The Film Daily (1931)

THE ■aum DAILY Monday, March 9, 1931 A LITTLE from "LOTS >//i Oj KALfH WILL HOLLYWOOD JOHN G. ADOLFi, who directed J George Arliss in "The Millionaire," starts work this week on "We Three," which will feature Ben Lyon and Rose Hobart. Ben Silvey will act as Adolfi's assistant director. * * * Homer B. "Rasty" Wright, manager of Grauman's Chinese, has been re-appointed to the board of management of the Hollywood. Y. M. C. A. His "pep" talks have inspired the membership campaign committee members, and "Rasty" practiced what he preached by being one of the first to bring in his quota of new inembers. * * * James Gleason, signed by RKO Pathe under a three-year exclusive contract, will be starred in a series of two-reel comedies. His contract also calls for service as writer and actor in feature productions. * * * Roy Chanslor, novelist and at present assistant literary editor of the New York Evening Post, has been signed by Columbia for its writing staff and is coming West immediately. * * * Jack Conway will direct "Dancing Partner" for M-G-M. Irene Purcell and Charlotte Granville of the New York stage production are in the cast. * * * Louise Closser Hale has been reengaged by Charles R. Rogers of RKO Pathe for the mother role in "Rebound" with Ina Claire. * * * Cecil De Mille has assembled camp at Castle Hot Springs, Ariz., for location scenes for "The Squawman," in which Warner Baxter and Lupe Velez have the leads. * * * Helen Twelvetrees' first of four specials on the new RKO Pathe program will be "The Registered Woman," produced by Charles R. Rogers and directed by Harry Joe Brown. In the supporting cast are H. B. Warner, Nance O'Neil, Lew Cody, Zasu Pitts and Edward Earle. * * * Our Passing Show: Darryl Zanuck, Sheriff Bill Traeger, O. B. Keeler, William Koenig, C. Graham Baker, Hal Wallis, Bobby North, H. Politz, George Marshall, Hubert Heart Throb In directing Constance Bennett's new RKO-Pathe "Lost Love," Paul L. Stein did not once refer to the script. He had lived with the story from its inception, and had come to love it. He knew it as a mother knows her chee-ild. This tale of a great mother love whispered around the Hollywood bungalow firesides proves that even a director has his human side. Voight at the luncheon tendered BoDDy Jones by J. L. Warner; Robert Presneil and Walter DeLeon mnching at First National. * * * Carl McBride staged the "G Sisters" special dance number for "The Registered Woman," which Harry J. Brown is directing. * * * In Hollywood, many a tuxedo covers an empty stomach. * * * Here and There: Bobby Jones, Howard Hughes and George Marshall golfing at the Lakeside Club; Dick Neill teaching the rudiments of tennis to a bunch of youngsters at the Hollywood Y. M. C. A. * * * Humphrey Pearson, whose original story, "Travelling Husbands," is now being made by Radio Pictures, with Paul Sloane directing, has been given a long term contract by Radio Pictures. * * * Martin Cornica and Solly Biano, members of the film colony, are contenders for the lightweight tennis championship of the country. They each weigh 130 pounds and challenge all playeis of their weight. * * * Anthony Bushell's initial role under his new contract with First National will be opposite Dolores Costello in "The Passionate Sonata." He is completing work in "Chances." * * * Seton 1. Miller has resigned from M-G-M to write the screen play and dialogue for "Scar face," which will be made by Howard Hughes, with Howard Hawks directing. * * * Mae Clarke, one of the busiest actresses on the Coast, will play an important role in "The Idol," for First National. * * * Hoot Gibson will stage his Golden State Rodeo at the Baker Ranch April 25 and 26. Gibson, himself a world's champion rider, plans many innovations for the wild west shows he will present at the Baker Ranch. * * * Guy Kibbee, who crashed into fame in the New York production of "The Torch Song," is losing little time between stage and screen engagements. He is now working at M-G-M, but next week will start his engagement with Frank Craven in "That's Gratitude" at the El Capital! here. * * * More Passing Show: Two former Minneapolis newspapermen, Frank Burke, who represents Olsen and Johnson, and "Bill" Bastedo, editor of the San Pedro "Pilot," holding a re-union at First National; Michael Curtiz busy at First National. * * * Because of his knowledge of ranch life, Gary Cooper has been called upon by Paramount to serve as consulting technical director on "Dude Short Shots from Eastern Studios i By HARRY N. BLAIR , ROBERTA ROBINSON, who recently returned from Hollywood, where she was featured in several Radio pictures, appears opposite Joe Penner in his latest Vitaphone comedy. Eddie Younger and his Mountaineers, radio artists, have been signed by Larry Kent for a Paramount short~subject. Their specialty is syncopated "hill billy" music. The cast of "The Tarnished Lady," recently completed by George Cukor for Paramount, has in its cast four bit players, hired at $15 a day who, within the past two years have all had their names in lights on Broadway. These actors are not down and out. They simply realize that a chance to speak a few lines in a feature picture is better than any test. Nancy Carroll will be guest of honor over Station WOR on Thursday evening at 7:30, at which time she will be interviewed by Radie Harris. An imposing array of production heads may be found lunching at the Paramount studio these days. On Thursday Adolph Zukor headed a table at which Jesse Lasky, Walter Wanger, Hector Turnbull, Richard Rowland and James Cowan were also seated. At an adjoining table was John Fingerlin, Larry Kent, Arthur Cozine and Max Hayes. Vitaphone Vitamins : Johnny Walker amusing the studio gang with tales of the old Vitagraph days. . . Joe Penner, acting funny without half trying. . . .Sam Sax shaving at his desk, with the aid of a new fangled razor. Paramount Notes: Joe Boyle scouring the foreign sections of Manhattan for backgrounds to use in "The Smiling Lieutenant" . . . George Cukor and Donald Ogden Stewart receiving congratulations on "Tarnished Lady" following an executive showing . . . Edmund Goulding preparing to rehearse Nancy Carroll and Fredric March for his Ranch," the western comedy featuring Jack Oakie, June Collyer, Mitzi Green, Stuart Erwin and Eugene Pallette. * * * Pola Negri who is now in France, is expected in Hollywood about the middle of May to make her debut in talkers. She will probably appear under the RKO banner. * * * Claude Gillingwater, Emma Dunn, Julette Compton and Joe Donahue are among the supporting players in First National's "We Three,"} featuring Ben Lyon and Rose Hobart. Story is by Edith Fitzgerald, with adaptation by Florence Ryerson, and John Adolfi is directing. next picture which promises to be quite dramatic. Robert Milstein of the projection department at Paramount's New York studio, had the good fortune to be presented with a bouncing baby boy. Both Mrs. Milstein and the baby are doing well. Vitaphone has signed the Arron Sisters, crooning trio discovered by Eddie Dowling in the Mississippi Valley, to appear in a Vitaphone short. The girls have just played the R-K-O Palace week with Eddie Dowling. Roy Mack has been assigned to direct the sisters in their first screen appearance. Nancy Carroll is proud of her nationality, as evidenced by the fact that her new car, a Packard sports model, is painted a brilliant shade of green. Ethel Merman, starring in the stage hit, "Girl Crazy," has been signed by Larry Kent, short subject production head, at Paramount's New York studio, to appear in a series of short subjects. Her first picture will be "Old Man Blues," written by J. P. Murray, Barry Trivers and Ben Oakland. Miss Merman is now filling an engagement at the Central Park Casino, assisted by Jack Carroll at the piano. Carroll is a member of the musical staff at the Paramount New York studio. Ferd Graf, hairdresser at the Paramount New York studios, will talk over Station WJZ on Thursday, March 12, from the Convention Hall of the International Hairdressers' Convention at the Pennsylvania Hotel. "How Hair Styles of the Movie Stars Influence the Public" will be his topic. Playing in Vitaphone shorts has proven the entree to feature work in Hollywood for three Broadway stage players who were noticed by Sam Sax, Vitaphone production manager, and recommended to Warner officials. These players are Don Cook, cast for a leading role in John Barrymore's "The Genius"; Teddy Walters and Claire Trevor, the two latter now being groomed in the Warner stock company. At Home When Stuart Walker, noted repertory theater exponent just signed by Paramount, arrives in Hollywood" to begin his new duties he will find himself among many familiar faces. Among the screen celebrities who have been in Walker's various stock companies are Helen Twelvetrees, Bert Lytell, Marjorie Rambeau, Catherine Dale Owen, Basil Rathbone, Monroe Owsley, Ben Lyon, Kay Francis, Gavin Gordon, Elizabeth Patterson, Sessue Hayakawa, Charles Starrett and others.