There Must Be Plenty of "To Let" Signs On Beverley Hills Mansions

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 9, 11 September 1936, Page 25

There Must Be Plenty of "To Let" Signs On Beverley Hills Mansions

By

Trevor

Lane

THERE shouldn’t be any question about making the Queen Mary pay. With Hollywood stars, executives, directors, producers and cameramen racing across the Atlantic to England, luxury cabins on Britain’s Blue Riband liner are

pretty nard to come by. Film-making in England is assuming the proportions of a major indus-try-Alexander Korda’s colossal studios for London Films are now in full working orderCharles Laughton and Gertrude Lawrence are busy there on a film

based on incidents in Rembrandt's life; British International Pictures and C. M. Woolf’s units have equally large studios at Elstree; British and Dominions Films have replaced their studios destroyed’ by fire with buildings costing hundreds

of thousands; Gaumont British are adding to their Shepherd’s Bush premises. Warner Brothers. -and Paramount are two more major American companies. hard: at ivork on British films absorhing both British and American. players and technicians.

Soskin, not yet in his thirties, and yet embarked on. a scheme that will give eiploynient to thousands. of Eng: lish workers, Here are some of.-Mr. Soskin’s plans-studios. of unique design, now nearly complete ; ‘directors of the ealibre of. Rene. Clair, who made. "The Ghost Goes West," -'Tay Garnett, who made "One Way: Passage," and Lee Garmes, who photo-

graphed "Shanghai Express" and who was. codirector for "The Scoundrel’; stars of the prestige of Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Gary Cooper, Paul Muni and _ Lionel sjurrymore; a lease. of' a portion of the studios to M.G.M.