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LONDON STUDIO SNAPSHOTS
Beniamino Gigli, world-famous opera star, has been signed by Alexander Korda to star in a new London Films production, tentatively titled, "Forget-—Me-Not." Joan Gardner has the leading feminine © role, and the supporting cast includes Hugh Wakefield, Ivan Brandt, Charles Carson, Jeanne Stuart and Craigie Doune. The action of the screen play takes place in various famous opera houses, noted restaurants, and aboard a transatlantic liner. Zoltan Korda is directing, and Hugh Gray is the author of the adaptation and dialogue, with Hans Schneeberger, as chief photographer. (Note: As Mr. Kelly pointed out in his circular letter of January 23, distribution of this picture is limited to specific territories, of which you will be advised later.)
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Alexander Korda announces he has signed George Robey, English stage star, to a three-year contract. Robey, who has been a prominent stage comedian for more than 40 years, will be assigned an import-— ant role in a forthcoming London Films picture. He will be remem pered by film audiences as Sancho Panza in "Don Quixote" and as
Ali Baba in "Chu Chin Chow."
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Erich Pommer, one of the world's leading film directors, has been engaged by Alexander Korda to produce a number of pictures for London Films, all of which will be released by United Artists. Pommer was for many years director-general for Ufa in Germany, and is directly responsible for such outstanding film achievements as "Metropolis," "The Last Laugh," "Variety," "Congress Dances" and "The Blue Angel." He is also known as the sponsor of a number
of the industry's foremost directors, among whom are Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, Ludwig Berger and Erik Charrell. Pommer's first film for Korda will probably be "Knight Without Armor," co-starring Robert Donat and Merle Oberon.
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The cables from India, via London, bring word that Robert Flaherty is approaching the final scenes of "Elephant Boy," his new film for Alexander Korda. The director has completed the important
and difficult "Keddah" sequences, in which a herd of 80 wild elephants were run into a specially built enclosure. Forming a circle of more than seven miles with 1,000 jungle men, 36 mahouts and their domesticated elephants, 200 beaters, 10 forest officials, 5 range officials and 40 guards, the company surrounded the herd. It took eight days of driving to get the herd into the stockade, with the cameras recording the feat. Flaherty sent word that
this is the largest elephant capture in the recent history of the Mysore district. "The building of our stockade," he cabled, "required the services of 200 men and 60 bullock carts day and night for 15 days. More than 10,000 pieces of timber and nine tons of rope were used in the building of the stockade, as it had to be made strong enough to withstand anything up to a charging locomotive," ik oe