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

Marguerite Churchill in Paramount’s “ Girl Without a Room” “ MOVIES ” gomery is starred; the supporting cost includes Madge Evans, Ted Healy, C. Henry Gordon, Nat Pendleton, and Ruth Selwyn, The story deals with adventures on a transcontinental bus. Bus pictures are the vogue; Columbia's making “Night Bus ” and Universal has just finished “Cross Country Cruise ” with the pretty blonde star June Knight. During the filming of ‘'Henry the Ache,” the Meyer Davis-Van Beuren Musical Comedy in which he plays the title role, Bert Lahr lost five founds within three days, the result of wearing a one hundred pound padded costume. This RKO Radio comedian is now convalescing at his hotel and agrees that the role of "Henry” certainly was an Ache ! Donna Mae Roberts, oj the Warner-First National outfit, and Beatrice Roberts oj Fox Films, are doing very well, thank you, with their respective companies. Both hope to get a featured role soon; neither are related to that grand old man of the early silent days, — Theodore Roberts. Ray McCarey, who has been directing the two-reel Meyer Davis-Van Beuren Musical Comedies in New York, arrived recently in Hollywood where he continues his picture work. While in the East he handled the megaphone for "Hizzoner” with Bert Lahr; "The Strange Case of Hennessy” with Cliff Edwards, and others. Ralph Bellamy will jump into his third successive leading role when Columbia Pictures placed in production “ Murder at Rexford Arms”. This story which is a vivid, gripping drama, was written and prepared for the screen by Harold Shumate, well known author and scenarist. W'alter Plunkett, costume designer and style creator for the RKO-Radio Pictures, recently gave a national broadcast on how it's all done, — on the air with Jimmy Fiddler, Hollywood’s tattler. He designed the costumes for "Little Women”, and an interested listener was the young lady who worked with R. H. Macy and Co. to design modern adaptations of those old-time dresses . . . Good looking blondes with perfect figures, — girls who are young and can dance, who have good voices and pleasant personalities, are still in demand at the Hollywood picture lots. Consult the Casting Office for information, or send in your photo for publication, —to the 20th floor, 1450 Broadwav, in care of "MOVIES.” Tay Garnett, who recently returned from Germany, where he had been associated for a time with Ufa, will direct “ China Seas” for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This will be an Irving Thalberg production, and present plans call for Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in the leading roles. Crosbie Garstin is the author. W'alter Huston, who has just completed a starring role for RKO Radio Pictures in the Fort Myer Cavalry post story, “Rodney” mayreturn to the New York stage. He is reported to have been engaged by Max Gordon for the leading role in Sidney Howard’s drama tization of the Sinclair Lewis best-seller, "Dodsworth.” Huston, who has had success in Hollywood. last appeared on the New York stage in "The Commodore Marries” in 1929. His recent screen roles have been in “Ann Vickers" with Irene Dunne and "The Prizefighter and the Lady” with Myma Loy and Max Baer. The Joel Feder Studies, Inc., of 15 West 37 th St., New York City, have been photographing a number of motion picture and stage stars recently. The cameramen there specialize in fashion and commercial work, and have won a lot of favorable comment for some of the beautiful girl models they have given employment to in pictures. Clemence Dane, w-hose famous play "A Bill of Divorcement” served as the vehicle in which Katharine Hepburn surprised audiences with her new and dynamic personality, has arrived in America to assist Delos Chappell, Colorado drama enthusiast, in the production of "Love Comes of Age." A new, strikingly good magazine called “ The News Reel,” — (not a movie publication), has made its appearance on the newsstands; it sells for $.15 a copy and is a “wow” for its courageous treatment of the fast moving panorama of the tide of affairs, — politics, religion, art and sex, we find today. The cover is by Russell Gale, well known New York designer and portrait painter. Blind residents of Brooklyn who have made use of 8,500 theatre passes distributed during the past year by local motion picture ( Continued on page 42.)