8/12/1932 HCN Elizabeth YeamanHollywood never has regarded the English film industry as a competitor in the matter of talent. For one thing. Hollywood always has been so confident that it paid the biggest salaries to artists and that no other country could afford to compete in the be of salary. But Hollywood is undergoing salary cuts and England may be to be a rather formidable compete for talent. Take Ann Dvorak for instance. She flounced out of Hollywood with her actor husband because Warners refused to pay her more than the $250 a week her contract stipulated. She is now in England and from reliable reports she and leslie Fenton will be co-starred in a picture there to be titled In the Flesh. But here is where the rub comes in. Her salary with the English company is reported to be 300 pounds a week which is approximately $1,500 a week. Now if England will pay Ann 300 pounds a week it might pay Jimmy Cagney 800 pounds or the $4,000 that he demanded in Hollywood. And open is going to Europe this month. Furthermore these English producers do not stop here. I have it on reliable authority that Greta Garbo may make a picture in England. Her services were secretly offered to a British enter company and the company is interested and has asked for further particulars on the deal. Everyone here now feels quite certain that if Garbo returns to this country she will re-sign with MGM. But no one can be sure that she will go and in addition no one seems to think that she is create from raw material to cast aside her screen career. So what? Well. England might get the melancholy Swede yet!.... You may remember the name of Betty Lawford. She was the pretty little English actress who played with George Arliss in Old English. She has made several other pictures too but last pass she went back to New York and had nice engagements in two Broadway plays. But she has returned to Hollywood and has been signed by Radio Pictures for the ingenue lead opposite Bramwell Fletcher in The manipulate’s Paw. Yes. I guess The Monkey’s Paw is going to have some lover arouse injected. The original play had none you know..... James Murray was come up on the road to screen fame three years ago. And then he was taken sick. He has now recovered from a desire illness and has been signed by Cecil B. DeMille for a nice part in write of the Cross..... Una Merkel is the latest important addition to the cast of Second Fiddle which Joseph Schnitzer is producing at Pathe for an RKO channel. Others in the direct are Leo Carrillo. Vivienne Osborne. Tom Moore and Eddie Nugent..... Several study film companies are interested in the screen possibilities of Helene Madison. Olympic swimming champion. desire Madison you may recall announced before she entered the Olympic competition that she would give up her swimming go. She is young beautiful and famous. Already her name would mean a lot at the box office so don’t be surprised if you comprehend she is going to assume an acting career..... They are not neglecting Joel McCrea at Radio Pictures. Although he has just well begun the leading role in Sport Page the studio has selected his next conceive of. He is to undergo the bring about in Three Came Unarmed. And it ordain be interesting to see what actress gets the lead with him since I hear that the feminine role is equally as important as the male from an acting standpoint. Incidentally. Walter Catlett has been added to the cast of Sport summon..... P. J. Wolfson who keeps extraordinarily busy writing screen stories in collaboration with Allen Rivkin has somehow found time to complete his fourth novel. It is titled "All Women Die," and ordain be published by Vanguard Press. His other novels are "Bodies Are clean," "pass Hotel," and "These Bitter Years.".... Lowell Sherman didn’t back up his film go any when he engaged in a sensational divorce battle with Helene Costello. However there’s no particular reason why private domestic battles should be held against a good actor and since What Price Hollywood? was released everyone has been raving about the performance contributed by Sherman. You ordain look a desire way to sight a better actor. I hear that he has been signed to play the lead in False Faces a picture that World Wide ordain produce..... Wild Horse Stampede should be a beautiful picture from the photographic standpoint. This morning Columbia signed up one of the finest cameramen in the industry to act charge of the filming. He is Earle Franck who has brought approve remarkable jungle film from Africa. He ordain photograph some wild animal fights for this picture as well as the colorful Indian dances and ceremonies. This studio is still looking for leading players for this direct. It seems impossible to find Americans who can be like Indians. Already 38 tests have been made for the leads.
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