The Film Daily (1932)

THe Jinday, March 6, 1932 >l{ Short Shots from New York Studios — 5v HARRY N. BLAIR^^^ UTH ETTING is at work at the "" Vitaphone studio in Brooklyn on •'he Unemployed Lover," another : the series of two-reel pictures Mich she is making for that com ny. After completing "The Un (iployed Lover," according to Sam ix, in charge of production for taphone. Miss Etting will also be Mrred in another two-reeler next ' ek to be released on this season's taphone program. After making e picture next week she is sched :'d to leave for Hollywood to ap ar in a feature picture. • Supporting cast in "The Unemployed Lover" which Roy Mad: is directing, includes Wanda Perry and Edward Letter, the latter prominent on the stage as well as in silent pictures a few years ago. Major Mite and Yvonne Magna, the famous circus midgets, and other well known Broadway names. • Billy Hayes, star of Vitaphone's >pular series of "Penrod and Sam" ories written by Booth Tarkingm, and who is convalescing in the ^illard Parker Hospital from a case f scarlet fever, is expected to be )le to leave the hospital within the ;xt ten days. • Paramount Notes: Stuart Walker, ith his overcoat draped about his loulders in such a manner as to ake it appear he had a broken arm lereby causing undue alarm on the sensation" set . . . Claudette Colbert, rrayed in black and white sports )stume, breaking windows to esipe Edmund Lowe's embrace . . . 1 part of the action . . . C. A. Tutill wreathed in smiles over winning court case pending for the past ear . . . Lower stage alive with obs for a comedy short directed by ubrey Scotto, last of the current sries. • Sam Sax insists on trained stage layers for every part, no matter ow small, in the S. S. Van Dine eries of murder mystery thrillers, tecause the Van Dine stories delend solely upon proper dramatic nterpretation for effectiveness. Sax 'eels that stage players of proven bility are especially essential. • The comedy which Harry Langdon ecently completed at the Royal tudios is now in the process of be FILM AND DISC RECORDING Latest Modern Lighting Equipment — Large Stage For Motion Picture Worl< Re-Recording on Disc and Film Guaranteed Quality and Service STANDARD SOUND RECORDING CORP. Offices & Studio— 216-220 East 38th St. Phone; MUrray Hill 2-1155-6-7 Legislative 'Muscling In' on Talkies Even Brookhart must know that art, like nature, abhors a vacuum. The talkies aren't made m a vacuum. Their raw material is taken from life. They feature gangsters because there are gangsters in present-day America; and they feature free and easy young ladies because we have such ladies today. Moviegoers are interested in those people, and will pay to see talkies about them. The big reason for the gangsters' prosperity is Brookhart's beloved prohibition law, as Brookhart must know but won't admit. And we believe, though we can't prove it, that prohibition has had a lot to do with bringing the American girl out of the cotton wool in which Brookhart longs to rewrap her. But Brookhart doesn't attack what he considers the diseases of society. He attacks the symptoms of those diseases as reflected in the talkies. We don't think, either, that a gangster picture ever turned a normal boy into a criminal; or that a picture showing the wages of sin to be ermine coats and penthouses ever inspired a good girl to become a gold digger. The talkie theaters are about the last places left to which Americans can retire for a couple of hours and forget the chains with which the bureaucrats have bound them; and where everybody can imagine himself or herself young, rich, lovely and beloved. Let's discourage the Brookhart-Dickstein attempts to muscle into the talkies. We, the people, are better censors than these gentlemen are. We exercise our censorship by going to see the pictures we like and staying away from those we don't like. And they have the devil of a nerve when they try to make us see talkies that they would like instead of talkies that we like. — Daily News, New York. ing cut for early release. Those who have seen the "rushes" claim that Langdon stages a real comeback in the picture which has a side show background. • "Was That the Human Thing to Do/" written by Sammy Fain, former staff composer with Paramount's New York studio, is number one on the list of popular song best-sellers. • A company of Negro thespians, headed by Bill Robinson and Nina Mae MacKinney, took several scenes for "Nobody's Woman," an independent feature, on the stage of the Kenmore theater, Brooklyn, with Harold Godsoe, assistant director, in charge. • The cast of Stuart Walker's "Sensation" took advantage of the mild weather to shoot a number of scenes on the lot in back of Paramount's New York studio. Following the completion of this picture on Saturday, the plant will close indefinitely. • Glen Lambert is at work on the script for the next of the "Naggers" series starring Mr. and Mrs. Jack Norworth. Bert Frank, head of Vitaphone's cutting room, has just sent up to the home office two of E. M. Newman's "Travel talks." One is called "Soviet Russia" and the other is "South American Journeys." ROXY ARTIST ON TOUR Joseph Teichner, scenic artist of the Roxy Theater, sailed Friday for an extended tour of Europe and Northern Africa. He was commissioned by the theater to make a survey of theatrical art for Clark Robinson, production director. DROPPING VAUDEVILLE Philadelphia — Vaudeville in neighborhood houses is on the decline, says "The Exhibitor," following a survey of this territory. Trend now is toward longer screen bills at matinees. Additional overhead due to vaudeville is more than the houses can stand. Presentations '•By JACK HARROWERi Roxy A musical extravaganza, "Metallic," in five flashy scenes entitled Gold,, Bronze, Tin, Iron and Steel, is the novel stage offering at the Roxy this week. Principals in the presentation include Harold Van Duzee, tenor; Patricia Bowman, premier danseuse; Roger Pryor Dodge Duo, modern dancers; Five Hot Shots, colored songsters; Roxy Ballet, and the Roxyettes. Paramount In addition to the operatic star, Mme. Luisa Tetrazzini, the current presentation at the New York Paramount has a Boris Petroff unit, "In the Bag," headed by Johnny Burke, popular comedian, and including Ayers and Rene. Five Elgins, Three McCann Sisters, and the David Bines Ballet. PHONOGRAPH SOUVENIRS Phil Spitalny, guest conductor of the Capitol Grand Orchestra, is giving away "gratis" to Capitol theater patrons, for a week starting today, "Now's the Time to Fall in Love," recorded by Spitalny and his orchestra. This souvenir is being distributed in order to familiarize theatergoers with the new Durium Record. f On to Washington! 12th ANNUAL CONVENTION M. P. T. O. A. Ma yflower Hotel WASHINGTON, D. C. March 14-15-16 LAST CALL FOR RESERVATIONS! 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