And there is the character of King Charles in the Cromwell story. Mr. Hagen 1-imself fancies of John Gielgud if the success bis stage Hamlet would allow him Mr. Gielgud has not the time. played a costume part for Alma.

BLOOD WILL TELL

The stars, after all, seem come by it naturally.

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Are actors, like poets, born, not mado? A recent survey acema to bear it out.

According to the figures of a large group of stara, 58 per cent.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

WAIST BANDS

Stiff Stitched Belt On Day Dresses

NEW FASHIONS

***The Waist-band Fashion”. "Day drcanes have a, stiff, stitched band which resembles the sturdy waist-band of thirty years ago." Checked crepe is used for this frock, and the black line in it is repeated in the wide waist-band,

CLEANING CLOCKS

Beauty Does Not Count

ART IN CHINA'S -

ARMY?

OFFICER SAYS NOT

Poking.

Military drill in Chinese colleges is no more popular than in many foreign universities. The Japa nese Invasions of Manchuria and Shanghai have, however, had the effect of making it compulsory in most schools, despite the tradition- at Chinese contempt for the sol dler's profession. The boys fail to take it very seriously, though, as an army inspector of cadet corps learned to his discomfort the ather day.

The endets of a local university had been lined up for monthly in- spection and the army man pro- eceded to put them through their pncès.

"Tenshun!" Heels clicked and [all looked well.

"Right dress!" Elbows jerked up and chins whipped around. But unfortunately the officer decid- ed to check the line and going to one end squinted along. It looked like the graph of a business cyclo.

"What kind of a line do you call this? Don't you know that the object of right dress" is to make a straight line. "and much more, less easily translatable,

When he had finished a youth

CLOCKS can be cleaned at home by placing a piece of cotton- wool soaked with kerosene at the in the rear rank spoke up in the bottom of the clock, inside, and mildest of voices:

leaving it there for a few days. "But air, we have just been The fumes of the kerosene will learning that a curved line is the loosen the dirt and dust in the true line of beauty!" clock so that it will fall down on to the cotton-wool.

of their fathera were actors or menta with 42 players, each fitted connected with the theatrical pro- for the particular role he is play- fession. To bear out the idea of ing. an artistic or semi-nrtistic hack-

"When it contes to our next pic- ground further, 18 per cent. of turc, 'Clive of India, we have an their fathers were newяnaner or entirely different set of characters. magazine writers, and another 6 The problem here is even greater, per cent. were artista. The re because the production calls for maining 18 per cent. Included 91 players to appear with Ronald business, - me), artisans, and Colman.

In order that the cast several unique vocations. Al Jal-will hot be a repetition of those son, for instance, gives the vocn- the public has been seeing in other tion of his father as a cantor, oratorics with ал English bacit- religions chanter.

It may be true that the screen hus drawn is talent from all walks of life, but it appears that those who reach the top rungs are largely grounded in theatrical tradition.

RINGING THE CHANGES The accumulation by film studios of-a-strin,c_of_contract players,} otherwise known as "stock com- vigorous panies," has found a opponent in Darryl Zanuck, pro-

Speechless, the would-be mar- tinet stalked away, and handed in this resignation next day.--United

Press.

TOWNSHIP OF MISFORTUNE

'MANY ILL WITH FOOD POISONING Maltby, the mining township near ground, we are importing several Rotherham, Yorkshire, which threo British types from England. years ago was for several months "Although this is a more ex-harassed by an outbreak of spotted of an epidemic of food pensive manner of producthg pic-fever spent Christmaatide in the tures, we believe that the audien- throes ces are entitled to seo new casts poisoning. and new combinations of players!

Of the 50 people-men, women.

in each pleture, and also that our and children-affected, 18 were still productions will be more accurate in Alma Road Hospital, Rotherham, shortly before Christmas, while the in cast typen."

others were under treatment at their-homes.

In

QUALITY IN MINIATURE

None of the patients was danger.

A group of interesting short films ducer of Twentieth Century Pic has been featured in recent pro- Mr. R. Oddy, the sanitary inspec- tures, who has ordered that this grammes at Home.

tor to the local Urban Council, naid practice be carefully avoided in One with considerable topical into a reporter:-"Maltby is surely n the casting of his forthcoming terest is "The New Europe," a township of misfortune. In 1931 pictures.

French film with cine-diagrams and he had a serious outbreak of According to Zanuck, the stock a commentary in English, showing spotted fever, in which no fewer company is one of the chief de: the events leading up to the out- than 78 cases were reported, and in triments to the screen in that it break of war in 1914, the course 1921 27 men lost their lives in an tends to bring the same players of the war, and the new Europe explosion at Maltby Main Colliery,"

a result of it. together in picture after plcture, which arose an

Among the victims of the epl- with the result that the public Specin) emphasis is placed on the demic was one whole family of sİX, becomes tired of the repetition. nitered boundaries, including the an unemployed miner, his wife, and In urging the abolition of this Baar. arca and the dismemberment four children, aged six, four, and custom, Zanuck stated:-"Statis-of Hungary. It has been said of three, and a baby about a year old. tics show that when a company the film that it tenches more about In another case four members of a employs a large stock list of talent, its subject in five minutes than family of eight were suffering, the individual players are shoved could be gained in an hour's read-Other cases included a mother and into parts which do not necessarily Ing.

At them, merely to absorb their Another of the short films is "Up- salaries. Audiences may enjoy stream," which describes the sal accing the same faces together in mon fishing industry of the east the same situations a few.times, coast of Scotland. Produced by but by too much repetition they John Grierson and directed by Ar- become a drawback rather than.anthur Elton, the film gives an illu Raget, and tend to hurt all pic-minating impression of the salmon tures in general. For that reason, trek made each year.from the sea we will not have a stock of to the breeding grounds at the supporting players or, near-stars head of the rivers. at Twentieth Century Pletarea. "How Talkice Talk," niso shown

"In "The Mighty

three members of her family, aged 22, 17, and 16, and a father and three children, aged 13, nine, and four years.

Dr. T. V. Griffith, medical officer at the Alma Road Hospital, Rother ham, where many of the sufferers were detained, stated that one or two were fairly ill, but were not in danger.

we was taken at the Gaumont-British and reproduced in the theatre, and star, Wallace Beery, but we have on illuminating account of how of sound recording and reproduc- made individual casting arrange- sound is photographed in the studio,

QUEEN'S FROM¿SUNDAY has 42 sponking parts besides the studios at Shepherd's Bush. It is makes reference to the principles

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YOU'RE NOTHIN' BUT A NOTHIN'

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from The Pied Piper').

THE PENGUIN IS A VERY FUNNY CREATURE,

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8. LULLABY

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10 Eat away, but no advice to the

hungry.

11 Part of the harness that, in the main, is absent from the horse.

12 Former ecclesiastic.

13 Steps on the plant.

15 No gay mixture this.

16 Bowildered, like the birds in

bed.

17 Startle (anag.),

20 Lia and the place to do it, to

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22 It goes round in both directions. 23 Not a bad score for the marka- man to make at the end of a meal,

25 Wash most of the servant, any-

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20 Just. 27 Unreliable.

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3 A nine in a foolish posture, 4 There's no necessity to ask par- don for a girl who goes about her home, surely?

6 Less adulterated (rev.)..

6 Relations.

7 His work, takos precedence of

play, and no it does (hyphen).

8 Breaking out ngain. Sound

sense in this.

10 Ascend here in the wrong direo-

tion.

13 A gibe that never ends poetic-

ally.

14 Sir, to you, as Sancho Panza might have said to Don Quixote. 18 This container gives greater satisfaction if hold in a more or less horizontal position.

18 A word of apology. 20 'Own.

21 Cheer up and make her neat. 24 Enter up.

26 Word they use in Rugby.

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