The Film Daily (1931)

B 4 THE -Z&* DAILY Monday, April 13, 1931 Short Shots from New York Studios \By HARRY N. BLAIR\ T. JAMES WILKINSON, associate director to Edmund Goulding on the "Scarlet Hours" set, is among the several contributors to "Recording Sound for Motion Pictures," a new volume compiled by the Academy of M. P. Arts and Sciences. That tonsil operation didn't do Larry Kent much good. He's home sick with a sore throat. In a recent location trip to Long Island, a Vitaphone camera unit was met with a lusty sand storm and returned to the studio many pounds heavier because of the sand which stuck to them. The scenes were used in the Vitaphone comedy, "In Your Sombrero," with Billy Wayne and Josephine Borio. The use of motion pictures in a national publicity campaign for a State was demonstrated last month in the Chamber of the House of Delegates of Maryland, when Visugraphic's "Coast to Coast in 48 Hours" and "One Day," both sponsored films, were shown. Harold Fingerlin will be monitor man on "Secrets of a Secretary," Claudette Colbert's next picture for Paramount, which George Abbott will direct. VITAPHONE VITAMINS: Sam Sax and Murray Roth discussing next season's product with happy smiles .... Primo Camera, the "big" shot making a Vitaphone "short" .... The studio bowling team misses Tom Darby, Sr., its ace man, who isn't feeing well. . . .Neely Edwards inviting the crew to his hotel in Long Island. . . .he claims the fishing can't be beat. . . . Jack Delany, bridge expert, stayed out three nights in succession to get the proper pallor for the hospital scene in "Night Angel." TEN YEARS AGO TO-DAY IN :the nUKKMItt Of niMDQM London hears U. F. A.-Famous Players deal has been closed. * * * Distributors reported having cut rentals in southeastern territory. * * * Britain removes ban on theater construction. Move of tremendous import to both American and English film men. • • • THINGS WE Never Thought Worth Mentioning Till Now that Wallace Beery as the police sergeant in the N. V. A. film, "The Stolen Jools," pulled a Fast One in his Chinese Chatter which seems to have got by everybody — including the censors, the dopes! that the boys and girls who work for the empey companies around Times Square are going strong for tickets on the English Derby Sweepstakes that they got this pernicious Gambling Habit from observing their bosses sinking heavy dough on a lotta Picture Palookas and STILL making money! that Heywood Broun runs counter to Popular Opinion on a lotta Vital Topics, yet retains his place as the Most Popular Columnist that this conclusively proves that folks don't want to be yessed to death, assistant directors to the contrary notwithstanding that A. P. Waxman would prefer to have you think he is a hard guy, walking around the 5th floor of RKO Pathe snapping a long, rawhide whip that Abe ain't f oolin' Virginia Morris one li'l bit, because your sec always has the Real lowdown on^ou that the virus of Publicity lingers after death in Hollerword, for they have a cemetery out there that spells out the names on the tombstones in Neon lights that the way Louis Sobol raves in his "Graphic" kolyum about those Harlem Hot Spots, it looks as if Louis has gone Sepia for keeps that he is right, though, in raving about "the Rabelaisian ditties" of Leitha Hill at the Cotton Club that Leitha's "lullabies" are not for innocent film producer muggs to hear, for it might soil their pure outlook on Life and the Hays Code that for the first time in history a Broadway film house has given the public the honest lowdown that it occurred at the Paramount showing of "Skippy," with the uniformed sidewalk announcers telling the mob the next show required a wait of one hour and thirty minutes! almost unbelievable, but 's fact that George Arliss in his portrayal in "The Millionaire" gets more real drama and comedy outa slight situations than most screen stars get out of their biggest bits that eating escargoes (snails to you) is becoming the rage at all nite parties but it's the way the parsley-garlic butter is made that counts that Joe Weil is handling U's serial, "Heroes of the Flames," the same build-up as a big feature in the advertising and publicity that the Fireman's hat he sent us will knock Phil Joonior cuckoo, and have all the other neighborhood kids Green with Envy that on the solemn word of Teddy Pitts of the Capitol managerial staff, we can assure you sneering skeptics that when Nancy Carroll saw Joan Crawford do her stuff in "Dance, Fools, Dance," Nancy just broke down and sobbed that this is not unusual, as newspaper crits on viewing the work of certain stars, break down and sob regularly that Walter Futter has doubled the personnel of his organizashe during the past year that Frank Orth and Ann Codee have completed "Our Wife" at Vitaphone stude, marking the 36th short funmaker in which they have been starred that this team is loaded up with screen and vaude engagements for the next year, so they must have Something that the Arkayo Theater of the Air program was okay Friday nite, but we got terribly tired of hearing the announcer mention "Arkayo" a dozen times in about a dozen minutes, so tuned out that Earl Wingart is one gent who can reminisce about this biz, and make you Like It that with daylite screens it is unnecessary to feed the baby garlic so you can find the brat in the dark that Billy Ferguson has finished his great roadshow bally for "Trader Horn" by opening up the 34th show in Quebec that this breaks all previous roadshow records in the film biz, both for number and speed in the time allotted NEWS of the DAY Pittsburgh— The Harris here has reduced its prices for this week. All seats on the first floor and balcony will be 25 cents at any time of the day. The seats in the second balcony will remain at 10 cents. Denver — Construction work has begun on the new Orpheum here. It will be a 2,800-seater and will cost around a million. Denver— Ray Thome, publicity director at the Paramount, has left Publix and gone to the West Coast. Denver — Eloise Rowan of the Jackie and Jean team of organists at the Paramount has been transferred to the Denver, and Katherine Kaderly is awaiting assignment. Stuart Barrie, from the Brooklyn Paramount, succeeds them. East Providence— The New Hollywood has opened and the first several days have been better than expected in patronage. Rockdale, Pa.— After being closed for the past two years, the Rockdale has been taken over by F. Eshback, who plans to operate the house as a silent. « « « » » » Ocean City, N. J.— Strand Theater Co. have taken over the Showboat theater and Doughty's Pier of this city. Stockbridge, Mich.— Lionel S. Barker has taken over the Starland here from L. E. Flint. Grand Rapids, Mich. — Murray W. and W. E. Goodrich have acquired the Savoy here from the Savoy Amusement Co. Owosso, Mich. — The Rialto has been reopened under the name or Owosso by L. A Trumble. 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 : April 1 3 Malcolm Stuart Richard S. Spier Clarence H. Greenwood M. McHugh Arthur Hurley Charles H. Christie Tully Marshall