SCREEN SHORTS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 182, 26 March 1932, Page 7

SCREEN SHORTS

PARS ABOUT PLAYERS. '• Reginald Denny tells an interesting story of a contest with a world-fam-ous artist: — "My father had taken me for lunch to the Savage Club in London," Reg xelates. was only a youngster. The various members crowded about — and one asked if I liked pictures of animals. I said I did. The man immediately started drawing dogs and lions and tigers on the back of the menu card. After he had gone, some one told me that the kind gentleman was the great Landseer, the artist!" * . * * Elaborate preparations are under way to film Metro-Uoldwyn-Mayer's "Tarzan of the Apes." Wild animals of every sort, jungle savages and other thrills will figure in the sensational drama of the wilderness. Johnny Weissmuller, famous swimming champion, will play the title ' role and a notable cast will include Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith, Doris Lloyd and Forrester Harvey. The new jungle ' drama, based on the famous adventure stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs, will be directed by W. S. yan Dyke of "Trader Horn" fame. * * * Do you know that: — Lionel Barrymore dislikes big cars, and never rides in them if he can avoid doing so He travels around Hollywood, doubled up like a jackknife in a car of the small variety so well known to jokesmiths. For the first time' in both their careers, John and Lionel Barrymore played together in front of a moving ■picture camera when they started work in "Arsene Lupin/' at the M-G-M studios. John plays the elusive master crook and Lionel the implacable detective' dogging his footsteps. The new picture, which Jack Conway is directing, is a tense mystery story with many angles of whimsical comedy. The cast includes Karen Morley as the heroine, "Sonia," Tully Marshall as "Gourney Martin," Parisian roue, Henry Armetta and George Davis, as a comedy pair of Frenchmen. * * * Ramon Novarro still goes blithely along. His hit in "A Son of India" has been followed up by a contract with M-G-M calling for four pictures a year, to start immediately after the shooting of "Mata Hari," in which he is co-starring with Greta Garbo.

in the room and not .through the radio system. This was accomplished by connecting the studio recording system to the radio microphone and transferring his voice directly on film. A cast of well known names supports Haines in his new talkie, including Charles King, of "Broadway Melody" fame, who sings the song hit of the picture, "Just a Little Closer"; Mary Doran, last seen in "The Richest Man in the World," who has the feminine lead; John Miljan, popular "heavy" of "The Unholy' Three" and "Our Blushing Brides"; Polly Moran as a riotous beauty expert; J. C. Nugent, Edward Nugent, Wilbur Mack, James Donlan, Edward Brophy, Warner P. Richmond, and Russell Hopton. Edward Sedgwick, whose last production was the Buster Keaton comedy, "Forward March," directed the new Haines vehicle. SaiSJriU 4