Hollywood Motion Picture Review (1944)

Vol. I — No. 21 Movies — Radio — Nite Clubs — Sports — Music February 8, 1946 Will Osborne Tall handsome Will was born in oronto, Canada, November 25, 1905. His mother was Lady Olihant. Will’s mother was a profes¬ sional organist, his father an emi¬ nent physician in England. It was decided that Will was o study medicine. However, Will doubled in music and medicine at college. Will opened at the Club Ken¬ tucky in N. Y. in 1934. From there t was a long jump to the Abbott nd Costello radio show and his atest picture — Monogram’s “Swing [Parade of 1946” about to be re¬ used. Will is the father of “sweet swing” and one of the first croon¬ ers and plays practically any musi¬ cal instrument. Gloria Stuart ■ Glamorous Gloria, one of Holly¬ wood’s brightest stars, returns to the silver screen after a two years’ absence, to play a feature role in tfie Universal pic, “Love Takes A .Holiday.” Gloria was born in Santa Monica, Calif. She attended the Univer||fty of California. Later the star orked as a reporter with the med Lincoln Steffens on the week“Carmelite.” Miss Stuart made her profesional debut at the Golden Bow Theatre in Carmel, and in 1932 joined the Pasadena Playhouse, •st appearing in the “Sea Gull.” Gloria’s screen credits include Street of Women,” “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” “Here Comes the Navy” and “The Whistler.” JUSTICE TAKES A HOLIDAY The Trial that is going on in division 6, is slowly but surely convincing even the most optimistic that “It Can Happen Here.” Day by day a conviction grows that this is not in the American tradition — that this is not in line with our Democratic processes. If we read in the papers that in some foreign country, defend¬ ants in a legal case had to sit in numbered seats in alphabetical order, so as to be clay pigeons for prosecuting witnesses to shoot at, we would condemn and criticize. We would go farther than that — we would compare that with our own system and explain how here even a criminal gets protection against false or framed identification — that a man is placed in a lineup and you have to pick him out of a group. That used to be true — it isn’t true today — for in Division 6 it was that the defendants were num¬ bered, etc. — RIGHT HERE — not in a foreign country. When we read in the papers about the trials going on in Ger¬ many— the trials o fthe Nazi War Criminals— we don’t read of anything but the bending backward of the court to see Justice done. We are treating these Nazis with true American Justice and fairness. Why in the name of anything should these men be treated more fairly than our own citizens on trial here — not for wanton murdering as are the Nazis but for fighting the murder¬ ous doctrines that caused the grief and chaos of the past years. If a counsel for the defense at the Nuremburg trials wants 'to have the record read back — he is allowed this for no one wants to do anything but give the man on trial an evenbreak. Here, (Please turn to page 2) Chuck Landis Smiling Charles (Chuck) Lanais, was born in Minneapolis, Minn, in 1917. He was an outstanding high chool athlete and later on while attending the University of Min¬ nesota where he majored in sev¬ eral classes, Chuck also won fame as an outstanding football and basketball player. He entered the Automobile Business in his home town and Four years ago Chuck came to Hollywood to enter the nite club business. Last year he bought the Club Morocco on Vine St. and the World amous Trocadero on the Strip. Landis has promised his friends to make the Troc the most famous name club in the world with his name act policy. Durante-Garto Frank Garto is showing Jimmj the first copy of this mag to be sold on the Broadway ews-stands. Jimmy is known and loved foi humor which will live on for with American audiences. H( soon be seen in MGM’s mu , “Jumbo.” Durante and his radio partnei Moore are also two of ra ’s most popular duo. Durante’s nose has made him i Garto is a popular Broadwayit< well-known in theatrical cir He is the New York Editor of magazine which made its deon the NYC stands this week, with offices in the Brill Bldg., cor¬ ner of Broadway & 49th St. BARNEY ROSS GEORGE FISHER JIMMIE TARANTINO JOAN DAVIS BILL JAMES POLLY GOULD JACK KENNEY EDDIE CHERKOSE