International photographer (Jan-Dec 1934)

i The Cameramen of the Motion Picture Industry Have Long Since Borne the Hallmark of the World's Best Photography. M THE CAMERAMAN'S ANCLE No. 9 CINEMACARONI (It's better with a little sauce.) By Robert Tobey >)' on to your hats, kids, here we go Hollywood exhibitors have fun booking i their double features. Here are a potted on recent marquees: * * * THREE ON A HONEYMOON ONE IS GUILTY * * * i SPRINGTIME FOR HENRY MANY HAPPY RETURNS * * * LITTLE WOMEN BOTTOMS UP I once asked why an office boy is like gpile of old, worn out tennis shoes. teem to remember the correct answer. one would make a good framed en■J/w your hallway. <LH DEPARTMENT . . . Doug Montr went away on his vacation once and n four times. It may sound mathecely impossible, but that was because he to'return" three extra times for a newsct.pany! . . . Director Roy Neill, in spite he act that he is well over the age of it is a "dolly hound." He makes most isicenes from a dolly, or moving camera :oi|. . . . Among the more novel parties led this month (ahem! ) was a dog y Iven by Harriet Parsons. Harriet has di eed Irish terrier, so she gave a party dq> of the same litter and they could g heir owners. Harriet spent most of tin valiantly defending the merits of her ppch. One dog arrived in a specially iffij;d private car. My dogs aren't pedid, 'ut they take me around . . . an Dressier was one of the grandest exle3»f a real trouper in the show business. U • I made the last movie of her ever L The scenes, for Screen Snapshots, ; ii de at famous La Quinta, near Palm ng the same day she was stricken and Santa Barbara, where she later was At that time she was in great pain : cancers that were eating her life t she smiled for my camera as if her a grand bed of roses. We all knew nnt that she had but a few more weeks 1 believe that she, too, knew . . . cies garnered at Gene Raymond's Surrthday Party at the Russian Eagle ieni Gene being really surprised and wonist what was the proper thing to do ', it — should he do a scream, a moan * cj.ple of nip-ups. ... A waiter introng^lary Brian to his mother and brother. Alf.hree wearing grand-canyon grins. . . . y EJ=in wearing a new coiffure that changes aepnality tremendously. . . . Helen Fer>n, felene's manager, frantically attending asthinute details and looking cuter than t o the movie stars. . . . Me trying to tog bh practically in the dark, the palm v|'e so thick. . . . Frank Morgan tellout of school, about how he has a f|: when he is loaned out than when rt on his home lot. He can tell peo to go without affecting his contract. ara Kent looking prettier and younger n I last worked with her four years Telegrams and fan birthday let *ene coming in by the bushel. . . . v happy . . . h Ba i w c A U now play a little game -NTANCE, using movie terms. illed r is the Chief Electrician on a movie 'e a sentence with the word GAFFER * * * se of you who are busy evenings a simple answer is, "1 don't GAFFER any sugar, thank you." * * * Or if you have nothing to do for a while, you could even make up a little song about it, like this: (provide your own music) I don't GAFFER you; You don't GAFFER me. We don't GAFFER for each other; It's simple as A, B, C. You don't GAFFER candy, I don't GAFFER clothes. You make funny noises When I'm in repose. 1 know a little red-head That ELECTRIFIES. She could GAFFER for me; I can read it in her eyes. I must JUICE between you, That's all that 1 can see. For 1 don't GAFFER you, dear, (Tremulo) And you don't GAFFER me. * * * If you still have some time and some of your faculties left, you can write me and tell me what else you devised. Note to new writers: Be original at any cost, even if you have to buy three books and copy the best parts of each. POT SHOTS AT HOLLYWOOD FIRED AT RANDOM : Charlie Chaplin rarely shows up any more at places where he is scheduled to appear. . . . The usual summer rush of autograph collectors is on and driving the stars crazy. Groups of forty to a hundred, composed chiefly of school children on vacation, hang around the popular eateries. . . . The day after the appearance of a blatant fan mag article stating that Marlene Dietrich's run of appearances in masculine garb was a publicity stunt (to invite comment, and that Marlene was now commencing an orgy of frilly clothes) I saw her at a polo match with Von Sternberg. In slacks. . . . Autograph collectors, gathered at the arrival of the "Chief," mistook Vivian Tobin for her sister Genevieve. It's easy to do. And were thej surprised at her signature. ... A certain famous screen Romeo, who keeps himself pretty well saturated all the time, is the object of a very funny tale. It seems he has made a habit of proposing to the Hollywood gals, about one or two a week. But the gals were wise and nothing came of it. He made the mistake of pulling the stunt on a little gal fresh from the New York stage. And that is the why of a Hollywood marriage that few people couldn't understand. The gentleman was THAT disconcerted. ... At a recent event news photographers put their heads together and tore up all negatives of Irene Dunne. It seems her father got snooty with them. It Pays to Please the Press . . . Thought for the stars of tomorrow: Uneasy lies the head that wears a marcel. * * * Especially when you can't do henna thing with it. TODAY'S LITTLE PARADOX Newspaper headline : MARIAN NIXON WEDS DIRECTOR BILL SEITER It would seem that the Nixon-Seiter affair vas not a Nix-On-Seiter affair. i FROM PRINCESS KROPOTKIN'S CURRENT COLUMN: Some of the loveliest screen clothes are absolute torture to wear. Jeannette MacDonald has been a martyr to such artistic creations. Constance Bennett achieves her slinky silhouette by loading her legs with lead. Under her gown she wears a tight silk sheath with lead weights sewn on it from hip to hem. Lead undies are also worn by several other stars. Time for the Old Mariner to pop up with his phrase: "Get out the lead, girls, we're going to take a sounding." Some VITAL STATISTICS, by BEVERLY HILLS, from a current LIBERTY: Jean Harlow was born Harlean Carpenter — is strictly unvampirish in real life but is generous, beautifully molded, unstinted in showing her all to the camera . . . * * * The censors will fix that. FLIP CLIPS If ceauties Are beauties They've practically No arduous deauties. * * * I prefer movies To anchovies. * * * A gal that's like a doll from Dresden Can marry the executive vice-presden. * * * Movie magnates Get out dragnates For salient Talient. * * * are's vour hat, sir! WARNER-FIRST NATIONAL "FLIRTATION WALK." Director, Frank Borzage; story, Delmar Daves and Lou Edelniau. screenplay. Delmar Daves; dance director, Bobby Connelly; musical numbers, Mort Dixon and Atlie Wrubel; first cameraman, Sol Polito; supervisor, Robert Lord. Cast: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Pat O'Brien, John Eldredge, Ross Alexander, Guinn Williams, Henry O'Neill, Glen Boles, John Arledge, Frederick Burton, John Darrow. "SINGER OF NAPLES" (Spanish). Director, Howard Bretherton; dialogue director, Moreno Cuyer; story, Manuel Reachi; first cameraman, William Rees; supervisor, Manuel Reachi. Cast: Enrico Caruso, Jr.. Carmen Rio, Mona Maris, Terry La Franconi. Alfonzo Pedroza, Antonio Vidal, Emilia Leovalli, Enrique Acostar Francesco Maran. UNIVERSAL "GREAT EXPECTATIONS." Director, Stuart Walker; story. Charles Dickens; screenplay,. Gladys L'nger; first cameraman, George Robinson; producer, Stanley Bergerman. Cast: Henry' Hull, Jane Wyatt, Alan Hale. Phillips Holmes, Florence Reed, Francis L. Sullivan, Harry Cording, Douglas Wood, George Breakstone, Jackie Searl. George Barraud, Rafaeka Otiano, Anne Howard. •NIGHT LIFE OF THE GODS." Directoi. Lowell Sherman; story. Thorne Smith; screenplay. Barry Trivers; first cameraman, John Mescall; sound, Gilbert Kurland; producer, CarE Laemmle. Ir.