Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 1, 1934

Chu Chin Chow (Gaumont-British). In the last two years the cinema industry in Britain has expanded almost as rapidly as it did in the U. S. before Depression. Douglas Fairbanks (whose Private Life of Don Juan had its London première last month), Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Gregory Ratoff, are a few of the Hollywood celebrities who are making pictures in England. Last week John Barrymore signed a contract with London Film Productions, Ltd. to act in an adaptation of a Shakespeare play, directed by Alexander Korda (The Private Life of Henry VIII). Most potent...

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