SCREEN BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 166, 31 July 1937, Page 11

SCREEN BREVITIES

"Madame Butterfly," the popular opera, is coming to the screen wxth. the original Puccini music. Gladys Swaxthout will sing the title role, with John Boles as Lieutenant Pinkerton. Somo musical re-arrangang'has"to be 'flohe so. that Miss" Swarthout^ 'mezzo-soprano,; can sing soprano , lead, and Mr 'Boles,' baritone, •• can take songs" originally; writton i'or a tenor, ; . ' j ♦,.J • \ ' ♦ . j Fdna Best ... (Mra . Herbert Marshall),' who^plays oue of tho leadihg . part3 in' • ' South : Eiding, f appears as * headmistress of . a school for girls dxi.York-; shire. Ealph Richardsoa is' EobertCarne, Squxre of Maythorpe Hall. First seenes show Edua Best teaching fortyfour children. Many of these children have been specially picked by Mr Vietor Saville from Yorkshire sehools. The leading child part has been awarded to Joan Ellum for whom Mr Saville predicts a great future. In the--long cast are Ann Todd, Edinund Gwenn, and John Clements." ' # # ^ Tears streamed down -his face, hislips quivered with words he could ' not; speak> ,.as William Powell bent; over the ,palo still .forrn of Jean Harlow asshe lay dying in ,a private ward rrf .the' Good . Samaritan . Hospital at . Hollywood. Po.well covered his face as the' doctor said: "She's .just , going." , /A moment Jater he. dashed from the roour aud ex'ied brokenly, to his, great friend VVarner Baxter, who waited outside: Oh, \Yarn'er, she,rs dead — my, Jean, my Jean! " .. , , . • . «=. *'# Sonja Hexue, wixo was so successiul in "Gii-1 in a Million, " is at wox*k on "Thin Iee," in which she will perform some fancy feats of ski-ing as well as skate. She is being partnered by Tyrone Power, Twentieth Century-Fox 's rising yonng man, and the boy about whom slie is sxxpposed to be ' ' tliat way" in real lii'e. Nothing affirms as surely as this rumour that Sonja has been accepted- by Hollywood. The association of her nanxo with that of Ihe rising young man of tlxo moment is, in tho Ii'ollyvood J'ashion, botlx a conxplixncut to her aud an assurance that sh© has arrived