C.B. COCHRAN busy on NEW SHOWS

Radio Record, 7 August 1936, Page 22

C.B. COCHRAN busy on NEW SHOWS

F,OOKING fit after his holiday in Spain and Switzerland, Mr. C. B. Cochran has returned to London and is already deep in plans for the future, says a London correspondent. Before the end of the year he will have presented five new theatre shows and will also have made his first essay as a film producer-with a £150,000 colour-film upon a showman’s life, to be made at Denham. The first stage-production to be presented under his auspices will be Lew Leslie’s "Blackbirds of 1936," which opens at the Opera House, Manchester, this month, and will be transferred later to the Gaiety Theatre, Then comes the postponed BarrieBergner play about King David. "I am glad to say," said Mr. Cochran, "that Bergner is now well on the way TILL itil iiiikiiihie

to complete recovery. I am seeing her in a day of two and we shall then be able to fix a definite date for the opening, which will be at Edinburgh in the early autumn. Wow far we shall be able to reassemble the cast that rehearsed at His Majesty’s remains to be seen." Other productions which Mr. Cochran has in view for this year are "Dalliance," the adaptation of Schnitzler's "Liebelei," with music by Oscar Strauss, and a musical play, as yet untitled, for which James Bridie and A, ‘P. Herbert are collaborating over the "book." So far as concerns his entry into the film world, Mr. Cochran confessed that some evidently false rumours had got about. "I am not ‘going into films,’" * he said, "to an extent that would in any way affect my theatrical interests,