HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1940, Page 9

HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTION

TO BE SPEEDED UP.

In spite of war and adverse world [ conditions, Hollywood has decided to speed up production schedules in the •coming year, and many studios have decided to spend more money on their big films than was at first planned. The reason is that the good picKires made last year are proving hits at box officeall over the world where Hollywood products are shown, and Hollywood has found that good pictures are making up for lost European markets ar home, as well as in British countries. Darryl Zanuck announces that Fox studio will undertake one of .the most ambitious schedules in its history. Pictures planned for early production include: Brigham Young, the story ol the great Mormon leader; “End of the Trail,” a composite of the old two-gun Western heroes along the lines of “Hollywood Cavalcade”; “Mark or Zorro,” a re-make of the colourful yarn made by Douglas Fairbanks, with Tyrone Power starring; “Marching a» to War,” which will tell the story of the Salvation Army; “Lillian Russell,” the life story of that great actress and beauty, with Alice Faye in the leading role; “Hudson’s Bay Company,” and “Steinmetz the Great,” the story of the dwarfish little genius of electricity.