Screen Guilds Magazine (August 1934)

The Scree n Guilds’ Magazine Published Jointly by the Screen Writers' Guild of the Authors' League of America and the Screen Actors' Guild w Now is the Time..." Could we borrow, beg or filch a can of the secret liquid, recently tested in the East, we would dissipate the fog that hangs over Hollywood. At no time within the history of motion pictures has there been a greater need for clear vision. Many churchmen, doubtless, are sincere in their attack upon the screen, while professional reformers have climbed on the bandwagon. They have selected a time when the world, by a narrow mar¬ gin, is emerging from economic destruc¬ tion, to attack one of the world 7 s greatest industries—just as they selected war times to put across the most destructive law ever written in the statutes of this- country. There are, however, rifts in the present cloud. The Rosenblatt report is hearten¬ ing, particularly in the tabling of salary control. For the Guilds, it is a major vic¬ tory. Also, as pointed out in an article by Mr. Cantor, the Guilds have joined hands publicly in publishing The Screen Guilds , Magazine. A happy alliance. Since the meeting in the El Capitan Theatre, many months ago, the Guilds have been “keeping company.” And were it not for the censors, we would suggest that they are already blessed with progeny—the Agency Committee and the twin “Five and Five” Commit¬ tees. If the latter show the disposition and accomplishment of the former, the four thousand members of the Guilds will be with producers in a brain trust which will serve more surely than any chemical to dissipate fog. Editorial Staff HONORARY EDITORS Ralph Block _ Eddie Cantor Tristram Tupper, Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Writers' Guild— Actors' Guild— Rupert Hughes Lucile Gleason Nunnally Johnson Ann Harding Wilfred MacDonald Fredric March Joel Sayre Robert Montgomery Courtenay Terrett Kenneth Thomson John Francis Larkin, Art Editor Billy Leyser.Assistant Editor Edward Green.Advertising Manager Harold Slott.Circulation Manager Issued monthly by the Screen Writers’ Guild of the Authors’ League of America and the Screen Actors’ Guild, at 1655 North Cherokee Avenue, Hollywood, California. Entered as third-class matter at the Post Office at Los Ar.geles, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE SCREEN GUILDS’ MAGAZINE is copyrighted in the U.S.A., 1934, by the Screen Actors’ Guild and the Screen Writers’ Guild of the Authors’ League of America. Twenty cents a copy. $2.00 a vear in the U.S.A. Table of Contents Cover Design...JOHN FRANCIS LARKIN Frontispiece—“Syndics of the Cloth Hall Guild”.REMBRANDT ARTICLES — FEATURES — EDITORIALS The Wedding. Puritan / Pagan.... Death Rattle.... The Independents.. American Epic. Out of the Prying Pan. Letter From a Self-Made Screen Writer to His Son.. Lloyd George Is Coming....(Illustrated) Wagon Sickness.. Plea For Humility... The Painful Vainful. Tarzan Talks...(Illustrated). Words of Wisdumb....... Hints to Writers.... Distribution. Stars (Four Interviews)... Asteroids (Four Interviews). The Call Board. The Junior Guild..... Song and Story. The Bird. New Fiscal Plan.. Screen Writers’ Marching Song... Words and Music...... Drinking Chorus. -EDDIE CANTOR...... 3 .-. 3 . 3 TREM CARR. 4 NUNNALLY JOHNSON.. 4 IRVIN S. COBB. 5 JOHNNIE GREY. 6 -JOSEPH A. FIELDS.... 7 -WILLARD MACK. 8 -mary McCarthy. 8 -JOHN BRIGHT.. 9 -McGOWAN MILLER. 9 MAL MERRITT. 10 STEPHEN CONCORD. 12 KENNETH THOMSON ... 12 -ERYAS. 15 REPPUT. 14 ACTORS’ GUILD. 16 . 17 EDWARD ELISCU. 18 JACK CLUETT. 22 WRITERS’ GUILD. 28 .Inside Back Cover HENRY MYERS PAUL GERARD SMITH SHORT SHORTS Temptation.GEORGE SAYRE. 11 Double Perfidy.WALLY WALKER. 25 VERSE Hands. Guardian of the Portals Her Voice... Every Other Place.... BESSIE LASKY... 4 GERTRUDE ORR... 6 C. TARBELL. 11 GOUVERNEUR MORRIS 17 NEWS AND GOSSIP Fox. Warner Brothers... Writer’s Cramp. M.GJM. Paramount... Job Lots... Among the Indies. Columbia.. United Artists....... ARGUS. ... 10 -MANUEL SEFF..... 11 AL MARTIN.... 11 LEO THE LYIN’. 13 FRANCIS MARTIN. 19 -EDWIN MARTIN. 19 -LINDSLEY PARSONS.... 21 JIMOTHY OCEAN. 21 CLYDE BARROW. 23 PEN PORTRAITS Eddie Cantor, Irvin S. Cobb, Max Baer . .....McGOWAN MILLER 3, 5, 19 Claudette Colbert.KEYE LUKE... 15 Edward G. Robinson, Henrietta Crosman, Arthur Byron......VITCH... 15 Mel S. Forrester, Lillian R. Drew, Bee Stephens, John Albon..... McGOWAN MILLER 14