The Archive · 1938

Imported halibut from England has

epicures, while the garoupa, from the Hongkong waters, runs a close second favourite. From time to time and in season, the management will introduce further fish menus, the usual hours being from 7 to 11 p.m. xm Mr. Shaw has presumably learnt filmed very shortly and the dramatist his lesson, "Pygmalion" is to he will not do his own scenario which Will be left to a professional script man, W. P. Lipscombe. The direction Will be in the joint hands of Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard. At one time Mr, Asguith, son of the famous British premier, was considered to be among the most promising of English directors. His two films, "Underground" and "A Cottage on Dartmoor" showed great promise; but recently Mr, Asquith has directed very little.

In making "Pygmalion" Mr. Leslie Howard will not only ce-direct but play the chief male part. The rôle of Eliza Doolittle, made famous on the stage by Mrs, Patrick Campbell, will be played by Wendy Hiller, and Eliza's father by Wilfred Lawson, one of the leading actors on the English stage, Marie Löhr and Joyce Barbour will also be in the cast Paramount's Cecil Cunningham boasts that she wears 9AAA shoes,

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