The Film World

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 42, 26 April 1935, Page 23

The Film World

From England and Hollywood

.) SSI MATHEWS and Sonnie Hale are holiday-making in Spain. where Jessie, badly in need of sunshine and soft breezes, after the trying win-

ter she has spent, is gaining strength before returning to make "Victor and Victoria," the charming Continental romantic comedy which she will make shortly for Gaumont-British. AN exact replica of Windsor Casile as it was in the 12th century is under construction at the Paramount studios. This will be used in the filming of Cecil B. De Mille’s spectacle, "The Crusades." -) OSEF VON STERNBERG is taking care that "The Devil is a Woman," Marlene Dietrich’s next Paramount drama, will have much of the true salt of comedy. One of its gay episodes ig. set in a Cadiz dance hall, which is a’ most original background. : DEFDLY contrived blend of irony, pathos, adventure and romance makes "One More Spring" one of the most delightful pictures of the year. This sereen play, in which Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter co-star, is based on the Robert Nathan best-seller . of the same name, which created a sen‘sation in book form. HM love story of a famous New York author, played by Gary Cooper, and a’ New England farm girl. played by Anna Sten, is told in "The Wedding Night," the Samuel Goldwyn production shortly to be released by United Artists. Also featured. are’ Ralph Bellamy and Helen Vinson and Siegfried Rumann. King Vidor is directing ‘the picture, ,

‘THOUGH they have known each other personally for many years and have for some time been working for the Gaumont~British Picture Corporation, Ralph Lynn and Gordon Harker are teamed, for the first time, in "Dirty Work," the G.B. picture directed by Tom Walls. IR CEDRIC HARDWICKRE, distinguished character star of the British stage and screen, has completed his role of the Marquis of Steyne in the technicolour production of "Becky Sharp," starring Miriam Hopkins, and will leave Hollywood on his way back to England. Sir Cedric has roles in a play and a picture awaiting him in London, S a likely successor to the high estate achieved last year by "The House of Rothschild," is 20th OCentury’s "Clive of India," starring Ronald Colman, the first million-dollar pro duction ever produced by the new group of film makers: EN HECHT and Charles MacArthur, who attained the distinction of being the highest-paid team of

screen writers in ‘America or abroad, . have added new lustre to their reputation through the production of "Once in a Blue Moon," a fantastic story of love, comedy and drama against a hackground of the Russian revolution. FRED ASTAIRE and Ginger Rogers have a new wrinkle in "Roberta" -their latest picture-that, while not So spectacular, promises to top ‘The Continental." Their routine in the "Tl be Hard to Handle" number calls for a tap-dance quarrel between Fred and Ginger with the agile feet of the stars tapping out the words. Nor since "Henry VIII" has a British picture produced such genuine enthusiasm and frenzied excitement as "The Scarlet Pimpernel," co-star-ting Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon. Right now it’s the big noise and big news in Dngland and America. According to "Variety," "Korda rings the bell once more with ‘The Scarlet Pim- . bernel,’ an intriguing adaptation of a ‘noted novel, it is’distinguished by .a splendid cast and productional mounting that rates with Hollywood’s best."