THE PICTURE WORLD

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 21

THE PICTURE WORLD

Joan Bennett. , , - ■ jl ■ w Joan Bennett has been signed by Fc* ior the, leading role of Sandre in bcotland Yard," opposite Edmund Lowe, William K. Howard will direct thi. film verBion of-Dennison Clift's stage play, with screen:, play and dialogue by Mmund Quids.Carpenter. Lunsden Hare has also been, assigned to the cast.

The "baritone parrots" were found to rec°rd' perfectly. Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent, Harry Earles, and Ivan Linow are indudcd. thecast o f "The Unholy Three." Learning. . Lupe V elez is combining business with leasure during-the month she is away from Universal studios.. Selected to play the feminine leads in both "East is

<ic-m«w Man " bquaw man. !Cecil B. de -Mille, whose latest opu ''Madame; Satan/ has been recently com pletediafthe Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stu %, is. now preparing o. talking version his former success, The Squaw Man, for production by the same studios. "Th Squaw-Man"-is an adaptation of the fam DUB play. canine Again %„ .h,« ,», » r o.i.» pi.t™ r Sjfes^SferjH National's -"Show^ Girl m, Hollywood "^ •which Alice White and Jack Mulhall a f&tured. It. is a Vitaphone productio with technicolour sequences. ■ • ■ ": ■ ■ «'Haff Shot at Sunrise. • A gigantic tent city has been built b KKO in the San Fernando Valley f the personnel working in the produe tion of'"Hah 7 Shot at. Sunrise," a war time coirfedy of Paris and frout lin trenches, featuring Bert Wheeler an Ebbert Woolsey. There are about fif tents on the location, and the entir trait includes several thousand actors an technicians. Exßensive ' ■ •* j"ai- , ■'i •, -United-/Artists may make money_with the Howard Hughes jroduction. Hell Angels." A check-up the_retur n o aSsrttt^S ffiF&Er&Z records at this popular establishment fo the.seats sold at £2 ss, aggregate wl>WWl In France. ■ Claudette Colbert was born in France Her first screen appearance was in a silen film, "Love o' Mike." Her next was i Paramount's "The Hole in the Wall, then followed "The Lady Lies," "The Bi Pond," and "Young Man of Manhattan. Likes It. " It-hasn't taken Hose Hobart, Broadwa etage star, long to become a "dyed-in-the wool". Californian. Miss Hobart, wh playa »,featured role in UniversalV"Th Lady Surrenders," has been in Hollywoo only « few weeks, but she has alread added a sports roadster and a beac .how* to her .list of typical California possessions. Her chief. hobbies, are driv ing over-the hills, bathing in the ocean and spending'days when-she is not a work, In the high Sierras fishing for trout quite different from her former life as Broadway stage star. > ' Louise-Dresser. Louise ; Dresser has, been assigned' b Fox Movietone as the leading woman op poaitev Will Rogers in "Lightnin'," to b directed* by Henry King. The, only othe member of the cast definitely set so fa Is' J. M:; Kerrigan. • ■ •> *' 4. c'u Parrots at School. ■ An elocution school for-parrots is per haps the strangest thing brought abou by talking pictures. Fifteen parrots wer trainedfor a week to keep their voice below; a/certain level for appearance i "The Unholy, Three," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's . first . talkie vehicle for Lon Chancy.'The shrill high'screeches, of par tofM damage light valves. So the parrot were trained in a sound-proof room with sounds 'that kept all notes low in pitch

West," which Monte Bell will direct, and "Resurrection," which Edwin Carewe is s, to for Universal, Miss Velez is de- -. hour every day to singing d- j™^ ghe wi]] shlg '^ one num of production. . "c\ . . ' c screen Operetta. - Mgon of m&me » First Nationa i an d Vitaphone's first screen operetta to h? filmed entirely in technicolour, shows the d g^y,^ a» ..rlierta wh.nj. «iSI STiiSsa.'g'SSi'iiJrssaj w-, K|m nd Ruby re ■■' ~ n Out of .the scores of young song-writers • who ■ have gone west in search of the tfold in the Hollywood mountains, Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby are among the y few who" have made good. To this team, or which collaborated 6n "The Cuckoos," has - fallen one of the RKO plums of the year, - the assignment to do the book, lyrics and c musio for. the Amps 'n' Andy picture, d William Le Baron, telling how Kalmar ty and-Ruby made-good in pictures, says c they took , their work seriously, didn't d pretend to know it all, reported at the studio every morning at 9, made a firsthand study of film music technique ', by , going, directly to^ supervisors, directors. . continuit y- writers and ' cameramen for s pract i ca ] dope, and learned that on the f Screen,-the Btory-cornea first and the -*™** «"■«»*" deve.opment, r "Whoopee"' if I Cantor, to d .^^^ c^^ large numbers in the ballet scenes, a group of only 24 girls were personally selected , by Florenz Ziegfeld from 700 of the'prett tiest girls in Hollywood and New York, n and are the_ last word in pulchritude. " "Whoopee" is Ziegfeld's first production g for the talking screen. The film is to be " released by United Artists. Early. y Ruth Chatterton was a star on Broad- - way when she was 18 years old. She has o been, on the stage practically all her life, c having left school when she was 14 to d play her first part in a stage production, y The Same Boy h m ■ „,.' , ' n Tommy Clifford, the eleven-yeax-old - youngster who appears with John Gar- , "•<* SraS,° ?y Heart," starring t J°hn, Cormack, will appear next man , a^tat}°X oi *^ 8 Stewart Edward White a ftory "The Shepper-Newfounder" from the "Saturday Evening Post' 'to be diI'ected by Leo M Carey for Fox Movietone. y "Theßooue Sonn." - . ~ . , c , Filming three separate scenes sunulr taneously was one. of: the tasks accomr plishe^ by. Lionel Barry more in directing "The _ Rogue. Song," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers all-talking musical romance filmEd entirely in technicolour and starring - Lawrence Tibbett. The scene shows: t courtyard, taproom, and a private room c of an inn, and in each something different s is going on while Tibbett'a song is heard n throughout. So that the action was in perfect "step" with the song, three cameras: filmed the, three sceneß, and three - microphones ■ recorded them simultanes ously. 'THe.cast of "The Rogue Song" includes Catherine Dale Owen, Wallace Mac- , donald, and Laurel and Hardy.

Debut, ' Jack White, who won his histrioni spurs as a comedian with George White' "Scandals" and numerous musical comedy productions, ■is making his screen debut as a fight impressario in "The Leather Pushers" series, featuring Kano Rich mond. at Universal. White was recentl given a long term contract. • • Together Again. Alexander Gray and Bernice Claire who made a hit- in "No, No, Nanette," ar< again starred in "Spring Is Here" th Krst National and Vitaphone musical pro luction, which-will be seen here shortly When Alexander Gray went over to th Pirst Nationalstudio in Brooklyn to hay avoiceandsci-eentest hetook MissClair with him. They both did so well tha First National signed them to a long-ter contract. Gray played opposite Marly Miller in "Sally." "Then he and Bernie Claire were teamed m "N0,.N0, Nanette, 'Spring Is ■Here," and again in "Song o the Flame," the first all-colour scree operetta. ' «r M ii fift^p" Seouel Beau Oeste bequei. "Beau Ideal," a sequel to "Be..v Geste, by tho same,author, Percival Christophe Wren, has been bought by RKO and wil be directed'by Herbert lirenon. ,„.„ «„„„„« Joan Bennerr. Joan Bennett, youngest ot the Bennet clan, which includes Richard Constance and Barbara, has been signed to a lon term ■ contract by United Artists. Mis Bennett will next be seen and heard a the star in. Sniilin lhrough, which i now under production Joan wasi the; fai ?ne«vV- n 1 ■„ * » °San,,» *uJZ F Bulldog prummorid ;) bhe also playe in 'Three jLive Ghosts, and was feature in Disraeli. - Clara Blandwick. Clara Bland wick who scored a Dersona trhZSi Srmoth^ h\°Uen IvelAke That, X has-been given an important rol in Paramount's forthcoming talking picturisation :of "Tom Sawyer/ Filming i

No Double. c "Hot or cold! Wet or dry! Rain 01 s shine!" These words were inspired b> S> Robert Armstrong and were taken as prol t verbs into the cities and hamlets of Mon ' tana by members of Radio Pictures Com pany of 100 which filmed the all-talkinj: ' railroad spectacle, "The Record Run. The words made their debut as proverbs shortly after ' the twelve-car special trail' ~ bearing the company to location left Hollyp wood. Armstrong appears in the pictures ~ as an engineer. Many scenef show birr at the throttle of huge locomtftives. Ht didn't know how to operate an engine t> "Hot or cold, wet or dry, rain or shine,' c said he, "I'm going to bo a real engineer. p And he was. ■ r, Outdoors. -i The Warner Bros, and Vitaphone firs' r nil-talking,, singing, outdoor picture, "Un der a Texas Moou," catches the hue oi f sky,'earth, and water, as,well as glowing v tints of flesh, hair, and eyes. Two ol Hollywood's ' beauties, Senoi-ita Armida the petite, and Raquel Torres, of the darkly glowing Castilian loveliness, plaj " important parts in "Under a Texas Moon. r ' ] Elaborate Settings. Planned months , ahead in every detail "One Romantic Night" is claimed to brin<: to the screen,a new sense of richness ir t pictorial effects. Its furnishings wer< !- gleaned from' the' richest homes and the 5 most expensive .aft shops-of Horiywood s Pieces that were the pride of Cabinet s makers during the.Napoleonic era; paint s ings by Fragonard, and other contempo 'J rai-y works-of-art, were'used. "One RoJ mantic Night," which sponsors Lillian Gish's audible screen debut, is the screen * version of Ference Molnar's comedy-drama "The Swan." • - Molnar. " ; "A Devil with Women," featuring 3- Charles Farrell, under the direction of ■ Frank Barrage, has been completed at the 5 Fo:. Studios. The' supporting cast in-

King of Jazz. r John Boles, sings a dramatic popular / soug in Universal's musical spectacle • "King.ot Jazz." The song is "The Sony of the Dawn," specially written bj Mil . ton Ager and Jack YelJen. composers o) ."I Wonder What Beeanu of Sally" and 1 many other hits, and it, has been at , mospherised by. John Murray Anderson. , the director of the picture, with a horde .of cowboy singers in a beautiful setting = Hundreds of. famous stars appeal in the , "King of Jazz," • which stars Taul White ? man and his internationally famous or chestra. The production is in all-techni > colour. "The Best People." Additions to the cast of ''The Best People," a Paramount all-talking picture . now in production at New York, includes foui well-known stage and screen players , They are Henry Wadsworth, Winifred , Elarris, Harry Meystayer, and David Hut f chinson. Frea Newmeyer is directing and Carol Lombard, Miriam Hopkins, and ,' Charles Starett are featured. ■ Another. H. B. Warner haa been given a role in "Luxury," one of the colour pictures foi which Joseph Urban will design the set • ting. This is Warner's fourth in Bucces--5 sion for Fox Movietone. John Garriek 1 and Louise Huntington have leads also in ■ this picture. . Joan Crawford. Probably no, motion-picture star better ' represents the spirit of modern youth than ' does Joan Crawford. And her immediate 'to stardom was the featured role in 1 ''Our Dancing Daughters," an ultra-mod lem film of the dancing age. Miss Craw 1 ford, who has been called the "Venus ot the screen," was born in San Antonio, Texas. Her stepfather, Henry Cassin. owned a theatre in Lawton, Kansas. Her ; earliest recollections are of Lawton, where t she stood.in the wings with her father, > fascinated by.' the dancers and imitating their movements with, her feet, which

A New Girl. Joan Marsh, Untversal'B youngest contract player, is getting a tremendous thrill from her "fan letters." They are beginning to arive in increasing volume. Joan has recently completed her first role of importance in "The Little Accident." Newly Named. "Love in the Rough" is announced as the final title for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture formerly called "Like Kelly Can," which Charles Reisner directed, with Robert Montgomery, Dorothy Jordan, Benny Rubin, J. C. Nugent, Catherine Moylan, and other favourites in the caat. Horses. A troupe of wranglers have been sent down into Mexico by Wesley Ruggles, Radio Pictures director, to round up and bring back to Los Angeles at least a thousand horses The steeds are required frr "Cimarron," the Edna Ferber Elm, to be directed by Ruggles. Thus far, Ruggles has only been able to round-up about 500 horses in and around Los Angeles as against the 1500 he will require. ' The horses are to be used in out-door shots to be done on a panoramic scale, and also to haul the famed cavalcade of a thousand covered wagons which are to be used in the picture. ' "Morocco." Adolphe Menjou will appear again in an English-speaking role in "Morocco»" a Paramount adventure-talkie of the French Foreign Legion, in which Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich are co-starred. The picture, which is based on Benny Vigny's unique story, "Amy Jolly," has just gone into production under the direction of fosef yon Sternberg. ■ Unusual. Filming a • scene by . the light of magnesium torches in the crevasse of a glacier 300 ft deep was the remarkable achievement of the company which made "The White Hell of. Pitz Palu," Univer-

scheduled with Ja Cooganimthetitle role Other prominen juveniles.wiUWumorDurkinandMitz Green. . . . Wrlttr Director. John. Farrow,, scenario and dialog writer, has-joined the Fox directori ranks. He- has -been signed to direct h own story,,"First Love. Al Rocket will be associate producer on the pi ture- ;■ ' In Untaltal '< ' in Hospuai. Mary Nolanhas beon withdrawn fro the cast^ofi "The Boudoir Diplomat' b Carl Laemmle, jun., general manager Universalistudios, and loaned to Warne Brothers i for .the starring role in to Mistress." Miss Nolan returned from two weeks-vacation in August with he back'so sunburned, that, treatment at S Vincent's Hospital, Los Angeles, wa necessary. Due to skin iufection cause &*S.!!fiS&t£F fsfhYs g^ layed. Meanwhile Director Mai St. Cla ?£she^^ "In Gay Madrid." Two 12-year-old girls held importan jobs in the filmingSof Kamo, Novarro' new all-talking and singing picture, "I Gay Madrid;" a alotro-Goldwyn-Maye production. They are Nanci Price, juvenile actress, who played the part Jacinta, and Senorita Margarita Bolado of-Seville, a child fandango dancer, wh taught Lottice Howell the intricacies Spanish dancing. Dorothy Jordan pla opposite Novarro in "In G Madrid, which Robert Z. Leonard directed. At Last. ■ Charles Rogers and Thol.ua Todd, wh were film-students together at the Para mount Picture School in 1925 ,are in th same picture for tho flrst time since thos days, both having parts iv Paramount' afl-colcra* production, "Follow Thm,"

ck eludes^Estell^, Taylor Lee f t Hobart, and-^ B/Warner. .The story i i a_romantic fantasy.adapted from the pla "Lillom," ■by Ferenc Molnar. Brinflinu Them Back. ue since the com j ng ; o f SO und pictures, pro al ducing companies have been drawing awa is f rom ,. pictures with special appeal t t ch i ldren . Much of the product durin c- the past year has been such as to kee children from Hhe theatres. That condi tion is to be changed. . For example. Radi Pictures is going to make Victor Her m berts "Babes in Toyland." Many attempt y bave been made, through various loca of CX p er i m ents, to attract renewed interes r Bmong the children. Always when wel - d ; recte d these attempts have been sue a cess f u j Recently at a special mornin r show - in Minneapolis, there were mor t. than 1600 youngsters at one show. s * s d An Author. T , Basil Rathbone the English actor who ir mali % r 1" i fv^^W rnmrn^i which he was starred on the New York t stage. Rathbone is,married to Ouida Ber s f^^S^*^:^o^^^"^^: n it mor P orntmenTal Lther than r for muLal reaLnf A D nLrfnc with a [?£, ™"Sl? a' lej™°™\lej ™°™\ nf A?S flnholv • of ¥&w--Sla 9 Lw Elliott N> cen' . h^. Joto^Milian Ivan Lifow • o clarence Burton -and Craiiford Kent of Llarence burton, and Crauiord Kent. ys Mixed. . "_ . r No Charles Murray-is not quite a German, but he is not quite so Irish as most ; people believe, either. Despite his red i o hair and hia bright blue eyes and that - most Irish of all faces, he is half-Gei-c man, his mother having beeD descended c from the land of the Kaisers. Charlie is s all-Iriah, however, in "Clancy in Wall Street," another t>£ Eis comedies.

IT^Tin^r^L^^ s ™*J* c ™*1 ffitf? and haa dark hair y ™ «»£ *el|P|,»»»^ Although Miss Crawford once officially. gave her hobby as dancing, and. although she^is - and^hTSs 3" Vg^^gr^atesT^eHght ' y fJVr playroom which is thronged with -• o , „ and•■ stuffed animals of all sizes and g kindg «o ur Brushing Brides" is Miss p Crawford's latest starring vehicle for - jyr c t ro -Goldwyn-Mayer. o (W . «Fmn»» - Galsworthy s Escape. s With observance of John Galsworthy s l ideals as regarded transcription ot his t stage success, "Esoape," •to the talking l screen, Basil Dean has brought this play - to successful film completion after weeks g of shooting in England, and-is now giving c the picture careful editing under his per- • sonal supervision. "Escape" is the Brst of a group of thrpp Awnoiated Radio Pictures designed for release both abroad and here the Badio Pictures programme for ' z&fes&s completed. The film stars Gary Coopei |^^ n^^°f P^^"^!"^: SftSffiaScS Most of the action was filmed on location, under the direction -of Edwin Carewe. r.., 0 « D >c x/ „ t^Cl^" ceys Volco- , ~ ,» v Here ls,, a Dew use -for l^l I'l You can throw your voice with it. This, lleeordln g to the late Lon Chancy, who asserted that one of the favourite tricks of a ventriloquist; was to use the derby as a sounding-board to push sf«nd m a certain direction. He did the trick n his role of ventriloquist in "The Unholy Tliree," his first all-talking picture for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The acoustics of a derby make it useful to hang over trombones in a jazz orchestra for the same reason, declared Chancy, and added tht the derby on such an occasion is gilded

?£ a&'ffi directed by Dr. Arnold Fanck from his own story. Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav, DieseJ, Ernst Petersen, Ernst Udet,. the famous :war ace, and B. Spring are in the „.. w ' Knows His Work. .. - ■ p 3U ] Porcassi, who plays the orchestra conductor in "Jenny Lind," Grace Moore's fl rs t talking picture,' at the Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer studios will not have to practise his new .role, with the Metropolitan Opera star.'Porcassi'was an opera singer, t!len b eca me a" conductor, and of late has ffon f ame also as a composer, besides being a note d stage and screen star. Sumatra Wilds. Ernest B. Schoedsack, co-producer of 'Chang" and "The Four Feathers, has returned to Hollywood after having spent more than a year taking sound motion pictures in Sumatra for Paramount tie wilJ immediately start -ditmg the film r, R .f,,«ri hv Lion s s^ssh ock has 1 P^^^ £ „f . Be S tty &son Back in th?dim days of the movies.Wheelock wasleading man for Kathlyn Williams in a thrilling animal serial. A huge lion was brought from its regular cage to the "set," but somebody forgot to close the door of the transportation cage. Wheelock was standing beside t , doo ° when the Uon announced himself [^ & ~R un {or your lives |.. the (U tor lled Within a second, players d tff per ched in eucalyptus trees n "° r by_ a Ji but Wheelock. who, being so »carD> v" "v," ' a f raf i f n „,„ f> so ,to th, c j^amM nostrill at Wheel" tNero turned a di^dairitul nostnl at Wheelock mumbled something, or other, ana calmly proceeded to his regular cage, where he sat before the door and wistfully moaned for somebody to open up and let him in.

Barbara Kent. " , • • Barbara Kent, who plays, one of the: two sisters in the Warner Fabian story "What Men Want" was • leading lady op posite Harold Lloyd in his latest picture "Welcome Danger." She has one of the outstanding featured roles in the all-star cast, which includes also Pauline Starke, Ben Lyon. Robert Ellis, Hallam Cooley, Carmelita Geraghty, and • others. Ernst Laemmle directed for Universal. An Odd One. John Miljan, besides playing villains for Metro-Goklwyn-Mayer, has a unique hobby. The popular screen "heavy raises goldfish, frequently, carrying newly-spawn-, ed specimens around' in, a bottle, which he keeps in his pocket,, and -it" will, make it very embarrassing for a sleuth one or tliese days. ; : • Serious. Richard Dix takes ■ his art seriously. During a scene in Radio-pictures "Shooting Straight," a single hair at. the edge, of his forehead refused to lie down. Efforts of Dix and the/make-up man were futile. To save ' further • delay, George Archainbaud. director, suggested cutting off the hair. What, lose that hair?" said Dix. "Why, I'm saving; it . for 'Cimarron.'". '-■ "Cimarron"; is< Dixs next. Radio picture, and: the part calls, for;,a longhaired character of the- early land; rush days of Oklahoma., -..-.: i Leon Errol. "Social Errors,",a farcical.mystery story by Owen David, has been acquired by Paramount, and will be made as a talking comedy, featuring Leon : Errol, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, and Erwin. Direction has been placed in the hands of Edwin Knopf and Cyril Gardner. Trying. William Hain.es, in orderto play a cowboy, had to roll a cigarette with one hand in <?Way Out West." He says it took him twenty days, a hundred sacks of tobacco, and two books of cigarette' papers to do the trick. "And the. hardest part was smoking the cigarette after I'd rolled it," Haines remarked. - "Silver Horde." Latest reports state that George Archainbaud and his "Silver Horde" company are now in Alaska. The company will work on salmon run locations actually mentioned in the story. Full values will be taken in order to achieve maximum realism in transferring the Rex Beach story to the screen. A cast of principals of power and vigour has been collected, including Evelyn Brent, Louis Wolheim, Joel M'Crea, Jean Arthur, Ralf Harolde, and Ivan Linow, the strong man of the screen. Nancy Carroll, ' . ' . Nancy Carroll has.just,completed work on "Laughter," her second 'all-talking dramatic play for. Paramount.- It is,the adaptation of an original stoVy by H. d'Abbadie d'Arrast and Douglas Doty. Fredric March plays opposite the star, and Frank Morgan, .Glen:Anders, Diane Ellis, Sarah Edwards, and Leonard Carey head the cast. D'Arrast' directed. Language Department. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ■ has opened » foreign language department for the benefit of office workers as well as stars and featured players. The volume of foreign business has increased, so'much, it is said, that many offices and departments have been obliged to engage translators and linguistic typists. Sue Carol. What young actress would not swap places with Sue Carol? In her next picture she is assured of being seen and heard by millions of theatre-goers, for she is to "appear in the ; feminine lead with the. black-face kings of ■- entertainment, Amos In- Andy, for RKO Radio Pictures. This announcement ■is made by William

Leßaron, 'vice-president in charge ,of. RKO production, who will give'his 'attention t» the Amos 'n' Andy, film special. . Mist Carol recently completed the leadl opposite Arthur Lake in "She's" My Weakness," which won for her a iong;term" Radii contract. ■ ■ Pearling Schooners. '.' '; Two pearling schooners, veterans of year? of cruising in the South; Sea Islands, play/ ed a prominent part'during'the filming of Paramount's "The Sea Godj" ■ which fea-; tures Richard Arlen and Fay-Wray. Much, of the action was taken aboard.these vessels. Principal : supporting are' Eugene Pallette, Robert Gleckler, and Maurice Black. , George, Abbott, directed. Old. ; ' ,::■■■•:• , Greta Garbo went back! 05 years for the coiffure, she-svearsr.in' "Romance," jwc new Metro-Goldwyh-Mayer' :talkie. Tha style, copied after the mode .of 1860, consists of bangs and curls with -a^ fluffy top-dressing. ■ .■ .' -■ • . . "Babes in Toyland." '.' ; ' < ; Luther Reed intends to emphasise both. the comic features and the Victor. Herbert music in "Babes' in Tbyla'nd,*'' which h« is now adapting and -villsoon direct. Aspiring. ' ' . . , ' . Wallace. Beery,, who plays "Butch" in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "The Big; House," says he would like to do a song and dane« , number in a revue some day, which recalls that before he went-in pictures h« was a Schubert musical comedy' star. Professor, Villain. John Hamilton, formerly a professor-of English at Dickinson College, impersonates one 01 the three' villains in "Dangerous Nan M'Grew,' a Paramount screen fares featuring Helen Kane Hamilton.appeared in a number of stage successes prior to entering nlms. Others in the cast are Stuart Erwin. James Hall, Victor Moore, and Frank Morgan.-. . !■■ ; Big Cast. ; Zasu Pitts has been added to the cast of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer'a "War; Nurse." Miss Pitts, who will be remembered for her work in Yon Stroheim's picture, "Greed," is but one of the many players in the cast of the new film. . Other* are June Walker, playing her first talking picture role, Anita Page, Robert Monl> gomery, Robert Ames, Marie Prevost, Eileen M'Carthy, Hedda Hopper, Helen Je» rome Eddy, and Eddie Kugent. Edga* Selwyn is directing. Cast Selections. Kenneth MacKeuna, Jobyna Howlandi Paul Cavanagh, Eric Kolkhurst, Oscar Ap» fel, and Youcca Torubetskey have been selected for the principal supporting role* in "The General," a Paramount all-talking dramatic play now in- production. Walter Huston and Kay Francis have the leading roles, and George ■ Cukor and Louis Gasnier are co-directing. • ', Zane Grey. ; "The Shepherd of Guadaloupe," Zan» Grey's latest novel, and alre: V a best seller, was purchased .by Metro-G'oldwyn-Mayer to be put- into prod action^ as sooa as the screen adaptation can be made."Heads Up." Paramount has completed filming e» "Heads Up," a screen musical- comedy, at the New York studios. Charles Rogers i« starred, and Margaret Breen,' Helen Kane, Victor Moore, Helen Carrington,'and Gent Gowing head the "cast., Victor. Schertein* ger, who directed Rogers's "Safetyiin Kumbers," handled the filming, . The Old Call. * \ Jact Gilbert confides to > his intimate* in the early morning ".hours that love isn't all that it's cracked up >to be. Ina Clair* is yearning stagewards again. And her second movie will be made on the East Coast. The only way to contribute novelty to romance in Hollywood-is to stay happily married. Then.you enter ,the.exclusive ranks of the truly original. \