Exhibitors Herald World (Oct-Dec 1930)

54 EXHIBITORS HERALD -WORLD November 29, 1930 W THE SHORT FEATURE Animated Comic Is Films' Gift To Generation: Chicago Tribune Taking issue with those who would belittle the importance of the animated cartoon in motion pictures, the Chicago Tribune asserts editorially that "the animated comic is the moving picture's distinctive contribution to the generation in a new art of the fantastic." The Tribune's editorial, entitled "An Animated Mouse," was occasioned by a series of articles by readers in the Vox Pop column, which, as the writer puts it, "carried several disparaging remarks about the animated cartoon in the movies, setting the mice and cats down with a passing word of contempt." The substance of the editorial is as follows : "The animated cartoon combines fun and fancy in the best tradition of the humor of English speaking people. It is derived from the nursery and delights appreciative adults, proving that true fancy is universal. Sound has added to its range, and it should be irresistible. "The very necessities of its production invest it with comedy. The animation resulting from the multiplication of drawings is delightful parody of motion. Childhood's fairies seem to touch the animals, flowers and the gnomes and hominiform creatures who awake and ride, dance and disport themselves in this world of fantasy. They are unsentimentalized fairy stories, it is true, and so much better. The two-gun man uses the steer's skeleton as a xylophone and the more Newspictures tender-minded swain the stems of daisies as the strings of a harp. "Dance has a new form when animated cannibals come out of the jungle. Horsemanship in escape and pursuit, with elastic and disjointable mounts and riders, gives the plains and the mountains a new mastery of the saddle. "It would be a pity if this world of fancy were lost because of the indifference of people who support the movies and in part account for their productions." Bobby Jones Series For Warner Starts On Coast in March (Special to the Herald-World) HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 28.— The series of 12 one reel Vitaphone shorts, under the title "How I Play Golf," which Bobby Jones will make for Warner Brothers, will be produced at the West Coast Studios, starting early in March. HEARST METROTONE NEWS NO. 216— Metrotone flies aboard DO-X, giant German, liner — Here's how German girls avoid that "future shadow" — Dutch children like fresh air schools — Japanese village hit by music fever — Household pets on parade at animal show in Madison Square Garden, N. Y. — King George leads England in war tribute at the Cenotaph. KINOGRAMS NO. 5659 — French and English pay homage to war heroes on Armistice day — "Red" Cagle makes professional football debut with New York Giants — Hoover's cabinet bids farewell to Secretary of Labor Davis as he goes to take Pennsylvania Senatorial seat — Coast guard rescues 36 from steamer stranded off Montauk Point, N. Y. — London sees Lord Mayor's "Pageant of Empire" show — Pets of every description entered in New York animal show — Jim Londos, mat champion, floors Garibaldi in New York. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEL NO. 94 — Soldiers, civilians and Franciscan monks help serve hot meals to Manhattan's jobless — -King George salutes Unknown Soldier at British Amistice fete — English dependencies represented in Lord Mayor's show in London — Auto racer rips through fence at Arizona state fair — Garibaldi loses title wrestling match to Londos. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEL NO. 93 — New York needy wait in rain to get food from police — Hill 85 feet high in heart of Seattle beingleveled at cost of more than a million — -Runner from Michigan State wins six-mile classic in New York — U. S. salmon hatchery in Auburn, Wash., produces record batch of 54,000,000 — Iowa man wins national cornhusking title in Kansas — N. Y. Americans beat Montreal, 1-0, in hockey opener. HEARST METROTONE NEWS NO. 216— Metrotone flies aboard the DO-X — German girls now roll their own — Dutch kids like fresh air schools — ■ Musical fever rages in Japan — Household pets hold convention at Madison Square Garden, New York — King leads Britain in war tribute. HEARST METROTONE NEWS NO. 217— Calvin Coolidge buys first Christmas seals — Liner Mauretania rescues 28 from sinking vessel in mid-ocean — ■ Billiard champ illustrates some fancy _ shots — Record floods sweep towns along Oder river in Germany— Mrs. Hoover guest at celebration of Girl Scouts in New York — Yale Bulldog upset by Harvard in 13-0 football tussle. PATHE SOUND NEWS— NO. 98.— Prince of Wales flies Giant DO-X — Dry czar, Clarence Trne Wilson, greets prohibition foe, Clarence Darrow — Landslide wipes out French town— College divers train on land — Egyptians fete virgin of Nile at CairoMiniature golfer rivals Bobbv Jones — Mauretania saves 28 as rough seas sink doomed ship. U's "Parlez Vous" On 2-Weeks Run in Montreal Princess The first of Universal's Slim Summerville comedies, "Parlez Vous," has played a two weeks engagement at the deluxe Princess theatre in Montreal. This is said to mark one of the very few times that a two-reeler has had a two-weeks run in the Canadian city. Larry Darmour's Toonerville Kids are provided with a fully equipped school while on location for one of their new comedies. The teacher is giving them final instructions before they are to face the camera and microphone. The impish-looking little fellow perched on the steps is Baby Billy Barly, one of the stars of the Radio comedy series. Two Wisconsin Theatres Show Football Pictures Two Fox Midwesco theatres, the Wisconsin in Milwaukee and the Strand in Madison, Wis., are showing pictures of the University of Wisconsin football games the same day they are played. Fox Midwesco has tied up with the Photoart studios and gets the approximately 700 feet of film at no cost. The only charge is for developing. In return Photoart gets prominent mention on the theatres' screens. Showing of the pictures is featured regularly in advertising.