Broadway and Hollywood "Movies" (Jan - Aug 1934)

“ MOVIES * 5 Hail the New Year! HAPPY NEW YEAR, everybody! Here’s hoping that 1934 will bring to you and to yours a veritable outpouring of success, happiness, and a bountiful measure of good health. That is the wish of the editorial and business staff of “Movies” magazine which is soon to enter on its fifth year of service to the screen fans of America. The years through which we have just passed have been tough ones, but we can look back and laugh at the hardships which are now but memories. True it is that we have many fights and trials ahead.; life wouldn’t be worth the living if we didn’t. Every sign on the horizon portends a revival of interest in the world of the stage and the screen; prosperous months may not be on our doorsteps, but certainly they are at a more definite stage of arrival than the proverbial “just around the corner.” “Movies” magazine will continue its fight for fair play to all concerned in the movie game. We are just as much opposed to a star making a hog of himself lor herself, as the case may be) in the salary and contract question, and setting a bad example to the rest of the players on the lots, as we are to the high-handed and thug-like tactics with which one or two of the major film companies have dealt with the smaller and less fortunate independents in the past. We shall continue our fight for civic righteousness as far as the movies can be used as a vehicle or weapon to win a conflict. 1 his was the only one of all of the film magazines which for nearly four years waged a war against the iniquitous system of the prohibition laws. We shall continue to wage that fight for decency and sobriety, and it is with no small sense of pride that we realize we stood alone among all of the film magazines in partaking of the repeal victory. We extend our congratulations to Marion Davies, Anna May Wong, Dorothy Arzner, Doretta Young, Tom Mix, Phyllis Haver, Kenneth Thompson, Alexander Gray, Vilma Banky, Anita Louise, Virginia Valli, Pauline Starke, Francis X. Bushman, Peggy Shannon, Chester Conklin, Mona Smith, Kay Francis, Bebe Daniels, Diana Wynyard, Harry Carey, Carl Laemmle, Marjorie Gateson, Nils Asther, Oliver Hardy, Cary Grant, Leon Waycoff, Roscoe Ates, Colin Clive, Merle Tottenham, Conrad Veidt, Ralph Graves, Randolph Scott, Raymond Griffith, Charles Morton, Greta Nissen, Marcia Manners and Tallulah Bankhead upon their birthdays this month. —THE EDITORIAL STAFF. CONTENTS (DECEMBER-JANCARY combined) June Knight 1 Oil Painting by James Lunnon Christmas Celebrants 4 Birthday Congratulations! Hail the New Year! 5 The Month’s Editorial June Knight 9 By Dr. Abbuh Wretlaw Three Little Pigs. Part 1 10 By Walter W. Hubbard The Smoky City Welcomes Dick Powell 11 By Julia Civin Marriage on Approval 12 By Pricilla W ayne This Business of Directing 15 By Norman McLeod “Dee-lighted !” 17 Three Pictures oj the Month Complexion Complexes 19 By June Vlasek Repeal Recipes 20 By Tom Collins “Get That Venus!” 21 Ernest Truex , Contest Judge Balooriaey ...22 Film Fun Supreme Reviews and Pre-views .24 Five Stage and Screen Stars Art Supplement 26 48 Recent “Movies” “Dress Up, America!” 30 Fashions: by Claire J. Spieker The Month’s Mail 32 Sorted by James Cagney The News Reel 33 The Truth About Hollywood The Casting Office 36 Your Photograph Made Free! Splits and Splices 37 Engagements, Marriages , Divorces Broadway’s Best Bets 38 Reviewing the “Legitimate” Vol. IV, No. 6 “MOVIES” January, 1934 Application made for transfer of second-class entry from the post office at New York, N. Y., to the post office at Mount Morris, Illinois. Ten cents a copy; $1.20 per year’s subscription. 2 years, $2.00. Canada and foreign subscriptions, $3.00. Published monthly at 404 N. Wesley Ave., Mount Morris, III., fur Alavanla Publications, Inc. I. W. Cllman, President; Walter W. Hubbard, Vice-president and Secretary, suite 2010, 1450 Broadway, New York City. Telephone PEnnsylvanla 6-6930. Alma R. Roberts, Editor; C. J. Spieker, Art Editor. Copyright 1933 by the publishers; all rights reserved. Not responsible for loss of unsolicited mss., interviews, drawings of photographs. Western Representative: Mary A. Roberts, 2819 Leeward Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. Branch office, care of Kable News Co., Mt. Morris, III. Address all communications for publication to the New York office, 1450 Broadway, 20th ft. N.Y.C.