The Film Daily (1930)

zjS^Hk DAILV Friday, July 18, 1930 © Latest Hollywood Happenings O = Coast Wire Service = 13 Technicolor Shorts Completed Since January Production activity of Technicolor for the first six months of 1930 has not been entirely confined to features. During this time 13 two-reel subjects were photographed for five different companies. They are "Shakespeare Was Right," "Girls We Remember," "College Capers," "Russian Rushin' Around" and "Old Seidelberg" for First National; "The Wedding of Jack and Jill," "Bubbles," "Holland" and "The Lonely Giglo" for Warners; "Dancing Bear," "Parisian Nights" and "Chinese Flower Boat" for Tiffany, and "The Clock Revue." Greta Garbo's Brother Cast in Paramount Film Greta Garbo's brother, Swen, is now appearing in Paramount's first all-Swedish talking picture, "Where Roses Bloom," which is in production in the company's studios in Paris. Others in the cast include Karen Swanstrom, Marghita Alfven, Uno Hennings, and Nils Wahlbom. S. Adolfson is directing with Robert Kane as supervisor. Menjou in English Return of Adolphe Menjou to roles in English-speaking productions will be marked by his appearance in "Morocco," in which Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich are co-featured by Paramount. Josef Von Sternberg has been given the directorial assignment. Raymaker to Direct Rin-Tin-Tin Herman Raymaker has been selected to direct "The Lone Defender," all-talker serial starring Rin-Tin-Tin, it is announced by Nat Levine. Production will start shortly. Columbia Completes Cast Signing of Ernest Wood and Max Asher for "Sweethearts on Parade" completes the cast which includes Alice White, Lloyd Hughes, Marie Prevost, Kenneth Thomson, Ray Cooke and Wilbur Mack. In "Mothers Cry" Two players assigned to roles in "Mothers Cry," which will soon go into production at First National studio, are Evalyn Knapp and David Manners. Breese in "Little Cafe" Edmund Breese has been signed by Paramount for the role of a general in "The Little Cafe," new Maurice Chevalier picture, directed by Ludwig Berger. A Little from "Lots" _ By RALPH WILK £)ENISON CLIFT has sold "Sin Becomes Fashionable," his newest play, to Al Woods, who also produced Clift's "Scotland Yard" and "The Woman Disputed." Paramount has renewed its option on Clift and he is finishing "Deadline," an original, which will serve as a vehicle for Nancy Carroll. Our Passing Show: Carl Laemmle, Carl Laemmle, Jr., Sigmund Romberg entertaining Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern and B. Von Brincker at a luncheon. Oliver H. P. Garrett is all smiles these days. S. M. Eisenstein, the noted director, selected Garrett to work with him on his first story for Paramount. Eisenstein made his selection after having seen "Street of Chance," which was based on Garrett's original story. + * * Eddie Cantor dictated a wire of congratulations to the two Chicago endurance flyers just after they came down. "Great stuff," h& wired, "if my wife asks where I was last night, say 1 was with you." * * * More Passing Show: Harry Edwards entertaining Ernst Lubitsch, Lothar Mendes and Jack Buchanan at a luncheon at the Embassy Club; Peter Shamroy visiting Universal on business; Chief Holtzendorf showing Chief of Police Steckel of Los Angeles points of interest at the First National studio. * * * Philip Klein and Edward T. Lowe, Jr., have written a book, "The Devil's Workshop," which deals with present-day Russia. It is an indictment of Soviet Russia and will soon makes its appearance. * * * Some Basils — Rathbone, Woon, Smith. * * * Harry Delf's prolific pen is not bothered by the hot weather. He has recently completed writing a play, which he will produce in New York during the coming season. He has also received an interesting offer to act in a forthcoming New York play. Delf wrote "The Family Upstairs," "Atlas and Eva," "The Unsophisticates" and other opuses. He will also have "The Beloved Six" produced in the fall. John LeRoy Johnston, Universal's new studio publicity director, certainly knows his little old mimeograph machine. He has publicized and exploited pictuhes for 18 years and is familiar with all phases of theater and production publicity. We first met "Johnny" when he was writing sports for the St. Paul "Daily News" and we were doing the same job for St. Paul "Pioneer Press." * * * Here and There: Carl Laemmle, Jr., playing host to Louis Bromfield, Sidney Howard and Efe Asher at a luncheon; George Batcheller, Buddy Shyer and Andy Anderson conferring at Tec" Art; Jack Cohn and Alec Moss chatting at Columbia. * * * In a recent issue of a popular humorous magazine, Anne Caldwell, who has written numerous musical plays, noticed the wheeze about the child asking its mother who put the perfume on the flowers, to which the latter replied, "the gardener, dear, I saw him spraying them this morning." This was originally written by Miss Caldwell in 1915 for the Victor Herbert operetta, "Lady of the Slipper." * * * James Seymour, scenarist and director, now with Pathe, is blossoming forth as a speaker. His introduction of Gloria Swanson and other celebrities at a recent Wampas meeting attracted much favorable attention. Seymour is a graduate of Harvard and was with RKO and Columbia before joining Pathe. * * * Tony Gaudio, who photographed "Hell's Angels" and many other important pictures, has returned from a vacation in sunny Italy and is handling the photography on "Little Caesar" at First National. Edward H. Griffith's picture, "Holiday," which he directed for Pathe, will follow "So This Is London," at the Carthay Circle. "Holiday" has been highly lauded by New York critics and has also attracted much attention among various studio officials who have seen the picture. * + * Buddy Fisher, formerly a master of ceremonies in the East, is doing much picture work. He has been working in "Adios" and "The Little Cafe." Chevalier is Honored by French M. P. Academy The French Academy of Motion Picture Art has just elected Maurice Chevalier an honorary member of its organization, known as L'Academie du Cinema Francais. Chevalier will receive a gold medal signifying his election. t i First Summerville Short Now in Work at "U" Al Ray has begun direction of the first of the Slim Summerville series of comedies which are being produced ii under the supervision of Ed. Kauf 'I man with Albert DeMond as asso1 ciate producer. "See America Thirst" j is the name of the Universal short ,k which has Pauline Garon as leading , ladv. ' Added to "Barber John's Boys" Johnny Larkin, James Neill anJ Charles Sellon have been added ta| the cast of Warners' adaptation o the Ben Ames Williams story, "Bar ber John's Boy". Grant Mitchell ha^ the leading masculine role and th supporting cast includes such names as Lucille Powers, Philip Holmes, Dwight Frye, Joan Blondell, J. Far-' rell MacDonald, Robert O'Connor and Otis Harlan. Joseph Jackson did the adaptation, while Alan Dwan directed. Adapting "Honor of Family" Lenore Coffee has been assigned the adaptation of First National's "Honor of the Family." Walter Huston will portray the role in this film that Otis Skinner played in the stage vehicle. Added to "Ladies Must Play" Harry Stubbs and Shirley Palmer have been added to the cast of Columbia's "Ladies Must Play," which includes Dorothy Sebastian, Neil Hamilton, Natalie Moorhead and John Holland. Raymond Cannon is directing. Claire Luce Gets Fox Lead Claire Luce, blonde stage actress, has been assigned by Fox to make her screen debut in "Up the River," which John Ford will direct. Hoxie in Dude Ranch Biz Jack Hoxie, former western movie star, who dropped out of pictures with the advent of the talkers, has plans under way for invading the dude ranch business. He has already filed corporation papers to this effect.