Evening star., 1934-06-25

To cite a few variegated samples:
In the M-G-M roster stand Dickens
David Copperf1eld,' Pearl Bucks
The Good Earth" Franz Lehar's
musical romance. THE Merry Wild
ow" and the recent Katharine Cor
neil triumph, The Barretts of VIM
pole Street"
The R-K-O-Radio people have
adopted The Forsythe Saga" which
John Galsworthy kept from stage and
screen during his lifetime; taken over
Sir James Barrie's The Little Min
lister" for Katharine Hepburn; lured
from Edith Wharton the rights to her
age of Innocence" and from Charles
Morgan his clairvoyant novel, The
Fountain"
There is the evidence to convince
you 1t will be a twelfth month of re-
visions rather than writings, treat
ments instead of original treatises.
Without further debate, therefore, We
may proceed to the information that:
Clark Gable and Joan Crawford
will be brought together once more
by M-G-M in Chained" the Edgar
Selwyn story.
Wallace Beery, Robert Montgomery
and Gable will make the picture YER
sion of that vivid sea tale. 'Mutiny on
the Bounty"
NORMA SHEARER is to play the
4 title role in Marie Antoinette,"
based on Stefan Zweig's best seller
biography, and Charles Laughton will
be Louis XVI; Herbert Marshall,
Count Fersen.
Ann Harding and Robert Mont
gomery will take over the starring
parts in S. N. Behrman'S Biography,
the Theater Guild success which fea-
tured Ina Claire. Unless there are
some radical alterations made in the
stage script, this promises to be one
of the high spots of all Hollywood
miscasting. Miss Harding is neither
sufficiently gay nor Mr.. Montgomery
adequately serious to handle the sides
which would normally fall to them in
the original.
Jean Harlow is cast in His
Brothers Wife" an original story;
Gable and jeanette Mcdonald are to
play "A Lady Comes to Town." and
the yet uncast story material includes
Michael Arlen's Green Hat" saga OF
Iris March; Sir James Barrie's What
Every Woman Knows" which most
assuredly should have Helen Hayes
and Kenneth McKenna in it, and
Gene Fowler's 'Timberline"
That quiet and charming little play
about Scotch medical students, The
Wind and the Rain" and "Forsaking
All Others" the silly drama in which
Tullulah Bankhead and Fred Keating
made the best of bad situation, are
among the Broadway plots to be bor-
rowed.
At the top of R-K-O's list stands,
of course, Katharine Hepburn'S Joan
of Arc" already widely discussed and
touted before the first camera was
mounted for the production. Miss
Hepburn also will carry the banner in
'The Forsythe Saga" and with The
Little Minister" added on to her 1884
IS schedule, it is obvious her contract
owners have decided she is the best
stake horse in the stable.
Apparently il uIdLiutloV Soh ~
suade Katharine Cornell to appear in
a play of his devising, the prestige OF
that particular piece of handiwork is
forever established. This observation
is prompted by the fact R-k-O has
bought Sidney Howards none-too-
successful Alien Corn" for Ann
Harding, hoping perhaps that the
blond woman's club queen of the
films can do more with it than could
Miss Cornell.
Francis Lederer will get all dressed
up in swashbuckles this season for a
role in THE Three Musketeers." the
role being, of course, that Of D'Artag-
nan. Thereafter the Czech matinee
idol will shift rapidly through the
centuries back to Romance in Man.
haitian" based on an original screen
story.
On behalf of mystery, the R-K-O'ers
are to make Frances Noyes Harris
novel, Hide in the Dark" The legiti-
mate stage will supply material also
for THE World by the Tail" conti-
mental piece once known as Ring
strasse Number Three" False Dreams
Farewell and wednesdays Child,
Leopold Atlas successful exploration
of the divorce question.
Then, as the reviewers always say.