Screenland (May-Oct 1936)

for September 1936 Roses," and John Loder has postponed his trip to Hollywood so that he can realize his greatest ambition by playing Rob Roy, the Highland hero immortalized in Sir Walter Scott's classic novel, in a big spectacular historical film shortly to be put into production by Gainsborough. Incidentally, John has just got a new hobby. He's collecting match-box covers and pasting them on the walls of his study. Cicely Courtneidge has been completely "done over" with new coiffure and make-up for her next picture, "Everybody Dance." It's being directed by Chuck Reisner, the man who often directed Marie Dressier and first exploited Laurel and Hardy. Jessie Matthews has given up wearing hats — she says they flatten the rolled curls she now piles across the top of her piquant dark head. Hugh Sinclair has moved into a new flat, all the rooms decorated in dead white and relieved by blue-striped curtains and red-backed chairs and couches. Noah Beery plays a different kind of villain, kindly, slow, and quiet, in the latest London mystery thriller, "Someone at the Door." Well, here's Elstree where new buildings have arisen out of the ashes of the old ones destroyed by the sensational fire last winter. Come across the lawns to the British and Dominion lot where "The Three Maxims" nears completion. Look up at Tullio Carminati and Leslie Banks swinging from the flying trapeze and performing "double angels" and "swinging hooks" over the aerial ropes to the circus manner born. (But don't ask them to tell of the weary painful hours they spent achieving this acrobatic proficiency, the number of closeups necessary to the story making doubles impossible.) They both have roles entirely different from anything else they have attempted as Tony and Mac, the two artistes who become rivals for the love of the girl who completes their professional trio. She's Anna Neagle of the spun gold curls and the dancing blue eyes, our merriest English star, typical open-air girl who swims and rides and plays football and tennis and hockey and has never been inside a night-club in her life. She lives in a country cottage just beyond those woods with her mother and father, a retired sea-captain, her red setter Mike, and her Persian cats. That's the British International Pictures studio — and that's Lupe Velez's new Sealyham terrier, Thomas, exploring the flowerbeds. Up the road are the Amalgamated lots where brilliant young producer Paul Soskin is preparing -for his biggest film yet, a spy story, "The Shadow on the Wall," in which Paul Muni is coming from Hollywood to star. It is planned to cost the equivalent of four hundred thousand dollars, which would make it our most expensive essay this year. Though Douglas Fairbanks, Junior, will possibly raise that figure when he starts directing Ronald Colman at Isleworth later this winter. Ronald has agreed to play the title role in a biographical costume drama about Sir Walter Raleigh, gallant sea-dog who paid court to Queen Elizabeth and introduced smoking tobacco to Europe after his voyages to America, where he noted the Redskin customs. Junior is shortly paying another hurried visit to California to discuss the script details with Ronald, so once again the most-travelled armchair in the world will be carried on board an Atlantic liner. Junior never goes anywhere without this strange piece of baggage. It's a curious old-fashioned affair, padded with shabby leather and reminiscent of Great-Grandmother's parlor, but young Master Fairbanks swears it is his lucky seat and the most comfortable one in which to write, so off it goes to America with him and everywhere else he journeys! 71 SCREENLAND'S Crossword Puzzle By Alma Talley ACROSS 1. Co-star of "Desire" 5. Leading lady in "Roaming Lady" 8. Roguish 12. Villain in "Bridge of Sighs" 13. Raw metal 14. Marie Dressler's former team-mate 16. Persia 17. Operatic solos 19. A dull person 20. Recede (as tide) 21. His new role is in "Mary of Scotland' ' 23. Health resort 24. Sounds 26. Racketeer in "The Law In Her Hands" 28. Dined 29. A despicable man 32. To purchase 33. Since 35. Star of "The Singing Kid" 36. Fuss 37. Upon 38. You and I 40. Herbert Marshall's big moment 43. Written messages 46. Point 47. Nearby 48. King of Bashan 49. Those three-toed sloths 50. Province where the quintup lets live 53. Astaire-Ginger Rogers film 56. Note of the scale 57. River in Italy 58. Born 60. Printers' measure 61. Man's nickname 62. Studio background for movie 63. Thoroughfares (abbrev.) 64. Help 66. Leading lady in "The Scoundrel' ' 69. Star of "Mr. Hobo" 72. Entire 73. He's married to Jobyna Ral ston 77. Ocean 78. Part of a church 80. Co-star of "Case Against Mrs. Ames" 81. Indigo dye base 82. Broad smiles 84. Exisr 85. Magnolia in "Show Boat" 86. Created 87. 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