Hollywood Filmograph (Jan-Dec 1932)

JULY 16, 1932 fi 1 HOLLYWOOD 1 lmodraprL Entered as second class matter April 13, i 926 at the Post Office, Los Angeles, California, under the act of March 3, 1879. Published weekly by HOLLYWOOD FILMOGRAPH, Inc., 1606 Cahuenga, Suite 213214. (Los Angeles, California, Post Office.) HARRY BURNS, President and Editor Office Phone, Hillside 1146 DAD SAYS Vol. 12 Hollywood, California, Saturday, July 16, 1932 No. 26 Chin Up — Look Straight Ahead We have been looking downward long enough and it is about lime we raise our CHIN UP AND LOOK STRAIGHT AHEAD. To our way of thinking we have struck bottom and dropped as low as we can go and are on the rise again. Everybody seems to have learned their lesson about this old life of ours. From now on we will have to start a "NO-MORE-CARE" CLUB and leave our troubles outside of our doors. "WRAP YOUR TROUBLES IN DREAMS" is a song published by a London firm and we borrow that caption to further our argument for this't editorial. ALL IS BRIGHT AND FAIR, even our unusual weather. FOGS AND WINDS rush down on us when we least expect them, but they soon fade into nothingness and ALL IS QUIET and STILL and PEACEFUL. So— CHIN UP— LOOK STRAIGHT AHEAD— don t look back lest you stumble on your way to greater success than you have ever hoped for. DEPRESION has made a hasty exit to make room for more HAPPINESS. John Hall A well known wriler calls a conference "an intensification of the gregarious instinct." Hollywood victims of "conferences" don't call them that. By and large, the conferees wouldn't "get" them. 9 • • These literary fellers, when firing at Hollywood, should be a trifle more selective. All Hollywood reporters should remember to be simple. • • • Witness t h e highbrow stuff from a prominent trade Weekly : "Blank Was informed that the studio had no further supervisionary work for him at present, and he could remain at his Malibu Beach home until such time as his services were required." • • • For the benefit of the uninitiated, Blank is a supervisor and he was on his Way — er, er, — on a Vacation. • • • Now Malibu Beach is a dandy place for visionaries — even super-visionaries. And any Hollywood Supervisor rich enough to own, or even rent a Malibu Beach bungalow has a lot more than visions. • • • The Supervisor gifted with super-visionary powers need not strain his vision to understand that his sentence to Malibu Beach is the result of an executive rash hidden under "an intensification of the gregarious instinct," known to all official Hollywood as a 'conference." • • • Being super-visionary, he will strongly suspect that the Big Boys at the studio don't want him around. The fact that he is officially invited to take an indefinite vacation at Malibu, where go all Hollywood's great, is indeed Very suspicious. Maybe they don't want him any more, and are using this gentle scheme to break the bad news. You know, for some mysterious reason, the Malibu crowd is rushing Santa Barbara during week-ends. They are going away from there. • • • Supervisors gifted with super-visionary powers are gentle souls, seldom noticed by anybody below the rank of studio watchman, who have to notice everybody to hold their jobs. Knowing this, the Big Boys use the gentle indirect method with them. They invite them to lake an indefinite vacation "until their services are required." Thai's where Malibu comes in. We wonder if that's why everybody is running away from it? o • • Super-visionaries are just like that. Time was when Hollywood supervisors were tough guys; real hard-boiled eggs. When their detractors started forgetting all but the "egg" — supervisors became "Unit production managers." The "egg" was too adaptable to be tolerated. To call a super-visionary production manager an "egg" is grossly undignified. Only the gods among men can be super-visionary — until the "gregarious instinct" of the Big Shots becomes "intensified." After that — "Goodby, and close the doors as you go out. Here's more of it: "The country at last appears to be recovering from its economic "After all, a banker cannot avoid his trusteeship. He is custodian of his depositors funds . . . ." "Unfortunately, the somewhat pessimistic belief that human nature is so constituted that many of us are unable to profit from experience is not lacking in substantiation. The above is from the president of a large and important bank. And when important bankers talk like that, why make a joke at the expense of innocent, hard-working and honest movie magnates showing "an intensification of the gregarious instinct?" It ain't fair. • • • Just now the gregarious instinct has Hollywood producers "farming out" to each other their best box-office stars, which is indeed becoming Very gregarious, not to forget altruistic. It is Very unusual. Super-visionary supervisors are having a tough lime being insulted by big stars from other studios. A "borrowed" star, being chided by a sensaiive super-visionary supervisor for reporting for work at 4 p. m., instead of 8 a. m., wisecracked the gentle soul until the juciers and "grips" of the home plant glared the haughty one to silence. Poor thing Hollywood is becoming highbrow. Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey reunited to make "In the jungle" for Columbia . . . Welford Beaton Writes a text book titled "Know Your Movies" . . . ]. Frank MacDonald has an important role in "Free, White and Twenty-One" starring Constance Bennett, George Fitzmaurice directs . . . David Torrance in cast of "Smilin Thru" M.G.M. . . . Millard Webb, director, writes an original screen story called "Ladies of the Press" . . . Ben Lyon signs for lead in "Crooked Circle" . . . Lucky Humberstone directs for Educational World-Wide Piclures . . . Al Green to direct Edward Robinson in "The Silver Dollar" for W. F. N. Belle Davis has the lead . . . Norman Foster plays opposite Sally Eilers in "The Hat Check Girl" — Fox . . . Raymond Hallon, C. Henry Gordon and Burton Churchill are in the cast of "The Crooked Circle" E.W.W. . . . Perc Wesimore made jean Harlow's wig for "The Red Headed Woman." It's a masterpiece. Charles Erskin replaces Harry D'Arrast as director for Al jolson's picture "The New Yorker" . . . Corinne Griffith may sign for one of the feminine leads in "Animal Kingdom" . . . Don Dilloway has a spot in "Night Mayor" — Columbia . . . Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy off for Europe, back by September I . . . Maria Alba in cast of "Hypnotized"— at Mack Senneit . . . Zazu Pitts and Slim Summerville to be featured in "Silk Stockings" by Universal . . . Constance Cummings has the feminine lead in Jack Holt's picture, "Polo" — Columbia. Al Santell to direct Janet Caynor and Charles Farrell in "Tess of the Storm Country"-— Fox . . . Lyon Talbott has the romantic lead in "The Thirteenth Guest", Al Ray directs for M. H. Hoffman . . . Norma Shearer's next picture is "Salute" M.G.M. . . . E. H. Griffith directs "Animal Kingdom", R.K.O.-Radio . . . Lois Wilson not Veree Teardale in cast of Jackie Cooper's picture "Father and Son", M.G.M. Constance Cummings plays opposite Charles Bickford in "The Thirteenth Man" — Columbia . . . Wilson Mizner's story, "Hollywood Ballyhoo," to be produced by Educational World-Wide Pictures . . . Ken Maynard to make eight westerns for the same company . . . Paramount to star George Raft in "Manhattan Rhythm", Gary Grant ir, ( asl . . . Roland Young has the lead in "Wedding Rehearsal" . . . Marion Nixon has the feminine lead in Charles R. Rogers' production "Madison Square Garden" . . . Marian Marsh plays opposite Reginald Denny in "All the Evidence," Jack Bachman production. David Manners has the juvenile lead in "Bill of Divorcement," R.K.O.-Radio . . . Richard Wallace to direct "If I had a Million" for Paramount . . . Robert McWade in cast of "Once in a Lifetime" at Universal . . . Mack Senneit to direct one scene in 'The Kid from Spain," Eddie Cantor s picture . . . Joyce Compton signed by M. H. Hoffman. Wynne Gibson has an important role in "Night After Night," Archie Mayo directs for Paramount . . . Helen Swordling, a newcomer, in Eddie Cantor's picture, "The Kid from Spain" . . . Benny Rubin — himself ■—to star in "The Comeback," produced at the Majestic Studios. Among the folks recuperating al the La V'.da Mineral Springs we had the pleasure of meeting the ever popular social executive of the Breakfast Club of Los Angeles, Nan C. Norris. Would like to see Mrs. Tom Mix in a two-reel acrobatic comedy. Tom himself can perform a couple of acrobatic stunts . . . "Jail Bail," Al Marlins new book, out soon — it's a corker . . . Hardie Albright has a big spot in "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing," William Wellman directs — W. F.N. . . . Creighlon Hale — remember him — in cast of "The Most Dangerous Game" — R.K.O.-Radio . . . Ross Lederman lo direct IN HOLLYWOOD NOW By Bud Murray BUD MURRAY Up at 7 a. m. for breakfast — at the Breakfast Club — where a special morning featuring the majority of the cast and chorus of the "Record-RKO -Opportunity National" contest — which opens today al the Orpheum Theatre, for one week's engagement — Staged by Wilbur Cushman (producer) and "Ripley It or Not," we did the dances and ensembles — (75 people — count 'em) — You must come over. Nick Lucas crooned several o I d timers at the "Hammandeggfest," Wonderfully received — Tom Mix blew in without his horse — his Missus got a big hand — Bumped into one of the old school press agents whom We Workl with many, many years ago, with the "good ole Shuberls" — we refer to Frank Wilstach, who has been with Will Hays for some time, and also writes books as a side-line — Al Rogel, the motion picture director, on the list of guests — Mr. R. D. Moss, manager of the Orpheum at the same table — Mr. Greenberg, one of the head brothers of the noted Western Costume Company — Everywhere you look you see a Greenberg — just like the Marx Brothers — and so to another rehearsal of the RKO Revue — where Vladi Guierson, Maestro of th Orpheum Theatre, drops in to have a "look-see" at the amateur ReVue — Bern Bern-W ard back from the East after a long tour looking for new talent — Ken Daley ventures a peep too — One of the Meiklejohns giving the Eagle eye lo the embryo stars, and there are plenty of them in HOLLYWOOD, NOW. Al the Friday Nile Files we chaperoned Ben Bard, who has seen the light of day and says he never realized there were so many human beings IN HOLLYWOOD, NOW. During his convalecing period, he received hundreds of wires and letters of sympathy, and Well wishes from people he never dreamed of — To hear Ben talk one would think he was turning "Evangelist" — But he has the "RITE" idea— The influx still is on— We noticed Sid Silvers, the up and coming dialogue writer, back in town — George Riley of Heller and Riley, back after a long eastern Vaudeville tour — L. Wolfe Gilbert one of the old school song-writers, when Tin-pan alley was an alley — Andy Rice, Jr., has been away a long lime — and so to a midniie ride to Mr. and Mrs. Ben Bard's cute little home on the hillside, where the charming (Missus) Ruth Roland is busily engaged writing a long gabfesl, and how we went back over the days gone by — the good old "Farm Days," up in Noo Yawk State, and then home to our Town "shack" in HOLLYWOOD, NOW. To the Friday Nile Files, we had Rob Roy, sports writer of San Francisco, a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Brooks, (local oil man) and Ballet Mistress (that's the Missus) Rob got a great kick out of three knock-outs in a row — On our left we had Mrs. Jack Lewis and our old playmate Fern Redmond — Arthur Klein, one of the most noted Noo Yawk booking men, now with Lyons & Lyons —In HOLLYWOOD, NOW. To the Jonathan Beach Club with the Brooks' and Helen Burroughs and Bud Beck — bumped into Walter Heirs — Noticed Pat O'Brien on the Fairway — Mr. and Mrs. Al Herman winning prizes — A new foreign find in Lupila Tovar, the Mexican Mary Pickford, is also IN HOLLYWOOD, NOW. "Soldiers of the Storm" — Columbia .... Mack Sennetl lo star Bing Crosby in "The Girl in the Transom" . . . George Sidney and Ernest Torrance teamed in "Scotch and Soda" — Reliance Film Co. . . . Louise Fazenda plays the columnist in "Once in a Lifetime" — Universal.