Hollywood Filmograph (Jan-Jul 1930)

14 May 10, 1930 Alfred Hertz is to Return to the Bowl Things Are Looking Up Around the Studios 'Symphonies Under the Stars' Concerts to Start July 8th Guest conductors and soloists for the forthcoming season at the Hollywood Bowl have just been announced by Glenn M. Tindall, business manager. This will be the ninth series of these world famous "Symphonies Under the Stars," featuring an orchestra of 100 notable musicians. Thirty-two concerts are on the 8weeks' schedule, beginning Tuesday evening, July 8, and continuing to Saturday evening, August 30. Following the usual custom, concerts will be given on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Alfred Hertz, distinguished maestro who conducted the initial Hollywood Bowl concert in 1922, will be at the baton for the opening concert July 8, and will continue for the first week. Hertz has just concluded his fifteenth year as conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Karl Krueger, director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, will conduct the week of July 15. Bernardino Molinari, who proved so popular here the last two summers, returns again to conduct for four weeks, July 22, July 29, August 5 and Augst 12. He is coming to Hollywood direct from Italy for this engagement. Pietro Cimini will be at the baton for one concert, August 19. And Enrique Arbos, brilliant Spanish conductor, will direct the Bowl symphonies the final two weeks, from August 21 to 30. Soloists already signed for this season are Elsa Alsen, soprano; Richard Crooks, tenor; Percy Grainger, pianist, and Margaret Matzenauer, mezzo soprano. Negotiations for other soloists, ballets and innovations are practically completed, and will be announced during the next fortnight. Officers of the Hollywood Bowl Association this year are Allan C. Balch, president and general manager; E. N. Martin, first vice president; C. E. Toberman, second vice president; Mrs. Burdette Norton, secretary; M. F. Palmer, treasurer, and Glenn M. Tindall, business manager. The music committee includes Mrs. Blanche Rogers Lott, Patterson Greene, Isabel Morse Jones, Mrs. J. Boyce Smith, Bruno David Ussher, Miss Katherine Stone, Carl Bronson, Jay Plowe and Arthur Alexander. * <• 1 E. V. Durling, editorial supervisor of Darmour-RKO, and Frank Dexter, technical director of the same company, have arranged for ringside seats at the Sharkey-Schmelling fight to be held in New York early in June. The boys will travel by plane. Dexter backs Schmelling and Durling takes Sharkey, loser to pay all expenses. AL JOLSON (Center) Introduces Lois Moran to Louise Dresser, while Lowell Sherman and Hobart Bosworth look on to their heart's content. This is a scene taken at the railway depot in "Mammy" which is the "King of Jazz Singer's" best and most colorful picture, directed by Michael Curtiz, and which just closed it's engagement at the Warner Down Town Theatre. YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1928 shares for this security in new York and in San Francisco. Yet, because of the disturbance in the market and the excitement attending the trading there is little arbiterage between the two cities is going on. brokers say. They are literally afraid to touch it." Almost half a billion dollars has been clipped from the open market value of Bancitaly in less than half a month. The corporation has 5,200,000 shares outstanding, and they were worth at yesterday's closing price of 132, an aggregate of $886,400,000. This compares with an aggregate market value of $1,159,600,000^ on April 30, when they sold at their best price of 223. Trading Swamps Exchange The Stock Exchange found itself unable to handle the 5,052,790 shares Fidelity Investment Insurance Agency 208 Beller-Gittelson Bldg. 6513 Hollywood Boulevard Hollywood, California Actors Should Hold On As Better Times Are Due Considering that Universal studios are opening after a month's shutdown, and that feature productions requiring the services of hundreds of extras are under way at Warner Brothers, Paramount, First National, Fox, Pathe, RKO and Tiffany studios, film prospects for the month of May should prove particularly bright for thousands of Hollywood movie workers. Prominent among the productions offering employment for extras and players during this month will be the Fox picture, "The Oregon Trail," in which Raoul Walsh, the director, purposes to use more than 20,000 extras! Mary Pickford's new film, "Billy the Kid," at M-G-M; "Whoopee," the Sam Goldwyn-Florenz Ziegfeld picture at United Artists, and Ernst Lubitsch's new production, "Monte Carlo," at Paramount, offer plenty of work to extras of Los Angeles' film colony. Pan-American studio will start work on its $1,000,000 production based on the history of the State of Texas, according to latest reports. Hal Roach Studios open up again this month on a vast program of production. Despite the fact that film production last month was off, as compared to production in April, 1929, the studios are getting under way so rapidly that it has been said the peak will be reached during May. Based on figures we have, 85 films are shooting, 146 preparing and 42 in the process of editing and cutting. A year ago 88 were shooting, 87 preparing and 11 cutting. i 1 i BERT WOODRUFF One of the real character actors of the screen, who has not been seen in pictures for some time, is Bert Woodruff, producers surely must not lose track of this veteran of stage and screen, for he has much in his present days to offer, the public love to see real troupers in action, and who can deny that "Bert" doesn't number among the very best men in his chosen calling.