SCREEN SIDELIGHTS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 276, 16 July 1932, Page 7

SCREEN SIDELIGHTS

Always Working. Chevalier, whose "One Hour with You" is one of the big successes of the season, is in private life one of the most serious members of the Hollywood Colony. ne reaches the studio about 9 o'clock each morning, and when not making a picture he works all day at a portable typewriter, answering innumerabla letters. Started Yiennese Yogue. Noel Coward, with his "Bitter Sweet" more than probably started the Viennese vogue that is obessing the writers of musical plays and films in Europe and America. This is not such a bad thing, after all . . . the Viennese waltz type is certainly an improvement on the sickly-sweet, crooning waltz melodies that held sway previously. Strauss' music evidently has a special appeal, as he further included in the round dozen a vocal record also from "Der Fledermaus" (Mein Herr Marquis). Film Version Faithful. Some unjust criticism has been hurled at the producers of the film version of "Carmen." Someone wrote, "the worst complaint that can be made about 'Carmen' is simply, that it isn't 'Carmen'." As a matter of fact, the opera is not "Carmen!" The film is a far more faithful version of this romance written hy the French author, Prosper Merimee about 1827. The producers have foilowed Merimee's work closely, and in parts to the minutest detail, wher-as the opera goes well and truly off th'e deep end, among other things crediting Don Jose, Carmen's unfortunate lover, with an extra sweatheart he did not possess. Five Years' Contract. Lilian Harvey, Europe's greatest feminifie star, has been signed by Fox Film Corporation for five years, and will arrive in America about September, following the completion of her present contract with U.F.A. The Fox Film Corporation is already planning for the introduction of Miss Harvey in her first American pictures as the star of several of the productions in the programme for the forthcoming season. The titles of which will be shortly annouriced.