Inside facts of stage and screen (March 22, 1930)

PAGE SIXTEEN INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1930 PERSONNEL OF WEST COAST FILM STUDIOS Permission to use, all or part, most be secured from Inside Facts Publishing Co. PARAMOUNT MELROSE NEAR VINE HO. 2400 EXECUTIVES First Vice-President in Charge of Pro- duction Jesse L. Lasky General Manager of West Cast Pro- duction .....B. P. Schulberg Assistant to the First Vice-President in Charge of Product’n..Albert A. Kaufman Executive Manager. M. C. Levee Executive Assistant to Mr .Schulberg .— David O. Selznick Associate Producers ...... Hector Turnbull, Louis D. Lighton, J. G. Bachmann, B. F. Zeidman, E. Lloyd Sheldon. Production Manager Sam Jaffe Attorney for Company Henry Herzbrun Studio Manager .Frank Brandow Studio Comptroller _A. C. Martin Director of Department of Music.... Nathaniel Finston Assistant to Mr. Selznick....Harold Hurley Story Department Editor....Edw. Montagne Scenario -Editor Geffrey Shurlock PARAMOUNT STARS Richard Arlen George Bancroft Clara Bow Evelyn Brent Nancy Carroll Ruth Chatterton Maurice Chevalier Gary Cooper Dennis King Moran and Mack William Powell Charles Rogers FEATURED PLAYERS Jean Arthur Mary As tor Mary Brian Virginia Bruce Kay Francis Mitzi Green Jeanett MacDonald Lillian Roth Fay Wray William Austin Clive Brook Paul Cavanaugh Morgan Farley Richard “Skeet” Gallagher Stuart Erwin Barry Norton Stanley Fields Harry Green Paul Guertzman James Hall Neil Hamilton Phillips Holmes June Collyer Paul Lukas Fredric March Nino Mattini Jack Oukie Guy Oliver Eugene Pallette Frank Ross Stanley Smith Regis Toomey Rosita Moreno paramount directors George Abbott Dorothy Arzner Ludwig Berger Otto Brower John Cromwell George Cukor Edwin Carewe Louis Gasnier Perry Ivins Rowland V. Lee Ernst Lubitsch Lot-har Mendes Victor Schertzinger Edward Sutherland Frank Tuttle Josef von Sternberg Richard Wallace William Wellman PARAMOUNT WRITERS T. J. Ahearn Zoe Akins Doris Anderson Guv Bolton Norman Buinstine Walton Butterfield James A. Clark Bartlett Cormack Lloyd Corrigan [Toward Estabrook John Farrow Charles Furthmann Gerald Geraghty Zane Grey Percy Heath Grover Jones Patrick Kearney Edwin Knopf Herman Mankiewicz Jos. L. Mankiewicz George Marion, Jr. Wm. Slavns McNutt Alice D. G. Miller Edw. Paramore, Jr. Wm. N. Robson II Daniel N. Rubin Viola Brothers Shore John V. A. Weaver Waldemar Young CONTRACT CAMERAMEN ciot Edouart r y Fischbeck Henry Gerrard William Rand MUSIC DEPARTMENT Richard A. Whiting Newell Chase Leo Robin Frank Harlmg L Wolfe Gilbert Ballard Macdonald Abel Baer £ ave Pn, eJ T Sam Caslow Grand Clarke Harry Akst CASTING DIRECTOR Fred Datig FASHION CREATOR Travis B a a tun SOUND DEPARTMENT Albert DeSart, Technical Director of Sound WARDROBE DEPARTMENT Frank Richardson (Head) DANCE DIRECTOR David Bennett SPECIAL EFFECTS DEPT. Oren W. Roberts (Head) STUDIO PUBLICITY DIRBCTOR Arch Reeve CUTTING DEPARTMENT James Wilkinson (Head) FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVE Geoffrey Shurlock (also Scenario Editor) METRO-GOLDWYN- MAYER CULVER CITY EMpire 9111 EXECUTIVES Louis B. Mayer Hunt Stromberg Irving G. Thalberg Bernard Hyman Harry Rapf Laurence Weingarten E. J. Mannix Paul Bern Albert Lewin DIRECTORS Clarence Brown Lionel Barrymore Harry Beaumont Charles Brabin David Burton Jack Conway Cecil B. DeMille Wm. deMille Sidney Franklin Jacques Feyder Nick Grinds George Hill Albert Kelley Sam Sammy Lee Robert Z. Leonard Edgar J. McGregor Marshall Neilan Fred Niblo William Nigh Robert Ober Charles Riesner Mai St. Clair Victor Seastrom Edward Sedgwick W. S. Van Dyke King Vidor Wood STARS Lon Chaney Joan Crawford Marion Davies Vivian Duncan Rosetta Duncan Greta Garbo John Gilbert William Haines Buster Keaton Ramon Novarro Norma Shearer FEATURED PLAYERS Renee Adore© Nils Asther Wallace Beery Jack Benny Charles Bickford Edwina Booth J ohn Mack Brown Rosemary Cameron Karl Dane Marie Dressier Mary Doran Cliff Edwards Gus Edwards Julia Faye Lawrence Gray Raymond Hackett Marion Harris Hedda Hopper Lottice Hawell Leila Hyams Kay Johnson Helen Johnson Dorothy Jordan Charles Kaley Paul Kavanaugh Carlotta King Louis Mann Charles King Mary Lawlor Gwen Lee Bessie Love George F. Marion Nina Mae John Miljan Robert Montgomery Polly Moran Conrad Nagel Elliott Nugent J. C. Nugent Edward Nugent Catherine Dale Owen Anita Pago Basil Rathbone Duncan Renaldo Benny Rubin Dorothy Sebastian Sally Starr Lewis Stone Ethelind Terry Raquel Torres Ernest Torrence Fay Webb Roland Young SONG WRITERS Fred Ahlert Lou Alter Martin Broones Herb Nacio Brown Gus Edwards Fred Fisher Arthur Freed Clifford Grey George Ward Howard Johnson Jack King Reggie Montgomery Andy Rice J. Russell Robinson Herbert Stothart Roy Turk George Waggoner Dimitri Tiouikin DIALOGUE AND SCENARIO WRITERS Ralph de Alberich Maxwell Anderson Allred Block Al Boasberg Frank Butler Lenore (Jolfee Arthur Caesar John Colton Mitzie Cummings Salisbury Field Martin Flavin Madame de Gresac Paul Dickey Robert Hopkins Wm. Hurlbut John B. Hymer Hans Kraly Anthony Jowett John H. Lawson Albert Le Vino Lew Lipton Josephine Lovett Willard Mack Mrs. W. Mack Frances Marion Gene Markey Sarah Y. Mason John Meehan Bess Meredyth James Montgomery Charles MacArthur Fred Niblo, Jr. Jack Neville Samuel Ornitz Frank Partos W. L. River Madeleine Ruthven Richard Schayer Raymond Schrock Zelda Sears Samuel Shipman £f. Sii-Vara May Straus Lawrence Stallings Sylvia Thalberg A. E. Thomas Wanda Tuchock Dale Van Every Edward Welch TITLE WRITERS Ruth Cummings Joseph Farnham Lucile Newmark CASTING DIRECTOR Ben Thau RKO STUDIOS 780 GOWER ST. HOUywood 7780 EXECUTIVES Vice-Preg. in Charge of Production William Le Baron Asst, to Mr. Le Baron Pandro Berman Associate Prducer .Louis A. Sarecky Associate Producer Myles Connolly Associate Producer — Henry Hobart Associate Producer- Bertram Milhaueer General Studio Manager O. D. White Studio Superintendent Major Fairbanks Art Supervisor Jiai Ree Director of Publicity— Don Eddy Assistant Treasurer L. B. Smith Casting Director Re* Bailey Asst. Casting Director..—Harvey Claremont Production Manager L. G. Ransom# Scenario Department Betty Roberts Purchasing Agent Richard Wilde Construction Supt Earl McMnrtrie Chief Electrical Dept William Johnson Chief Property Dept Sam Comer Chief Wardrobe Dept Walter Plunkett Chief Camera Dept William Eglinton Chief Scenic Dept Holt Lindsley Location Department— Herb Hirst Chief Drapery Department -Frank Vert RCA Photophone Chief Engineer on Coast- —R. H .Townsend Silent and Foreign Versions - - -Leon D’Usaean Head of Miniature Dept Don Jahraus Chief Cutting Dept William Hamilton Chief Sound Department Carl Dreher Photo Effects— Lloyd Knechtel STARS AND FEATUEED PLAYERS (Undex Contract) Bebe Daniels Dorothy Lee “ K D o^ue Rita La Roy Betty Compson Renee Macready Olive Borden Bert Wheeler Ivan Lobedeff Joel McCrea Hugh Trever Rudy Vallee Sally Blane June Clyde Roberta Gale Marguerita Padula Polly Walker Franker Woods Helen Kaiser Roger Gray Audree Henderson AUTHORS AND WRITERS John Russell Ben Hecht Eugene Walter J. Walter Ruben Wallace Smith Hugh Herbert James A. Creelman Beulah Marie Dix George O’Hara Jane Murfin Charles MacArthur Vina Delmar George Abbott Samson Raphaelson Tom Geraghty DIRECTORS Luther Reed Bert Glennon Mai St. Clair Lambert Hillyer Paul Sloane Wesley Rugglei Frank Craven Herbert Brenon Rupert Julian Reginald Barker Mel Brown COMPOSERS—LIBRETTISTS Harry Ruby Bert Kalmar Oscar Levant Sidney Clare Harry Tierney Anne Caldwell Harry Ruby DANCE DIRECTOR Pearl Eaton GENERAL MUSICAL DIRECTOR Victor Baravalle Cimini Grand Chorus Maestro Pietro Cimini, Musical Director and Conductor COLUMBIA 1428 GOWER STREET HOUywood 7490 President -Joe Brandt Treasurer Jack Cohn Chief Studio Executive Harry Cohn, Vice- President in Charge of Production Executive Assistant to Harry Cohn Samuel J. Briskin General Studio Manager - Samuel Bischoff Assistant General Studio Manager ..Marion Kohn Assistant Production Manager Joe Cooke Chief Sound Engineer John Lividary Recording Engineer John Gray Amplifyng Engineer Edward Hahn “Mike” Control Engineer (Mixer)...... .. Harry Blanchard Camera Department Head....Ted Tetzlaff Laboratory Chief George Seid Property Master Edward Schulter Art Director.. Harrison Wiley Casting Director Clifford Robertson Location Chief ... Joe Cooke Scenario Editor .Elmer Harris Story Editor D. A. Doran Music Department Head Bakaleinokoff Film Editor Maurice Pivar Chief Dialogue Writer....Norman Houston Chief Title Writer Weldon Melick Director of Publicity Alec Moss Purchasing Agent Al Brandt Chief Studio Electrician....Denver Harmon Paymaster. „G. A. Sampson Transportation Manager Joe Cooke WARNER BROTHERS 5842 SUNSET BLVD. HOUywood 4181 Executives Vice President and Production Execu- tive - Jack L. Warner Associate Executive in Charge of Pro- duction ™ Darryl F. Zanuck General Studio Manager Wm. Koenig Publicity Director— George Thomas PLAYERS John Barrymore Al Jolson Dolores Costello Monte Blue Grant Withers Mvrna Loy Marian Nixon Frank Fay Betty Compson Lila Lee Louise Fazenda Noth Beery H. B. Warner Claudia Dell Lois Wilson Patsy Ruth Miller Rin-Tin-Tin Tully Marshall Edna Murphy Marion Byron Alice Gentle George Arliss Vivienne Segal Pauline Frederick Winnie Lightner Lotti Loder Joe E. Brown Edward Everett Horton Jack Whiting Louise Closser Hale MUSIC DEPARTMENT Robert Crawford, Executive in Charge Erno Rapee. Director-in-Chief Louis Silvers Oscar Straus Oscar Hammerstein Sigmund Romberg Jerome Kern Otto Harbach Joe Burke Al Dubin M. K. Jerome Harold Berg Bud Green Sam Stept Joe Young Harry Warren Sidney Mitchell Archie Goettler IlGeorge W. Mayer Harry Akst Grant Clark Eddie Warde Al Bryan Lou Pollack Mort Dixon Walter O’Keefe Bobby Dolan Mitchell Cleary New Washington Herb Magidson METROPOLITAN STUDIOS 1040 LAS PALMAS AVE. GR. 3111 President ...Charles H. Christie Treasurer and General Manager Wm. S. Holman General Representative Phil L. Ryan Studio Manager™ Leo Cab an p Auditor H. P. Ratlff Chief Sound Engineer R. 8. Clayton Assistant Sound EngIneer....A. M. Granich Art Director C. L. Oadwallader Construction Supt Sam E. Wood Chief Electrician Wally Oettel Chief of Props F. W. Widdowson Following are the companies renting space at the studio: Harold Lloyd Corp. Caddo Co., Inc. Sono Art Prod., Inc. Lloyd Hamilton Prod. Christie Film Co., Inc. Associated Artists Prod. Fine Arts Pictures, Inc. Cliff Broughton Prod. Edward Small Prod. Halperin Prod. James Craze, Inc. Italotone Film Prod Robert 0. Bruce Outdoor Talking Pictures, Inc. DARMOUR STUDIOS 5823 SANTA MONICA BLVD. HO. 8704 President and Supervision Larry Darmour Cameraman ... ... ..James Brown, Jr. Publicity and Advertising L. E. Heifitz Story Dept E. V. Durling Technical Frank Dexter Recording C. S. Franklin Chief Electrical and Sound Neil Jack Purchasing and Production....Pell Mitchell Property Department Wsley Morton Directors Al Herman, Lew Foster, Phil Whitman Still Department .Harry Blanc Head Cutter Edgar Scott RCA Photophone Licensee Home Office: Standard Cinema Corpora- tion, 1560 Broadway, New York Marshall Neilan FIRST NATIONAL BURBANK GLadstone 4111 PRODUCTION EXECUTIVES Robert North Robert Lord CO-EXECUTIVES IN CHARGE OP PRODUCTION Hal, B. Wallis 0. Graham Baker SCENARIO EDITOR Al Cohn STARS AND FEATURED PLAYERS Corinne Griffith Richard Barthelmess Alice White Alexander Gray Bernice Claire Walter Pidgeon Doug. Fairbanks, Jr. Lois Wilson Billie Dove Marilyn Miller Otis Skinner Dorothy Mackaill Jack Mulhall Allan Prior Loretta Young Sidney Blackmer Frank Fay Eddit Nugent Monte Blue Joe E. Daphne Pollard Wm. Janney Cornelius Keefe Leila Hyams Clive Brook Noah Beerv Grant Withers Lila Lee James Murray Wilfred Lucas Vivian Oakland Louise Fazenda Raymond Hackett Inez Courtney Montagu Love Betty Compson Haliam Cooley DeWitt Jennings Geneva Mitchell Brown DIRECTORS John Francis Dillon Mervyn Le Roy Clarence Badger Michael Curtiz Frank Lloyd William A. Seiter Howard Hawks William Beaudine WRITERS Francis Faragoh Bradley King Paul Perez Earl Baldwin Waldemar Young Henry McCarty Forrest Halsey Julian Josephson Humphrey Pearson F. Hugh Herbert CASTING DIRECTOR Wm. Maybery WARDROBE DEPARTMENT Edw. Lambert, Head of Department Edward Stevenson, Costumes DANCE DIRECTOR Larry Ceballos ART DEPARTMENT Anton Grot John J. Hughes Jack Okey MAKE-UP DEPARTMENT Pure Westmore, Hairdressing Mel Burns, Make-up MUSIC DEPARTMENT Leo Forbstein, Director Jerome Kern-Otto Harbach Edwin Warde and Al Bryan Harry Akst and Grant Clarke Con Conrad, Sidney Mitchell and Archie Goettler Al Dubin and Joe Burke M. Jerome and Harold Berg Michael Cleary, Ned Washington and Herb Magidson PATHE STUDIOS CULVER CITY EMpire 9141 EXECUTIVES General Manager in Charge of Produc- tion E. B. Derr Personal Representative for J. P .Ken- nedy Charles E. Sullivan Producer William Conselman Producer .....„™ Ralph Block Production Manager George Bertholon Literary Editor Carl Hovey Chief Title Writer .....John Krafft Studio Superintendent Harvey Leavitt Art Director Carroll Clark PLAYERS William Boyd Helen Twelvetrees Ann Harding Ina Claire Eddie Quillan Harry Bannister James Gleason DIRECTORS Paul L. Stein Tay Garnett Edward H. Griffith DIALOGUE DIRECTOR Richard Boleslavsky TIFFANY PRODUCTIONS SUNSET BOULEVARD OLympia 2131 President.... L. A. Young Executive Vicre-President....Grant L. Coolr Chief Studio Executive .Phil Goldstone Comptroller Ira E. Seidel Purchasing Agent Milton Gatzert Director of Publicity Arthur Q. Hagarman Art Director.. Hervey Libbert Head of Sound Dept Lewis Myer Head of Set Dressing Dept Geo. Sawley Musical Director Al Short UNIVERSAL UNIVERSAL CITY HEmpstead 3131 EXECUTIVES President Carl Laemmle General Manager Carl Laemmle, Jr. Asst, to Carl Laemmle, Sr ..M. Stanley Bergerman Studio Manager J, J. Gain Asst. General Manager....Harry Hi Zehner Business Manager Walter Stern Production Manager...™ Martin Murphy Supervising Scenario Chief .. — — O. Gardner Sullivan Story Editor Leon Abrams Casting Director Phil M. Friedman Film Editor-in-Chief. Del Andrews Director of Publicity Ivan St. Johns Stenographic Grace H. Ryan Art Director Q. D. Hall Supt. of Laboratory and Sound ... ........ — O. Roy Hunter Camera Department O. M. Glouner Purchasing Dept A. W. Klinordlinger Location Manager Sigmund Moos Musical Director David Broekman Technical Department Archie Hall Electrical Department Frank Graves Art Title Department Max Cohen Zoo Department ..... Charles Murphy Ranch Department E. E. Smith Accounting Dept —Graydon B. Howe Ladies’ Wardrobe Johanna Mathieson Men’s Wardrobe Edward Ware Transportation Dept...Maurice E. Kurland Police Department Dick Solberg Prop Shop .... E. A. Johnson Nursery Walter Tauer Scenic Dpartment James Holroyd Property Dept Russell A. Gauaman Hospital —Dr. Stanley Immerman DIRECTORS J. Murray Anderson Harry Pollard Wm. James Craft John Robertson Henyy MacRae Ray Taylor Lewis Milestone William Wyler PLAYERS Lew Ayres John Boles* Kathryn Crawford Robert Ellis HootGibson* Otis Harlan Merna Kennedy Barbara Kent Scott Kolk Lupe Velez* “Sunny Jim” (Law- rence McKeen) Joan Marsh Ken Maynard* James Murray Mary Nolan* Joseph Schildkraut* Nancy Torres Glenn Tryon* Helen Wright * Indicates player is star. WRITERS Tom Reed Winifred Reeve Bob Wyler Edward T. Lowe, Jr. Charles Webb Charles Logue H. La Cos6itt Wm. Houston Branch Albert De Mond Well Root Matt Taylor Paul Gangelin Sherman Lowe Jed Kiley Gene Towne Elinor Carlisle Len Fields Ernst Laemmle Lew Collins Garrett Fort CAMERAMEN Hal Mohr Frank Booth George Robinson Al Jones Arthur Edeson Walter Cline Gilbert Warrenton Jerry Ashe CARTOONISTS Walter Lantz William C. Nolan TEC-ART STUDIOS BRONSON AND MELROSE President Alfred Mannon First Vice-President and Treasurer -— J. BoyceSmlth Vice-President Maurice De Mond Secretary and Studio Manager -Irving Meililcen Technical Director Albert D’Agostino deni. Purchasing Agent—Harry Englander Chief Electrician Leslie Tracy Publicity Director Wilson B. Heller Assistant Publicity Natalie Adelstein Auditor .Florence Hinkle Properties G. Altweis Scenic and Paints Larry Sorenson Draperies — W. S. Hepburn Transportation o. E. Norstrum Cutter.--,. — Charles Henkla Chief Engineer EGA Ernest Revere Recorder ..._•. ...L. E Tope CHAPLIN STUDIOS 1416 N. LA BREA AVE. HEmpstead 2141 President, Director and Star.. .Charles Chaplin \ ice-President and General Manager™. — ...Alfred Reeves Treasurer Lois o. Runser Chief Cinematographers Rollie Totheroh and Gordon Pollock Photographer Mark Marlatt Director of Publicity and Advertising Carlyle Robinson Script Department Della Steele Executive Secretary Kathleen Pryor Communication Consuelo Jackson Purchasing Agent Joseph Van Meter Property Master Hal Atkins Laboratory Chief Val Lane Assistant Henry Bergman Still Department Ed. Anderson Chief Electrician Frank Testers Foreman Carpenter William Bogdanoff Casting Director Allan Garcia PLAYERS Virginia Cherrill Harry Myers Albert Austin