The Film Daily (1930)

ursday, August 28, 1930 ■2L£E0fft DAILY Timely Topics A Digest of Current Opinion €) m Influence of isors and Morons JO indictment of Hollywood may be considered adequate hich omit* two counts, one, e tame acceptance by filmdom the 57 varieties of censorship, ate and municipal, the other e parroted cry to the effect at the public alone is the bar better pictures. Meaning that e public, being moronic, gets actly the sort of pictures it mts. As long as professional liticians and busy-bodies of th sexes are permitted to dic te what is proper entertain nt on the screen, we shall jk in vain for relief. Movie nsorship as a racket is quite par with Chicago's worst; e latter may kill a few citizens questionable value to the na >n, the former menaces the grid's intellect. And that, I ink, is the graver evil. The ntention that fandom is es itially moronic is utter non ise, if supported only by its eged appetite for mediocre :een entertainment. As a utter of fact, the public, by fusing to generously patronize overwhelming majority of tures made, establishes itself mentally superior to Hollv >od!" ,[f the public wanted the type • pictures Hollywood has been king, one would not be read r in Variety that out of 316 tures released during the year ding July 31 only 18 were standing box office successes. j d as further testifying to the igence of picture goers, it i.y be said that the 18 "smash" included "Anna Christie," israeli," "All Quiet on the ;stern Front," "Bulldog Drum "nd." "Thev Had to See "The Divorcee" and "The spasser." — Chester Bahn in "Syracuse Herald" L England has about 1,200 theirs wired for sound, repreiting about 50 per cent of better houses. Along The Rialto with Phil M. Daly /"\NE of the most interesting of the new season's shorts series is the expert exposition of football by the famous Notre Dame coach, Knute Rockne Pathe has two of these ready, and they are darbs Knute personally explains the various plays, and he shapes up as a first-class screen actor slow motion shots show every detail of the trick plays that have made the Notre Dame team famous Another item of interest for the sport fans is the Pathe News presentation of John Pettifer, England's White Hope, pushing his six feet six around the ring in training routine r\ICK ROWLAND, looking very spry and peppy, was at the pier t'other day to meet friends arriving on the Majestic George Arliss sets a new style with a woman advisor and business manager she is Maude Howell, a native Californian Robert Edeson ranks as one of our bigger and better "joiners," being a member of seven prominent clubs and what's more, he always pays his dues promptly Ted Barron is staging the latest beauty contest at Coney Isle on Friday, with a grand windup for prize awards on the stage of the Brooklyn Strand next Tuesday William Boyd invited Mauri Grashin, Pathe writer, to take a trip on his new motor cruiser as they started from the pier, Boyd called to Mauri to cast off the line and the chump threw a brand new coil of rope into the briny then Captain Boyd threw Mauri in J^ERBERT T. KALMUS, prexy of Technicolor, sez that splitting hairs is the foundation of color photography color is registered upon so minute a calculation as l/10,000th of an inch which is literally splitting hairs 30 times A fresh guy thought he fooled a cutie when he chucked her roller skates out of his car, but she gave him the haw-haw as she took a baby Austin car out of her vanity bag and scooted back home pRAXK GILLMORE, president of Actors' Equity, commenting on denial of an Equity agency permit to the William Morris office to represent members of the association, hinted that the Morris affiliation with Paramount-Publix had something to do with it Arch and Edgar Selwyn, who have plans for presenting some film stars on the stage, have been suspended from the Managers' Protective Ass'n, with no explanation forthcoming from L. Lawrence Weber, sec and treasurer of the organization Cupid Ainsworth, Pathe comedienne, tipping the scales at a measly 250 pounds, refuses to do any bit where she has to sit at a piano, because when she once did a piano act in vaude, a guy in the audience yelled out: "Lookit! A six-legged piano." '"THE A.M. P. A. boys are now dining every Thursday in real Southern style at the Dixie hotel at this week's lunch fest, by way of an innovation, some gent will discourse on advertising And we are still trying to find out the exact duties of Hy Daab, who acts as national counsellor of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce for the organizashe Bob Savini is back from the South, where he handled "Unborn Child," all redded up from the sun — we mean Bob Tommy Culkin's sister Amy, known to all the tenants of 729 Seventh Ave. as the bewitching drug store cashier, is to be married in October to some nice Swedish boy * * * * jTlEORGE HARVEY is now on his own at 1674 Broadway, heading an advertising and art service and who could serve at that better than George? Steve Barutio, formerly manager of the Broadway Paramount, is now managing the Brooklyn Paramount since returning from his honeymoon I'. Dulur, Montreal distributor, is in our hamlet trying t fillum and he's having a tough time, we can assure you And Tommy "Crank" Craven, Pathe News cameraman, has recorded for posterity the first words and mu ered by Tommy 3rd, lately arrived EXPLOITETTES A Clearing House for Tabloid Exploitation Ideas € Radio Stunts Boost "Dawn Patrol" (")N the opening day at the Boyd in Philadelphia seven planes flew over the city for an hour and a half and dropped 100,000 heralds advertising the picture. That well-known radio figure, Uncle WIP, broadcast on his radio hour on the opening day, tying up "The Dawn Patrol" with his Boys' Glider Club. Another radio feature was the arrangement by which Captain Jacques Swaab of the Quiet Birdmen, spoke for fifteen minutes over one of the city's leading radio stations, WFAN. Two hundred aviators, invited by Captain Swaab, attended the opening. One hundred and ten hotel cards were placed in the leading hotels and stores. Book tie-ups and special window displays were also prominent. — First National Dressed Up Nancy for "Dangerous Paradise" "CDWARD REED dressed up a cutout of Nancy Carroll for his lobby display on "Dangerous Paradise" and had them crowding into the Publix-Crown, Mobile, just to look at it. The figure was taken from the threesheet, which shows Nancy sitting on a table, so Reed fashioned the cutout so that it sat on a real table. The figure was dressed in cloth and a real violin, obtained from a music store, was worked into the layout where the painted violin had been. — Epes Sargent 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: August 28 Paul Pritzhoff Gretchen Hartman Edmund Joseph