The Film Daily (1930)

Friday, July 25, 1930 DAILV 11 f) Latest Hollywood Happenings f) Coast Wire Service =^ "Her Wedding Night" Next Clara Bow Film "Her Wedding Night," revealing the amusing and romantic adventures of a red headed movie star who tries to escape the man, and a song writer whose numerous lady friends make life miserable for him, has been selected as Clara Bow's next screen vehicle. It is based on an Avery Hopwood farce. Direction has been placed in the hands of Frank Tuttle, maker of ••Sweetie'' and "Love Among the Millionaires," and work will start in a week. The adaptation is the work of Henry Myers, Broadway playwright and co-author of "Good Boy." Ralph Forbes, popular leading man of legitimate theater, whose last appearance in a Paramount picture was in "Beau Geste" .several years ago, has been signed as Clara Bow's leading man. •'Her Wedding Night" will mark the debut of Charlie Ruggles in West Coast Studio production. A Little from "Lots" By RALPH WILK Last of "Big Trail" Unit Returns to Hollywood After four months spent wholly on location, Raoul Walsh, Fox director, has returned to Movietone City with his last contingent of players and technicians numbering more than 400. They made the last scenes of "The Big Trail." including a tremendous buffalo stampede, at Moise, Montana. "The Big Trail," which exceeded in cost the $2,000,000 originally budgeted for it, was filmed on locations entailing 12,000 miles traveling. Walsh predicts that the picture will result in stardom for four players: John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, David Rollins and El Brendel. Beyond Victory" in Cutting Room After three months of preparation and two of actual shooting "Beyond Victory," Pathe's all star special directed by John S. Robertson, is now in the cutting room. The master print will be shipped East shortly preparatory to the Broadway showing. Off on Location Howard Higgin and Tay Garnetl have packed their kit bags yesterday and sallied forth into the desert to start operations for "The Painted Desert." The company will follow later and in the meantime author and director will make their headquarters at Tuba City while seeking locations for the new Tathe picture. William Boyd is the star of "The Painted Desert," which also features Dorothy Burgess. Robert Lord, one of the youngest associate producers on the Coast, is supervising four pictures at First National, "Sunny," "College Lovers." "The Gorilla" and "Little Caesar." Lord was a scenarist before becoming a producer. * * * Fred Scott, who was in "The Grand Parade" and "Swing High," has completed his work in "Beyond Victory." He enacts the role of the hero in a tragic sequence and for ihe third time plays opposite Helen Twelvetrees. * * * Walter Lang, who directed "The Big Fight" and "Rainbow," is scheduled to direct three more pictures for James Cruze. L. John "Buddy" Meyers, who handled the sound on "Jmirney's End," has returned from his honeymoon. He was recently married to Miss Theresa Allen of Los Angeles. Meyers is in charge of all the "dubbing" work at Tiffany. * * * Jackson Rose, veteran cameraman, is in charge of the photographic workon "The Lady Surrenders," which John M. Stahl is directing for Universal. Rose photographed "The Big Fight," "Once a Gentleman" and "The Lost Zeppelin." * * * Davey Lee was coaxed into directing a scene for Director Harry Joe Brown, while Brown was called into a conference by executives. The leads were played by Dorothy Revier and Matt Moore and after several rehearsals, Director Lee got what he strived for. The scenes will be used in Screen Snapshots, made by Ralph Staub for Columbia release, * * * Charles Judels declares he has some actor-triends who refuse to buy small automobiles because they cannot get their heads into them. * * * Elinor Mil lord, pretty stage actress who is about to make In i film, debut in "Beyond Victory" for Pathe, has a right to write the leti< i B.A. after her name. Miss Millard was gir< ii Hi is degree when ■I,, graduaU d from the I >><< i reity of California with flic class ol L927. * * * Clarence Hennecke, who wrote 14 original Vitaphone \ arieties, has joined Universal and is collaborating with James Mullhauser on the tot ies, dialogue and continuities for comedies, which will co-star George Sidney and Charley Murray. Universal will make 10 Sidney-Murray iwo-reelers. For weeks, little Sammy Cantor has threatened to appear in a Fanchon and Marco presentation. For weeks, he has been informing us of his plans, but we have been "from Missouri." Thursday, Sammy and Bob Brandeis appeared at Granman's Egyptian and scored a hit — so we are no longer from Missouri. Sa?nmy is a dancing comedian, while Brayideis appears in blackface. Sammy can also be described as a dialectician. Harry Edwards, one of our best little commuters to and from Europe, has returned from a trip abroad. This was his second visit to Europe in six months. He spent a month in London and other film centers. The day following his return, his wife, Evelyn Brent, departed for Alaska on a location trip with "The Silver Horde" unit. As thorough a job of shipwrecking as possible without sending the scaling schooner "Metha Nelson" to the bottom of the Pacific ivas performed by a snutll army of Fox studio carpenters preparatory to filming the climax of Milton Sills' picture, "The Sea Wolf." Then with a curtailed cast, composed only of Sills, Jane Keith and Raymond Hackett, but with a full technical crew, Director Alfred Santell put to sea on the dismantled hulk for the final ten days filming. * * * Our Passing Show: Jack Oakie being given a royal welcome at the Paramount studio on his return from New York: Charles M. O'Loughlin practising golf; Geoffrey Shurlock busy at Paramount. * * * Tom Patricola will soon start work on his first starring picture For Educational. I lis supporting cast will include Chiquita, a Mexican girl, who has been playing in vaudeville. * * * Patricia Patterson has completed her work as mistress oj a e< TOO '// "Humanette" short subjects bt modi by Leigh Jason for RKO, and a ill soon start work in a Christie ■uniidij. Miss Patterson has hod much stage experience, sin is an Akron, 0., girl. McGrail and Dietrich Hurt In Auto Crash Walter McGrail, actor, and Ralph Dietrich, film editor at the Fox studios, were injured a few days ago when a location automobile in which they and four others were riding was sideswiped and overturned between Lone Pine and Independence, pinning them under the car. Others in the machine were James Bradbury, Jr., actor, Harry Pembroke, actor: James Rawlins and a chauffeur. They suffered minor cuts and bruises. McGrail and Dietrich were treated at the Dickey & Case Hospital in Hollywood and sent home. Broadway Director Joins Paramount Staff David Burton, director of such stage stars as William Gillette, ' Mis Skinner, .Mice Brady, Doris Keene. Eva Le Gallienne, Billie Burke and Flsie Ferguson, has been signed as a director for Paramount, it is announced by B. P. Schulberg. Burton is a former stage actor, having appeared with Mrs. Minnie Maddern Liskc in a number of plays. Later he was made stage director for tin Frohman company. He came to Hollywood several months ago. Fox Buys Exciting Story "Three Girls Lost," a first novel by Robert D. Andrews of "The Chicago Daily News," has been acquired for a talking picturization by Fox. This story, published serially during May and June in the "News," had Chicago newspaper readers so cited about the fate in the big city oi three krirN from the small town that they tried to buy it in b form to find out how il ended. I lie book is just now off the press Grosset & Dunlop, and Andrew already at work on the sequel, "Two Girls Found." Composer Signed Jack King, who has climbed to success as a composer of internationally popular music within two years, has just been signed to a film contract by Paramount, according to an announcement from B. P. Schulberg. King composed some numbers for "Paramount on Parade." "Devil With Women" Finished "A Devil With Women." featuring Charles Larrcll under the dil tion of Fi n'. 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