STUDIO CHATTER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 14, 21 August 1946, Page 6

STUDIO CHATTER

A FEATURE COLUMN

“FOR YOU ALONE”

Many Roles During his screen career, Errol Flynn has portrayed many roles, including those of a news reporter, professional boxer, detective, pirate, doctor, crusader, and even a corpse. Says Genius to Genius Ida Lupino and Olivia de Havilland play the parts of two geniuses in the new film “Devotion,” at present in front of the cameras. They are the Bronte sisters, Emily (‘Wuthering Heights’) and Charlotte (‘Jane Eyre’). “I keep my fingers crossed,” Director Bernhardt explans. “Two pretty women is a problem at any time, but two pretty genuises . .

Night and Day Freddy Martin, famous American orchestra leader has recorded for RCA Victor, his special Night and Day Concerto, based on the famous show-tune penned by Cole Porter. Although Concerto has already been heard in Hollywood’s famous Cocoanut Grove, and on Martin’s radio programme, it will be officially released in connection with the showing of Warner Bros. “Night and Day” Technicolour filmusical based on the career of Cole Porter.

Oscullating Technically To a motion picture sound recorder, a kiss on the screen whether it be hot, cold, or torrid, is always a problem, and strictly a matter of decibels “(which, by the way, are units of sound. A decibel is said to be comparable to the soft russle of tissue paper heard from a distance of ten feet.) To a sound man, in fact, a kiss is a very important item, and can only be performed expertly, and with just the right amount of sound, by a very experienced player. Humphrey Bogart (starring in ‘To Have and to Have Not’) was once a “smacker,” but has, as the result of . practice, now become almost a “silent.”

REGENT “For You Alone” (Sat. and Mon. August 24 and 26). The Company which produced “I’ll Walk Beside You” again takes another song title round which to build a picture, and in doing so excels even its previous triumphs. It is a musical drama featuring the London Symphony Orchestra, and England’s greatest tenor, Heddle Nash. “Picturegoer,” England’s leading Fan Magazine states, concerning this picture: “Charming, homely entertainment, enriched by splendidly played and happily selected musical interludes. The story relates the love affair between a young naval officer and a parson’s daughter ,who feels herself bound to another man. It is delightfully and sincerely acted, with attractive English village settings.”