The Film Daily (1929)

THE *« DAILV Tuesday, December 3, 192J Timely Topics A Digest of Current Opinion — €— Hoover Backs Arbitration As an Aid to Industry ARBITRATION of commercial disputes 'in , place of avoidable litigation increases business efficiency by promoting goodwill and mutual confidence. Expeditious, regular settlement of business controversies within industry itself, by its own experts, is fundamental, but machinery is needed to make it effective. Herbert Hoover * * * Calls Talkers Boon to Those Who Don't Care for the Drama TALKING pictures will never, I am sure, take the place of the stage to those people who are habitually in a position to enjoy the latter. But they will mean a great deal to people who are not in that position — and still more to those who never have been. And I think that as they progress they will develop a form which will be interesting to the most sophisticated audiences. Ronald Colman * * * DeForest Finds Talkers Powerful Agency for Peace THE radio broadcast has done much towards establishing a better understanding, a feeling of neighborliness amongst foreign nations. But I believe that sound films will accomplish even more in this direction. The sound picture, the sound newsreel, is destined (in fact has already begun) to bring to the public an appreciation of the real personalities of the rulers of other nations, a kindly feeling of neighborliness and understanding which no other medium, illustrated newspapers, nor the radio, can ever approach. And best of all, the message of the sound picture is not fleeting, not ephemeral. It is permanent, may be repeated indefinitely and everywhere; and at the last becomes an enduring memoir of matchless historic worth and conviction. Dr. Lee DeForest *6 THEIR FIRST JOBS CHARLES (BUDDY) ROGERS paper route on father's paper Along The Rialto with PhilM. Daly, Jr. DOUG FAIRBANKS doing a d'Artagnan is one of the interesting spots in an exhibit at the American-Anderson Galleries Warren Nolan, Uaaaa's bustling publicist, has temporarily gone Hollywood in pursuit of more publicity Adolphe Menjou, after recovering from an appendicitis operation, was able to leave the American Hospital in Paris yesterday Cliff Broughton, who used to manage the late Wally Reid, is now New Yorking on business only..". * * * * Mae Murray, as Bill Shakespeare would pen it, is in our chilly midst, having walked out on Sunny Californy, no less. Listing among "things that never happen," a la Broadway, at least, is a premiere opening at the time specified in your ticket Anita Stewart, who once illuminated many a screen, is about to go personal appearing over the Publix path. Recently Anita went matrimony with George B. Converse, New York and Boston broker iJE !(! 5jC J}» Having gangplanked into this here town, Anita Loos, who gave blondes a literary break, expects to inhale California ozone about Dec. 10 One yarn going the rounds in and around the Big Stem is that Gloria Swanson is trying to sign on the dotted line for "Top o' the Hill," the work of Charles Kenyon of Hollywood, Cal George Sidney has transplanted himself from the wilds of the Talkie Capital to Jamaica, where he is current in the stage hit, "Kibitzer." * * * * Blake McVeigh, of Technicolor, opines there is fame (if not fortune) in store for the producer with the nerve to turn out a collitch pitchur that does not contain a gridiron game in which the hero jumps in and superhumanly wins the fracas singlehanded in the last 20 seconds which reminds us of the little Hebrew player who brought his dad to his first game. After the second play Ginsburg went over for a gain and the crowds yelled, "Yeh Ginsburg gained five yards" but the old man began to cry — his kid lost a foot * * * * Dewey Bloom, well known on Wardour Street and other places, is recovering from a major operation. The kid will be up and about in a few weeks Helen Kaiser, RKO player, walked around on her toes when she was five years of age to show off in front of guests and when she was 15 did the same things showing off to some "pappas" at a Ziegfeld opening Bet British Parliament got a rise out of a recent private screening of George Arliss in Warners "Disraeli." * * * * James V. Bryson, Universal foreign head, did not linger long among the wintry blasts that greeted him upon his arrival in New York a few days ago. He hit out for the warmer clime of Californy R. E. Mclntyre, Paramount chief in the Orient, has left for Vancouver where boats depart for the Far East Ruth Dwyer recently completed the lead in "The Brimming Reservoir" for Visugraphic DECEMBER 3MANY HAPPY RETURNS Best wishes and congratulations are extended by THE FILM DAILY to the following members of the industry, who today are celebrating their birthday : Basil Smith Paul Bern Monty Collins Bl i H UK : —AND THAT'S THAT By PHIL M. DALY SOMEBODY asked us if this n RKO production, "Fire Walker| just placed in work, is the first sh in a campaign to get rid of hizzoni the Mayor. Our inquirer heard th the idea was to tout Duke KahanB moku, the Hawaiian swimming cha: pion, who is in the cast, as the su| cessor at ye City Hall to Our Jimmfl As far as we can gather on unreliable I information, the big idea is to bringl the Hawaii tourist trade to New 1 York, and change Coney Island inw Waikiki Beach. But you can pictu all those fat East Side mommi romping around the beach in shredd' wheat skirts? And welcoming t tourists on the Coney Island boats slipping a wreath of hot dogs arou their necks in place of the Hawaii; wreath of lei? Commercially practical, but poetically punk. The only 'dck we can see in the scheme is that Duke, as Mayor Kahanamoku, coui welcome celebrated foreign visitoi by riding down the Bay to m them on a surf board. * * * Horses, Horses A first-line news sniffer on one the big metropolitan daily rags tol the city editor that he would have a Inside Tip on the races right from a Big Shot who had the real Lo Down on the third gallop that after noon. But the Big Shot later saf it was called off, so the news snifferphoned in to tell his chief. The lat-:ar ter was out to lunch, but the wa[ who took the phone call thought he'j frame the boss, so when he returnei rom his chow he slipped him thj word: "Play Mary Ann." The jokester picked Mary Ann, a ra outsider, figuring a nag with such name couldn't get in the money. S the city idiotor gave his bookie 1 berries. Alary Ann came in at 5 tj 1. Next day the boss patted thj| jokester kindly on the back, handed lim a Cremo in tinfoil, and said: 'Thanks for the tip, me lad, even hough it was phoney." * * * They carried the funny guy out on a stretcher made of copy paper, and put him to bed on a press, and yelled to the press foreman: "Let 'er roll!" am aw iv er; a TEN YEARS AGO TO-DAY Associated Producers deny any outside affiliation. Edward Godal of London here to sign American talent. * * * Goldwyn Picture stock makes appearance on New York curb market. A I * tear. f