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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19880, 8 May 1936, Page 3

Box Plans Open Cinema . . . Sjiapshots William Powell. William Powell will make only two pictures a year PLANS ONLY to after fulfilling his wake two films present contracual per year. obligations. “ I’m convinced I'll live longer that way,” he said recently on the set at RKO Studio. “And I do not mean just professionally. I lost 15 pounds while doing my last feature picture. That made me realise as I never had before the toil that continuous work before the cameras exacts.” Powell has been one of the screen's steadiest and hardest workers for more than ten years. Far from wearing out hi s welcome, frequent screen i p p e a r ances have steadily increased hi s j popularity. The! result has been! a demand for! h i s services that he has been unable to fill, even by, making as many as five pictures a year. “A few years ago,” Powell continued, “ I used to think seriously of retirement. I realise now that I have worked too long to be content as a full-time man of leisure. It takes practice to loaf successfully, and I haven’t had it. But two pictures a year will make an ideal schedule.” A two-week’s vacation at a desert hide-out enabled Powell to gain back 14 of the 15 pounds he lost while making his last picture. He looks, and says he feels, in top physical condition for the many arduous weeks of work to which he committed before he can put his two films a year schedule into practice. William Powell Gaumont-British Activities. Mr George Arliss has recently started work on his new GEORGE arliss picture for GauSTARTS m on t - British, NEW picture “ Hands Off,” in which he plays the hole of an Oriental Rajah. The new picture, the story of which is by Edwin Greenwood, is to be directed by Mr Herbert Mason, with Miss Maud Howell co-directing. Heading the cast with Mr Arliss, is Miss Lucie Mannheim, w'ho has just completed an enormously successful stage-run in “ Nina” at the Criterion TJie&tre, London, and who first appeared in England as the mysterious woman sVy “Annabella,” in . “39 Steps.” * jt “ Hands Off” Is the story of the struggle between England and an Eastern power to obtain treaty rights in the harbour of Renang, the port ruled by the crafty and suave Rajah of Renang; and of the romance between Marguerite Carter, lonely wife of a cruel and drink-sodden Customs official, and Nozlm, the Rajah’s handsome, Oxford-educated son. “Professional Soldier.” A life replete with VICTOR MoLAGLENwarlike adventures IN TITLE ROLE, both on and off the screen, qualifies Victor McLaglen for the title role of 20th Century’s thrilling adventure-romance. “Professional Soldier,” almost better than any of his acting rivals in Hollywood. Following a life of actual and hazardous soldiering in many lands and under many flags, McLaglen won his first warrior role in “Beau Geste." Shortly after he rendered the unforgettable portrait of Captain Flagg in “What Price Glory?” In actual life, McLaglen had his baptism under Are as a member of the Life Guards during the Boer War campaign, although hs was under age at the time and had to misrepresent his years to enlist. Later when the World War broke out, he re-enlisted and was speedily promoted to a commission and led soldiers in the prosecution of the war in Mesopotamia. The close of the war found him occupying the position of Provost Marshal of Bagdad. It was not until after the war that McLaglen first essayed acting. From an inconspicuous start in a London production, his rugged - physique, vitality and grasp of the V* acting art. speedily won for him a s position as a Thespian. Freddie Bartholomew', the child actor, shares starring honours with McLaglen In “Professional Soldier,” which will shortly be released by Fox Film Corporation. Katherine Hepburn. In love with the genial artist, Brian Aherne, in “ Sylvia AS “ SYLVIA Scarlett,” Katherine scarlett " Hepburn discards her GOES girlish male disguise and enchants him with her femininity. The plot of this film adaptation of the Compton Mackenzie novel, demands that Hepburn, in the title role, masquerade as a boy in the earlier sequences of the picture. But when Sylvia meets a handsome artist, she realises that her impulses are as feminine as her attire is masculine, and she sheds her male disguise. New Picture for Groce Bradley. Grace Bradley, Paramount’s titian tressed actress, has been assigned an important role in “ 13 Hours by Air." Miss Bradley goes into this picture ffter having appeared in Paramount’s “Rose of the Rancho” and “Anything Goes.” Fred Mac.Uurray, Joan Bennett, Zasu Pitts and Ruth Donnelly are in “ 13 Hours by Air.” which Mitchell Leisen is directing ITi A. DUPONT, the German director who recently made “The Bishop’s Misadventures/’ is to direct Gertrude Michael and Herbert Marshall in Paramount’s “Something to Live JFor.”