The Film Daily (1930)

Timely Topics A Digest of Current Opinion —€)— Playwright Compares Silents With Talkies T APPEAR to have a conservative type of mind where new forms of art are concerned. Any one who works in forms of art himself is always rather reluctant, I think, to believe in new developments, but the silent film has, with reservations, converted me to its merits, more as a power dealing with life than as one dealing with fiction. It has an uncanny hold upon you while you are actually watching it, but you go away, I'm afraid, without taking much with you as a rule. The talking film appears for the moment to have taken the place of the silent film. I don't think, however, that it will kill the silent film, and I hope not, because certain quite definite effects which you can create on the silent film seem only to be blurred when dialogue is introduced. , John Galsworthy Code as Example of Self-Government CUCH willingness on the part of the industry to conform to American standards of life and thought is an excellent example of self-government . . . This does not mean that all the virility and interest will be taken out of our talkies. They shall not necessarily turn into "milk and water" productions. Flint (Mich.) "Journal" —JZ0*% DAILY Friday, June 6, 1930 A Y5e»V FILM FACT A Ehf" DAY vision stations There are 30 tele operating regularly in this country. Along The Rialto with PhilM. Daly H( OLLYWOOD CELEBS are going in for this philosophy racket in a large way looking through our mail for film chatter these days, we find nothing but pearls of opalescent luster sparkling with Aristotelian incisiveness, clarity and Olympian wisdom spear these samples Bradley King sez : "The strained and conscious effort defeats its own purpose, and immures the artist against any inspiration that might have led him in the right direction" Leo McCarey notes picture production today is developing a new school of faster tempo which "is essentially one which eliminates the unnecessary and the digressive in the impulse to move forward with the development of the story as quickly as possible" and Howard Estabrook avers that "it is a sign of the new trend in drama that audiences Will no longer accept a villain who is wholly unregene rate" we are now going out to look at a Mickey Mouse cartoon, if you don't mind (T1ABRIEL HINES, orchestra conductor at the Branford in Newark, gave his original overture, "Wars of America," before an audience of over a thousand music-lovers, and copped rafts of newspaper space We have just been reading a copy of "Kinobladet," a new Norwegian trade paper, but learned little to report to you, dear reader At the opening of the "Garrick Gaieties" at the Guild theater we lamped students of the drama such as Henry Stitzer, John Green, John Fingerlin, Sam Sax, Phil Cohen, Neville Fleeson, Fannie Brice and Ginger Rogers And a grand reunion was staged by Paula Gould and Ginger Rogers' mother in the Paramount stude restaurant they both worked for Fox on the Coast yars and yars ago, where Ma Rogers was scenario chief A/TURRAY ROTH is slowly recovering from a thrilling flying trip in Stanley Rauh's flivver which took them to the Warner convention in Atlantic City Murray swears they didn't hit the ground once probably the flivver knew it was on a HIGHway Walter Strenge, prexy of the N. Y. City Cinematographers' Ass'n, long with Francis Ziesse is being entertained royally in Hollywood by the lens fraternity This office has launched a Hatless Club, sponsored by a coupla of the staff who have been using hair-restorer without any appreciable results J7RED NEWMEYER, after directing "Queen High" for Paramount, is back at the Longisle stude where he will direct "The Best People" And over at Astoria they are giving a build-up to Alyce Johnstone, who looks like a comer and who seems to have pretty much of everythin' she is an ex Carrollite, ditto Ziegfelder, and has made her talking debut with a lotta elan (ritzy word, that) If Stepin Fetchit isn't in town, then another russet-tinted gent is stealing his stuff he was riding royally up the Articulate Artery, known as Broadway, in a chocolate-colored car with a chauffeur to match, waving nonchalantly to the traffic cops as he rolled by * * * * ATURRAY ASCHER, the Ad-Vance Trailer gent, is training for the Golf Tournament and reports he is hitting around par 75 figuring, of course, on his usual handicap of 20 strokes Oswald is now in the Fox Movietone newsreel, but this time it is Sir Oswald Mosley, the well known British radical George O'Brien, the big open-space man, is now making "Fair Warning" for Fox Harry Tierney, composer, is consistently knocking his piano keyboard for a row of royalty checks Herbert Berg is now credited as ye editor of Columbia's house organ, the "Beacon" * * * * p/LM GOLFER'S LINE: "Count your strokes, you li-ah." EXPLOITETTES A Clearing House for Tabloid Exploitation Ideas C MANY HAPPY RETURNS Best wishes and congratulations are extended by THE FILM DAILY to the following members of the industry, who are celebrating their birthdays: June 6 Charlie Murray Lester Williams Joyce Braintree Ticker Ballyhoo for "Caught Short" A GOOD ballyhoo was worked by Ray Deusern, Loew's State, Los Angeles, during the run of "Caught Short." Arrangements were made with the Western Union, who supplied two high speed stock tickers for the lobbies. The automatic machines continually ticked off — "Your admission tickets buy a million shares in laugh stocks at Loew's State. See and hear Polly Moran and Marie Dressier get rich quick on the stock market and then take a tumble with the crash in 'Caught Short,' their first comedy talkie. It's a howl of hilarity." — Fox "Now" Children's Matinee Boosts Attendance (")N the Saturday preceding the ^>^ opening of "Montana Moon," in cooperation with Servey Stores, the Lincoln, Cheyenne, Wyo., gave a special children's matinee. Nearly 1,800 youngsters jammed their way into his 1,250 seat house. They saw a dandy show, had a wonderful time and as they passed out each one was handed a ticket which admitted him free, if accompanied by an adult, to see "Montana Moon." —Fox