Inside facts of stage and screen (January 25, 1930)

SATURDAY, JAN. 25, 1930 INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN PAGE NINE RADIO- KEITH- ORPHEUM CIRCUIT OF THEATRES VAUDEVILLE EXCHANGE General Booking Offices PALACE THEATRE BUILDING 1564 Broadway RKO FILM BOOKING CORP. General Booking Offices 1560 Broadway NEW YORK CORPORATION 1560-1564 Broadway, New York Telephone Exchange: Bryant Cable Address: RKO PRODUCTIONS Inc. Producers and Distributors of RADIO PICTURES LAUNCHING AN ERA OF ELECTRICAL ENTERTAINMENT 1560 Broadway New York 9300 ‘RADIOKEITH” (Continued from Page 8) larly attractive bit of work by Buck Theall. Overseeing the en- tire affair was Don Smith who master - of - ceremonied in highly adequate fashion. After a routine by Nell Hard 1 - ing’s chorus, Pinkie Green put over rope-skipping tap number and then Duke Kuana and a fern partner offered a group of Hawa- iian selections, the girl later re- turning for a hula and the Duke doing a solo. Selections from “Madame But- terfly” as sung by Jacqueline Bru- nea provided a pleasing bi.t of the show. Helen Cuneo, stepping out of the line, sold a fast moving dance to big returns and then Don Smith high-tenored a classy tune for nice results. The Nearing Sisters in an average dance and then Don and Jacqueline returned to duo “I Love You Only.” Picture was Fox’s “South Sea Rose” with Lenore Ulric. Joe Livingston and his Orches- tra were in the pit. Hal. FOX SAN FRANCISCO (Reviewed Jan. 17) Walt Roesner and the Fox Con- cert Orchestra with their overture offering “Singin’ In the Rain” was the one bright spot in an other- wise dull stage show, Fanchon and Marco’s “International Idea,” full of color but little else. Built up by the aid of a sound trailer with a vocal chorus , the number provid- ed plenty in the way of class en- tertainment. A flash finale with a rainbow effect in the background and a group of girls at the trap drums brought the tune to a wow of a finish and netted a half doz- en bows for Roesner and his gang. The stage show opened in a Spanish setting with Federico Flores handling the vocals in ade- quate fashion. Then Billy Carr in a new type of Apache and okay. Mignon Laird, harpist, followed, doing nice work, and then she and Carr doubled for a rough dance. Osaki Boys, juggling barrels, .good for a novelty, the number being built up by the line girls also in Japanese costume. Markel and Faun in a long group of com- edy dances, netting them only fair returns. Finale had a lot of flash and was good. On the screen was Fox’s “Hot For Paris.’’ Hal. FOX EL CAPITAN SAN FRANCISCO (Reviewed Jan. 17) With Fox’s “Cockeyed World” using up most of the running time this week’s Merrymakers Revue was limited to a scant 26 minutes, necessitating fast moving work on the part of the acts and Jay Brower, m. c. Show was framed by Peggy O’Neill and Brower along the “School Days” lines and was okay. A band number by Brower .and the boys started off the affair and then Royal Gascoigne sold the Missionites heavily on his clever juggling, following it up with com- edy stuff with a dog. Nice all the way through and scored easily. Rosemarie led the sixteen girls in “Icky” and then Brower brought on Jimmie Barr, who, in his sec- ond week doubling in from the Silver Slipper, again rang the bell for heavy returns. Opened with “Ain’t Misbehavin’ ” and followed with “Singin’ in the Rain,” and went plenty big. Finale was “Paper Dolls.” Mel Hertz at the organ. Hal. SENNETT STUDIOS AT STEADY SHOOTING PACE The Mack Sennett Studios are keeping to their steady pace of about one production a week, hav- ing one just completed, one in production and another preparing for an early start. A. Leslie Pearce, who co-di- rected the dialogue of U. A.’s “Bulldog Drummond” and also di- rected the Paramount Douglas MacLean starring vehicle, “The Carnation Kid,” the first action talkie, and many others, has been signed by Sennett to do the pic- ture which is about to start under the title of “He Trumped My Ace.” Pearce’s contract calls for a series of Sennett productions. Johnny Burke has been signed for the male lead in the picture. Burke was lead in Sennett’s fea- ture-length silent, “The Good-Bye Kiss,” made a few weeks ago. Marjorie Beebe will play oppo- site Burke, with the cast also in- cluding Dot Farley, Robert M. O’Connor, Ken Thompson and Rosemary Theby. The picture just finished is “Match _ Play,” with Marjorie Beebe in the feminine lead, with Andy Clyde and Bud Jamieson in support. It is a golf story. Travis Banton, fashion creator for Paramount, has left on a tour of London, Paris, Cannes, Monte Carlo and Antibes for ideas. He will return the first of April. Meiklejohn Bros. ASSOCIATED VAUDEVILLE MANAGERS Fourth Floor, Spreckels Bldg. Phones: 714 So. Hill St. TRinity 2217, TRinity 2218 LOS ANGELES VAUDEVILLE AND PICTURE HOUSE ENGAGEMENTS AVAILABLE FOR STANDARD ACTS WANTED—Acts Suitable for Vaudeville, Picture House Presentations, Clubs and Talkies AL WAGER T ™ AL (Artists’ Representative) 221 LOEW’S STATE BLDG., LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Phone: VAn dike 3619 10 ACTS IN PUR’S PARADE ARE MADE PUBLIC The first Paramount revue, fol- lowing in the footsteps of those of Fox, M-G-M and Warner Brothers and made under the title of “Paramount on Parade,” was revealed in detail this week. Contents during shooting time was kept secret. Elsie Janis prominent in not only being one of the stars but she also aided in putting the opus together and also is said to have written some of the songs. Thirty-five stars and featured players are in the cast and also some freelance personalities for important bits. Listed in alphabetical order the following stars and featured play- ers appear at various times in “Paramount on Parade”: Richard Arlen, Jean Arthur, William Austin, George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Mary Brian, Clive Brook, Virginia Bruce, Nancy Carroll, Ruth Chatterton, Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper, Stuart Erwin, Kay Francis, Sheets Gal- lagher, Harry Green, Mitzi Green, James Hall, Neil Hamilton, Phil- lips Holmes, Helen Kane, Dennis King, Frederic March, David Newell, Jack Oakie, Warner Oland, Zelma O’Neal, Eugene Pallette, Joan Peers, William Powell, Charles “Buddy” Rogers, Lillian Roth, Stanley Smith, Regis Toomey and Fay Wray. The directors who contributed are: Dorothy Arzner, Otto Brower, Edmund Goulding, Elsie Janis, Edwin Knopf, Rowland V. Lee, Ernst Lubitsch, Lothar Mendes, Victor Schertzinger, Ed- ward Sutherland and Frank Tut- tle. Several of these directors, as for example Ernst Lubitsch, di- rected several of the numbers. Luibitsch directed each of the three in which Maurice Chevalier is starred. “Paramount on Parade” is made up. of fifteen separate starring units, each in itself a complete short feature production either in- timate or spectacular, musical or also comedy skit. Each of these, taken by itself, has been .titled to make up, in fact, a collection of short pictures under one general heading. The numbers are: “The Rainbow Revels,” “In a Paris Park” and “Origin of the Apache,” by Maurice Chevalier; “The Gallows Rag,” by Dennis King”; “Show Girls on Parade,” featuring Virginia Bruce and show girls; “Love Time,” by Charles “Buddy” Rogers and Lillian Roth; “The Toreador,” featuring Kay Francis as Carmen and Harry Green as the toreador; “The School Room,” by Helen Kane; “Mitzi Herself,” with Baby Mitzi Green; “In a Girls’ Gym,” with Jack Oakie and Zelma O’Neal; “The Montmarte Girl,” with Ruth Chatterton singing; “Dance Mad,” presenting Nancy Carroll and Charles “Buddy” Rogers; “Dream Girls,” featuring Richard Arlen, Jean Arthur, Mary Brian, Vir- ginia Bruce, Gary Cooper, James Hall, Phillips Holmes, David Newell, Joan Peers and Fay Wray. “Murder Will Out,” a travesty on detective mysteries, and “Im- pulses,” starring George Bancroft, and others. The picture is being prepared for early spring release. HARRY WEBER - SIMON AGENCY PALACE THEATRE BUILDING, NEW YORK CITY MANAGING ONLY THE BEST IN VAUDEVILLE and PICTURES HOLLYWOOD OFFICE BANK OF HOLLYWOOD BUILDING Corner Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street HO. 2181—Telephones—HO. 2182 HARRY WEBER TALKIES AT SEA All the passenger steamers on the Dollar Steamship Lines fleet to the Orient and around the world will be equipped with talking mo- tion pictures starting with the in- stallation on the round the world liner President Fillmore, departing from New York westward Janu- ary 16, according to announcement by R. Stanley Dollar, president of Dollar Steamship Lines. Western Electric installed equipment on the President Fillmore. This marks the first invasion of the Pacific Ocean and seas westward as far as the Mediterranean with sound- -on-film. Talking movies are known in Japan, China and the Philippines, but the arrival of the President Fillmore at Straits Set- tlements, Ceylon and other far eastern ports will give residents there the first opportunity to see talking movies. The President Fillmore arrives at Los Angeles Harbor Feb. 2 on her voyage round the world. BREAK FOR BARBARA Barbara Kent has been assigned the feminine lead opposite Robert Armstrong in Warner Brothers’ “Dumbells in Ermine.” Miss Kent got her break opposite Harold Lloyd in “Welcome Danger.” Others in the cast include Char- lotte Merriam, Arthur Hoyt, Claude Gillingwater, Julia Swayne Gordon, Beryl Mercer, Mary Foy and Marie Astaire. John Adolfi is directing. Taking over the California Studios on Beachwood Drive, Hollywood, last occupied by the John Ince organization, Herman Fowler, head of the Fowler Studios has announced a program of nearly 500 one and two reelers on his 1930-31 program. Produc- tion, it is stated, will start about the first of February. So far on the program, it is said, are three short sound reels per week, with additional produc- tion of 12 one and two-reel nov- elty numbers in color, a series of 12 2-reel comedy and dramatic subjects in the Hebrew tongue, several one and two reel comedies and a series, of novelty shorts. There will also he a series in the Spanish language, it is announced. Fowler claims over 1000 ad- vance bookings, and says he will open exchanges immediately in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dal- las, Chicago, New York and Min- neapolis, with others to follow. Foreign rights have been disposed of to William Pizor, New York picture man. The California Studios, which will be renamed the Fowler Studios, will be used for produc- tion purposes only, the executive offices and laboratories being maintained at their present locale in the Lillian Way building. PATRICK ana MARSH (AGENCY) VAUDEVILLE—ORCHESTRAS WANTED! 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