The Film Daily (1931)

THE unday. June 28, 1931 ■a^HHk DAILY A LITTLE from "LOTS ►// By RALPH WILK EASTERN STUDIO ACTIVITIES Bv HARRY S. BLAIR Hollywood j \ ERROL, Ziegfeld's comedy Star, i to rejuvenate the Los An • heater, said to be one of the beautiful in the entire world. Errol has become permanent cere nonial master and i backed by Joe Tenner and his band. An intimate revue will be presented, built around two personalities, in addition to Erst run pictures. The new policy went into effect Thursday, June 25. with free dancing in the theater's eautiful salon, every evening from 11:30 to 12:30, excepting Saturdays and Sundays. * * * Mary Kornman has completed her ■ dy under the new Hal Roach contract. It will be prey the title of "Call the Cops." * * * Add bicycle riding to Hollywood I e Archainbaud, RKO director, is the late-t to succumb to the two-wheel velocipede under the pretext of exercise. Archainbaud is preparing to -tart filming "The Pickup," which Wallace Smith is adaptthe screen. * * * Carl Laemmle, Jr., is back from the East with plans for a large production program. * * * Charles F. Riesner, directing Marie Dressier and Polly Moran in "Poli it the M-G-M ^udio, is busy writing songs between pictures. He first won fame as a song writer with idbye Broadway. Hello Fran, and now composes for amusement for music has bet \y public among the M-G-M celebrities: Lionel Barrymore, Ernest Torrence, Muter Keaton and Rm sner. * * • is rapidly '•■ inc/ th' i tourist of tin picture industry. //• recently complei mouth*' trip to th. < then immediately went <<> June Lake for location work, has just returned from a hunting trip in M now has left for Alaska as a guest ■ ,i honor of the Young Men's Institute of California. O'Brien will return in time to start production soon upon "R tin I'm pie Sage," the '/.<< pieturt will he his next Fox starring vehicle. * * * Al Copeland, veteran circus and carnival owner, is acting a technical idvisor on "Susan Lenox. Her Fall and Rise," Greta Garbo's new M-G-M starring vehicle. Many of the scenes take place in an itinerant circus and Copeland is supplying atmosphere. * * * Douglas MacLean, having put the finishing touches on "Full of Notions," his current Radio production wh'ch co-stars Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, is already engaged tpon the story for his next Radio Troduction. * * * William Haines, M-G-M -tar. i an interior architect "on the side." He h • designed the interior architecture of the homes of Joan Crawford. Le la Hyams, and several other notables. * * * Whili Ramon Novarro's fondness J£1)\V \KD to din w ill remaii New Yi.rk StUl • rling. Al John and Karl I >. Arthur -cries which Mariowith Mack Sennet;, will ai I ing woman to the latter team. onl\ There are four composers New Low Rates in HOLLYWOOD $ 4 ROOM WITH BATH $ 5 Right in the bean of Hollywood-with interesting places to go— people to seo Vntt fw BmUrt. VmMtim B*-tsm ivooseveLT ssbrs HOT€ L == ROBERT J. McCABE, Mak*ch ^ HOLLYWOOD. CALIFORNIA • ' ■:, m rally known that he owns one of the largest collection of Spanish phonograph records in existence. Through the year No has carefully collected every new singing record in Spanish, and instrumental record by a Spanish compo * * * Several important Oriental players have been added to the list of actors in "Daughter of the Dragon." Paramount's production of a Sax Rohnier story which is the latest in the Fu Manchu series. Tetsu Komai, George Kuwa and Oie Chan are other Oriental additions to the ca-t featuring Anna May Wong. Warner Oland, who created the role of Fu Manchu. and Sessue Hayakawa. * * * Joseph Reilly, former member of the New York police deprtment, is a man of many tasks at the Fox Film studios. His official title is Director of Safety at the studios in Hollywood and Beverly Hills. He is in charge of the police and fire departments, which he has organized as miniatures of the New York departments. Other duties include giving technical advice to directors and, when occasion demands, acting in pictures. Lately he has been playing in "Wicked," first as a policeman and later as a captain of detectives. Mary S'olnn, tcl. I >tly madi f< to go into rehearsal for th< U feminine role in "St rax/ Stun," a stage play by So mini Shrpman. Larry Williams has been selected by D. W. Griffith to act as chief cameraman on the feature production which he is about to produce at the Audio Cinema studio. Richard Blaydon will be assistant director, Clement Williams, art director; Barney Rogan, film editor, and H. M. K. Smith in charge of costuming. The palm for novel treatment in a short sub "Fair and Squareways," a satire on golfing, handled in the manner of a negro spiritual, which Ray Cozine recently directed for Tar Idea by Barry. Trivers and ( )akland. Stanley Rauh, Vitaphone staff . is doiny the adaptat ■ 'In Booth Tarkington "Penrod" scow in preparation. Rani did the adaptation on the first of tin "Girl Friends" m which Vita will feature Thelma Whit, and Fanny Watson. The colorful atmosphere of a dive in Panama forms the background for much of the action in "My Sin." which George Abbott is directing at Paramount' New York studio, with Tallulah Bankhead and Fredrii March co-starred. With P. W. Griffith about to produce a feature in which the ct character is an eight-year-old and Vitaphone casting for various roles in the "I'envnd and Sam" jnv,nilc series which tiny are planning, child actors in New York are ic< a r ing a hopeful ■ Paramount Notes: Jesse I.a-k Cecil De Mille attending a performance nf "You Said It." giving I all sorts of rumors \l Rav ing over splendid record made by hitr-old boy now a Btudent at Black Fox Military \cademy in If. >1K wood. . . . Eddie Byrnes of the cutting room reminiscing about D. W, Griffith for whom he worked over a period of ten \car-. . . . N'inc out of the studio ip end.' ' of tan. ■ ■ the j Vitaph here, v ■ nth 1 Follies who Ruth Milt Britton and the //((/ Shell a will ' l> M . WhiU full d* turn* eiffith 1 ago many frii writer attached to the Wai Vita] rudio, will regret to I that his father passed away sudd. a few d< "Ttui 7 fiat a ring J< pU ted at th> studio, und> \to. Vernon Duke, who has writtei music for numerous Paramount tures, has been engaged by Weatherly to do tl "The Gay 1 ._• musical for which Dwight Taj lor. Paramount staff writer, has written the Evelyn Laye maj be -tarred. Emma Hill, diately completing thi %tu\ ■ of cutting "The Sight \ as sign, d to edit "My S • ing committed daily at /'u Taking advanta. weathi of it shorts on location. \ ample, one (lav ! on "Fifth I [,, ii golfing -I. Chariu , in the fa of li ' ■ ■■• ' ■■' Sducket, i. /., HAROLD MULLER FIRST C kMER \M w INdependmc* \\ tgconain 7 >/ /•»