FRED ASTAIRE BACK.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19893, 23 May 1936, Page 21 (Supplement)

FRED ASTAIRE BACK.

£BOO,OOO FOR EIGHT FILMS. HIS DIFFICULTIES SETTLED. (From a Correspondent). HOLLYWOOD, April 20. Fred Astaire has settled his dimculties with Radio Keith Orpheum and is returning; to 'the studios immediately to begin production of “Never Gonna. Dance” with Ginger Rogers. Their new contract offers each £BOO,OOO for eight pictures, but they rcvolted, Mr Astaire partly because he wanted to 'iake a holidayfand also because he thought lhaL " unvaried pair—ing ” with Miss Rogers \\'uuld weaken their hox-oflice Value. She Stlll Loves H'lm. Elaine Barrio is in the news. She declared she was not. downhearted when John Barrymore failed to see her off for New York. Her mother, Mrs Barrie, explained

hls absence by saying, “ Barrymore feared that. :1 lot of people would come to the train, so he stayed away." Elaine chimed in: ”John spent all yesterday afternoon with me." Asked if she still loved him, she replied: ” Of course I do." In response to a query: " But does he love you?" came the 003' response: “ Who should know better than I?" and a vague statement about appearing with John at Chicago and on Broadway. Grace Moore Settles Quarrel. Grace Moore, the actress-opera singer, has settled her Hollywood quarrel with Columbia Pictures. As she left New York for the south of France yesterday she said: “All’s quiet on the western front, and I will be back in August to make another picture. They wanted to start one right away, but I was all in and so was Margie, the cow." Miss Moore explained that Margie was one of the supporting cast. of “The King Steps Out," the film she has just finished and in which she objected to the role of :1 singing milkmaid: "They tool; 1.”) rotulies in seven hours. Margie began mouing' whenever i hit a top note, and after that I knew I must. have a holiday! " Marlene Dietrlch In Colour Fllm. Marlene Dietrich. who walked out of the film "I Loved a Soldier.“ has agreed to appear in the colour-111m "Garden of Allah," with Charles Boyer, and for three weeks has been under-

going strenuous colour icsis. \\‘hon this film is 00111lech she will lriavr- fur Lonrlnn in make a Hi'ilish pix-[urn \\iih Mr Aloxnnilcr lx'm'rln. and is; rviurning 10 llollywuml in the autumn Did Not. lee the Part. Merle Oberon. the British slay who ileclinm'l in appear in “ Garden of Allah " an llm ground lhat shr: dirl not like the part, has runseniml in malw " Dark \‘ln:lm'.\“'—l'uusml on a ’J‘ullulnh liankhearl play—for which [lax-id Solz—niol: orizinully engaged her. She is also clue in London for a Korda film. and the prosper‘ts are that she will luuve at the same lime us Marlene.