Hollywood Filmograph (Jan-Dec 1932)

JULY 2, 1932 f\ HOLLYWOOD 1 ZilmoOraprL, DAD SAYS INC. Entered as second-class matter April 13, 1926 at the Post Office, Los Angeles, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published weekly by HOLLYWOOD F1LMOGRAPH, Inc., 1606 Cahuenga, Suite 213-214. (Los Angeles, California, Post Office.) HARRY BURNS, President and Editor Office Phone, Hillside 1146 Vol. 12 Hollywood, California, Saturday, July 2, 1932 No. 24 Barring Agents and Scribes Should Stop The producers' latest indoor sports is to bar an agent or some scribe. The idols that do these things today, should have their heads examined. For they need MAN POWER, good or bad. The only way to LICK YOUR ENEMY WHEN YOU FIND HE IS HOLDING THE BETTER HAND is to take him in with you. Every producer who tried to bar honest men and women who are either representing the Workers, stars, or extras, have struck a hornets' nest. The same goes for the smallest newspaper or magazine representative. It is high lime THAT THE PRODUCERS GET WISE TO THEMSELVES AND STOP PICKING ON THE PEOPLE THAT THEY NEED BADLY TODAY— TO PULL THEM OUT OF A BAD HOLE which may PUT EVERYBODY AMONG THE HAS-BEENS OF YESTERDAY. Moving Movie Throng by John Hall The nationally organized movement to find work for idle Americans is accomplishing great good everywhere — except in Hollywood. • • • Here we have the Motion Picture Relief Fund, conducted by a pitifully few valiant men and women. The motion picture industry is giving them \Zl °f ' per cent of certain pay checks. Private donalions are woefully inadequate — disgracefully so. m • • Superlative Motion Picture Hollywood, in its first real test, is superlatively miserly. John Hall Its superlative stars, with shamefully few exceptions, and its superlative multi-millionaire producers, are superlatively stingy when they should be giving "until it hurts." ° • • Motion Picture Hollywood is not living up to its superlatives. Adjectives fall flat. The "Fourth Greatest Industry" and its multimillionaires are not doing their bit. In this Glittering Golconda in the Land of the Setting Sun the "Bigger and Better" idea blows out like a punctured lire. — BUT • • • We have Bigger and Better Pictures, cars, swimming pools, stars, stories, premiers, beach colonies, etc., and the Littlest Organized Aid to Hungry Men and Women during the Nation's Darkest Hour. • • • Perhaps it will be of interest to many of our sleekly prosperous stars and producers to know that our nationally organized "Create a Job" movement is backed by all Veteran organizations, organized labor confederated women's clubs and a few hundred thousand business men; incidentally, the United Slates Government (when it gels to it) will take a hand. // may be noted in passing that the above mentioned organized groups, with their private citizen cohorts, total some seven millions. Men representing more than three million Veterans are camped in our national capital. Hollywood seems strangely disinterested in the activities of these Americans and their cause. And when We say Hollywood, we mean Motion Picture Hollywood and its hugely rich stars and producers. If these people did their bit, the Motion Picture Relief Fund would have in its coffers at least $1,000,000. • • • Americans are beginning to ask, "why are the Hollywood producers importing so many foreigners and buying and producing so many foreign stories and plays while our own people are going jobless and hungry? Organized workers. Veterans and women's clubs are beginning to take a great interest. In their meetings, they are discussing the matter, looking to some kind of formal action. • • • Flat on his back and Wondering where the next meal is coming from, the man in the street, the cash paying (when he has the cash) movie fan, resents the importation of foreign players while his countrymen need the work. Strange that the (in Hollywood) Mighty Movie Moguls cannot understand that Americans see — and bitterly resent — their continuing importation of foreigners and total disregard of their obligation to employ Americans FIRST. • • i • /( cannot be claimed that the foreign market demands foreign players. The foreign market is less than 25% of the gross of any production. Our own people pay 75 to 80%. This crutch knocked from under Hollywood producers, they are without a legitimate excuse — except patriotism for homelands. This is the time for them really to forget the "old country" and take from gathering dust their citizenship papers and read them. • * • Embarrassing, eh? The interested attitude of the Veterans and organized labor is indeed embarrassing to all who ignore present critical conditions and think only of their own pockelbooks. The Veterans are wondering why our producers MUST glorify foreigners and ignore the American army. The proposed glorification of a foreign war ace by one of our large producers is not being cheered by our Veterans. • • • All of which may seem Very commonplace ; just piffle, in line with the usual American feeling anenl such things. However, conditions have reached such a low slate thai these things now stand out in clear and menacing outline. Eleven million American men and women are out of work. The time to spend every dollar in America is NOW I IT IS THE DUTY *OF OUR RICH STARS AND PRODUCERS TO RAISE FOR THE MOTION PICTURE RELIEF FUND NOT LESS THAN $1,000,000. DAD cast . the Se Leon Waycoff has just finished in "Thirteen Women," R.K.O.-Radio . . . Victor Schertzinger, so it is said, will direct "All the Evidence" for J. G. Bachman . . . Ernestine SchumannHeink to sing at the Greek Theater, June 27 . . . Joseph I. Schnilzer signs Lee Tracy . . . Universal to produce "All American," a football story . . . Bebe Daniels to star in "The Radio Girl," W.F.N Walter Heirs has a spot in Charles R. Rogers p r o d u c I i on, "Seventy Thousand Witnesses" . . . Big Boy Williams also in Columbia to film "The Bottom of ■ . . Ann Dvorak not in cast of Cecil De Mille's picture, "The Sign of the Cross" . . . 'Tis said June Clyde replaces Sidney Fox in "Once in a Lifetime," Universal . . . Dolores Del Rio may be seen in a vaudeville turn . . . Archie Mayo, so it is Written, will direct one picture for Paramount . . . Fanchon &■ Marco have booked At Jolosn and Eddie Cantor for the summer season . . . J oe-props-McGurks is a papa . . . Vera Gordon returns to Hollywood from a big lime vaudeville lour . . . Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon to do a turn in Vaudeville . . . Columbia to star Rex, the wonder horse, in "Wild Horse Stampede" . . . Gene Raymond and Frances Dee learned in "The Night of July Thirteen," Paramount . . . Belle Bennett is in a Harrisburg, Pa., hospital . . . Niles Welch in cast of Tim McCoy's picture, "Long Loop Laramie," Raymond also in cast . . . Harry Garat, French actor, signed by Fox . . . Janet Caynor may star in "Mary Gallant" — Fox . . . R.K.O.Radio giving Mary Mason of the Pasadena Community players a "try-out" . . . Betty Furness slated for a spot in "Fraternity House" at the same studio . . . M.G.M. may sign Jane Barrett, Mrs. Ernest Truex, for one picture . . . Tommy Conlon, 14year old actor in cast of "The Sign of the Cross" — Paramount . . . Patricia Ellis in cast of "Three on a Match" — W. F. N. . . . Karl Brown writing "State Trooper" for Columbia. News item says that Herbert Marshall will be the star in "Cavalcade," Frank Borzage directs — Fox . . . Robert Armstrong in cast of "Kong"— R.K.O.-Radio . . . Alan Delano, stage director, joins R.K.O.-Radio s directorial staff . . . Harry Edington now Ann Harding's business manager . . . Elissa Landi in cast of "The Night of July 13"— Paramount — Chic Sale wanted for this picture . . . same studio to produce "Washington, Here We Are," Bonus Army story . . . "Jerry of the Jungle," a female Tarzan story, to be produced by Columbia . . . Kay Francis and Herbert Marshall have the leads in "Honest Finders," Ernest Lubiisch directs — Paramount . . . Junior Durkin in cast of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," at same studio . . . Columbia wants Chester Morris for "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" . . ■ "Farewell to Arms," goes into rehearsal early next month . . . Preston Foster in cast of "The Last Mile," Samuel Bischoff himself, directs— Tiffany . . . Warren Hymer left for New York to join "Madison Square Garden," Charles R. Rogers' production . . . "Green Pastures" will be filmed and King Vidor will direct — Wait . . . and "Beggars on Horseback" also will be made into a talker . . . George Barbier has a good spot in "Phantom President," George M. Cohan's picture . . . Wallace MacDonald has the lead in "Vanishing Race" — Darmour production . . . Fritz Feld in Berlin. His mother passed away on May 18 . . . Baby Pegg, now thirteen, with the "Three Gleasons" in "The Pinch Hitter" of "Jerry of the Journal" series . . . NOTICE — Jimmie Cleason — Made "The Ghost Writer." IN HOLLYWOOD NOW By Bud Murray BUD MURRAY The Annual election of officers — The Masquers, IN HOLLYWOOD, NOW— Sam Hardy, a former Harlequin, followed Antonio Moreno, last year's Harlequin — Sam Hardy was elected unanimously. On the rostrum some of the officers, going apd coming , Were Jean Hersholl, Lee Moran, Eddie Earl, Walter Heirs, Lawrence Grant, Harry Joe Brown, John Sainpolis, Willie Collier, Sr., Mitchell Lewis, Don Lee, Patrick J. Cooney, and among the Voters in the audience, Georgie Harris, Maurice Kusell, G. Pat Collins, Little Billy, Tyler Brooke, and with a few parting shots by Willie Collier, Sr., and Sam Hardy, in quick order the meeting closed, IN HOLLYWOOD. (Sam Hardy hales publicity so he is only mentioned four limes in a paragraph.) Dropt in to see the Olsen &Johnson Madhouse— Wotashow — and how Chick and Oley labor in this opus — Lew Cody getting the plug — Ginger Rogers and some of her girl friends being pickt on by Oley — Alan Mowbray down in front — Juanita Hansen — John P. Medbury one of the visiting firemen — Vladi Gulerson, the house orchestra leader, putting on a fine overture with musical comedy class. At the Olympic Files — rubbing it in with 30 cents added to the $3 for very bad files, and there wasn't a corporal's guard in attendance— we did spy a flock of our boy friends in the white linen suits — Georgie Stone, just back from a tour — Tom Patricola lounging in six seals in the balcony — Charley Mack, also a dash in while and even Nate Stein, a while salorial art picture — Joe E. Brown attending his first file since his recent illness — Mrs. Joe E. Brown at his side — Bing Crosby and his bride down in front — ■ the four Marx Brothers, (count 'em) — and so lo the Brown Derby for a bit of 'snack' with the Quillan Boys, Johnny and Eddie, who can always give you an adverse argument on the files — seeing it from the balcony — Ivan Lebedeff the "monocle-man" — Peanuts Byron — Bill Halligan wearing a leather jerkin— Frank Fay in a booth — "Skeels" Gallagher around places — Nick, the head-man, still holding his own, IN HOLLYWOOD, NOW. To the Friday Nile Files — Si Bartleit and Alice White at ringside — Charley Mosconi acting as one of the judges — Lord knows you need a Dance master lo judge those "stumblepegs" who think they file at this club — So here is a flock of stage and screen comics,Bobby Woolsey, Walter Catletl, Eddie Borden, W . C. Fields, Ned Sparks, and again the four Marx Brothers — B.B.B., and then, too, John Gilbert and the "blonde" — George Bancroft — Babe Kane and her Ma — Sidney Mitchell, the "Pent-house" Tailor man, (he writes songs loo) — Harry Weber and son — Jack Lewis with his play-male Mushy Callahan — Daryll Zanuck, Warner exec, back after the European tour — and then to an early a.m. audilion of the RKO OPPORTUNITY REVUE, which plays the Week of the 16 of July at the local RKO house — Why there were thousands — and still they come — Wilbur Cushman, on the book — Jake Rosenstein handling the publicity, and thai speed demon, "Speed Borst," the managerial head — Ben Serkovich, head publicity man on the West Coast — a few Words with Mori Singer, a "real" showman — and so back to the Hollywood studios IN HOLLYWOOD, NOW. The Barrymore's — six of them — in cast of "Rasputin"— M.G.M. . . . Lew Ayers will not have the lead in "Laughing Boy" — Universal . . . M.G.M. may sign Billie Dove to term contract .