Friday, November 12, 1913 fHB TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL Page S Musical Films Stage and Screen "Zooming" Zooming the only verb to de­ scribe the present state of musical films in Hollywood, according to ‘Princess O'Rourke9 Now Playing Harry Link, who handles the Leo By TED TAtLOR Admires Eighteen Feet of Beauty Feist distribution of music for At Paramount Theater Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Often called HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 8 (FP)—Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer A fresh and charming picture that hits just the right note of relief from the stresses of these times is the new Warner Bros, comedy, out to the coast as a “trouble has turned 100 acres near Calabasas, Calif., into Chinese “Princess O’Rourke,” which bgan its local engagement Friday at the shooter,” Mr. Link returned last farms for Dragon Seed and has begun to sow. Pearl Buck’s Paramount Theater. week with a broad smile and good Directed by Norman Krasna, one of Hollywood’s top flight book about fighting China will be one of those $3,000,000 I •W news. scenarists, “Princess O’Rourke” No less than thirteen musical films. This one ought to be worth it. Dragon Seed is counted I" marks that writer’s initial bow as k. productions are under way or plan­ on to make China’s struggle 1 fa* wrz a director. And adding to the gen­ Hiya. Mom! vivid to millions of Amer­ Chinese studio is done from 10 p. eral propitiousness of the occasion, ned for Metro for the present year, m. until dawn. “At these hours - Mr. Krasna also wrote the story, a which represents an all-time high. icans. The picture will be six it rpfafy the current is reliable as the city 4 frothy comedy of errors that Five or six musical pictures per months. Some acenes will use Jn ^■fa^A sparkles with wit and charm. 1,500 extras. Jack Conway re­ sleeps.” ■ year was in the past considered a quires eight assistant directors. TOMORROW’S AUDI ENCE. 4/' , Olivia in Princess Role A * substantial figure. Bundled up with The Chinese heroine is played Free China has only 40 theaters , i 1 Key characters in the yam are the current batch of thirteen are equipped to show standard film. Olivia de Havilland and Robert \ Ii by Katharine Hepburn and the contracts with some of the coun- chief male is Walter Huston. Tens of millions of Chinese have Cummins, who star in the ro­ never seen a movie. Bitt refugees mantic story. Olivia is in the role ry’s leading orchestras, to be fea­ Some Chinese play Chinese how­ tured in these 1943 films. The from coastal towns have carried of a royal princess in exile. ever—Keye Luke, Clarence Lung, names involved include those of Hayward Soo Hoc, Tai Ling stories inland of the pictures that fa 'X Bored and unhappy, she spends move, so itinerant showmen with her days in a luxurious New York IMf * Harry James, Vaughn Monroe, Won6. Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Kay mobile 16mm projectors find in­ hotel suite. To get her out of “that Kyser, Xavier Cugat and Bob Cros­ First Effort to Show China's War trigued audiences waiting when t'-i. mood” her guardian uncle, played by. Never has sunny California, they pitch screen. by Charles Boburn, sends her on a This is the first attempt to been so packed with melodic notes, show the war through Chinese There art not 8,000 of tljese plane trip to California. Since plane travel terrifies her, Maria fills her­ running the gamut of everything eyes. China (Paramount) gave projectors for all China. They too from symphony to jive. some idea of the spirit of Chinese are instruments of war in which self with sleeping pills and when fighters but the principal charact­ China is sadly lacking. the plane runs into heavy fog and Ae Thousands Cheer ers were American. The Flying turns back to New York, tbs prin­ M-G-M s technicolor hft, “As China’s Movies Part of War 'fa, Dragons (Republic) was really cess is in deep slumber. Thousands Cheer”, soon to be seen about Americans. The three movie studios are npt Co-pilot Eddie O’Rourke (Robert at Loew’s, appears to Mr. Link to operated as an entertainment in­ MGM will follow Dragon Seed i-: Cummings) tries frantically to stand ont as the most impressive with a picture about China’s dustry. Miss Lee’s current film or f. awaken her, and when all efforts musical show now being prepared child guerrillas. This is also based the recently filmed drama of the ir fail he enlists the aid of his friend’s for release. This is a Joseph Pater- on Miss Buck’s book, which had underground in occupied China, wife to put her to bed. The princess nak production, directed by George enough material for two movies. Devil’s Paradise, are exceptions. x^ awakens to find herself in love with Sidney, with Kathryn Grayson, China’s studios are arsenals of in­ Gene Kelly, Mary Astor and John Eddie and after a few dates he pro­ ••-■♦-A HOLLYWOOD’S MADAME struction. Central Film turns out poses marriage. Under the impres­ Boles in leading parts. Contributors CHIANG. Speaking of the - Chi­ newsreels and educational films to the musical score include Lew nese Hepburn, One World (20th- V sion that she is a penniless refugee for the public. China Film makes Eddie brushes aside her refusal and Brown, Ralph Freed, “Yip” Har­ Fox) will probably have Merle army training subjects. Educa­ & won’t take no for an answer. burg, Harold Roma and’ Walter Oberon as Mme. Chiang Kai-shek. tional Film prepares education for Jurmann. This picture also presents W. Sanctions Marriage CHINA CRAWFORD. China’s China’s youngsters. • ’ ” ” '5 a regular galaxy of Metro stars in fed The princess finds herself in <■- own movie star is Lilly Lee, now UNMOTION PICTURES. The scenes of Army camp entertain­ making Caught on the Border at quite a predicament. How to break A- '^V) r ' ment where they appear and do im­ 16mm films used in China, even the news to Uncle! But good old jg studio in Free China. Miss Lee those brought from Hollywood, promptu numbers—a kind of “show 1^ her director, Ho Fei-kwan, Uncle comes to the rescue nobly. within a show”. are not “pitcures that move’-' as He’s known all about her love serious artists and “very hum- America knows them. Each film Some of the otJier musical pic­ in their work,” according to is an 11-foot strip containing 175 through the reports of a secret tures which, look of particular in­ Col. W. Mason Wright, who heads key scenes from the original. Each service man and grants his ap­ A GLAMOROUS modern terest are *Meet the People,” a U. S. Army film unit in China. frame is stopped on the screen proval. Though Eddie is not of mother is Marta Linden, who has “Right About Face,* a new Kay “What they are . unable to and a commentator tells what it’s royal blood, he comes of a family played mothers to both Mickey Kyser production, ’’Broadway achieve in elaborate production about. This is because shipping rich in the production of sons. Such Rooney and Virginia Weidler in Rhythm.” and “Girl Crazy” star­ a prolific, male strain delights they achieve by simplicity of de­ space is precious, operating skill •r.! a number of their M-G-M .Ht ring Mickey Rooney and Judy Gar­ sign and movement,” the colonel scarce. The tdns of millions still Uncle and the marriage is heartily land and featuring Jimmy Dorsey. have a surprise waiting them in sanctioned. pictures. wrote to The Hollywood Reporter. al •.z'i'V.i,, Confirming the predicted trend “Each shot is rehearsed until per­ postwar days when real movies Informed that his penniless refu­ away from heavy drama and war fect. Film is too precious to with sound come to them. DOt Lo.-1 .aLxic* indul^vd in by uh me ovi at tht Studio du. u.g li.c *i..mng gee is a royal princess, Eddie falls stories to more escapist entertain­ of Thousands Cheer” when he suddenly encounters three of the six-foot tall “Glamazons” featured in into an unhappy daze, where he un­ Yodels^ Too waste on bad takes. BEST BET. The City That ment, Mr. Link predicted that the “The studio is operated on mili­ the Technicolor musical extravaganza. They are, left to right, Bunny Waters, Helen Ford, and Helen comfortably remains until he is in­ upward rush in musicals and in use Stopped Hitler (Soviet Para­ formed that he must give up his of name bands as an integral partk tary lines. Miss Lee gets the wage mount). Stalingrad’s relentless O’Hara. of a lieutenant-colonel — about story. Introducing Katiska, the American citizenship to become a of stones would be a stable phase prince consort. He rebels, quarrels of Hollywood expansion and prob­ $400 Chinese a month. Her extras death rocket. bring the total up to about $2,000 Galaxy of Stars in Two Ragging with Uncle and the marriage is off. ‘-r e ably continue at equal pace for a Chinese a month. This would buy CORRECTION PLEASE. Diet- But Uncle did not reckon with long time to come. Joan Crawford a couple of pairs rich won’t wear pants of gold All-Time Screen Triumphs Maria. With the help of the famous of sheer stockings.” chain in Kismet (MGM) after all. The Scale White House Scottie, Falla, and the Wright says shooting in the The chain kept breaking.