SCREEN NEWS IN BRIEF

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1939, Page 5

SCREEN NEWS IN BRIEF

Theodore Chaliapin, son of the famous singer, is appearing in “Exile Express” with Anna Sten and Alan Marshall. Fredric March, now playing his forty-first starring part in “Trade Winds” with Joan Bennett, was a mo-, del for hair cream advertisements before he went to Hollywood. Richard Greene has been forbidden to ride horses until he has completed his next two pictures, because he was recently thrown, and the resulting scar on his forehead meant rearranging the shooting sequences fox - “Kentucky.” Paramount are building up George Raft and Dorothy Lamour as a team, on the strength of “Spawn of the North.” They will follow “Moon Over Burma” with “Two-time Loser,”/ in which Raft plays a big-time racketeer again. • ’

Edna Best and Wilfred Lawson star

in “The Relief of Lucknow,” first of a series glorifying British heroism. Following his outstanding performance as Father Flanagan in “Boy’s Towp,” Spencer Tracy is to be costarred with Hedy Lamarr, who caused such a sensation in “Extase.” Robert Allen, playing in “Up the River,” with Tony Martin, Phyllis Brooks and Preston Foster, was offered £2OOO by his father to leave Hollywood and enter the family business, but preferred to stay in movies. Miliza Korjus’s next film will be “Rozsa Sandar,” story of a wild singer brought up in robber camps during the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph. Walter Reisch, who collaborated on “The Great Waltz,” is writing the screen Play.