Theatre to-morrow, the name role being taken by Brian Aherne. include Olivia de Havilland and towel Atwill, This really beautiful picture continues to attract at the Nanking. are Paul Muni and Luise Rainer, associated players including Walter Connolly, Tillie Los $5,990. Bleachers for 3,000 onlookers erected along the forecourt cost $1,000 and the premium on $300,000 liability insurance for the one night (suppos: ing the bleachers should collapse) a substantial one.
In order that there should be no mistake in the photographs about what premiere the stars were attending, Goldwyn ordered leis which were placed about the necks of each arriving customer; that was another $1,000. A public address system cost $200 and a radio tie-up $1000. The souvenir book which people take home and never read was $850. Then after the crowd departed long after mid-night there was the matter of cleaning up.
Jungle for Tarzan It may be nice to know that if you want a jungle it can be installed for $2 a square yard. That is the dry type. If you prefer wet jungle with crickets, frogs, orchids and such appurtenances, that is $2.50 a yard. To perfect the illusion runs the cost up, somewhat, for a wrestling lion rents for $100 a day, an elephant for $100 a week plus transportation and board and a good all-round chimpanzee gets $100 a day.
These things Sol Lesser learned when he started the revived and refurbished "Tarzan" series, Tarzan, his avid followers remember, has left Metro and gone to the Lesser lot. Johnny Weismuller's flowing locks have given way to those of Glenn Morris, decathlon champion of the 1936 Olympics.
For the moment W. C. Fields is contenting himself with his screen activities. He is in the midst of "The Big Broadcast of 1938" at Paramount and giving little thought to the radio. He deserted that medium, it now develop, because of the low order of his scripts, which compared badly with the Charley McCarthy routines, which Edgar Bergen writes. Being on the same hour, he felt the discrepancy keenly and he will not return until assured of good material Since recovering from his illness he appears ín better condition than before. He is on the set at 9 o'clock each morning and has regulated his life so that he has time for a frequent game of golf. (The studio has surrounded him with some of their more popular musical comedy including Martha Raye, Lamour, Shirley Ross, Bi Hope and Lief Erickson. Fields expects to complete the picture within ten days, after which he will take 2 brief vacation,
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