AROUND THE STUDIOS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1938, Page 5

AROUND THE STUDIOS

NEWS OF FORTHCOMING PRODUCTIONS. Beginning as a black and white production, the new Jeanette MacDonaldNelson Eddy musical, “Sweethearts,” was switched to colour after two days’ filming. . Robert Young and Florence Rice will co-star in the trial-marriage story, “Vacation From Love.” Kay Francis completes her Warner contract ‘when “Women in the Wind” is finished. After which, it is reported, Miss Francis will marry again. Betty Compsop and Herbert Rawlinson, popular stars of the silent films, will make their comeback in “The Circus Comes to Town.”

"The Three Waltzes,” a popular operetta, with music by the three Strauss’s, will be filmed in Paris, with Pierre Fresnay and Yvonne Printempts in the roles they played on the stage. Selznick-International has invited 65 survivors of the Titanic disaster to attend the premiere of the picture. Charles Chaplin and screen-writer Tim Durant are building Hollywood s first news-reel theatre, a 500-seater designed especially for current event films.

picture, “The Baroness and the Butler,” in which she co-stars with William Powell. “The Baroness and the Butler” commences its Masterton season at the State Theatre tomorrow night. Stars Learn Skiing. The cast of “Romance for Three,” which comes to the Regent Theatre on Saturday, took ski-ing lessons sitting down. No, they had not been taking spills, but in view of the fact that there was no snow near the studio, Director Edward Buzzell decided to give them basic instructions in one of the projection rooms so that they would be ready to ski when they went on the snow location. Buzzell showed them two of Pete Smith’s short subjects, “Ski Champions” and “Ski Schools,” the noted commentator also acted as instructor for the class, stopping the film and pointing out technical points. Two Stars in Brief. One of the most popular heros of the films is William Boyd who appears as Hopalong Cassidy, Clarence Mulford’s famous Western character. Boyd who has light brown hair and grey blue eyes and is six feet in height

was born in Cambridge, Ohio, U.S.A, in 1898. His latest film success is “Partner of the Plains,” which comes to the Cosy tomorrow night. Lew Ayres who is the star of the second attraction at the Cosy, “Scandal Street,” is also tall, and handsome. He is thirty years of age and is sft. Ilin, in height. Ayres began his career as a musician in Henry Halstead’s orchestra. Summer Time. Masterton theatre patrons are reminded that the evening programmes now commence at 8 o’clock, not at 7.45 as during the winter months.