The film daily (1937)

• • • WHO'S WHO IN HOLLYWOOD MAURICE H. CONN TRAVIS BANTON President of both Ambassador P i c tures. Inc., and Conn Pictures Corp. Native o{ Concord, N. H. Educated at Rhode Island State College (B.S.), Brown University (A.M.). and University of Southern California (graduate work). Managed theaters in Concord and Providence. With Mascot in both production and distribution. Established Ambassador Pictures in association with Sig Neufeld in 1934. Just 30, has already produced 22 features. In 1935, took over Neufeld's interest in Ambassador, added a series of Frankie Darro action pictures under the Conn Pictures banner. Later, Kane Richmond was added as Darro co-star. In 1936, established an additional series, starring Pinky Tomlin and Toby Wing. Also took over the Reliable Studios which he since completely remodeled. MAX REINHARDT Paramount studio fashion designer. Bom at Waco, Texas, he migrated to New Mexico at the age of six years and later to New York City. Spent t'wo years at Columbia, where he claims to have flunked everything offered. Next year, was at Art Students League, followed by a year in the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. Quit school to join the Navy at outbreak of War. Spent training days at Newport and for most of war was on a tiny submarine patrol boat. First job as fashion designer was with Mme. Frances in New York. Soon branched out for himself. Spent a year in Paris. Introduced to Walter Wanger by Will H. Hays, whose doctor sold the idea of getting Banton, a friend, into the film designing end. First worked on costumes for "The Dressmaker of Paris," 10 years ago. Makes an annual trip to Paris for two months. MANNY WOLFE Warner Bros, director. Born in Baden, Austria, on Sept. 8, 1873. Educated at Untergymnasium. Worked in a bank for a time. Began dramatic education under Emile Burde and later en1 tered Vienna Conservatorium, where ! he remained until | began his first professional career at the Stadt Theater in Salzburg in 1893.. Otto Brahm, of Berlin Deutsches Theater, saw him, result: a contract. In 1903 he left Brahm to start his career as a director. Success came, and he vras appointed director of the Deutsches Theater. He built two theaters and traveled to foreign countries, England and France included, to produce. In America he did "The Miracle" for Norman BelGeddes. He was the teacher of many directors and actors to find later fame in U. S. films, including Ernst Lubitsch, William Dieterle, Emil Jannings, Rudolf Schildkrauf. Joined Warner Bros, and produced Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1935-36. Writers' staff head at Paramount Hollywood studio. Born May 26, 1904, in Bialystok, Russia. Came fo United States in 1906. Graduated from University of California, writh B.A. degree in 1927. First job was with Jones and Green, New York theatrical producers. Was company manager for "The Squall," "The Trial of Mary Dugan." Manager, Isadora Duncan dancers. Went to Hollywood in First National studio reading department, and became the head in 1930. In 1931, was associate producer of the New York production of "Louder, Please," by Norman Krasna. Member of editorial board at Paramount in 1932, then assistant to Jeffery Lazarus, board head. Next, assistant to Bogart Rogers, writers' staff head and his successor in 1935. Once studied for the Rabbinate at Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, for three years. Married to the former Adele Jerome, dancer. Likes golf, enjoys music. 176