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Sunday, February 23, 1930
PRODUCTION IN THE EAST
WHO'S WHO AND WHAT'S WHAT IN GREATER NEW YORK STUDIOS
PflRflMOyNT ACTIVIIY IN EAST REACHES NEW HIGH
With Paramount making over onethird of its entire season's product in the East, the Long Island studio is now at the highest peak of production reached here in several years.
Two features, "Young Man of Manhattan" and "Dangerous Nan McGrew" are now being made there, in addition to numerous short subjects. Chief among the latter is the first of the screen presentation units, "Honeymoon Express," to be made in four reels, starting at once. __
Casting for "Queen High, an elaborate musical production to be made entirely in Technicolor, is now going on, with Ginger Rogers and Charles Ruggles the only players so far announced. This will be started shortly after the completion ot "Young Man of Manhattan, which Monta Bell expects to complete by next Wednesday. ^.^^.^a
Another feature to be started shortly is "Too Much Luck,' starring Maurice Chevalier, on which Hobart Henley is now conducting rehearsals Other large productions n prospect are "The Sap from Syracuse " based on the stage play, for whTch Charles Ruggles has been mentioned, also another Jaborate
Short Shots from New York Studios
By HARRY N. BLAIR
pRED RYLE, make-up chief at the Fox studios on Tenth Ave., sprung a surprise on his associates when he returned from a trip down South with a brand new blushing bride. The little lady's name is Lucille Keifer and she hails from Georgia, where they grow the peaches.
Ed. Cordner, location manager at the Paramount Long Island studios, leaves today for an indefinite visit to the West Coast.
Q. EDWIN STEWART, chief recording engineer at the Paramount Long Island studios, has worked out a visual control system using colored tags on a blackboard, by means of which he can tell at a glance just which stages the sound men are operating on.
musical featuring brothers.
New Comic Team in
Louis Brock Series
The latest pair of screen comedians to burst upon the screen horizon is Tony Mardn and Nick Basil, who will be presented by Louis Brock in
^?hfte°aUTh?ch will be billed simply as "Tony and Nick," have already completed their f^rst picture, "Barnum wTs Wrong," under the direction of Mark Sandrich.
Musical Short Completed
"Footnotes, 'one of the most elaborate short subjects ever made at the Warner Vitaphone studios, was completed this week, under the d.recTion of Murray Roth. Oscar Grogan, Columbia recording artist and Poliy and Peggy Page head a large cast of players recruited from the New York musical comedy stage.
Stage Players in "No Account" A cast consisting entirely of Broadway stage players was used for "The No Account," a Vitaphone Variety, just completed at the Warner studio in Flatbush. Heading the cast is Russell Hardie of "The Criminal Code" and Josephine Hutchinson of the Civic Repertory theater. Edmund Joseph directed.
The weather man gave the "Dangerous Nan McGrew" unit a good break when he staged a real, oldfashioned snowstorm last Saturday. As soon as the snow had settled, Mai St. Clair moved his company out on the Paramount lot where, with the aid of the scenic department, a section of the Canadian woods soon arose, boasting real snow for Helen Kane and Stuart Erwin to wallow about in
M. S. Bentham, through whose offices many players have been started on a successful screen career, will leave for the Coast next week to close up several deals now impending there.
"A Russian Rhapsody" is the name of a Vitaphone Variety just completed at the Warner studios in Flatbush, under the direction of Edmund Joseph. Kutzetnoff, bass singer with the Philadelphia Opera Co., and "La Palina," of radio fame, are featured.
The production of "Young Man of Manhattan'' is going ahead at top speed under the direction of Monta Bell. The other day, with over 100 extras employed, Bell managed to shoot both the Princeton stadium and the World Series scenes, using the same crowd in each and, before knocking off at six o'clock, also finished up that part of the action which takes place in the apartment of Shorty, played by Charles Ruggles.
RCA RUSHING NEW SOUND STUDIO TO COMPLETION
With the acquisition of a five story property adjacent to the Gramercy studios at 145 E. 24th St., RadioVictor is now rushing to completion what will be one of the most modern and complete sound studios in the East.
These alterations costing close to $500,000 will mean an addition of over 100,000 .square feet of space. Three complete sound stages will be available to independent motion picture producers.
In addition to the stages, about two-thirds of the space will be given over to the recording of Victor phonograph records and motion picture "dubbing." According to Frank D. Ormston, studio manager, the plant is expected to be ready for operation within six to eight weeks.
Herbert Copelan, manager of the Brooklyn Strand theater, last week paid a visit to his old friends at the Warner Vitaphone studio, where he was an assistant director before deciding to enter the theater end of the business.
When, after an absence of over one year, Eddie Buzzell had occasion to call Murray Roth at the Warner Vitaphone studio, he was surprised to have the studio operator recognize his voice. Hidden away in the telephone room on the lower floor of' the studio, Marita Sweeney, who has been at the job for five years, although denied a sight of the players, has come to recognize them by the sound of their voices.
The performance of Charles Ruggles as (you've guessed it) a slightly tipsy reporter, in "Road House Nights," won a place among the best of the month in the listing given in the current issue of "Photoplay." This Hobart Henley production, a product of the Long Island studios, will be shown at the Paramount next week.
MacKenzie Ward, English stage actor, has been given a contract by M-G-M, through Mike Conley, of the M. S. Bentham offices. Ward completes the cast of principals engaged for "The High Road," which will shortly go into production at the West Coast studios.
Helen BrodeHck and Lester Crawford are the featured players in a Vitaphone Varieties comedy sketch, "Nile Green," which has just been completed. Miss Broderick, for many years a vaudeville headliner, is now appearing in "50 Million Frenchmen," the stage musical.
Tommy Reilly, who refereed the Dempsey-Tunney championship classic, has been signed by Paramount to act in the same capacity in the fight sequence of "Young Man of Manhattan."
Ray Foster and Ed DuPar, cameramen at the Eastern Vitaphone studio, had a clam eating contest last Tuesday, at the sea food dinner given studio employees by Eddie Buzzell, Ann Codee and Frank Orth. Ray Foster won the contest but was unable to report for work the next day.
Eddie Buzzell, upon completing the short comedy which he made independently at the Ideal studios, left for an extended vacation trip to Havana and points south, accompanied by his wife, Ona Munson.
Frank Zucker and Charlie Harten, cameramen, were assisted by .Johnny Clemens and Ben Witzler in filming "Barnum Was Wrong," the Louis Brock production. George Oschniann, for-merly of the RCA Gramercy studios, was monitor mtin on the same picture.
EASTERN PRODUCTION tS SLOWLY BEING REVIVED
Production in the East is slowly being revived by the different companies with various studios having already complied with the tightened fire laws. Paramount and Warners have not let down on production, the former having two pictures in work and three more lined up for immediate production. Warners have been turning out an average of three \'itaphone shorts weekly for some months.
The Radio-Victor studio is now undergoing extensive renovation and will be ready to operate in about two months. The DeForest studio is not active and the same applies to American Sound Studios and Recording Laboratories of America which plans to resume production shortly. The Cosmopolitan studio,' in New York, owned by M-G-M, have been idle for over a year with no prospect in sight for production. Tests are exclusively being made at the Fox studio on Tenth Ave. Some production is going on at the Metropolitan studios in Fort Lee, N. J. and the Ideal Studios in Hudson Heights, N. J. "
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