Screenland (Nov 1938-Apr 1939)

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Latest nev/s and views of English picture people — our exclusive and authentic report By Hettie Crimstead I OTS of your long-lost English friends i; will be back on the screen this win L ter. You'll see Clive Brook once again as the titled hero of "The Ware Case," divorce story of London's high social circles, with Anna Lee also returning as the heroine. She left the studios over a year ago for the happiest of reasons and now baby Venetia can be safely left at home — an old stone manor house with a cobbled courtyard and a blue nursery Anna painted herself and an exquisite white Georgian drawing-room in which husband and adoring father Director Robert Stevenson keeps his collection of antique jades. Anna is no longer the curly blonde you remember. She has let her hair go back to its natural light auburn and adopted a new make-up which gives her a different and far more dignified personality. Jessie Matthews is at work again too, making her thrice-postponed musical film called "Climbing High" with locations in London and Switzerland. (Yes, Jessie skates nearly as beautifully as she dances ! It's been her recreation for years and she swears by the "half-hour on the ice" for slimming.) Noel Madison is doing a little spot of his usual suave menacing among the Alpine. crags and romance is provided by handsome Michael Redgrave, Director Alfred Hitchcock's recent discovery. "Hitch" often comes over to the set to see how the lad is getting on, his idea of breathing-space between scenes of "Jamaica Inn" in which he is directing Charles Laughton as the mysterious parson-smuggler wrecking unsuspecting sailing ships off the Cornish coast for the profitable job of Sonja Henie visits Jessie Matthews on the set, left. Vivien Leigh, whom you liked in "A Yank at Oxford," in new film, above. Greet Clive Brook, right above, and, right, Carl Brisson — qood old friends. MM looting their cargo. Hitch says he's feeling positively seasick with it all because in his so-called leisure he is occupied with research work for "Titanic" which is to be his first picture in Hollywood for David Selznick. His office is piled high with books and photos and drawings showing the famous Atlantic disaster and the Captain who chose to go down with his ship. Your old heart-throb, blond Carl Brisson, will soon be bidding for your fan letters again, appearing as the gallant highwayman hero of an historical film in color called "Claude Duval." Flora Robson has signed for a new picture too, playing a rich woman who refuses to grow old gracefully and strives desperately to take a young man from the girl of his own age he loves. Did I ever tell you that Flora is a great cook as well as a great character actress? Experts come from far and near to admire the scarlet and white kitchen of her Hampstead house with all its clever gadgets she designed herself. Talking of food, I went to a sausage-supper at Roger Livesey's old-world country cottage and sat in a genuine old rocking chair which Roger found in Boston last year. (It may have gone over in the May-flozver but it came back in the Queen Mary!) Roger is now hard at work filming in "The Four Feathers" with most of Korda's other male stars.. This thrilling color picture of military adventure in Africa also has (Please turn to pige 94) 66