Hollywood Filmograph (Jan-Jul 1930)

HOLLYWOOD FILMOGRAPH Grandeur Film Makes Debut at Fox Carthay Circle Theatre j ILMITS Ol l j PREVIOUS SCBLENS Scene From "Happy Days," World's First Talking-Motion Picture Made in Grandeur Film, at The Fox In 1890 William Fox showed magic lantern slides in Fourteenth street, New York. In 1896 he presented Edison's first "moom picksher." In 1926 Fox-Case offered the first talking motion picture with the sound track on film. Now, in 1930, the same William Fox presents Grandeur film, the long awaited triple-vision invention which, it is believed, will revolutionize entertainment and give spectators more thrill. s The first "Grandeur" is "Happy Days," an original melody romance which features Will Rogers, Ann Pennington, Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter, and countless other Fox players who intrigued for the privilege of being in the picture. Grandeur is said to further lessen the gap between illusion and real life. Its sponsors claim for it that it gives stereoscopic or third-dimension effects, together with the magnification of distance. The film, which is double the width of the old standard size film, Carthav Circle Theatre. permits of a wider and more deeply etched sound track which is said to give a more perfect reproduction of the human voice. The new invention is shown on a triple-vision screen of unprecedented proportions which fills the entire proscenium arch ofthe Fox Carthay Circle Theatre. BOBBY VERNON Years ago when Mack Sennett decided to make nothing but slap-stick comedies, he sold Bobby Vernon's contract to the Triangl e Pictures Corporations, and with the sale he broke up the Gloria SwansonBobby Vernon team that was such a tremendous hit with theatregoers, and Gloria finally became one of our greatest screen actresses. With the Christies doing away with their silent pictures, Bobby Vernon, after twelve years as their star comedian, finds himself facing the talkies, and it is only a matter of time before he will gain a real opportunity with one of the major companies and they will have just as great a talkie star in Bobby as they found him to be in the silent fun-films, for his early training in vaudeville and musical comedy would make him such a star. Alice Day Bobby Vernon ALICE DAY Alice Day has been signed by Warner Brothers to play an important role in "Viennese Nights," the original screen operetta now in production. Miss Day will play the leading feminine role in the final sequence of the picture, at a time in the story when the lead as played by Vivienne Segal, is supposed to be a grandmother. In the final scenes Miss Day will play the love interest opposite Alexander Gray, who returns to the picture at that time as his own grandson. "Viennese Nights," by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II, is in the fourth week of active production. Alan Crosland is directing. Walter Pidgeon, Jean Hersholt, Louise Fazenda, Bert Roach, June Pursell and Lotti Loder are also in the cast. ALEXANDER KORDA Quite the most picturesque settings yet built as backgrounds for a motion picture have been constructed on the 100-acre studios at FoxMovietone City in Westwood. There is a French seaport, the decks of a gun running tramp steamer, a Moroccan city and desert fort of the Foreign Legion during a caniDSisrn against Arabs. These are the MAXINE ALTON Just Released: 'THE CALL OF THE CIRCUS" Story, Dialogue and Theme Song b a c kgrounds Alexander Korda against which will be unfolded the vivid drama, with musical interpolations, of an audible production, as yet untitled, which Alexander Korda has started production on at Movietone City. Featured are J. Harold Murray and Fifi Dorsay, the former as the waggering, devil-may-care captain of a gun-running ship and Mile. Dorsay as the gay charmer who enthralls the rough and ready habitues of the "Squinting Cat," a cafe frequented by soldiers of the Legion. Murray, whose glorious voice has charmed millions of musical lovers in the past few years, mostly in Broadway stage productions including "Rio Rita," combines exceptional dramatic ability with his talents as a singer. Fifi Dorsay won appreciation of critics and public alike by her work in "They Had To See Paris" and more laterly in "Hot For Paris." Others who have featured roles in the production include Clyde Cook, George Grossmith, Rose Dione and Ralph Kellerd. Zolton Korda and George Grossmith are credited with the story and Harlan Thompson with the dialogue. 111 ANTONIO MORENO At the Breakfast Club the other morning, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge were the guests of honor of the club and of all the folks who spoke over the microphone and were pho tographed, which included Mary Pickford and the Duncan Sisters. Antonio Moreno said the most sensible things and was most sincere, and his speech appealed to the former chief executive of our land. Mr. Moreno is a credit to the industry that he represents and you can always rely on him to say the proper thing at the proper time, no matter wherever he is or whatever he might be doing in a public gathering. Antonio ivioreno