Boy's Cinema (1930-31)

BOY'S CINEMA Every Tuesday AU letters to the Editor should be addressed c/o BOY'S CINEMA, Room 163, The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, tendon, E-CA " Cracked Nuts." Wentlell Gialumi, Beit Wheeler; Zunder U. Park- NEXT WEEK'S THREE COMPLETE FILM STORIES. hurst (Ziip), Robert Woolscy; AiHit Minnie. van .\rden. Edna May Oliver; Betty Har- rington, Dorothy l^ee; Car- totla, Leni Stengel; Baron Bogardus, Stanley Fields. " Gun Smoke." Brad Farley, Richard Arlen; Sue Vanccy, Mary Brian; Stub Wallock, Eugene Pal- lette; Kedge Darvis. Wiiliain Boyd; Hainpsey Dell. Louise Fazenda; Tack Gilhip, (^'harles Winnihgcr; Posey Meed. (Uiy Oliver; John K. Horton, James Durkin; Spot Skee, Brooks Bene<liet; Strike Johnson, William V. Mong. Doug's Love for Travel. It would not be j^urprising if Douglas Fairbanks gave us on the screen in the near future some of the results of his sight-seeing abroad. As is generally known, lie recently returned to Hollywood after several months in the East, bnt though he had announced his intention of making it a hunting trip, he did not over- look the valuable material to be found. Doug very wisely accumulated quite a lot of it to be used for screen purposes. Doug'.s " vv a n d e r 1 ii s t '' evinced itself early in his career. ]Ie had not long begun his acting on the stage when he felt a desire to .see something of the world. Other Americans were crossing the Atlantic to see what lay beyond. Why shouldn't he? So with two pals Doug started for Europe on a cattle-boat. Each had ten pounds. They worked their way safely across, had a glorious time, and within three months were back again in New York. A few yeai-s later after having left the stage for a time and then gone back to it, Doug onco again felt he must travel. This time it was tlie mysterious Orient which captured his fancy. He wanted to see what Japan, in particular, was like. So once more he set out, but in London stumbled across a friend from New York and, changing his mind about Japan, shortly afterwards returned to tite States. Doug has been abroad more than once since then. The idea of rest does not appeal lo him. He must be up and hurrying off somewhere, and travel enables him to satisfy the "wanderhist " he has alwavs felt. BUCK JONES IN " THE TEXAS RANGER." A gang oi night riders pillage and burn the houses of the home- steaders. A brave girl defies them, but she tights a losing battle until Ranger Jim comes to her aid. " TRAPPED." A gentleman oi leisure saves a beautiful girl and becomes involved in a mix-up with desperate racketeers. Starring Nick Stuart. " CREEPING SHADOWS." A young man inherits an old house and at once strange things begin to happen—behind everything hovers the shadow of a limp- ing man. Starring FrankUn Dyall. ALSO The third episode of our grand new serial of thrills amongst the flre-flghterS, starring Tim McCoy and Marion Shoekley— " HEROES OF THE FLAMES." " Beau Hunks." The Hal Roach studios are again busy with a picture which is sure lo raise a laugh. About a hundred and fifty members of the Hollywood American September 12th, 1931. Legion are acting as soldiers of the Foreign Legion, and as desert Riflfs in "Beau Hunks," m which will also appear those two inimitable comedians. Laurel and Hardy. There will not be many serious moments with them in the film. The desert scenes are being iilmcd on Hermosa Beach. An Interrupted Holiday- Gary Cooper is now hard at work on his new talkie, and feeling quite fit once more after his illness. Following it he had gone abroad to recuperate, and after spending several weeks in Italy had come over to London to finish liis holiday. But he had been hero only a little more than a day when a cable was sent to him requesting his immediate return to Hollywood to begin work again in pictures. Gary's interrupted visit to this country must have been, I am sure, a keen dis- appointment, for there is no doubt he hoped to revive memories of his stay hero wluMi a boy. His parents, both of them English, had gone to America before his birth. Cooper, senior, became a superior-court judge in Helena, ^fontana, and was also the owner of a cattle ranch sittyfive miles from the city on the headwaters of the ^Missouri River. Gary was born in Helena, and soon learut to ride and swim. Then when he was nine years of age, his parents came back to England for a time, bringing Gary and his brother Arthur with them. For three and a half years the two boys attended scnool in Dimstable, and then returned to America Gary is certain to come over here again, and when he does will probably arrange for a longer stay amid old English haunts. Inspired by Lindbergh. Jack Oakie is once more really happy, which may seem a strange thing' to say of a comedian who has never looked anything else. Sorrie weeks ago, however. Jack Oakie asked Paramount for an increase in salaiy. But there was no readiness to give it to him, and mattere reached the stage when it seemed likely that Jack would be tem- porarily out of pictures. . But things ended happily, and now he is. -,. Many of you may not know, ■ perhaps, that it was Lisid- beigh's feat of flying the Atlantic which really inspired Jack Oakie to take up film work. 'There is, obviously, no connection between these two things. But until his fellow- countryman had attempted something really diflfieult and achieved success, Jack Oakie had fought shy of the screen as being beyond his powers. It was Lindbergh's daring which changed his mind. Jack left the stage as soon as he could, and began hauntmg the studios. Tlien one day while trying his luck at First National, he saw Wesley Rugglcs, the director. He asked him far a job, and was given a small and unnamed part in "Finders Keepers." About eight months later Jack Oakie joined Paramoimt and was cast in "The Fleet's In." It "made" him, and ho found himself just as famous as Lindbergh. Answers to Question*. Harry Richman and Clara Bow have not acted togeth^ in a film, F.S. (Ply- mouth). Harry Richman has, in fact, appeared in only cno picture, "Puttin' on the Ritz," after which he returned to New York to resume his stage work. Here is the cast of "True to the Navy"; Clara Bow (Ruby Nolan), Krcdrio :\[aich (Gunner McCoy), Harry Green (Solomon Bimberg). Rex Bell (Eddie), Eddie Fotherston (Michael), Eddiri Dunn (Albert), Ray Cooke (Pcewoc), Harrj Sweet (Artie), Adclo Windsor (Maizie), Sam Hardy (Grogan), Jed Probity (manager of the dance hall).