The Canadian Independent (Feb 1, 1938)

Feb, 1, 1988 THe CANADIAN ISSUED FOR THE BENEFIT OF We /NDEPENDENT THEATRE OWNERS en ee ae We all know that a prophet is without honor in his own country, now Walt Disney tells us that being a celebrity doesn’t help him to impress the wife. It must be that when the great take off their shoes at the fireside their clay feet leave tracks on the carpet. O Oo O As a result of the much-protested and discussed Mae West-coffee broadcast, all of Mae’s jokes have been ruled off NBC programs in spite of the fact that MANNER not MATTER seems to have caused the tempest in the coffee cauldron. Mae should have her nasal innuendoes clipped out with her adenoids as her air-ad-annoyed many listeners. Oo O oO Dolly Tree, MGM designer, predicts that the day of the exotic in feminine fashions is giving way to the “Dairy Maid” type of freshness, but we lay a bet that the old tune remains the same, “Oh may I go with you my pretty maiden fair.” 0 oOo oO Warren William used his day off recently to play dentist to a fine old oak tree on his Encino estate. Together with a tree surgeon, he filled cavities in the tree, using six tons of Portland cement. I must hand it to the sturdy oak when I think of the fuss I make in the dentist’s chair. No doubt that’s how great reputations are made, —six tons of filling! = Oo re) oO During rehearsals of ‘‘The Girl of the Golden West” a gag was pulled on Jeanette MacDonald. A carriage arrives for the lady, and instead of a stately white prancer, a crude imitation of Spark Plug is discovered between the shafts. Jeanette pulled off the blanket covering the animal to discover Nelson Eddy playing the head part and Leo Carrillo the rear end of the horse. The lady said the casting was O.K. by her. 0 oOo oO Dorothy Lewis, fan mail secretary to Carole Lombard, has received a letter from a Pennsylvania fan who proposed first to Carole and enclosed a note to the secretary saying, “If Carole won’t marry me, will you?” Well, even playing second fiddle to Carole is still some fiddling, but, I wonder what kind of a bow the gink would make. Oo. 0 -6 Percy Westmore gave Bette Davis a genuine Whistler etching as an “award” for the person easiest to make up . . most etchings go to the girls easiest to make up to. O O 10) Priscilla Lane got herself a lavish bouquet of orchids from Wayne Morris when she rang him up and said “guess who” and he hung up on her. At that she got off easy. I’ve often been tempted to send flowers to the shrinking “guess who” violets, but my thought was lillies. 0 0 ‘oO And talking of shrinking violets, Kay Francis is threatening dire things if a friend who purloined-a verse she wrote and had published annoymously, reveals her authorship. Is Kay trying to hide the best that is in her or only the verst? o oO -O Franchot Tone once failed in a college screen test. The winners of that same test, on the other hand have not made the grade in movies. And may that be a consolation to the legion of others who fail in school tests. They don’t always prove what they set out to demonstrate. Many pees of the Phi Beta Kappa key never seem to find the ee ee ee INDEPENDENT PATRONIZE THE ADVERTISERS WHO MAINTAIN IT. =, “Strip Tease” Takes to Hudson River Driven out of New York City by License Commissioner, Paul Moss, the strip-tease type of burlesque has retreated to a boat on the Hudson River’ from which out-of-bounds vantage point it will present 35 Eves in the process of shedding their last fig leaves in the cooling river winds. There may be a_ worthwhile suggestion in that to the City of Toronto. How about the Lake Ontario breezes for the overly-tepid Casino show ? NEW THEATRE FOR NORTHERN ONTARIO A new theatre is being proposed in Fraserdale, Ont. which is about 60 miles north of Cochrane. If the plan is successfully promot ed, this will be the most northerly theatre in the province. Beane Be TS Seen, Northern Electric Mirrophonic Sound R.C.A. Photophone Sound Systems ’ . 60 ew rom Es OO = ony, : hee” J at, 4% . : H nae Lo ee . ° *. Page 7 Winnipeg Film | Board Meets At the annual meeting of the Winnipeg Film Board of Trade the following were elected to office: J. H. Huber (20th-Fox), president; D. Griesdorf (UA), Vicepresident; A. Wolfe (RKO), Safety Committee; F. L. Vaughan (Empire-U), Public Relations Committee. Warner Oland Ill The mysterious disappearance of Warner Oland from the 20th Century set. where “Charlie Chan at the Ringside” was being filmed, was later explained when it was found that the famed actor was dangerously ill. ws Following his disappearance, the cast was paid. off, and work on the picturé suspended... +8: Oland is now in a hospital awaiting a_ serious . operation. Systems Celotex Acoustical Materials Motiograph Projectors Mazda Lamps Vallen Curtain Controls & Tracks Ashcraft Arc Lamps Canadian National Carbons Neumade Booth Supplies = ; ee. 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