Boy's Cinema (1930-31)

BOY'S CINEMA Every Tuesday All letters to tbe Editor should be addressed c/o BOY'S CINEMA, Room 163. The Fieetway House, FaningdoD Street, London, E.C.4. " Adios." Don Fiaiicisco Dolfino '(El ruuia), Richard Baitholnicss; David Howaid, James Rcniiie; Rosita Garcia, Mary Astor; Dolores ))cl(iiio, Marion Xixoii ; IV'ter llarkncss, Fred Koliler; Lupo, ■•|3arbara Bedford ; Don Mariano Delfino, l^bbcvt Edoson; Juan, Arthur Stone; Unneha, Mathildo Coniont ; Judge Travers, Erville Aldcr:ion. " Defenders of the Uaw." Police C"onniii<>ioner Long, Edmund Brecse; Alice l^aiig:. Catherine Dale Owen: Chief of Police, Jo-^epli Cirard; Captain Houston, John Holland; Joo Valet. Robeit (JleckleV; Nuinbcr Seven- teen. JIae Busch: Detective Muldoon,' I'hilo MeCidloufrh; Terone, Paid Panzer. " The IVIaltese Falcon." Huih Wouderly, Bcbe Daniels; Sam 3«ad'e, Ricardo Cortcz; (jutman, Dudley Diggles; Kfhe, Una Merkel; Lieutenant Dundy. Robei t Elliott; Ooctor Cairo, (Vtto Matiesicn ; District .Attorney, Oscar Apfel; ^Milcs .\rcher. Walter Long; Wilmer Cook, Dwight Frye; Ton\ I'olhans. J. Farreli MacDonald ; Captain Jacobi, Agoitino Borgato. "On With the Motley." When Robert Woolsey, the famous Radio Pictures comedian, takes his cigar from his mouth and utters a .side- splitting u iseci'ack in his next picture, he \v>ll be doing it whilst his heart is breaking—more or less. The fact is that " Ru.sty " is lost. Rusty is a little black and tan dog of uncertain breed, but very dear to the hearts of the noted screen comedian and his wife. Whil.st Robert Woolsey and his wife were visiting lOngland recently. Rusty Was taken charge of by their nraid. When the comedian returned, he heard the sad news that Rusty had disap- peared, and at once oflFered a reward, which up to the moment has been lui- successful. When ho starts work on his next pic- ture. "Girl Crazy,"' it will be "I IVgliacci " bvotigh't up to date—tmless Riistv is returned in the meantime. Ken Mayiidrd at a Fiesta. Mexican ranchers in the hills back of Puente, Colifornia, held an impromptu, fiesta, celebrating the informal visit of Ken Maynard, TifTany Western stAr, and hero of the action loving Latins. Ken ■' dropped in " on the ranchers in an inii^xpected maimer. Flying back from San Diego in his new Stearman 'plane, the player became fogbomid. His gasoline supply ran out while he was still searching for a landing-field— Ken landed the plane on a hillside. He walke<l back to the nearest habitation to look for help in extricating the ship. ;ind when the ranchers had finally tleavod a wav, preparatory for a take-off Oitoher 17th, 19.?1. NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE FILM STORIES. BOB STEELE " THE RIDING FOOL." Action, thrills, romance, and humour in a film showing how a couple oJ cow- punchers brought a crowd o£ bandits to justice. " RODNEY STEPS IN." A gallant young man sees a beantiful girl being attacked and goes to her rescue, which involves him in many amazing adventures. Starring Richard Cooper and Elizabeth Allan. " RED FORK RANGE." Men, horses, and action in a thrilling Western story ot white men against red. Starring Wally Wales and Ruth Mix. ALSO The eighth episode ot our thrilling serial : " HEROES OF THE FLAMES." in the morning, they put on the informal fiesta. Ranchers for miles around attended. Dancing, feasting—and the rest of the things that go with a real fiesta-i-weve very much in evidence, and the party continued until the early hours of the morning. Ken flew back to Los .\ngelcs the followilig day. "They're great people." said tire star, discussing the ranchers from below the border. "I've never been treated moVe hospitably in my life, nor felt that any welcome was more sincere than the one those simple-living Mexicans gnvc me." A Microphohe Masterpiece. One of the most successfid d(Miionstra- tions of icalivtie sound vecording was recently performed at the Fir>t Xfltional studios at Rurballk. California, during the making of "Too Young to Marry," stjirring Lorettn Young. The sound in question, which brought a strained expression * > t'' fncs of First National's experts was that of the crunching of celery. Any sound engineer who has had any experience in the recording of this particular noise will admit that its leproduction is one of the most difficult feats known. .According to Nathan Levinson, of Ihe Producer's Recording Department, it is a sound that cannot be duplicated. The difficulty is to record it in such a way as to ensure that the super-sensitive microphone will not register it as thougli it were a volcanic eruption or a land- slide. The finely adjusted mici-ophone was placed over the dinner-table o:l the set where Loretta Young, Grant Wither^, O. P. Heggic and Emma Dunne were 61nicd. Only after many tests was Iho final recording carried out, when the director lookid and listened to the rcSult in the private projection-room. There was no mistaking it. The sound of crunching celery, the stripping of the sfi-ings from it and the breaking-off of tbe leafy top which had so eluded the experts—all was heard perfectly. Thus celery experts will at once recog- nise it for the genuine sound, and be intrigued by the comic effect when they hear it in the picture. Why Raymond Hatton Ones Left the Movies. Raymond Hatton, whose make-up ability ranks only slightly lower than thi'.t of the late Lon Chancy, once gave up working for motion inctures because of make-up. He was wearing a beard during the filming of a picture, some fifteen years ago, mid the artificial whiskers caught fire. Hatton's face was horribly burned, and he had to give up work for more than a year. He underwent a painful skin-grafting operation, and during the long recuponative pcriod^-actually about, a year—he was. of cour.sc, unable to tako any active part in the doings of the theatre or the screen. He ret'urned to the films after an un- sncccssful attempt to make a living on the stage. Because of the unfortunate accident, he had harboured a' prejudice against the cinema, and had resolved that he would never again fare the camera. But he w^^s not a Sensational success in the tnivelling stock company which was the only acting job he ha<l been able to obtain, although it wa< some time before, at the persuasion of his wife, he swallow-ed his anii-niovio prejudice and became one of the famous Keystone Komedy Kops. His first dramatic part came in "The Whispering Chorus," which Cecil R. De Mille directed, and this was followe<l by several highly successful comedy iTiles. 'J'hese he alternated later with serious parts, and he now stands as one of the few character actors at home in both kinds of role. He. has another imporfant part in 'The f;hnlleiige." the .framat-ic Lila Lee- Sidney Blackmer story which is one 61 First National'* early releases.