The Film World

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 35, 8 March 1935, Page 23

The Film World

JAN Kiepura To Go To AMERICA Year’s Best -Pictures: ° Hepburn Starred In "Little Minister" opAN KIEPURA was recently signed to a long-term contract by Paramount, and jis expected to arrive shortly in Hollywood under his new agreement. The first of the films in which he will star is "The Count of Luxembourg,"’ and reports state that no effort will be spared to make the picture the most outstanding musical comedy in

years. Magnificent settings, ‘-promine ntmusical numbers, and a splendid cast will be given to the picture which will go into production this month. HOSEN reéently by the eiubwomen and educators who compose the National Board of Review of Motion ‘Tictures in America as the ten mos! entertaining pictures of 1934, were: "One Night of Love," "The ITouse of Rothschild," "The Barretts of Wimpole Street." "The Thin Man," "It Tappened ° One Night," "Lhe Count of Monte Cristo,’ "Of Human Bondage," "Queen Christina," "Treasure Island," "What livery Woman Knows." WRITING in a well-known American magazine, a film eritic states that the quality usually defined as whimsey, which admirers of Sir James M. Barrie find so charming in his prose, is impossible to reproduce upon the screen. For this reason "The Little Minister" lacks some of the effect of the nove! from which it was derived. It attempts, therefore, to substitute charms of its own. Because of the delicacy with which the director handled the story, and the peculiar grace of Katherine Hepburn in the role that Maude. Adams created in 1897,.the substitution ig entirely satisfactory.

Wiirnour a doubt Mickey Mouse has a greater number of loyal followers than any other cinema star in the world. To say he has more millions of fans than Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Maurice Chevalier, all put together, seems preposterous until you see: the avalanche of letters

this wistful little chap brings to Hollywood. For Mickey hag a way ‘with hearts. His wisp of a snout, his big eyes, his brief pants, are all wellknown the world ’round. Like Charlie ' Chaplin at his best, he plays on the spectators’ sympathies with "the wistfulness .. . of a little fellow trying to do the best he can."