The Film Daily (1931)

HOLLYWOOD FLASHES \By RALPH WILK~. ■DOSE HOBART has been signed by First National for the feminine lead opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., in "Chances, cast are David Forbes, William Herbert, Anthony Morgan and May Dawn will direct. Others in the Manners, Mary Austin, Holmes Bushell, Edward Madison. Allan Jeanne MacPearson, author, is now busy in her new connection at the Fox studios. Jean Harlow has been engaged by Carl Laemmle, Jr., for the leading feminine role in "The Iron Man," starring Lew Ayres. She replace Dorothy Burgess. Mike Donlin and Eddie Dillon also have been added. Tod Browning is directing. Hardie Albright, New York stage juvenile, has been signed by Fox. "The Reckless Hour" will be Dorothy Mackaill's next vehicle following "Party Husband," now in work. Walter Percival and Paul Fix have been added to "Phantom Hoofs," Buck Jones western for Columbia. Pathe is casting "Rebound," starring Ann Harding, and the next Helen Twelvetrees vehicle. "Lonelv Wives" has been completed and previewed, and Constance Bennett's next production is in work. Mariska Nedgyzsi has been added to the membership of the acting academy at Warner Bros, studios She will be known on the screen as Mae Madison. Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler will be separated in their next Radio Pictures. Woolsey arrives here Monday to start work on a starring vehicle and Wheeler reaches Hollvwood a week later to begin his own picture. TEN YEARS AGO TO-DAY IN :the Of HIM DOM Fine Arts Pictures, Inc., formed with capital of $6,500,000. * * * Argonaut Distributing Corp. plans standard film courses for use in public schools. * * * Local exhibitors get equal representation on F.I.L.M. Club grievance committee. Thursday, January 22, 1931 • • • AT FOX Movietone City one of the smart boys in the pub dep't got a bright idea he went around and asked the various screen players what was their very earliest recollection at that time in early childhood when the human brain is supposed to record impressions and the results were mighty intriguing, we assure you they prove in a startling manner how bad habits contracted in childhood exert their baleful influence through the years here are some of them, with appropriate (?) kolumist komment to point the morale to all you other children Janet Gaynor: Burning my hand on a hot stove when a mere babe and Janet got burned a short while ago when she got — er — temperamental, and this burn cost her a few thou Edmund Lowe: Watching ths antics of monkeys in a cage at my first circus and out in the Hollerword studes he has been watching the antics of various monkeys ever since Victor McLaglen: Playir.g soldier with one of my brothers and he's been playing soldier ever since, the big kid ! Will Rogers : Watching a group of Indians in a trick riding exhibition that's where Will got the idea of watching the Indians in Congress doing a lotta trick stuff, and making dirty cracks about their poor exhibition Fifi Dorsay: Sitting for my first photograph, and crying when the "little bird" the photographer told me to look for, failed to appear now Fifi is stiil sitting in front of the camera, and still waiting for the "li'l bird" to appear El Brendel: Surveying myself in a velvet suit with a lace collar and long curls which my mother put in curl paper No wonder the guy went nertz Warren Hymer: Beer at five cents a glass my, wot a long memory he's got David Rollins: The day my mother took me to a kindergarten to begin my education wonder when he expects to graduate Ruth Warren: Attempting to pick the flowers off the wall paper next to my crib we know exactly how you feel, Ruth, for we did the same thing New Year's Eve, but not from a crib Robert Burns: Being stung by a bee then he got the bee to act, and it's still stinging him Joyce Compton: Retrieving my old baby buggy from the dump heap wot, the same vehicle you recently appeared in on the screen, Joyce? Elizabeth Keating: Coasting on the hills near my home in New Hampshire and several merry toboggans since, eh, Elizabeth? Lee Tracy: Riding on an Ox drawn sled with my grandfather and Lee has been in a few "slow-motion" pictures since, but why remind him? J. M. Kerrigan: Feeding a pair of rabbits my mother bought for me since then he's fed a few chicken, but not in pairs Yvonne Pelletier: When I was between two and three years old, being awakened by the bugle call of Boy Scouts now once in a while a Boy Scout in Hollywood sounds the bugle for her, but Yvonne, wise gel, makes believe she's asleep • • • HARRY TARIFF, assistant to Joseph Schnitzer, was presented with a traveling bag by the Arkayo boys, as he leaves for the Coast tomorrow with his boss Dave Epstein breezed in from the Coast yesterday to tell the metropolitan newspaper boys all about Howard Estabrook's exceptional work on the picture version and dialogue of "Cimarron" Mel Brown shoots us a wire that his Arkayo pix, "Private Secretary," has wowed 'em at a preview in Losang Primo Camera opens Saturday nite at the Hipp and Mark Luescher has extended one of his usual courteous invitations to Maurice Chevalier and Georges Carpentier to put on the mitts with Primo and Maurice and Georges just as courteously declined and who can blame 'em They are touting Marlene Dietrich as a newcomer, but she did her sexy stuff in 1929 on this town's screens in "Three Loves." « « « » » » Short Shots from New York Studios ^^ By HARRY N. BLAIR ^^ C^NLY subjects lending themselve! i to pictorial treatment are being chosen by Robert L. Ripley from his extensive library of unusual facts for the "Believe It or Not" series which Vitaphone is now produc ( ing. Eight one-reelers featuring Ripley have already been completed and others are planned. Clive Brook is the latest Paramount player to join the New Yorh group, recently augmented by Tallulah Bankhead and Maurice Chevalier. Emil Jannings is the next arrival scheduled. He is expected tc report here in about another month Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist, whe is making a comedy series for Warner Vitaphone between vaudeville engagements, is a master of Swedish dialect comedy. He spent severa years in Scandinavia. Stanley Smith, Paramount juvenile, is appearing on Broadway ir "You Said It," a new musical com ' edy in which Lew Hearn and Mary Lawlor are also featured. Smith who played in numerous musica ' comedies before going movie, hai made a personal hit in a prominent , role. Following the completion of "Th< \ Smiling Lieutenant," which goes into rehearsals shortly at Paramount's New York studio, Mauric* ( Chevalier will probably make a filrr version of "Meet My Sister," a mu sical comedy now current on Broad way. Nancy Carroll has arrived h Havana for a brief vacation after completing her latest starring rol> in "Stolen Heaven." Following het holiday Miss Carroll will return U the Paramount New York studio h appear in "Between Two Worlds' a new original story by Edmtint Goulding, to be directed by him. MANY NAPPY RETURNS Beit wishes and congratulations are extended by THE FILM DAILY to the following members of the industry, who are celebrating their birthdays: January 22 D. W. Griffith Robert Castle James Wilkinson