We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
12
UNIVERSAL WEEKLY
Feb. 23. I935
HOT PRODUCTION NEWS fror
Universal Buys ' Delay in The Sun " for Binnie Barnes and Frank Lawton
UNIVERSAL has snatched atiother best seller by quick work and quick decision. The best seller is "Delay In the Sun" by Anthony Thorne which is the Evening Standard's book-of-the-month for January. It is the story of an odd assortment of people who are stranded in a sleepy Spanish town during a bus strike.
One of Universal's officials In London read an enthusiastic prereview of "Delay in the Sun" and sent the book to Hollywood that same day.
Action was taken immediately. Universal sent a copy of the book to R. C. Sherriff for an adaptation and at the same time Lynn Riggs in Universal City began writing a treatment of it in Hollywood. Both treatments will be prefaced on the assumption that Binnie Barnes and Frank Lawton are to be co-starred In "Delay in the Sun."
Miss Barnes will sail for Hollywood next week and Universal yesterday took up Frank Lawton's option on a five year contract. Mr. Anthony Thorne is on the way to Hollywood to work on the picture when it is adapted.
''Bride of Frankenstein^^
Rushed to Completion
I AMES WHALE is bending every energy toward completing "The Bride of Frankenstein" on Thursday of this week. He has two objects in view. He doesn't want it to run over the Washington's Birthday holiday, and he wants to put In that extra time preparing for his production of "Show Boat." Though we go to press early this week, we have every anticipation that James Whale will complete his picture by Thursday.
At the last minute, a number of players were added to his unusually brilliant and extensive cast In support of Karloff and his associates. These players include Anne Darling, D'Arcy Corrigan, Jack Curtis, Rollo Lloyd, Gunnis Davis, Tempe Piggott and Walter Brennan. There are also four of the bluest-blooded Russian wolf-hounds in the world, which will be used In one of the final scenes.
Colin Clive, who played “Frankenstein" in the original, and in “The Ilride of Frankenstein," and Valerie Hobson, icho plays Elizabeth, performing that symbolic rite of all Englishmen, four o'clock tea.