Exhibitors Herald World (Jan-Mar 1929)

38 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD February 16, 192 THE STUDIO A.M. P. P. Re-elects DeMille; Flying Over Audien Stages Hi Hollywood to Remain Production Center Despite Reports Hiram Brown Arrives to Launch Audien Production by R K 0; Colleen Can Cook; Phyllis Haver 42? BY DOUGLAS HODGES HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 12. — This town will go on as the center of production despite reports that New York will be the site of audien production activity. That indication was borne out by statements from two executives representing vastly different companies this week. JOHN CONSIDINE, JR., returned from J a survey of stage productions in New York and a survey of audien production possibilities. He stated that United Artists will begin at once on production here of "Song of Broadway" and other dialogue pictures. Hiram Brown arrived stating that R K O will have its audien program well under way here within the month. * * * They are finding out that visitors can witness the shooting of talking pictures on sound stages without interfering with art and business. A dozen studios in town have cautiously opened the doors and two or three dozens of us have just as cautiously crept into the inviting but sinister apertures to see how the new affair is faring. I'll sneeze some day while Lois Moran is being wooed by George O'Brien and then I'll get kicked out and the doors will become forbidding again. * * * Colleen Moore told me I could make a thorough inspection of her new Bel-Air home as soon as it is finished and the rugs are down. I checked up with John McConnick and found out he okayed the invitation and found out that not only can I spend three minutes in each of the rooms but I can swim in the swimming tank and have dinner with them. And the dinner part is really what I was interested in because, Heavens above — how that girl, Colleen, can cook! In this town there is a street that has lost its name. It is no more known as "Hollywood Boulevard" as the street signs would lead you to believe. Everyone knows it as "The Boulevard." Sunset Boulevard is still "Sunset;" Santa Monica Boulevard is still "Santa Monica Boulevard." But "The Boulevard" means only one street. The fact is there are only three main streets in Hollywood. Those three. If you are looking for an address on Whitley Avenue you are up against it until you read all the street signs. It's a country town where everybody in it works in the watch factory. * * * There isn't much temperament demonstrated by stars. There was an exhibition of something or other yesterday on one lot and the director called it temperament. I watched it and thought it was common sense. A well known star asked the director if he thought he would use her the rest of the day. He replied he was sorry but would not use her. She had arrived promptly at nine in the morning on call and had waited until four in the afternoon to learn she was wasting time. She courageously told the incompetent director he need not have called her when there was nothing for her to do but swat flies and that his joke had been damn contemptible. The director alibied that the studio manager was to blame. The star damned the studio manager and hoped he would go to the devil. * * * A studio press agent left town the other day and his vacancy was soon filled by another man who is known from Coast to Coast. The successor has done two startling things since he came on the job. First he decided the publicity department needed cleaning up. Alterations and decorations began. That was the first week. The second week found him entirely a.w.o.l. — entirely no corpus delicti. A search was made and he was found and diagnosed as over stimulated with drug store giggle soup. (Boom-boom.) * * * Clara Bow says she had 'nawful time with her finances for a while. She declares she went flat broke last summer and then hired a man to count her money and spend it for her. He limits her to $500 a week spending money. * * * Clara is a great girl. None more likable. There's one man she is extremely fond of and he owns a lunch counter on Beverly Boulevard. His name is Robert Bow and he is the proudest man in California. "My daughter Clara" is the finest girl I know, says this little man with the long black lashes. I had fried chicken at Robert Bow's place last week and it was so delicious that I'm going to celebrate my birthday by taking the entire HeraldWorld Western staff there for chicken dinner next week. One of the ten heavyweight stars who has lifted himself by the bootstraps to $300,000 per year looks back deignfully upon the time, eight years ago, when he was an automobile salesman and suitor for the hand of a leading motion picture actress. Automo ( Special to the Herald-World) HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 12. — Re-electi, of Cecil B. DeMille, producer-director Metro Goldwyn Mayer, for his secoi term as president and the adoption of res lutions to combat the flying of airplan over audien stages were highlights of t' fifth annual meeting of the Association Motion Picture Producers. At the gathering held last night a lett was read from the California Aircra Operators' Association, in which pilo asked the producers to work out a syste of signals through lights, flags, balloons > flares so that airplanes may avoid studic while talking scenes were being made. Tl association appointed A. J. Ball to conf< with the pilots for the working out of feasible system. At the present time, it ■ said, thousands of dollars have been lo because of the roar of low-flying airplar motors. Re-elected with De Mille were Winfie Sheehan of Fox studio as first vice pres dent; Jack L. Warner of Warner Brother second vice president, and Fred W. Beetsc as executive vice president, secretary an treasurer. Sills and Doris Kenyon Go East for Four Week (Special to the Herald-World) HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 12.— Milton Sill screen star, and his wife, Doris Kenyo herself a featured player, have left for Nc York for a stay of about four weeks, durin which time it was hoped Sills might ei tirely recover from a recent attack < grippe and a nervous breakdown. bile sales were then few and meals were fa between. He won the girl. She designed a film career for him an boarded him until he became a contra( player. After he became famous a chil was born and he divorced his wife. Toda she has been obliged to retire from tn screen and lives happily with her offsprinf Whenever his pictures play the neighboi hood theatre she slips quietly into a sef in the back row and watches him ena( passionate roles with Swedish vampires. * * * Phyllis Haver was doing 42 in her road; ter on Vine street. A copper pulled he into the curb. "Wotcha tink dis is? h asked politely. "I'm sorry," Phyllis dc murred. "You're not," she asked, "going t give me a ticket, I hope?" "You're dern right I am, Miss Haver! "But my name," she countered. "Is nc Miss Haver. I am Anna Gettsit and tin is my brother's car." "I'm sorry, Miss Gettsit. I'm watching, he explained, "for these smart aleck movie stars." A Hollywood copper is always waiting t break into print in connection with a stai speed case.