SCREEN BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 148, 10 July 1937, Page 8

SCREEN BREVITIES

Eamon Novarro, who seemed to lose his popularity with the ooming of the talkies and was last xeported as having "flopped" in a stage production in London, is to attempt a come-back in "She Didn't Want a Sheik." Lola Lane is to have the chief feminiha role. , • * • Mrs Ed. Wynn recently won a Eeno divorce froxn her husband, the filrri comedian, who was ordered to pay hei £60 a week or, should he die first, his estate to pay her £100 monthly. * # • John and Elaine Barrymore have been reconeiled. The divorce decree which Elaine obtained in April will be set aside, and they will re-marry. Elaine said, "I love only John." John added: "Wo are very, very happy." The couple proposo to contin'uo film Iwork and also to broadcast, The wedding — John Barrymore 's fourth — last November caused a sensation in the movie world, but it was not long before reports of unhappiness were in circulation, and in April the wife of livo ruonths was granted a divorce. • * • Mary Maguire, the young Australian actress who was taken to Hollywood by Miles Mander aftcr her success in the Australian lilm "The Flying Doetor," opposite Charles Farrell, is to be starred by Warner Brothers. The first picture will be "AJcatraz." Later she is to play in a version of Edgar Allan Foe's "Tlie Pit and the Pendulum. ' ' • m * Nelson Eddy, who will noxt be scon with Jeanette MacDonald in "Maytinie," an operetta of tho '70 's, was once a aewspaper man. IIo lcarnod to sing by following songs on tho gramo phono. lle rehearses his songs for tho se 1-0011 by rocorciing thom «nd theu

t'layuig thom over to detect faults. Ho is UBtHBrried, and inpists his bes girl ia his mother, for whom he buyi a tiow cnc every Ohrislmas.