Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Saturday 2 June 1945, page 11


KORDA PLANS BIG PROGRAMME

<5}IR ALEXANDER KORDA,

chairman and managing director of M-G-M London Films, announces an imposing programme of 14 features, to , gofinto production as soon as

the company can take over its ?recently acquired studios ät ' ? Elstree.

.Among the immediate schedule

of features, some of which haye, already been announced, is the Vivien Leigh vehicle, "Lottie Dundass,".from Enid Bagnold's West End success-a tale of murder in a Brighton, theatre.

Another is "Velvet*Coat,^ froniij G. B. Stern'.s life story of .Robert

Louis Stevenson. Ian Dalrymple will produce. Also on the list is a story by Robert Louis Steven-son, "The Wrecker." It is a Pa-cific island adventure. .

All but two of the remainder are similarly drawn from books by well known authors; They include .."Pickwick Papers," the- Charles Dickens" classic; "Habitation En-forced," from a-short story of an American who turns English country gentleman, by Rudyard Kipling; "War and Peace," Count Leo Tolstoi's immense . historical .novel.

. '? ; ~ ' v " -