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

96 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD June 7, 1931 w THE SHORT FEATURE Pathe Completes Fourth of 52 Short Comedies in Eight Series One-fourth of Pathe’s 52 short comedies for 1930-31 have been completed in sound, dialog and music, in getting a running start on the short feature product, which is t,o be released under eight different brands, with John C. Flinn having direction of the expanded schedule and Bill Woolfenden supervising. In announcing the program to the sales conventions, E. B. Derr, executive vice president in charge of production, called attention to the fact that five directors and eight writers are busy on the short product. The directors are Wallace Fox, Robert DeLacy, Monte Carter, Frank Davis and Fred Guiol. The writers are Betty Scott, Hugh Cummings, Walter DeLeon, Luther Yantis, J. Kiern Brennon, Dan Kussell, Sam Lewis and Ray Hodgson. Pathe will deliver six Checker Comedies with a diversified content; six Manhattan Comedies, with the more sophisticated Broadway background; six Melody Comedies, in which girls, songs and dances will intersperse comedy; six Campus Comedies, with a collegiate atmosphere; six Rodeo Comedies, in a Western background; six Follies Comedies of various types; eight Rainbow Comedies, designed for colorful settings, and eight Whoopee Comedies, dealing with the younger generation. Among the song writers who are contributing their work to these pictures are Ted Snyder, Henry Sullivan, Abner Silver, George Green, Mack Gordon and Mort Harris. Pathe has included, and says it intends to include in future productions, wellknown comedians in the 52 productions. The pictures already finished are: “Two Fresh Eggs,” a Folly comedy directed by Monte Carter, with continuity by Robert Fellows. The cast: A1 St. John, Jimmy Aubrey, Helen Patterson, Ernest Young and Billy Taft. “Half Pint Polly,” a Rodeo comedy directed by Robert DeLacy, story by Betty Scott, dialogue by Hugh Cummings. Cast: Tom Tyler, Mona Ray, Hank and Tom MacFarlane, champion juvenile riders and ropers of America; Marcia Manning, Charles Clary, Bobby Dunn, Harry O’Connor, A1 Smith and Bud Osborne. “Hearts and Hoofs,” a Rodeo comedy directed by Wallace Fox. Cast: Mona Rico, Cornelius Keefe, Fred Warren, George Rigas, Hector Sarno and Zoila Conan. “Live and Learn,” a Manhattan comedy directed by Fred Guiol, story by Mo-nte Carter. Cast: Gertrude Astor, Addie McPhail, Ed Dearing, Maurice Black, George Towne Hall and David Durand. “America or Bust,” a Checker comedy directed by Frank Davis, story by Paul Gerard Smith, continuity by Hugh Cummings. Cast: Daphne Pollard, Jimmy Aubrey, Tempe Pigott, Lee Shumwav, Buster Slavin, Bobby Dunn, Bobby Hale and Norma Leslie. “Ranch House Blues,” a Rodeo comedy directed by Robert DeLacy, dialogue by Hugh Cummings. Cast: Mildred Harris, Don Douglas, Harry Woods, Nick Cogley, Billie Burt, Empire Comedy Four and Tom Mahoney. “Carnival Revue,” a Whoopee comedy directed by Wallace Fox, story by John Cantwell. Cast: T. Roy Barnes, Ruth Hiatt, Ray Hughes, Frank Sabini and Eddie Clark. “The Boss’s Orders,” a Folly comedy directed by Monte Carter. Cast: Gene Morgan, Arthur Hoyt, Addie McPhail, Gertrude Astor, Dick Stewart, Ninette Faro and Meeka Aldrich. “Big Hearted,” a Checker comedy, directed by Robert DeLacy. Cast: Harry Gribbon, Vivian Oakland, Dorothy Gulliver, Ray Hughes, Sammy Blum, Marcia Manning, Dick Stuart, Fred Spenser, Myrna Belzner, Bessie Hill. “Swell People,” a Manhattan comedy directed by Wallace Fox. Cast: Harry Gribbon, Dot Farley, John Hyams, Leila McIntyre, Marcia Manning. “A Royal Flush,” a Manhattan comedy directed by Frank Davis. Cast: Hugh Allen, Norma Leslie, Ethel Davis, Bessie Hill, Jimmy Aubrey, Vincent Barnett, Duke Martin, William Von Brinken. “Mind Your Own Business,” a Melody comedy, directed by Monte Carter. Cast: Robert Agnew, Dorothy Gulliver, John Hyams, Mary Foy, William Eugene and Guy Voyer. “The Beauties,” a Rainbow comedy directed by Frank Davis. Cast: Ruth Hiatt, Dick Stewart, Charles Kaley, Bessie Hill, Harry Masters, Billie Gilbert and Muggins Davies. Pathe executives have assigned ace cameramen and sound recorders to these productions, all men who work on Pathe’s feature productions, including such cameramen as John Mescall, Dave Abel, Dewey Wrigley and Edward Snyder. First string sound engineers also are used, including Charles O’Laughlin, Ben Winkler, Charles Younger, Cliff Stine, Ted Lester, D. A. Cutler, Homer Ackerman and T. A. Carman. “Strange as It Seems ’ Is Title of New Series Universal Color Shorts “Strange as It Seems,” the cartoon series by John Hix, which appears in numerous newspapers throughout the United States, will be put into picturized form by Universal. There will be thirteen one reelers in the Hix series and they will all be filmed in color. Newspictures HEARST METROTONE NEWS No. 269.— Ne mooring gear for sky liners is tried out by tl Los Angeles' — Poor little lambs lose mammas roundup season opens in Oregon — Thirty-five tho sand East Side youngsters hold May party Central Park with Sheriff Farley as host — Senate Hiram Johnson attacks naval pact — Senoritas t their stuff in Havana — New “Steve Brodie” div 155 feet off Brooklyn, Bridge. HEARST METROTONE NEWS NO. 270— Gi Sonnenberg, wrestling champ, defeats Diglan Frenchman, but only after getting rough treatmei — Jumping frogs recall days of ’49 when quail sport made famous by Mark Twain is revived lil Calavera County, Cal. — Here’s the proper cou dress, as shown by official wardrobe maker in Lo: don — “Red’’ Cagle, famous gridiron star ruled oi of West Point when marriage is disclosed, gets jc on New York Journal staff — Mussolini rouses Fascii hosts to fighting frenzy in address at Florenc Italy. KINOGRAMS No. 5608. — Sikhs of India make b demonstration at Lahore in “All India” processic of volunteers — Bert White leaps from plane fii miles in air — Oldtime craft find new refuge i:!| Wayside Colony at Long Beach, Cal. — Three-mi bridge costing seven millions, links east and we at Vicksburg, Miss. — U. S. honors navy airmc who hopped ocean eleven years ago in NC-4Michele LaSpina, 82, models likeness of Garibal 100 times lifesize — Two hundred yards in 12 2, seconds is whippet record in sand speedway raceSolemn mass of Eucharistic Congress is held ruins of Carthage, Africa. KINOGRAMS NO. 5609 — Royalty of Sweden attem exhibition of ultra-modernistic in applied art Stockholm — Tiny planes of boys amazingly like re thing and fly, too — Brother Raymond Duncan g0‘ salt-hunting in New York to emulate Gandhi ar India’s salt strike — London’s sun-bathing society busy seeking health despite cold — James Brow miner, and his wife move into Holyrood Palace Edinburgh when he’s made lord high commission — Tiniest of planes, only four feet high, flies Brooklands, England — Drivers and starter are : monkeys in this race at Venice, Cal. — Mussolini d lies enemies in address to 200,000 in Florenc 1 taly. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEL No. 42J San Francisco wins in gorgeous annual Festival Roses — Inspect rock salt mining 2,000 feet dov for cave-in danger — Student nurses get covet diplomas in colorful ceremony at Presbyteri; Hospital in New York — Mongolians worship hu silken Buddha in rare mystic rites at Kumbui Tibet — Braw Laddies meet in opening games Braemar, Scotland — “Devil dancer” at Madr; India, dives through hoop with only inch to spare Plane hooks on to airship in review of fleet 1 President Hoover. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEL No. 43, Colonial Guards of Virginia escort Lafayette’s b scendants — Bert White unconscious 28 minutes 25,000-foot drop in parachute — Hero crew brings rammed tanker after ocean crash — Hot dogs heard again when Coney Island opens — Sikhs vo support for Ghandi cause at annual conference Daring girls defy gravity in thrilling skyscrap feats — Army blimp drags aquaplane riders in ni speed thrill. PATHE SOUND NEWS No. 45.— Tiny speedbot stage thrilling regatta — Men of Dartmouth d' bobbed breeches for freedom of the knees — E Doughnut and Coffee group of Salvation Arr celebrates fiftieth anniversary — Young Savoya giant 8 feet tall and weighing 414 pounds is work greatest — Charming girls show dances of Old Ca fornia — President inspects America’s sea and ; forces. PARAMOUNT NEWS NO. 87— Junkers D-20< world’s largest landplane and 150 feet from tip tip, takes off for Berlin from Dessati, Germany U. S. Coast Guard cutter sets out on hunt f icebergs in steamer lanes of north Atlantic American Gold Star Mothers in France — Two the sand cops in Berlin go into strenuous school tra ing — Dogdom’s fleetest vie in whippet race — Mo< of proposed dirigible embodies triplane features California fairest join in Festival of the Roses Chinese oarsmen race in “dragon boats” — Came; man takes ride to film steeplejacks 550 feet abo streets of Blackpool, England.