Hollywood Filmograph (Jan-Dec 1932)

OCT. 8, 1932 1 HOLLVWOOD Imotirai K*ap C/ INC k X K*S INC Subscrip'ion Rale: $4.00 Per Year Entered as second class matter April 13, 1926 at the Post Office, Los Angeles, Calif or' nia, 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 HOLLYWOOD IN N. Y. By Bud Murray DAD fAVf \'ol. 12 Hollywood, California, Saturday, Oct. 8, 1932 No. 38 The Golden Rule "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is The Golden Rule. How many people live anywhere near this God-given privilege to serve humanity? If we followed this in our every day life — our business and rur thnking — this world of ours would be a fine place in which to live, and there would be less people doing away with themselves. Many are doing everything they can to kill themselves, only their death is a slow one, while those who have failed in their fight DO AWAY WITH THEMSELVES QUICKLY. There is plenty of work for everybody only some people are not as lazy as others and go out and seek it. Others sit around waiting, worrying, and wondering why they fail to get the job the other fellow has. STOP WASTING YOUR VALUABLE TIME TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE OTHER FELLOW— FOLLOW THE GOLDEN RULE OF GIVING HIM THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. IF HE IS WRONG HE WILL GET HIS JUST DESERTS. No one expects you to carry the world on your shoulders. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF— Give your fellow man all the breaks you can, and who knows, when you least expect it— HE WILL HELP YOU GET YOUR BREAK. The office boy of today may be the president of the company tomorrow. Such things have happened. SO BE KIND AND THOUGHTFUL— remember THERE IS A ROUND TRIP TICKET— LIFE IS JUST A BOOMERANG— IT WILL KICK BACK AT YOU— unless you follow the GOLDEN RULE— and GIVE AND TAKE— mostly GIVING— Follow this DAY BY DAY and in EVERY WAY— You will be getting BETTER AND BETTER RESULTS— Not only for yourself, but also for THOSE WHO ARE NEAR AND DEAR TO YOU— but above all, YOUR FELLOW MAN— Do it today— FOR HUMANITY'S SAKE! Moving Movie Throng by John Hall If half the picture reviewers know what they are talking about, the day of the Hollywood cameraman has arrived. • • • "Story, poor. Direction, mediocre. Photography, excellent." So write the review boys. North, South, East and West. The cameramen are "stealing more feature pictures than the stars, directors and writers. • • • In reviews of 12 feature pictures, with famous stars, only the photography is praised. Blonde Venus" is pronounced a "failure"— with good photography. "Mr. Robinson Crusoe" is damned with faint praise," John Hall though "refreshing ly wholesome, more suited lo children." "The beauty of its backgrounds is acknowledged." • • • Says another reviewer: "Vivienne Osborne proved herself a fine actress and was photographed most creditably by Charles Schoenbaum ... In fact, the camera work throughout was noiable — , and the directing was aw ful. Let's forget names of the victims. • • • One by one the clickless films come and go. and the "Photography good" line is the sole survivor. The cameramen have their hour, and they should make the most of it. • • • CURRENT PICTURES: "Redheaded Woman" portrays a morally rotten female, a rrcumslance doubly deplorable because the part is played by Jean Harlow, a recent widow of some note. For psychological reasons, this film should be shelved. The frankly vul gar wanton "shoots the works," and an added atrocity is a tuneless, meaningless theme song, named after the picture. How did this thing get by the Hays office? • • • .... In the end Kate finds happiness :n marriage and virtue has its reward . . . PROVIDED YOU FEEL THAT WAY ABOUT MATRIMONY."— Harriet Parsons, substituting for her mother, Louella O. Parsons, film editor of Heart's Universal Service. The capitals are our own. This line of thought, supposedly typical of a modern young sophisticate, has all the earmarks of being convincing proof of the truth of the old adage: "Chickens come home to roost." O. K., Mr. Hearst! • • • What's this? Another Charles Chaplin romance? For punishment, that guy must be a Joe Grim, Battling Nelson and Ad Wolgast, all in one. • • • Uncle Carl Laemmle, Universal's head — and brains — , has a new grandson. Now Uncle Carl is going to New York and Europe to enjoy a much needed rest from work. His rest will be devoted to straightening out his offices in New York, London, Berlin and Paris and shaking hands with the old folks in Laupheim. Oh, yes; Harry Zehner, who left "U" to handle the busines of Joe E. Brown, is back in the fold, again at his old desk. Harry is well liked by all. • • • Should Tom Mix know how to make westerns? Does a chicken know how to lay an egg? Can a duck swim? Foolish questions, all. Tom knows what he wants, and he knows what his millions of fans, young and old, expect of him — and TONY. Tom and Tony must appear in he-man and he-horse pictures. No pansy stuff for that team. Tom is just ONE kind of hero, and that hero wears Tom Mix western clothes, rdes Tony, BUD MURRAY (En route to Noo Yawk) — Your HOLLYWOOD correspondent, on 24 hours' notice— hops a rattler for NOO YAWK — our old Boss, Franklyn Warner on the same train — All nite long we listened to his stories about the "sword fish" he didn't catch — This is what drives men like Harry Cohan, Zane Grey, Al Christie, Gary Cooper and many others NUTS — Maybe that's what's wrong with pictures during the SWORD FISH SEASON— IN HOLLYWOOD. Mrs. Murray and daughter Martha, saw the train pull out — At the station we bumped into Bobby Clark of Clark & McCulloch— Doc Rambo introduced us to Bing Crosby's sister-m-law, on same train — Afond farewell to our faithful crew, operating our School for Stage and Screen — Byron Cramer, Mary Frances Taylor, Madge Cleveland and Margaret Reynolds — and so we start on a return trip we started, over four years ago, when we came out for "Good News" What a "kittenish feeling" it is to be on your way to the "beeg-town" — and so with thoughts intermingled with HOLLYWOOD and BROADWAY-To bed. (en route). First day, out 7 a. m., a beautiful azure blue sky with white fleecy clouds greet us — and from Golden California, thru Arizona — Farmers tiling soil — acres and acres of vast stretches of land — no turmoil — A couple of playful horses prick up their ears— dash across the field looking wild-eyed at our train — Farmers stop working for a second to wave— (a good old-fashioned custom) — The peaceful workers seem to be living just as well as ever, only now they have the Radio to carry them to the ends of the World— and the auto to take them to near-by towns — The conductor informs us as we are 7500 feet above sea level— So we pull into Albuquerque, and there is that same lone Indian selling "pol,eT" — We passed him five years ago — Talk about your "champeen sitter-uppers" — Bill Beaudine, Gene Delmar and Andy Devine — So thru the nite — New Mexico and Colorado—9 a. m. Kansas— All day until 10:30 p. m. when we hit Kansas City — Kansas — Corn Belt — Cattle — Busy people — Five years ago cattle averaged $12 a head, now it's $30 — That doesn't seem like the country is on rocks — (Politicians cannot spoil these facts) — By the way, after looking at the state of Kansas thru a train window steadily for 12 hours—Tell Walter Huston, as Rev. Davidson in "Ra:n" at the Chinese Theatre, that all his talk about "those beautiful hills in Kansas" :s all a fake — There are no hills in Kansas—It's all FLAT— NOT LIKE HOLLYWOOD. Kansas City (stop-over) On our merry way thru the Nite and early in the a. m. CHEE-CHA-GO— Perry Askam in the Fanchon & Marco Unit "Desert Song" playing here — Drop into the Shubert offices here — chat with John J. Garrity, Shubert representative here — Sue Carol and Nick Stuart — Daphne Pollard at the Palace Theatre — Olsen & Johnson — the Siamese Twins "Hilton Sisters" and so back on the rattler for the last lap— HOLLYWOOD on BROADWAY— we'll be writin' yah all about our HOLLYWOOD playmates in Noo Yawk— (if we make all the new nite-spots). S'long HOLLYWOOD. hates hard drink and cigarettes and licks the deviltry out of all the tough guys he meets. That's Tom and Tony. • • • "We must have entertainment to get people into the theatres and send them home with a desire to return for the next change of program, says a trade paper. Thai's right. Entertainment IS important. Strange that so few in pictures think about this matter. A stern reminder might do some good. Let's hope so. You know; when you make a pic — Oh, Well; you tell 'em, Jason. us own story DAD Stanley Bergman, to supervise five big features for Universal . . . Including "Skulls," Charley Ruggles, in cast of B. P. Schulberg's production "Madame Butterfly" . . . George Bancroft to be starred by Reliance Pictures — Small and Goetz in "If Christ Came to Chicago" . . . Reliance will feature Edmund Lowe in "I Cover the Waterfront . . . and Lilyan Tashman in "Style" . . . Fifi Dorsay in cast of "A Pair of Silk Stockings" at Universal . . . "Lucky Humberstone to direct "King of the Jungle" for Paramount . . . Jimmy Caghey back on WFN lot, Mervyn Le Roy to direct him in "Bad Boy," former title "Lowdown," Bette Davis has feminine lead . . . William Cupples, Champion Swimmer, in cast of "Tarzan, the Fearless" — Sol Lusser production . . . Paramount will star Mae West in "Bowery Girl," it's her own original . . . Robert Florey slated to direct "Blue Moon" for WFN . . . Richard B. Harrison, who plays "the Lawd" in "Green Pastures," passed his 68th milestone Sept. 28 . . . Loretta Young in cast of "Grand Slam" at WFN . . . Sidney Lanfield to direct Norman Foster in "Pleasure Cruise," Genevieve Tobin and Zasu Pitts in spots . . . Warren Hymer and Frank Morgan have big roles in Charles R. Rogers "Billion Dollar Swindle" . . . Mary Brian has the lead in "The Trail," Phil Goldstone production at Tiffany . . . Don Cook in cast of "Common Ground," Ruth Chatterton's picture for WFN . . . Watterson Rothacter to produce "The Lost World" for Paramount . . . Felix Young to become an independent producer . . . Harry Lachman to direct "The Face in the Sky" for Fox . . . Charles Farrel and El. Brendel are in the cast . . . Roscoe Karns with George Raft in "Undercover Man" — Paramount . . . Lou Breslau writes screen version of "East of Fifth Avenue" for Columbia . . . Eddie Nugent in cast of "Forty-second Street" at WFN . . . Charles Murray in cast of "Courting Trouble," Mack Sennett's two-reeler . . . Madge Bellamy making a hit in "Intermission" stage play in San Francisco . . . Buster Phelps takes Tommy Chaplin's place in "Divided by Two," former title "Little Teacher," at Fox . . . Louise Fazenda and Lew Cody have spots in Phil Goldstone's picture "The Trail" at Tiffany . . . Ramon Novarro slated to play opposite Helen Hayes in "SonDaughter" — M-G-M . . . Harrison Wiley joins Charles R. Rogers productions as art director, formerly with Columbia. Dick Henderson, Jr., son of Dick Henderson, English pantomimist, Sheila McGill, daughter of Patrick McGill, famous Irish poet, Douglas Scott and Juanita Granville, four children, in cast of "Cavalcade" at Fox . . . Ben Markson is writing an original for Bill Boyd at RKO-Radio . . . Paul Lukas has the lead in "Grand Slam" which Al Green directs for WFN . . . "Murder on the Blackboard," by Stuart Palmer, author of "The Penguin Pool Murder," bought by RKO-Radio . . . Leila Hyams has a spot in "Island of Lost Souls" at Paramount . . . Nancy Carroll plays opposite George Raft in "Undercover Man" at Paramount . . . James Dunn plays the reporter in "State Fair" at Fox . . . After four years, Violet Clark Freeman returns to Hollywood and joins Paramount's writing staff . . . Samuel Orkow is adapting "The Infernal Machine" at Fox . . . Mark Sandrich is directing "So This Is Harris," featuring Phil Harris in a new kinda somewhat different two-reel comedy at RKO-Radio . . . Richard Cromwell pjays the role of Tom Lee in "Son-Daughter" — M-G-M . . . Bert Roach in cast of "Evenings for Sale" at Paramount . . . Roy Del Ruth planning yacht trip to Honolulu with his wife.