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He was 1 1 1 « » inventor of the word "montage," which gave highbrows of the cinema something to argue about. I'm oof quite sure what it means. lie hud ;i tousled head of hair, a perfect command of English, ;i grand personality, an extraordinary intellect, and a great sense of humor.
He went to Hollywood and was entertained. He was mentioned to direct "An American Tragedy." He had a swell time. He was one of the most deservedly popular personalities in the colony.
Then his contract was up, and he hadn't done a tap of work. "Just didn't know what to give him, couldn't agree on a story," was the answer.
THE point is that Mr. Eisenstcin six-nt almost six months in Hollywood, at two thousand dollars a week. He didn't get an opportunity to contribute a .single camera shot to the American screen, hut he did learn everything there is to know about the making of sound pictures — all for the benefit of the Russian movie.
Well, Serge was paid pretty liberally for learning all the new tricks of pictures. Damn clever, these Rooshians!
HERR DIRECTOR LUBITSCH says he never heard of "sex appeal" until he came to this country. The Germans must have a word for it even if they have to put seven or eight words together to convey the idea to each other.
Have you seen his "Monte Carlo" yet? Then, see it. Sick in bed with pneumonia and rheumatism, that Dculschcr lad could make a better picture than the average director in the pink bloom of health.
WIRE from an exhibitor of Springfield, 111., to the home office of Radio Pictures after "Check and Double Check" was shown to the inhabitants of the martyred president's home town.
" Xever since Springfield sent Abraham Lincoln to the White House has this town gone as wild as it did over Amos and Andy on the screen."
Ah, how pleased and proud Mr. Lincoln would be if he were with us now!
THERE'S a studio gateman out in Hollywood who earns twenty-five dollars a week and has a manager. He wants to be an actor. On his day off his wife puts up a lunch for him and he chases all over Southern California in his old Ford, looking for Wally Beery pictures.
The wife tells the neighbors he is studying technic.
IRVING BERLIN'S music has always been popular. Yet four out of five of the songs he wrote for a forthcoming United Artists picture were cut out because "The public is tired of songs and singing in pictures." Gentlemen, gentlemen. The public is not tired of songs and singing.
They're just fed up with the musical noises and senseless lyrics that come forth from Hollywood with all the lilting cadence and ecstasy of a sausage machine
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transforming little porkers into hot dogs. If you don't think so, go and watch the audience while they listen to Grace Moore in "A Lady's Morals." There is a picture in exquisite good taste, and there, my friends, is song and singing.
BELIEVE it or not. Carl Laemmle thinks we newspaper and magazine editors and writers are not as dumb as we write. He asks us:
"Do screen producers 'underplay' or 'overplay' their attractions?
"What are your views on musical pictures; on silent pictures; on today's theater going public?
"Won't you be so kind as to write me a brief note giving your frank opinion?"
If there is anything we like better than a good cold stein of Pilsner beer it is to give advice to producers who have been making pictures for twenty years.
Our answer is — yes and no.
IN Melcher, Iowa, lives George Arthur Fletcher, a produce merchant, who has never seen a picture. Says he was taught to forego the theater, along with tobacco and booze. ' He's fifty years old, and says he would substitute the church for the cinema.
Brookline, Mass., one of the richest communities in the world, has no motion picture theater. Perhaps we should send out missionaries!
LISTEX to the lament of the Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudray, Gloria's latest ex : "Hollywood is no place to be married. When you are married there, everybody tries to tear you apart. When we were married, had I kept my wife in France the present situation would not have arisen."
Can't you see the beautiful, exotic Gloria as a French housewife, carrying her basket to market every morning, Sundays excepted, and rushing home to make the onion soup? Yes, you can!
MOTION pictures are not artistic, complain so many critics," said Executive Manager Wunder, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in a speech in Hollywood the other day. "Why, what do they mean? Don't people realize that seven arts are blended in the talking picture: painting, poetry, literature, architecture, music, dancing and drama . . .?" And just the very next day, the title of "Dark Star" was changed to "Min and Bill."
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T has been suggested that the reason "It" became so popular in Hollywood is that it is so easy to spell.
HERE'S a hot one. A certain producer in Hollywood interviews writers while in his private Turkish bath on the studio lot. And a director, whose reputation is bigger, and whose publicity is more interesting than any picture he has produced in years, always has scenarios read to him as he lies, eyes closed, on a davenport in his office. Perhaps that's why his pictures are so flat.