The Film Daily (1931)

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THE Junday, March 22, 1931 ■%£k DAILY PRODUCTION IN THE EAST WHO'S WHO AND WHAT'S WHAT IN GREATER NEW YORK STUDIOS GREATER MUSIC ACTIVITY UNDER WAY AT PARAMOUNT Paramount's music department, jnder the supervision of Frank Tours, is operating at full speed in mticipation of the return of musical films to favor. "The Smiling Lieutenint," an out and out operetta, will be replete with songs and musical effects, while "Scarlet Hours," Edmund Goulding's production, will incorporate a great deal of gypsy music n the action. A new musical idea pf utilizing bells and chimes to denote lapses of time, will also be used, requiring considerable research. It is expected that a large percentjage of the current shorts program will be of a musical nature. The inumber will, at least, approximate last season's average, when the total of musical shorts was about one in every three. Ethel Merman in "Old Man Blues" will be the first musical, scheduled to start during the week of March 30. New Distance Lens Bausch & Lomb have developed a new photographic lens now being tried out in the east. Paramount engineers, using copies of The Film Daily in the test, were able to read the news print from a distance of 100 ft. with a 50 mm. lens. Para.'s Condensed Recorders Two miniature sound booms, specially designed to fit into small sets, have been installed at the Paramount Nevy York studio and are now being used in filming "The Smiling Lieutenant." This new apparatus, the juniors of the microphone arms more generally used, permit the megaphone to move in any direction from a set point. Paramount East Coast Roster Preparation of the annual Convention trailer reveals that a goodly proportion of the Paramount starare working at the East Coast studios. Those photographed here for use in the trailer include Maurice Chevalier, Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, Claudette Colbert. Clive Brook, Charles Ruggles, Tallulah Bankhead and Miriam Hopkins, with Emil Jannings scheduled to arrive shortly. For "SHORTS" or Good "Shorts" Writers go to VIOLA IRENE COOPER 9 E. 59th St.. N. Y. Vo. 5-5543 Short Shots from Eastern Studios , By HARRY N. BLAIR , CMITH and Dale, vaudeville and screen comedians, are currently presewting "S.S. Malaria," a comedy sketch based on a motion picture short of the same name which they recently completed for Paramount. Max Hayes is author of the latter, which will not be released until June. The sketch is on the program at the Palace, New York, with Adele Carples in support. Eddie Roberts, who has appeared in various Eastern productions in an assortment of roles, such as a soldier, sailor, marine, prizefighter and gangster, is also a welterweight boxer on the side. He has lost only seven decisions out of a total of 104 fights. Ilka Chase, screen comedienne, who recently played a prominent role in "Fast and Loose," at Paramount's New York studio, has been signed by David Belasco for "Veiled Eyes," opening in July. Roberta Robinson, who has also worked here for both Paramount and Warners, will soon appear in "The Band Wagon," a stage musical. The true artist is always ready to make sacrifices. Thus it was that Mrs. Nellie Malcolm, character actress, removed her wedding ring for the first time in many years, in order to play the role of a spinster in a Vitaphone short starring Billy Wayne and Thelma White. Preparatory work on Maurice Chevalier's next Paramount production has been halted by the sudden departure of Donald Ogden Stewart, author, who has been called to California by the serious illness of his mother. Stewart, who wrote the dialogue for Harry D'Arrast's "Laughter," was in the midst of collaborating with the latter in the adaptation of a popular stage play to follow "The Smiling Lieutenant." in which Chevalier is now being directed by Ernst Lubitsch. A novelty musical number, set in a rural town, and entitled "Nine O'Clock Folks," is the latest short subject to be completed at the Brooklyn Vitaphone studios. A cast of prominent Broadway players includes Roy Fant, the Arron Sisters, the Mound City Blue Blowers' Band, and Bert Fay, eccentric dancer late of "The Gang's All Here." Roy Mack directed from a script by Herman Ruby. Doris Rankin, most recent addition to the cast of "Scarlet Hours," Edmund Goulding's Paramount production, made her talking picture debut last year at the RCA Gramercy studio, with Norman Foster, in "Love At First Sight," an independent production. Vitaphone has signed Peggy Shannon, now appearing opposite Ernest Truex in "Na}>i," for a featured role in "The Meal Ticket," Jack Pearl's first talking picture short. Burnet Hershey is the author, with Albert Ray slated to direct. Eight years in film business is a long time, yet Ernst Lubitsch has had George Hippard associated with him for that length of time as assistant director and Eric Locke as unit production manager. The latter is a graduate of Heidelberg and bears the sabre scars usually associated with that institution. SYLVA, BROWN, HENDERSON CONTINUE AS MUSIC TEAM Although they have dissolved their joint contract with Fox Film, DeSylva, Brown & Henderson make formal announcement that they will continue to write songs together as well as individually, the same to be published by the firm of DeSylva, Brown & Henderson, Inc. Foreign Locales Favored Foreign locales are being favored by Paramount in the new schedule of pictures to be made at the New York studios. "The Smiling Lieutenant" is set in a mythical Balkan kingdom, "Scarlet Hours" action takes place in Prague while "The Man I Killed," now in preparation, is a story of post-war Germany. New Para. Continental Star Georges Metaxa, London musical comedy favorite, has been signed by Paramount. His first picture will be "Secrets of a Secretary," in which he appears opposite Claudette Colbert. George Abbott will direct. AMERICAS FIRST TRULY CONTINENTAL HOTEL TIME St. Moii ii / OV THE PARK 50 Central Park South New York City Old world hospitality in the spirit of the new world; old world service with the newest of the new world's comforts. A cuisine that is the essence of Europe's finest, under the inspired direction of COnyLC&yic of Paris, London «/i</ the Rivieria. Rooms single <>r en suite, facing denial Park and but a moment from the cil\"s amusement and business sectors. Personal Direction of S. GREGOR1 T\> LOB