Universal Weekly (1933-1935)

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14: UNIVERSAL WEEKLY May 12, 1934 THE LATEST NEWS OF PRODUC1 " -—■■■■ ~ ' -'.V rr| Lowe Karloff Set STEPPING out with the largest production budget in its history, Universal announced plans today to create the most impressive list of star and featured player names in the concern's life. Karloff who brought terror to the screen with his "Frankenstein," has been signed for three mystery-horror pictures and Edmund Lowe who recently starred in "Bombay Mail" received contracts for two films, Carl Laemmle, Jr., announced. The new season will start June I and by that time Mr. Laemmle will have announced the most ambitious program in the history of Universal. The schedule provides for 42 features. Lilian Bond, looking particularly fetching in a scene from “Affairs of a Gentleman” “Let’s Talk It Over ” New Morris Title UNIVERSAL has changed the title of the B. F. Zeidman production starring Chester Morris to "Let's Talk It Over." This picture has enjoyed a number of titles in the studio. It began as an original document by Dore Schary and Lewis Foster called "Loves of a Sailor." It later was changed to "Funny Thing Called Love," but there are so many "loves" on the market that it seemed best to get entirely away from the commodity. In "Let's Talk It Over," Mae Clarke, whose many performances in Universal pictures like "Waterloo Bridge" and "Frankenstein" make her feel very much at home there, is leading woman. Featured with her are Frank Craven, Andy Devine and Russ Brown, while the cast includes also John Warburton, Irene Ware, Anderson Lawler, Goodee Montgomery, Dougles Fowley, Tom Dugan, Herbert Corthell, Lois January, Dean Benton, Earl Eby, Wanda Perry and Dorothy Daw. "Let's Talk It Over," is being made from a screenplay by John Meehan, Jr., with dialogue contributed also by him and under the direction of Kurt Neumann. Its final scenes will be shot tomorrow. + + + Universal Enlarging “Embarrassing Moments ” Henry armetta, one of the most active players on the Universal lot, has been given a new longterm contract by Carl Laemmle, Jr. The reason for superseding the old contract was the clever work Armetta did in "Embarrassing Moments" with Chester Morris. In fact, so important did the sequences in which Armetta appeared become in the picture, that the studio decided to broaden and enlarge upon them. The company was brought back and a week's extra work put in on this Chester Morris starring vehicle. Several players were added in the Armetta sequences. The cast already includes Marion Nixon, Walter Woolf, Jane Darwell, Virginia Sale, Alan Mowbray, Huntley Gordon, George Stone, Charles E. Coleman, Gay Seabrook. The new scenes were not accomplished without danger and excitement. Chester Morris suffered severe injuries to his left hip, and both he and another actor escaped death by a miracle. While seated in the cockpit of an airplane suspended forty feet in the air, the plane suddenly lurched and fell to the sound stage floor, carrying both Morris and Pat Flaherty, playing the role of the pilot, with it. Three large studio lights crashed on top of the men, the glass severing a sleeve from Morris's coat, and cutting a shoe from his left foot. Both men were rushed to the studio hospital where they received treatment. Morris suffered intense pain from crushed muscles. Flaherty escaped serious injury, but suffered from bruises about the body. The story is by William Anthony McGuire and the direction by Edward Laemmle. + + + ’"One More River ” Cast Now Is Almost Complete OVER the week-end, five players were added to the already imposing cast which James Whale has enlisted to interpret John Galsworthy's novel, "One More River." The new players are Kathleen Howard, former Metropolitan Opera contralto and fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar, E. E. Clive, Alan Mowbray, Gilbert Emery and Robert Greig. R. C. Sherriff adapted this novel of contemporary English life while James Whale was in England several months ago. The scenes were worked out with actual English settings in mind, as was the case when these two collaborated on H. G. Wells' "The Invisible Man." In the cast already announced, are Diana Wynyard, Colin Clive, Frank Lawton, Mary Astor, Henry Stephenson and Reginald Denny.