Boy's Cinema (1933)

BOY'S CINEMA Every Tuesday All letters to the Editor should be addressed to BOY'S CINEMA, Room 163, The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London, E.C.4. " Renegades of the West." Tom Bighy, Tom Keene; Mary Faw- cett, Betty Furness; Dr. Faw'cett, Roscoe Ates; Curly Bogard, Rockclift'e Fellows; Rankin, Carl Miller; Blackie, James Mason; Dow ling, Joseph Girard; The Kid, Roland Southern; Dolores. Josephine Ramous. " Deception." Jim Hurley, Leo Carrillo; Dickie Allen, Dickie Moore; Bucky O'Neil, Nat Pendleton; Lola Delmar, Thehna Todd; Joan Allen. Barbara Weeks; Leo, Fiank Sheridan ; Nick. Henry Armetta . Ivan Stanislaus, Hans Stcinke. FiJming Secret Indian Ceremonies. Though Rex, the "Wander Horse,'' as the star, will he the chief figure of interest in I 'olumbia's production, "King of the Wild Horses," there is a unique feature in the screening for the first time in motion-picture history of the sacred rituals of the American Hopi and Navajo Jndian tribes. For years these tribes have so jealously guarded their religious performances troin public ua/.e that universities, museums and film companies in America have in vain sought permission to re- cord them. Even large sums of money have failed to tempt the Redskins, and only now arid again has some tourist managed with difficulty to .-nap a scene with his camera. But no complete re- cord was possible. Columbia's success was due to the fact that Earl Haley, director of "King of the Wild Horses" has for a long time been an intimate friend of four of the fifteen chieftains of these tribes. Even after he had obtained permission, how- ever, there was much bickering among the medicine men before the director was allowed to film the sacred " Butterfly Dance," an important ceremony to sup- plicate the gods of rain. King Kong's Nose. Jimmy Durante's famous nose is a mere sniff compared with that of the chief player in RKO-Radio's film, " King- Kong,'" which was completed a few- weeks ago. The nose of the gigantic ape in this film, from the story by Edgar Wallace, i- two and a half feet long and measures two feet across tit the nostrils. In the production the giant ape becomes in- fatuated with a beautiful girl and runs amok through the streets of New York, wrecking buildings and an elevated train, until it is killed by an aeroplane ■while making a last stand on the top of a huge building. The film is, in fact, a real thiiller. Hiring Out Their Cars. People in Hollywood who have old- fashioned oars have no need to be ashamed of them. Indeed, the older their buses, the better. The reason is that there is nearly always a demand in films for cars of April 22ihI, 1933. NEXT WEEK'S GRAND NUMBER. JOHN WAYNE IN " THE HURRICANE EXPRESS." Danger on the Iron Road, piracy from the Air I Whose was the hand that dealt disaster to the L. & E. Railway? Don't miss the opening episode oi this high- speed serial drama packed with thrills. " ATLANTTDE." An officer of the French Foreign Legion discovers a lost city in the desert and is taken captive by its mysterious inhabi- tants. A story of tense drama and thrilling rights, starring John Stuart, Brigitte Helm and Guslave Diessl. "THAT'S MY BOY." A brilliant yonng iootballer agrees, at a big price, to give up his girl, the daughter of a millionaire, but he only makes his sacrifice to save his friends lrom ruin. Starring Richard Cromwell and Dorothy Cromwell. " ON YOUR GUARD." The 'Frisco Kid left prison and swore to go straight. In the great lumber country he befriends a family of orphans and Ushis back when crooks try to rob them of their homestead. Starring Richard Talmadge, Bobby Nelson and Dorothy Burgess. different and antiquated types. In the reference library of the Paramount Com- pany, for example, there is a special file dealing with motor-cars only, con- taining the year, model and condition of each vehicle and a photograph of it. The owner's address is also noted, so that he can be quickly reached when desired. Fifteen of them were called upon re- cently to allow the use of their cars for the Paramount picture, "Pick Up." star- ring Sylvia Sidney and Oeorge Raft. Most of the owners of the cars are artistes who take part in crowd scenes, and they are able to increase their weekly wages by charging from one pound to twenty-five pounds a day, according to the rarity of the automobile they possess. Creighton Chaney's Racing Bike. If you are a cycling enthusiast you may be interested to know that there are a number of Hollywood artistes who pedal along the roads for health and fun during their "off " hours from the studios. The latest recruit to join the cycling band is Creighton Chaney, who has treated himself to a "racer" of tfce most up-to-date type. It is equipped with a special sprocket, under-slung frame and lowered Vmdle-bars, and is capable of a speed of twenty-two miles an hour. The World's Loudest Voice. Martin Shook—his name ought really to be Shout—claims to have the loudest voice in the world. He makes his motion-picture debut in "King of the Jungle," but he is heard only and not seen, for his face does not once appear iu the film. This curious condition was necessary, for all he had to do was to imitate the roar of a lion. The studio needed some- one for that purpose as the decoy in the African sequences of the picture. Animal imitators by the dozen presented themselves in response to the film com- pany's appeal, but none of them, after being tested, proved a suc^ss. It was then that somebody suggested sending for Martin Shook. He, it appears, spends all his spare time—when he is not preventing forest fires—hiking the lulls. He believes in making full use of his powerful lungs by shout- ing and roaring to his heart's contest. He times his echoes, and freqently has beard his own voice coming back to him three or four minutes after he has sent a roar thundering on its way. Fellow-workers in his camp have heard his voice even when he was several miles away. Well. Shook came, to the studio as re- quested, and at the first roar almost wrecked the delicate microphone appara- tus But his voice deceived the lions, anyway, and they were lured into the pit prepared for their capture. Now Shook lias joined the small but select group in Hollywood, who can be certain of a film part without being seen on the screen. A Different Bite this Time. It might have been better to have said to Clyde Beatty, "Come and have a ' snack,' " when reminding him the other day as a guest that supper-time had arrived. Beatty is the famous animal trainer, forty of whose animals will be seen in the new Universal picture, "The Big Cage." During the past few years he h.is often been bitten and clawed by the lions and tigers in his care. He was at a party in Hollywood, where a buffet i was being served in the dining- iooiii, and his host remarked to him with till the good intention in the world, "Clyde, go into the other room and have a bite." (Continued on p«?e 27.)