CIRCUIT NEWS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 590, 22 July 1933, Page 7

CIRCUIT NEWS

RELEASES ANNOUNCED. Joseph Yon Sternberg, one of the screen's leading directors, has be&L signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to direct the next Joan Crawford-Clark Gable starring picture, the story of which is heing prepared by Frances Marion, authoress of "Emma" and "The Champ." Miss Crawford and Gable were last seen together in "Possessed." Von Sternberg's reeent successes include "Shanghai Express," "Blonde Venus" and "An American Tragedy." ^ * "Hold Your Man" has been announcec^ as the final title for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production previously known as "Black Orange Blossoms." The film, which was recently completed at the Culver City studios, co-stars Jean Harlo\V and Clark Gable, who were recently seen in "Red Dust." Sam Wood is the director, and the cast includes Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Burgess, Muriel Kirkland, Hugh' Herbert and Barbara Barondess. * * Jean Parker,( whose interpretation of the rolfl of the young Duchess in "Rasputin and the Empress," caused much favourable eomment, has heen signed to a new contract by Metro-G'oldwyn-Mayer. She made her dehut in "Divorce in the Family," and since has been seen .in "The Secret of Madame Blanehe." Her latest current appearance is in "Gabriel Over the White House." * Hf $ Stuart Erwin, who recently signed a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract, is heing kept busy by that company. His first role is in the Glerk Gable-Jean Harlow picture , "Hold Tour Man." Follo.wing on that he appears in "Strangers Return," with Lionel Barrymore, Miriam Hopkins and Franchot Tone, and in the production temporarily known as "The Big Liar," in which Miclcy Mouse, Jimmy Durante, and Jack Pearl. When these films are I completed, he will appear with Jimmy Durante in a comedy with a maritime background, adapted from the story "Five Days" by Eric Hatch. * * * Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has acquired the motion picture rights to ' Dance Hall Daisy," an unproduced play by David Freeman. The story. is set in the swamplands of Louisiana, and is said to be intensely dramatic. It is set for early production at the M-G-M studios. * & ♦ >!■ Along wih his other aquatic accomplishments, Johnny Weissmuller has been appointed a member of the life •guard at the swanky Santa Monica Beach. This is the spot where all the beautiful film stars congregate when the summer sun is calling. We will yet see a few rescues at Santa Monica with the muscular Johnny as life guard ! * * * Talking of swimming, another Met-ro-Goldwyn-Mayer actress has succumbed to the secudtive lure of the salt-water sport. She has just had an /elaborate swimming polo installed in the lawn of her Beverley Hills home. She has prevailed upon Johnny Weissmuller to give her instruction in the art. Lucky Johnny! Previously Jean swore by 'golf as the best of all sports, but she is wavering in her allegianee. Elizabeth Allen, ^ Metro-■G'aldwyn-iMayer's latest acquisition, is another t0 succumb. She has joined the beach colony at Playa Del Rey, a popular resort, some miles down the coast fi'om Hollyvvood, for the foithcoming season. x * *

Trust the Americans to think up some new sport! The latest craze in Montana is coyote shooting from an aeroplane. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has sent a cameraman to film the new .game so that movie fans may get a new thrill. The idea is that an old plane is obtained, capable of cruising at a low speed, and the hunter sits in the observer's seat. Flying at an altitude of from five to ten feet from the ground, the party cruises along looking for coyotes. When one of the beasts is-sighted, the hunter lets fly, and if he misses, the plane gives chase until the quarry is despatche . Hopping over hedges and boulders adds a zest to the sport. * * * If the Australian tennis team accepts the invitation issued by the American authorities for an American tour at the conclusion of their European engagements, it is quite on the cards they will visit the Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer studios at Culver City, California. This will be no new thrill for Crawford, who visited them las year when the team was en route to Cuba for the first round of the Davis Cup. The team was reeeived hy Maure°n O'Sullivan, and conducted round the studios. During 1932, quite a number of prominent Austral.an sportsmen visited Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. First came the Davis Cup . team. Then the Olympic team paid . a visit, and finally the Australian crroket eleven, headed by Don Bradman, Stan McCabe/Arthur Mailey and Alan Kippax looked in. * * * * Benita Hume, Una Merkel and Maureen O'Sullivan, fair, young .Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer actnesses, have caught wood. They recently descended on a the bicycle craze now raging in Hollyhicycle shop in Hollywood and demanded hire of three machines foi the afternoon. The proprietor, who is a keen movie fan, became so excited at the honour paid him that he .comj pletely forgot to dnflate the tyres of I the machines properly, with the resujt that the three actresses returned at the end of the afternoon with flat tyres!