SCRÈNLAND SECRETS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 310, 16 December 1936, Page 3

SCRÈNLAND SECRETS

BY

JOHN HOLT

“The Charge of the Light Brigade” will be released throughout New Zealand in the near future. Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, who made such a great success 'together in “Captain Blood” have the stellar roles, supported by Patrie Knowles, Donald Crisp, Nigel Bruce, and many other popular players. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” was inspired by Lord Tennyson’s famous poem. The picture was directed by Michael Curtiz from a screen play by' Michel Jacoby and Rowland Leigh; it was more than three months in production. The action of the plot begins on the frontier of India and comes to its climax on the- battlefield of Balaclava, where the Light Brigade made its famous charge on the Russian guns in the War of the Crimea.

Edward G. Robinson, who will soon return from England, where he has been on loan by Warner Bros, First National to one of the leading British studios, is to be starred in “Kid Galahad,” a picture based on the widely read Saturday Evening Post serial by Francis Wallace. Pat O’Brien will also be featured in the stellar cast, and Barton Mac-Lane and Ross Alexander will have prominent roles. Seton L Millar has written the adaptation of “Kid Galahad’’ which will go into production at .the Burbank studios of Warner Bros, First National. This will be Robinson’s first American vehicle since “Bullets or Ballots.” Ricardo Cortez and Mrs Cortez have sailed for England on the liner Normandie, as the actior has been lent by Warner Bros, to British and Dominion Pictures to appear in a forthcoming film entitled “I’ll 'Fake the Low Road.” Cortez recently completed for Warner Bros, First National the newest of the Erie Stanley Gardner series of mysterythrillers, “The Case of the Black Cat” in which he will be seen in the role of the lawyer-sleuth, Perry Mason. He -will return to the United States in about two months to resume work at the Bui bank studios of Warner Bros, First National.

Production on “The Making ol O’Malley” is completed at the sludioF in Bui bank, California. Pai O’Brien heads the cast of tire picture, which was directed by William Dieterle. Little Sybil Jason has the leading feminine role, but there are othei members of the gentler sex, such as Frieda. Inescort, Ann Sheridan and Mary Gordon. Humphrey Bogart lias an important part, as have Donald Crisp, Hobart Cavanaugh, Henry O’Neill and Craig Reynolds.® * * -JiKay Francis and Warner Baxter, .who has been borrowed from another studio, will be co-starred in a new picture soon to start production. The story for the new team is now being selected. Miss Francis plays opposite George Brent, in “Sweet Aloes” with Roland Young, Frieda Inescort and other distinguished

people of stage and screen. Miss Francis recently' completed “Sweet Aloes,” a Cosmopolitan production and “Stolen Holiday.” Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler recently celebrated in Hollywood the eighth anniversary of their marriage, one of the happiest of Movieland's matrimonial ventures. Al is due in New York to take the stellar pari in a special broadcast programme and also to see the world baseball series. Ruby started work in her new musical picture “Ready, Willing and Able,” in which she will be teamed with Ross Alexander. Mary' Maguire, the beautiful young Australian screen star who has just been signed by Warner Bros, First National, will probably make her American screen debut in the forthcoming production of Mark Twain’s “The Prince and the Pauper” says a studio wire. This is the picture in which the Mauch twins, Billy' and Bobby, will play the two title roles. Before producing “The Prince and the Pauper,” Warner Eros, will film “Penrod and Sam,’ by Booth Tarkinglon, with Billy Mauch as Penrod. Billy was the drummer boy in “The While Angel” and is the boy Anthony in “Anthony Adverse.”