Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1930)

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76 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD Norma Shearer Marie Dressier Marion Davies ♦ ♦ ♦ ^ TARS of great box offic strength and supporting players, many < whom are recognized as having star drav ing power, are announced for the casts ( M G M’s new season’s pictures. The M G M program has been fortifie by the presence of such names on its roste of stars as Marion Davies, Greta Garb< John Gilbert, Lon Chaney, Joan Crawfon William Haines, Norma Shearer an Ramon Novarro. During the coming year M G M wi bring forward in new musical production' Lawrence Tibbett, who scored a triumph i “The Rogue Song,” and Grace Moore, sc prano of the Metropolitan Opera Compan and Music Box Revue. Marion Davies will appear during th new season in two adaptations of Broac way musical comedy hits, “Rosalie” an “The Five o’Clock Girl.” Miss Davie demonstrated her exceptional talent fc light comedy roles in “Not So Dumb, “Patsy” and “Marianne” and the two stor properties selected for next year will giv her still greater opportunity for corned with a musical setting. “Rosalie” is th Ziegfeld musical production in whic Marilyn Miller appeared, while “The Fiv o’Clock Girl” was a stage vehicle for Mar Eaton and Oscar Shaw. Another pictur will be announced. Greta Garbo reached new heights in th season just closing with her first talkin picture, “Anna Christie.” Her new filn “Romance,” was directed by Clarenc Brown, who made “Anna Christie,” an will be released during July. In 1930-3 she will be seen in at least three new pre ductions, one “Red Dust,” an adaptation c Wilson Collison’s story of adventure on Chinese rubber plantation. Tibbett, one of the leading young Amer can baritones, will be seen and heard ne> in “New Moon,” in which the former Mel ropolitan Opera singer is to be co-starre with Grace Moore. Tibbett will be seen i another production during the year. Grace Moore, in addition to “Ne1 Moon,” will be starred in a story suggeste by the picturesque career of Jenny Lim the “Swedish Nightingale.” Miss Moor first won fame on the concert stage, the appeared in several editions of the Musi Box Revue, and subsequently gained ne triumphs on the stage of the Metropolita Opera company. Ramon Novarro is said to have attaine the greatest success of his career in “Th Grace Moore William Haines