Talking Screen (Jan-Aug 1930)

Press Time Topics JACK OAKIE has arrived in New York to start work on his new picture. The S^p Fiom Syacuse. He will be starred. Edward Everett Horton will play in Once A Gentleman for Sono-Art. Francis X. Bushman and King Baggot will also be in the cast. • Catherine Dale Owen was in New York for the opening of her latest picture, Strictly Unconl entional. which was based on the play, The Circle. Pleasure Island, a story of the South Seas with a title that sounds interesting, will soon be put into production by Tiffany Gainsborough. Bernice Claire has been put into the cast of Top Speed, the musical comedy which First National is making with Joe E. Brown and some famous others in the cast. Roland West will direct Whispers for United Artists. Chester Morris will be in the cast. Ann Harding has completed The Girl of the Golden West for First National, and will soon start work on Holiday, from the play by Philip Barry, for Pathe. Mary Astor will also be in Holiday John Boles was recently in New Yor,k and spent a busy three weeks with his many friends. Universal will hereafter make no more program pictures. All of thei productions will be specials, each one cost ing a fabulous sum. V With his mother as traveling companion, Buddy Rogers re cently arrived at Grand Central from the coast. As he passed through the station several thousand feminine hearts were heard to flutter. Lon Chaney's first talkie will definitely be The Unholy Three, the film which was such a success as a silent. Laura La Plante has been in New York for the last few weeks very busy shopping and doing all the gay things that stars do when they hit New York. Doris Kenyon has been chosen by Paramount to play opposite George Bancroft in two pictures. Care Man and The Spoilers. The talkie rights for Cimarron, Edna Ferber's novel, have been purchased by RKO. Madame Satan, the Cecil B. De Mille big musical feature, has just been completed. Buddy Rogers finished Follotv Thru on the roast, and is now in New York to start production on Heads Up in the Long Island studios of Paramount. It seems that Buddy is popular in the talkie versions of famous musical comedies. Alfred E. Green, the man who directed Disraeli and The Green Goddess for Warner's, has been signed by Pathe. Dolores Del Rio will probably be in New York for the opening of The Bad One, which is expected to take place some time in May. Jeanette Loff and Paul Whiteman are expected to be at the opening of the already famous King of Jazz. This, as you probably know, is Whiteman's "rsr effort for the talkies, and promises to make movie history. / Captain Blood, the Raphael Sabatini story, will be done by First National as an all-Technicolor special. What a field for color. The First wide screen picture which RKO will make will be a railroad story, at present untitled, with Louis Wolheim and Robert Armstrong in the leading roles. Maurice Chevalier is very busy making his newest talkie. It is called Too Much Luck, and promises to be a wow. Rain or Shine with the incomparable Joe Cook has been completed by Columbia, and will be released shortly. It is expected to be a knockout. Al Jolson's first picnire for United Artists will be Sons o' Guns from the famous musical comedy of the same title. Later on Al will do Big Boy for the talkies. Go to it, Al. Dorothy Mackaill has been picked to play the feminine lead in The Bad Man. a talkie adaptation of the play by the same name. Walter Huston will play the title role made famous by Holbrook Blinn. Marion Davies will do a talkie-singie version of Rosalie for M-G-M. Harry Beaumont will direct. Aileen Pringle and Grant Withers have been selected for Soldiers and Women, which will be made by Columbia, and will be an adaptation of the stage play. George Arliss' next picture for Warner Bros, will be Old English. The play of the same name was a Broadway success of some seasons ago. Sue Carol has been signed to play opposite Arthur Lake in Tommy, which is being made by RKO. A great pair. 4