MEN ON SERVICE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1940, Page 3

MEN ON SERVICE

FAMILIAR TEAMS MISSING. -There are some familiar faces missi ing on those of the British lots that ■: are still active. I It was strange, for instance, to find •' George Formby being directed by Mar- ,! cel Varnel at Ealing, where he is at ,| work on his new comedy. I George’s previous successes have been made by the famous "Formby Team:" Producer Jack Kitchen and 1 Director Anthony Kimmins. Now Kit- • chen is in the army and Kimmins in ■ the navy. All the English comedians seem to be . falling among spies these days. Formby is no exception. The film will show ! him winning the U-boat war single--1 handed, after landing in a neutral ’ country and becoming mixed up with 1 an espionage organisation. Another team that has been split by ■ the war is that of the "three Macs,” ■ MacDonald, MacDougall and MacKini non, who were responsible for "This . Man Is News” pictures. ’ David MacDonald is directing “Husband In Law” at Highbury, and Mac- ' Dougall is doing the script, but Mac- ' Kinnon. his writing partner, is serving in the London Scottish. This time Barry K. Barnes has his i real-life wife, Diana Churchill, playing I that role opposite him on the screen, . instead of Valerie Hobson. Alistair Sim ■ plays a jittery lawyer.