The Film Daily (1930)

THE |3unday, July 6, 1930 •SB&Ok DAILY Latest Reviews of New Short Subjects 11 SOUND ! "The Voice of Hollywood" jJTiffany Time, 6 mins. Regular Thing Robert Woolsey, as the "announcer," is among the principal points of nterest in this edition of Tiffany's flollywood roundabout. Woolsey, >eing a good comedian, injects some ;xtra values into his job. Othervise it is the regular routine, the elebrities caught on this occasion ncluding Al St. John, Nancy Welord, Johnny Walker, Mary Carr, le Meglin Kiddies, Lew Cody, Jwen Lee, Raquel Torres, Buster Ceaton and Cliff (Ukelele Ike) Edvards and a few more. "Screen Snapshots" With T. Roy Barnes Columbia Time, 10 mins. Good Highlights of this issue of Hollywood snapshots include glimpses of he RKO sales convention and sevral shots of Mei Leng Fan, China's bremost actor, being received by tfary Pickford and other film celebrities. Also in the passing array re Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, \rthur Lake, Maurice Chevalier, uster Keaton playing baseball, Dor)thy McNulty and several more. T. oy Barnes does the master of ceremonies with credit, and the short as whole is a very interesting num)er of its kind that ought to go good with audiences generally. "The Home Team" \udio Cinema Time, 8 mins. Entertaining Industrial This is the simple story of an in:ident in the life of a telephone linenan and his loyal family who are :ver ready to give up the comforts of lome life in the interests of service. K cast of four people is headed by 3onsuela Flowerton and Gordon unleavy with two child actors tumid in an excellent performance. Some nteresting shots of what takes place t a busy telephone switchboard are ntroduced and help to put over an sntertaining story. Although the hort is an industrial, it bears no aint to reveal this fact to general udiences. "Hungarian Goulash" Educational Time, S mins. Clever Cartoon A cleverly contrived number, with he classic music of Franz Lizst nade to provide harmonious accom>animent for the lively antics of the Terry-Toon creations. Anybody »ho enjoys cartoon comedies will jet a great deal of hearty satisfacion out of this one. In addition, because of its music, even the high>rows should find it hard to resist he affair. Pathe Audio Review No. 26 Running Time, 10 mins. This Audio is about average. Here and there it slumps, notably when it attempts to record some of the musical tastes of America. There are a number of Norfolk, Va., cuties garbed in bathing attire who look better than they can sing. The remainder of this part of the Revue presents a oneman orchestra and the University of Cincinnati quartet doing a little unimpressive singing. "Sailor Take Care" is devoted to glimpses of the lighthouse on Gibbs Hill, Bermuda, while the Audio Revue orchestra plays "Asleep in the Deep" and Brunelli's "Turmoil." The photography here is beautiful, as it is in the last number, which deals with Temple Emanu-El, New York, one of the finest religious structures in this country. This subject is prefaced by a talk by the Rev. Dr. Nathan Krass, rabbi of the synagogue and is accompanied by the Temple Emanu-El choir singing the Hebrew Hymn "W Shorn' Iu," composed by Joseph Schorr. W. C. Fields in "The Golf Specialist" RKO Time, 24 mins. A Knockout Here is a scream, not only for golf bugs, who will just about go into hysterics over some of the travesties of the game performed by W. C. Fields, but for the mass and class of amusement fans. Fields, as a con man at large posing among the environs of a select country club, brings the laughs from the minute he walks in with his fuzzy mustache. On the links, with a sappy caddy, he works the comedy up to riotous proportions. A very flirtatious femme also injects some pep into the routine. She happens to be the wife of the house detective, which helps to complicate matters for comedy effects. Despite the length of the picture, it maintains such a consistently amusing tempo that no audience is likely to tire of it, unless it's from so much laughing. "Humanettes" with Benny Rubin RKO Time, 9 mins. Fair Novelty Title of these shorts made by Frank Newman is derived from the fact that only the heads of the performers are visible, being projected through holes in a drape, with the bodies and stage props appearing in miniature, something on the order of a marionette show. The idea has possibilities, but nearly everything depends upon the material used. This edition consists of several revue type numbers delivered by Benny Rubin and assistants. The items are short and sweet, while the novelty angle will find its measure of appreciation, Al St. John in "Two Fresh Eggs" Pathe Time, 20 mins. Spoiled Comedy One of the Follies series of comedies. It is considerably handicapped by the intrusion of dance and song numbers that not only are colorless and routine but fail to help along the humor of the piece. Al St. John's talent as a comedian seems to be wasted in this hybrid of a comedy. Jimmy Aubrey leads the supporting cast, which includes Ernest Young, Helen Patterson, Billy Taft and Ella Van. The story concerns two friends whose search for employment takes them to a night club where the one gets a job as a waiter, the other as a chef. They mess things up prettily when they try to pass themselves off as experienced help. Clark and McCullough in "A Peep on the Deep" RKO Time, 21 mins. Good Travesty Aboard Ship Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough haven't such a hot line of material in this production, but a pair of this caliber can be depended upon to always give more or less satisfaction. On the present occasion the comedy boys, arriving at a pier just a few minutes before the boat is due to sail, are mistaken for the ship's Captain and one of his officers. They are rushed aboard with much celebration, the boat being set to attempt some kind of a record, and their comedy navigating as well as general sport with the passengers is good for a fairly sustained streak of laughs. After the boat has been on the water for 35 days without anybody knowing where it is, and just as some of the passengers are going so daffy from hunger that they start eating life-savers for doughnuts, the Statue of Liberty is sighted and it develops that the ship has made a new record by circling the globe in 35 days. There's plenty of action, some feminine snap and a little bit of almost everything in the Clark and McCullough line to make the whole affair generally entertaining. The production is a Louis Brock number directed by Mark Sandrich. "Campus Favorites" Pathe Time, 9 mins. Entertaining Sportlight A Grantland Rice Sportlight that is fairly entertaining. Offering a number of college songs, it is likely to appeal chiefly to the college student and to alumni. The songs in this short are hardly representative. The only colleges represented are Cornell, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania. The interest is helped along by some crew, football and baseball shots. Toby the Pup in "The Museum" RKO Time, 7 mins. Peppy Cartoon A few new wrinkles, as well as a good round of merriment of the usual sort, are provided in this new cartoon creation produced by Charles Mintz. Toby is ordered by a roughlooking individual to polish up the exhibits in a museum. He goes at his work to the tune of some jazzy music which results in the various statues, skeletons mummies and other dead numbers being brought to life and cavorting all around the place. An ingenious and neatly executed short of this type. Ought to please very nicely. George K. Arthur and Karl Dane in "Men Without Skirts" RKO Time, 20 mins. Fair Doughboy Comedy While there are a few highly funny spots in this burlesque of doings at the front, some of the stretches are rather dull, so that the proceedings as a whole just about keep to the fair level. Arthur and Dane are not quite as effective talker comedians as they were when they stuck to pantomime. They haven't developed a punch in their voices as yet. In this short they do a Lowe-McLaglen over a French vamp, fighting over her, framing each other in order to cop the girl, and winding up with a third doughboy walking off with the dame. Some of the gag lines miss fire because of ineffective delivery, and for the main laughs the picture must depend largely upon various bits of horseplay, burlesque and other action. There is enough entertainment value in it, however, to make the grade. "Screen Snapshots" with Claud Allister Columbia Time, 10 mins. Fine Celebrity Lineup An unusually strong and interesting lineup of important celebrities is included in this edition of Coast snapshots, with the typical stage Englishman, Claud Allister, doing the master of ceremonies role in amusing style. Among the personages included are Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, John Gilbert, Ina Claire, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Cantor, Marion Davies, George Bancroft, Andy Clyde, Nick Stuart, "Babe" Kane, Mack Sennett, Dorothv Sebastian, Neil Hamilton, Karl Dane, George K. Arthur and Lew Foster. A wide enough selection to cover any group of fans.