Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1930)

42 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD May 10, 1930 THE SHORT FEATURE MGM Jumps Short Product to 62 and Plans Two New Groups With the number of its scheduled short features for 1930-31 increased to 62 comedies, novelties and other short subjects, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is preparing lor a 60 per cent expansion of its activities in this field. MGM made 38 short features this last year. Group additions are headlined by 12 Burton Holmes travel subjects and eight Hal Roach “Younger Set” comedies. Burton Holmes, noted as a travel lecturer more than 20 years ago, will present subjects diversified in locale under the title, “Around the World with Burton Holmes.” Holmes’ six Sunday evening illustrated lectures in the big auditorium of Carnegie Hall, New York, last winter, were complete sellouts, with standing room. They’re Our Gang Alumni The Hal Roach “Younger Set” series is a direct outgrowth of the success of Our Gang pictures. Some of the players of the “Younger Set” are alumni of Our Gang school, now grown up, and from 15 to 19 years of age, while the average age of the Gang is about eight years. Members of the “Younger Set” are Dorothy Granger, Mary Kornman, Gertie Messinger, Grady Sutton, David Sharpe and Mickey Daniels. The other new season MGM short feature releases comprise eight Laurel and Hardy comedies ; eight Charley Chase comedies ; eight Our Gang comedies; eight “colortone revues”; six dog comedies; and four tworeel novelty subjects, in addition to 104 issues of the Hearst Metrotone News. The Laurel-Hardy, Charley Chase and Our Gang comedies will be the same in number as last season’s releases. These comedies are all-dialog films, and are to be produced in several foreign languages as well as in Eng lish. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy 'as a comedy team have won an unusual number of first-run bookings in the last few months. “The Brats,” for example received equal advertising space with the feature, “The Ship from Shanghai” at the Capitol theatre. New York. Trained Bloodhounds and Bulldogs “Hot Dog,” the first of the talking dog comedies, was shown at the Carroll theatre, New York, with “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” and two others, “College Hounds” and “The Dogville Murder Mystery,” have been completed, under the direction of Jules White and Zion Myers. Six comedies with trained bloodhounds, bulldogs and other canine actors will be released during 1930-31. The present season’s “colortone revues” included “Mexicana,” “From Broadway to Heaven” and “The General,” and eight of this type are planned for the new year. In the novelty group of new season shorts are two features with music: “The Song Writers’ Revue” and “Gems of M G M,” together with two sketches, “The Rounder,” a comedy with George K. Arthur and Dorothy Sebastian, and “Copy,” a short newspaper drama. New Film on the Mining of Sulphur WASHINGTON. — The mining, distribution and uses of sulphur, a mineral of great economic importance,. are visualized in a new two-reel educational film just completed by the U. S. Department of Mines, Department of Commerce, in cooperation with a large producing company. SCAPITOL B'WAY at 5l»t ST. Maior Edward Bowes, Mana 'np Director Midnight Picture* The fint all-talking picture ever filmed on the high »ea»! The first picture to bring to you ell the thrills of hurricanes, muliny and drairt* . that make it as different as it is great entertainment 1 Jf etro-Gold w pn -May er’a The SHIP SHANGHAI with a great oast LOUIS VTOLMEIM CONRAD NAGEL, HOLMES HERBERT. KAY -10HNS0N. CARMEL MYERS' ^ Hal Roach’s great comedy team— STAN LAUREL .OLIVER HARDY In their new ALL TALKING, LAUGHING eensatlon— BRATS STARTS TODAY 3 GREAT SHOWS IN ONE! New York ’s Biggest Entertainment Buy! YASHA BUNCHUK conducting the CAPITOL CRAND ORCHESTRA Hearst Metrotone Netps Speaking of short features ■ — as we are quite apt to do on this page on the slightest occasion — here is further evidence that the public also is speaking more about them, and so is the theatre manager. Note how the Capitol on Broadway played Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy last week with space almost parallel to the other attractions. The MGM comedy stars were seen and heard in “Brats,” alltalking picture, of course. This attention to the short product is an increasingly important factor in theatre management in this era of sound. KINOGRAMS NO. 5600 — Navy’s flying circus performs far out at sea off Virginia — -Pope’s bronze train takes its final journey to Museo di Roma— Track stars clash in Penn’s big meet — Recipe: 20 tons of dynamite and one extinct volcano — Girls at Wellesley College hold regatta. KINOGRAMS NO. 5601 — Communists under police guard, stage May Day rally with 15,000 participating— Burn airplanes in Government test — Champion^ Dutch Smith and Georgia Coleman show how to improve your diving — Ten thousand youngsters salute Mussolini — Delegates return from arms parley PARAMOUNT NEWS NO. 79— Seven thousand po lice guardians of New York parade— Forty thousand ton Atlantique sea giant is launched at St. Nazaire, France — Colorful villagers of Esthonia hold seed festival — World’s largest clock in Jersey City has face lifted to meet new daylight saving schedule. HEARST METROTONE NEWS NO. 261— New York’s “Finest” march in police parade — Sonnen berg, wrestler, downs Count Zarynoff in Boston — Buster Keaton officiates at mike in MGM broadcast— Fleet of 133 fast motorboats race from Albany to New York City — French youngsters get married but it’s a mock affair — New records set at track meets. HEARST METROTONE NEWS NO. 262— Spanish royalty welcomes Zeppelin — Geishas of Tokyo welcome spring at Toshima Park— Bullfighting is made painless with new form of ancient sport — United States delegates return from peace conference MGM INTERNATIONAL NEWSREEL NO. 74— Lindy’s mother soars with him on first leg of trailblazing trip to South America — Lipton launches yacht in new try for America cup. Army flier adorns California state capitol with wreath of smoke— Spring in Russia sets circus school humming — 318 convicts lose lives in prison fire MGM INTERNATIONAL NEWSREEL NO. 75Rough spills mark Maryland Hunt Club’s steeplechase— Records are shattered as 120 outboards bounce in Hudson River race — New York “Finest” hold their smartest police parade — College athletes set new track and field marks — Suzanne Pollard is. crowned apple blossom queen at Winchester, Virginia Congressmen are thrilled by air maneuvers of plane carrier’s fliers. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEL NO. 34 — 320 perish in prison fire — Shamrock V. 1930 Lipton challenger, takes first plunge — Lindy, off for South America, takes mother with him to capital— Yankee boy steers Cambridge to win over Oxford crew— Girl speeds down five-mile log flume in thrilling ride — India sends famous zoo biggest herd of babv elephants. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEL NO. 35 -—Fifty thousand see college stars clip records at Penn relays — Evolution of police as “sky cops” shown at New York parade — Hail beauty queen of south at apple blossom festival in Virginia — Students fight on grease-smeared but in Massachusetts Tech paddle rush — Navy fliers shield bie plane carrier — Sonnenberg, wrestler, blasts Zarynoff of Russia. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEL NO 36 — Hail return of naval deleg?tes— Moon blankets sun as eclipse darken lone Coast town — Crowds kneel as holy images pass in church parade in Bruges— -Don native garb in huge rally for Child Health Week — Welsh rugbv team beats France — Police army cows 60,000 May Day Reds. SOUND NEWS NO. 38 — Mormons celebrate centenary with sacred church pageant — Nation unveils monument to fearless pioneer woman at Ponca City, Okla. — French oo-la-la on motorcycles— Rhode Island patrols step out in fancy drill — Catholic pilgrims sail for Carthage for Eucharistic Congress — New York’s police defenders, 7,000 strong, parade. PATHE SOUND NEWS NO. 39— Navv arms pact delegates are welcomed home — Alfonso XIII meets German Zeppelin on brief visit — President Edgerton of National Associaton of Manufacturers discusses employment — Picked pupils of Saint Mary’s school in San Antonio do some snappy Scandinavian exercises — U. S. Sea hawks fight air war for congressmen. PATHE NEWS NO. 38— Planes of aircraft carrier repel sky foe in mimic attack — Thousands of Mexico Ci tv children take part in athletic festival — Record of 133 miles in 3 hours and 25 minutes is set in outboard race from Albany to New York— Police march — 7,000 of them — in New York’s parade— British college boys stage steeplechase on foot — Track heroes are crowned.