Broadway and Hollywood "Movies" (May - Dec 1930)

HOLLYWOOD MOVIES Dorothy Knapp, celebrated beauty of Earl Carroll’s "Vanities” and one-time Miss America, is Pathe’s leading woman in ' Tinder the Cock-Eyed Moon,” the Si Wills-Bob Carney comedy vehicle recently produced by Fred Lalley, under the supervision of President E. B. Derr. Miss Knapp, whose last appearances on Broadway were in "Take It Easy” and "Fioretta,” recently completed work in "Whoopee” with Eddie Cantor. She is the second member of the "Fioretta” company to appear in Pathe comedies. Lilian Bond, now a featured member of the cast of "Launa,” Arthur Hammerstein’s musical comedy, made her screen debut in "Go Easy Doctor,” which featured Louis Simon and the late George LeMaire. Dorothy’s about the shapeliest maiden on the circuit today, and has a fine quality to her voice as a result of training. In her Pathe comedy, Miss Knapp is playing a sheriff’s daughter who is the "sweetie” of the cowboys, played by Carney and Nills. The featured comedians wrote this two-reeler which is being directed by Wallace Fox. The best photos ever made of Miss Knapp were produced by the Whiteley Studios, Inc. The world’s most expensive sneezes have been, according to a London dispatch to the New York Tribune, located at Elstree, Hertfordshire, the center of the British motion picture industry. These particular sneezes are superinduced by hay fever, which is epidemic at present in the district, and when they occur in the midst of talking motion picture scenes, which they frequently do, they are estimated to cost $250 each, this being the expense of retaking the shortest possible length of film. Waite Hoyt, who’s appeared in the movies, and who also pitches for the Detroit Tigers, recently lost a suit against him, and Selma Waldman, actress, is that much richer — $1,074.95. Seems he hired her when he went in vaudeville, went around a while, and then the act bust up. J. Holrood Reece, who published Miss Radclyffe Hall’s novel, which some misguided souls tried to suppress, "The Well of Loneliness,” voiced, in Paris, a protest recently against the action of the American actress, Willette Kershaw, in producing at a Paris theatre what he terms a pirated dramatic version of the novel. The story, as is well known deals with the unfortunate type of woman whose sexual inclinations lead her to companionship with those of her own sex. Mr. Hays has barred it from movie production here. Barbara Stanwyck, (the former Rubye Stevens of Flatbush, Brooklyn) and her husband, Frank Fay — both of them stars of the stage and screen — were known as model married couple of Hollywood, Calif. Hard luck hit them recently. Barbara fell downstairs and is paralyzed. Fay, stricken with appendicitis, faces operation. Jack Donohue, after a more-than-strenuous season on the stage with Lily Damita in “Sons o’ Guns,” became dangerously ill, was compelled to retire from theatricals, and died rec^ptly. More interesting items will appear in the January, 1931 edition. ■ ■■■■ ■■■■ , , , , KATHRYN CRAWFORD is a pic-otis creature on the lot— but tit home she has the Universal sex appeal.