The Film World

Radio Record, Volume IX, Issue 2, 19 July 1935, Page 29

The Film World

Round the Studios in England and the United States

Many Big Productions "THE DICTATOR," a Toeplitz pro- \ duction which Gaumont-British 1 are releasing through Fox, co-stars

NTHONY ASQUITH has _ been ‘ selected to direct "Dlizabeth of England," the new and ambitious London film production for release through United Artists. This film will deal with the most significant section of English history-the reign of Queen Elizabeth. A brilliant cast is being lined up for the numerous great characters who played important parts in this rich historical passage. The part of Queen HPlizabeth herself will be played by Miss Flora Robson, who is at present playing at the Phoenix ... Theatre in London in the title role of "Mary Read." "Dlizabeth of Dngland" is an original narrative written by the

For Early Release young novelisi-historian Mr. Phillip Lindsay. Mr. Lindsay is the author of several best-sellers, including "Here Comes the King," which dealt with the reign of King Henry VIII. WHETHER or not to trust a beau- . tiful stranger is the question confronting Gilbert Roland in "Ladies Love Danger," the Fox film mystery comedy, with Mona Barrie playing opposite Roland as a. sophisticated siren who walks, uninvited, into his apartment, following a murder next door. JENDY BARRIB, the young English star, has. her first Hollywood role opposite Spencer Tracy in "It’s a Small World’, the Fox film comedy. Miss Barrie will be remembered for her ‘role of Jane Seymour, one of the many wives in "The Private Life of Henry VIIt." UITE an assortment of odd percussion instruments are played bs Nicolaus, coloured rhythmist in Parimount's "The Big Broadcast of 1935." . and they range from frying-pans to washboards. The oddest is a set ot five tuned wooden gourds. ECIL B. DE MILLE, who is now filming his sixty-first picture, "The Crusades," at Paramount, has a print of every picture he bas made in the past 21 years, AI ESSD L. Lasky has engaged Reginald Le Berg to serve as technical adviser and stage and operatic sequences for Nina Martini in her first starring production for Fox film. The Martini picture is entitled "Here’s to Romance," and will be directed by Alfred Green. Other additions to the big cast already assembled for this production are as follow: George Barraud, Kaye Luke, Miles Mander, Mathilde Coment, Adrien Rosley, Anita Louise, Genevieve Tobin.

XHD start ‘of a new Gaumont-British musical, "First a Girl," at the beginning of last month, really constituted the reunion after a year of separation of a studio "‘team" who have become a real "band of brothers." Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Director Victor Saville and Cameraman Glen McWilliams, the leading figures of the tremendously popular "Evergreen" are together once more in "First a Girl," which is to be a "musical" in the best sense of the word: There are _ five special "production numbers" which should all become jnternational hits. -JANET GAYNOR, the demure little Fox star of "The Farmer Takes a Wife," has a home of her very own

JULABORATE advance production plans are being made for the new Gainsborough film, "Dancing Shoes," starring Jack Hulbert and Frances Day. "Dancing Shoes" is the working title of the adaptation of the current "hit? West End show, "Youth at the Helm." In addition to the very amusing story of the play, several musical production numbers have been blended into the film version.