Films and the Studios

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 756, 31 August 1929, Page 31

Films and the Studios

“LAJfQUA.(tBS'* To aroid misunderstanding in both England and America, Reginald Denny is making two complete dialogue version* of “No, No, Napoleon,’’ his new i talking comedy. In the Becond version j alt Americanisms will be changed to! the English colloquial equivalent. For | instance the word “framed.” The second version for British audiences ! gives "this is a put-up job” in place I of the American “I’ve been framed.” BRILLIANT REVUE Says a film writer in discussing the brilliant "Hollywood Revue of 1929”; • It is the most spectacular made in Hollywood so far with a succession of trained ballets that will make Ziegfeld gasp. One special act introduces Marie Dressier. Polly Moran and Bessie Love, who ape a preceding number by Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike), Gus Edwards and Charles King. Marie Dressier showed that time cannot age a good commedienne. Polly Moran is excellent in a burlesque of “Sonny Boy.” • » • HART'S DISAPPOINTMENT When it was announced recently that AVilliam S. Hart intended to “come back” to films, and make a talkie Western picture, pieturegoers in all parts of America, also further afield, expressed their satisfaction in a flood of correspondence. Now it is said that Hart has been forced by a business feud to give up the idea. The Western was to have been made by Hal Roach, but it appears that M-G.M will not handle the release. Hart is returning to the mountains and to his writing.