SCREEN BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 160, 24 July 1937, Page 10

SCREEN BREVITIES

/'May time," ataring Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy, is said to be the best vehicle ,iu which this pair have yet appeared. Sigmund Romberg's music. and the story by youthfnl Noel Langley is of unusual excellence. Helen .Vinson has been. giyen a . Tole In Walter Wanger's "Vogues of 193S " , (which was until recently called " Vo'gues of 19'37'f). This will be kliss . Vinson's first film appearance since she played in the British-made "Love in Exile." , Eobert Montgomery wants to play the part of Sir Walter Rajeigh on the London stage. • # # Fred Astaire has refused to renqw his screen contract, aud at the end of the present term will go for a long rest at Sister Adele's (Lady Cavendish) Irish castle. • # # The sequel mania continues. IJniversal carries on the singing eareer of Deanna Durbin in "Three Smart Girls go to Town, " as a chaser for "Three Smart Girls, ' ' in which Deanna went to town. • • . * Joan Crawford, playing- tennis at the West Side Club, 1 refused pointblank to be photographed by a "eandid-ciamera snooper." Joan-is still smarting over the uncomplimentary pictures of herself in two American . magazines. • • • Ereddie Bartholomew will have a leading role in M.-G.-M.'s "Molly, Bless Her," written by Erances Marion. Sophie Tucker has the leading role, and the story is said to be based on actual incidents in the life of the late Marie Drcssler.