NEWS OF THE CINEMA

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20498, 14 May 1938, Page 15 (Supplement)

NEWS OF THE CINEMA

NEW ZEALANDERS’ SUCCESS SHIRLEY TEMPLE’S BIRTHDAY ] Insisted on Boyer as Napoleon "I shouldn't have dune ‘.Marie Wal- i ew-ska’ without Charles Boyer as < Napoleon,” said the producer, Clar- j once Brown. “That bit of casting was the last tiling Irving Thalberg did. We had to have an actor who would La Napoleon, because the whole appeal of the idea was the combination of Garbo and Napoleon. “Garbo did everything she could to help the balance in the way it had to go.” New Zealand Boy In Hollywood Co-starring in M.G.M.’s “Thoroughbreds Together” will toe Freddie Bartholomew and Ronnie Sinclair (Ra Hould, the New Zealand boy). In “Thoroughbreds Don't Cry" • Ronnie played the part originally in- j tended for Freddie. Eddie Cantor’s Next Film i

.Eddie Cantor is running between White Horse Inn” and “Pins and Needles’ -as his next film, says an American paper. Daryl Zanuch wired the comedian that lie made an offer of £20,000 to Harry M. Warner for “White Horse Jnn, ’ tout Cantor favours the idea of buying the “Pins and Needles” title from the Labour Stage, and utilising as a theme the foreman of a dress firm who becomes stagestruck, due to the click of “Pins and Needles.” The rest would have to be a 100 per cent, original. Shirley Temple’s Ninth Birthday Shirley Temple celebrated her ninth birthday on April 23. Shirley was born in Santa Monica, California, and first appeared in pictures at the age of three and a-half years, the first full-length film in which she appeared being “Stand Up and Cheer.” For the celebration of her birthday there was a party with a huge birthand Shirley -was the recipient of many beautiful presents. Shirley is becoming a brunette. Moreover, her mother refuses to allow the darkening locks to be dyed. She says the fans would not like Shirley to have anything bogus about her. New Zealand In Hollywood Clyde Elliott is back at Hollywood from the Malayan jungles, where he filmed •Booloo.’ Accompanying Elliott was Colin Tapley, the New Zealander, who plays the lead In the animal adventure picture.

Rudy Vallee Tries*Agaln About seven years ago Rudy Vallee, one of America's most popular band-leader-crooners, had a shot at filmmaking and liked it so little that he quickly returned to his music and radio audience. * To-day, now that changed, fashions and improved talkie technique give a crooner a better chance, Rudv is trying again; and is hard at work in “Gold-diggers in Paris.” Also in the cast are Rosemary Lane and Gloria Dickson. Rosemary is the up-and-coming sister of Lola Lane, and lias just given a nice performance in “Hollywood Hotel.” Gloria, who did a grand dramatic job in “They Won’t Forget,” goes glamorous for a less exacting part in this picture. Those ever-reliabie comics, Hugh Herbert and Allen Jenkins, are on hand to help out. Gerbo Says, “I Shall Never Marry” Greta Garbo, elusive star of the screen, lias at last broken silence on her reported romance with Leopold Stokowski, the conductor. In the beautiful Moorish surroundings of the balcony room of the Villa Cimbrone at Ravello, she declared:— “I have never been married, and I do not think I ever shall be. I have never had the impulse to be led to the altar.” Mr Stokowski said: “In any case, there will be no marriage in Italy.” Dick Powell as Cowboy Crooner Idol of countless fllmgoers, irritant to thousands of others, Dick Powell is shortly to strike a fashionable note when, dressed as a cowboy, he croons in his newest picture, “‘Cowboy from Brooklyn.” Young English Actor’s Success Richard Greene, the London stage actor who was taken to America by arryi Zanuck for a featured role in “Four Men and a Prayer,” has had his option lifted, and will play opposite Scnja Ilenie in “They Met in" College.” John McCormack as Voice Coach Paramount lias engaged John McCormack, the Irish tenor, as voice coach for Olymple Bradna, whose lyrical soprano is regarded as an asset since her surprise singing in “Stolen Heaven.” William Powell 111 William Powell is recuperating after a major intestinal operation at Hollywood. Mr Powell, who has been ailing for more than a year, will be away from the cameras for from six to" eight weeks. Ramon Novarro’s Come-beck Ramon Novarro’s new film “ The Sheik Steps Out,” will be generally released on May 23. Ramon is about to begin “ As You Are. ’ Tiie story of a young man who makes a fortune at roulette, it will be comedy and is based on an idea by Hans Kraly, who collaborated with Ernst Lubitsch on the script of “ The Student Prince.” Grade Fields’ New, Film The title under which “He Was Her ! Man,” Gracie Fields’ first film for ! Twentieth Century-Fox, will be re- j leased is “We're Going to be Rich.” i It was chosen from more than 2000 1 submitted by the staffs of the Den- 1 ham studios and the Twentieth Cen-tury-Fox organisation. Victor McLaglen and Brian Donlevy, who supported Gracie in the film, are now back in Hollywood, where they have just started a picture , called “Battie of Broadway.” Louise Hovick, Raymond Walburn, Lynne Bari and Jeon Muir have supporting roles, and one of the minor parts in I lie picture is played by Sammy Cohen, famous comedian in j Hit* days of the “Flagg and Ouirt” . comedies, in which McLaglen, in partnership with Edmund Lowe, made his name. j