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10~ _: — UNIVERSAL WEEKLY = May 12, 1934
NEW FACES YOU WILL SEI
HEATHER ANGEL
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Heather Angel Cast For “The Mystery Of Edwin Drood ”
UNIVERSAL is to make two Charles Dickens pictures for next season. Dickens is getting a great play after all of these years and solely because of the tremendous interest which has been aroused by the world wide publication of "The Life of Our Lord," the story which he wrote for the information of his own children and which was not to be published until those children had passed on. These two famous Dickens stories are "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" and "Great Expectations." "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" will be supervised by Edmund Grainger, while "Great Expectations" will be a Stanley Bergerman production.
The first player engaged for either of these Dickens stories is Heather Angel. This beautiful English actress, who has been in this country for the last year, will play the lead in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" which Lynn Riggs is now adapting to the screen.
Heather Angel was born in Christ church, Oxford, England, and though her parents were not show people,
Miss Angel was not out of her teens before she was on the stage. Her greatest triumph on the London stage was "The Importance of Being Earnest." It was that which brought her to the attention of the films and she played in a number of them in England before coming to this country.
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Brown Already In Two
RUSS BROWN so impressed Carl Laemmle, Jr. by his work in the "rushes" of "The Love Captive" with Nils Asther and Gloria Stuart, that he was placed under contract to Universal, and was promptly dubbed "Rushes" Brown by his associates on the lot. He was next cast with Chester Morris in "Let's Talk It Over" and is scheduled for the Russ Columbo feature to follow. Brown is well known after many years on the vaudeville and musical comedy stage in New York. He was teamed for several years with Bert Wheeler (of Wheeler and Woolsey) in vaudeville, and following that with Jimmy Fallen as Fallen and Brown. It was not until 1932 that Brown went into pictures, in "My Woman." "Moulin Rouge" followed, before the Universal engagement.
RUSS BROWN
Hr has alrrady played in llniversal pictures — “ The Love Captive,” and “Let’s Talk It Over”
DOROTHY APPLEBY
This Dorothy Appleby
Is Broadway Favorite
ONCE upon a time a little girl from New England won a beauty contest and was sent to New York as Miss Maine. With no previous stage experience she was cast in the leading feminine role of an important musical comedy, "Mary Jane McKane," succeeding the then famous Mary Haye.
That little girl was Dorothy Appleby, born in Portland, Me., on January 6, just missing being a "New Year" baby by five days. It was a lucky break, Dorothy admits, that caused her to become a leading lady in her very first show. Other important roles followed and the name Appleby became a Broadway byword.
Perhaps her greatest role was in "Young Sinners," which was later made as a film. Some of her other stage successes include "Springtime for Henry," "Square Crooks," "When You Smile," with Elsie Janis and many others. She has never played in stock.
A short time ago Dorothy came to Hollywood and has already been seen in three pictures, the most recent of which is "As the Earth Turns." She is in "I Give My Love," in support of Wynne Gibson and Paul Lukas.