Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

War Declared On American Movies Continued from page forty-one to be a hair raiser — like our "the-Indians-are-coming pictures — only with blacks instead of Indians. The government killed it in its cradle because they said it did not present conditions rightly. And the stockholders in the company lost all their money. Punishment? 1 Don't Know How wicked Australia has been in the past; but I can't believe that any country has ever done anything to deserve these English pictures. They are the most gosh-awful stuff I ever have seen on any screen. The other night one called Good Companions— taken from the Priestly book — opened at the Prince Edward Theatre. The sign on the curtain said that this is the only talkie the King and Queen have ever seen. Under the circumstances, I am going to withdraw my candidacy; I am not going to run for king. The leading lady is an English girl named Jessie Mathews, and they advertise her as "England's Little Imp of Mischief"— which tells more about Jessie than I have strength left to tell. That's the trouble with English pictures; they are so obvious. The funny fellows are too funny and the little imps of mischief are too frolicsome. Fay's Director ALTHOUGH some of our own— l showing over here — are plenty bad. I saw Fay Wray in Ann Carver's Profession. It made me sad. The quickie director made Fay do everything that von Stroheim spent a solid year telling her not to do. If Von could have had Miss Wray for another year he might have made a topside actress of her. Or killed her. It is a curious thing, but nobody that Von Stroheim or Griffith ever directed amounted to very much thereafter. I have worked with both of them. Their methods are so peculiar. They so dominate every thought and movement of the actors that — thereafter — the stars are like horses without bridles. Will Doug Be a Duke? IHear That Douglas Fairbanks — having parted from Mary — is in England planning to produce pictures. It is my guess that he will never come back. Doug has become so used to dukes and counts that he is not happy in America. I happen to know that, for years, he tried to get Mary to go to Europe to be Lord and Lady of the old manor house Doug just licks this stuff up. I don't think Mary — after the first thrills — was much excited over crowns and coronets. If Doug should go seriously into English pictures, he might revolutionize them. He has undoubted genius as a producer — although somewhat out of tune with the modern story. Dramas of the Service THE best picture I have seen for a long time is Hell Below — which has just hit Australia. It came at a fortunate JANUARY, 1934 time — when the air of the Pacific is filled with war rumors. This is one of a string of navy pictures written by a retired and invalided officer; and they have the flavor of the service. Everything in Hell Below could have happened — and probably did. Pale Blondes I Am Discouraged about the rising crop of American girls. I have seen four pictures in which glowing "finds" have been triumphantly displayed for the world to see. To me they are all vacuous, vapid little blondes without a spark of beauty or character. To my mind the best girls coming to the front — although they haven't much further to come — are Kay Francis and Myrna Loy. Miss Francis is a gorgeous creature and little Myrna Loy has a sincerity of method that might start her on the way to greatness. But after all, my favorite American girl is Marie Dressier. That old gal could recite the alphabet and make me want to go back to the kindergarten. News Reel Theatre THE experiment of a theatre running only news reels was tried and was a flop in Los Angeles and other big cities. One is running in Sydney with great success. The folks not only sit with rapture through news events months old; but they sit tense on the edge of their seats through advertising reels, showing how darned easy it is to mow a lawn with Prof. Poofensocker's famous lawn mower. To Conquer Hollywood Two Hopeful young souls are sailing for Hollywood on the S. S. Monterey to fill a long-felt want in the movies. They are winners of a search-for-beauty contest staged by Paramount in Australia. One is a sub-deb of a prominent family in Melbourne; name Gwen Monro. She is a brunette, aged nineteen; speaks seven languages and rides horses, swims and all such. The Paramount people here seem to feel that all this is important; to be an interpreter of the fine arts I suppose you have to know a lot of languages. If hers is the experience of most beauty contest winners who come to Hollywood all she really needs is just one language to cry bitter tears in. The other search-for-beauty contest winner is a young lawyer named Brian Norman. 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