TALKIES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 230, 25 October 1940, Page 6

TALKIES

BATHING GIRLS GET A RECRUIT When the lovely Mack Sennett bathing beauties stroll again before Castle Rock on Santa Monica Beach for Darryl F. Zanuck's production of "Hollywood Cavalcade" beautiful blonde Alice Faye, who is starred with Don Anieche, will be one of their number. Adhering to the best bathing beauty tradition, Irving Gummings, who directed this romance of Hollywood, let his gaily-garbed brigade frolic about the beach to their heart's content—but they couldn't go near the water! Mack Sennett, who appears as himself in the picture, recalled how the idea of the bathing beauties was born: "It really was a publicity stunt at first," said the King of Comedy. "I couldn't get pictures of my comedians published in the newspapers and magazines, I thought if I had a good-looking girl don a bathing suit and stand close enough to one of my comedians so that lie couldn't conveniently be cut out of the photograph, the picture would be printed. It worked. Then I reasoned that if the girls were so interesting to magazine- and newspaper readers, there wasn't any reason why they shouldn't draw on the screen. Thej drew millions of dollars into the box office." Other equally nostalgic memories will be stirred by the reappearance of the Keystone Cops, slapstick and custard-pie comedy, Buster Keaton. Ben Turpin and Chester Babylonian "revels," and A 1 Jolson, singing again "Kol Nidre, " -the song with which he electrified the world in "The Jazz Singer"—all staged anew and filmed today by 20th GenJ. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis, tury-Fox. "Hollywood Cavalcade" features Stuart Edwin, Jed Prouty, Buster Keaton, Donald Meek, George Givol and Eddie Collins. "IN NAME ONLY" OFFERS FEMI NINE VIEWS ON MARRIAGE

What does a woman want most out of marriage? Wealth? Social position? Children? Happiness? The answers are absorbingly discussed in the new Carole LombardGary Grant-Kay Francis romantic vehicle, "In Name Only." The conflicting views expressed in "In Name Only" have been rarely discussed on the screen. Miss Lombard portrays a charming young widow deeply in love with Grant, a married man, but determined not to break up his home. Miss Francis, on the contrary, has only contempt for marriage itself, although she is Grant's wife. To her, being a wife means money and prestige, both of which she enjoys. She flatly refuses to surrender when Grant begs her for his freedom, even though she admits she doesn't love him. In its contrast of the radically different ideas of the two feminine characters regarding matrimony, "In Name Only" presents a significant piece of film fare as well as a flne, dramatic entertainment. John Cromwell of "Of Human Bondage" fame, directed with Charles Goburn, Helen Vinson, Kathar-! inc Alexander, Jonathan Hale and Maurice Moscovich in the support of this RKO Radio picture. HORROR TAG FOR STARLET Meet Anne Gwynne, the screen's "half-a-murder" girl. Anne's current role in Universal';? new Boris Karloff-Bela Lugosi horror picture, "Black Friday," was the basis of a standing joke among the players while working in the film. There are ten murders during the course of the picture and Anne bare ly escapes a similar fate. Director Arthur Lubin banteringly claimed the picture had "ten and a half murders, since Anne is only half killed," And thereafter Anne was known as the "Half-a-Murder" Girl. In the role of Jean Sovac, daughter of Karloff, a- mad surgeon, Miss Gwynne will be seen with a supporting cast which includes Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel, James Craig, Edmund Mac Donald and others. Burt Kelley was the associate? director..