Inside facts of stage and screen (Jan 11 1930)

PAGE SIXTEEN INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN SATURDAY, JAN. 11, 1930 PERSONNEL OF WEST COAST FILM STUDIOS Permission to use, all or part, must be secured from Inside Facts Publishing Co. PARAMOUNT MELROSE NEAR VINE HO. 2400 EXECUTIVES First Vico Presidont in Charge of Pro- duction Jesse L. Lasky General Manager of West Cast Pro- duction B. P. Schulberg Assiptont to the First Vice-President in Charge of Product'n..Albert A. Kaufman Executive Assistant to Mr .Schulberg.... _ David O. Selznick Associate Producers— flector TurnbuU, Louis D. Lighten, J. G. Bachmaim, B. F. Zeidman, E. Lloyd Sheldon, Production Manager Sam Jaffe Attorney for Company Henry Herzbrun Studio Manager J'rauk Brandow Studio Comptroller -A. C. Martin Director of Department of Music _ Nathaniel Finston Head of Editing and Title Departments Julian Johnson Assistant to Mr. Selznick...JlarolJ Hurley Story Department Editor....Edw. Montagne Scenario Editor Geffrey Shurlock PAEAMOUNT STAES Richard Arlen George Bancroft Clarii Bow Evelyn Brent Nancy Carroll Ruth Chatterton Maurice Chevalier Gary Cooper Dennis King jSloran and Mack William Powell Charles Rogers STABS FEATURED PLAYERS Jean Arthur Mary Brian Virginia Bruce Kay Francis Mitzi Green Helen Kane Jeanett MacDonald Lillian Roth Fay Wray William Austin Olive Brook Morgan Farley Richard "Skeet" Gallagher Regis Harry Green Taul Guertzman James Hall Neil Hamilton Phillips Holmes Fred Kohlcr Paul Lukas Fredric March David Newell Jack Oakie Warner Oland Guy Oliver Eugene Pallette Frank Ross Toomey PARAMOUNT DIRECTORS George Abbott Dorothy Arzner Ludwig Bergor Otto Brewer John Cromwell George Cukor Marcel DeSano Louis G.<isnior Perry Ivins Rowland V. Lee Ernst Lubitsch Lothar Mendes A ictor Schcrtzinger Edward Sutherland Frank Tuttle Josef von Sternberg Richard Wallace William Wellman PARAMOUNT WRITERS T. J. Ah cam Zoe Akins Doris Anderson Guy Bolton Norman Burnstine Walton Biitterfield James A. Olark Bartlett Cormack Lloyd Corrigan Howard Estabrook John Farrow Charles Furthmann Gerald Geraghty Zane Grey Percy Heath G rover Jonop Patrick Kearney Edwin Knopf Herman Mankicwicz Jos. L. Mankiew^icz George Marion, Jr. Wra. Slavns McNutt Alice D. G. Miller Edw. Pararaore, Jr. Wm. N. Robsou II Daniel N. Rubin , Viola Brothers Shore John V. A. Weaver Waldemar Young CONTRACT CAMERAMEN Farciot Edouart Harry Fischbeck Henry Gerrard William Rand Lon Chaney Joan Crawford Marion Dnvios Vivian Duncan Rosotta Duncan Greta Garbo John Gilbert William Haines Buster Keaton Ramon Novarro CASTING DIRECTOR Fred Datig FASHION CREATOR Travis Banton 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 DIRECTOR Arch Reeve CUTTING DEPARTMENT James Wilkinson (Head) FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVE Geoffrey Shurlock (also Scenario Editor) Norma Shearer FEATURED PLAYERS ller.ee Adoree Nils Asther Wallace Beery ■1a<'k Bonny Charles Bickford I'Jdwinn Booth John Mack Bro>\ n Rosemary Cameron Karl Dane -Marie Dressier Mary Doran Cliff Edwards Giis Edwards Juliu Fftve Lawrence Gray Kaymond Hockett Marion Harris Iledda Hopper LotticG Hawell Leila Hyams Kay Johnson Helen Johoson Dorothy Jordan Ch.'ules Kaley Paul Kavanaugh Carlottu King Charles King Mary Lawlor Gwen Lee Bessie Love George F. Marion Nina Mao 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 liolaud Young COMPOSERS—LIBRETTISTS Harry Ruby Bert Kalmar Oscar Levant Sidney Clare Hiirry Tierney Anne Caldwell DANCE DIRECTOR Pearl Eaton GENERAL MUSICAL DIRECTOR Maestro Victor Baravalle Oimini Grand Chorus Pietro Cimini, Musical and Conductor Director SONG WRITERS Fred Ahlert Lou Alter Martin Broones Herb Nucio Brown Ciiis Edwards Fred Fisher Arthur Freed Clifford Grey Howard Johnson Jack King Reggie Montgomery Andy Rice J. llussell Robinson Herbert Stothart Roy Turk George Waggoner George Ward DIALOGUE AND SCENARIO WRITERS Ralph de Alberich Ma.vwell Anderson All red Block Al Boasberg P'rnnk Butler Leiiore Coffee Arthur Caesar John Colton Alitzie Cummings Salisbury Field Madame do Gresac. Paul Dickey Robert Hopkins Wni. Hurlbut Jolin B. Hymor Hans Kr.ily Anthony Jowett John H. Lawson Albert Le Vino Lew Lipton Josephine Lovett Willnrd Mack .M rs. W. Mack Frances Marion Gene Markey Sarah Y. Mason John Meehan Bess Morodyth James Montgomery Charles MacArthur Fred Niblo, Jr. Jack Neville Samuel Ornitz Frank Partes W. L. River Madeleine Ruthven Richard Schayer Raymond Schrock Zelda Sears Samuel Shipman G. Sil-Vara May Straus Lawrence Stallings Sylvia Thalberg A. R. Thomas Wanda Tuchock Dale Van Every Edward Welch TITLE WRITERS Ruth Cummings Joseph Farnham Lucile Newraark METRO-GOLDWYN- MAYER CULVER CITY EMpire 9111 EXECUTIVES Louis B. Mayer Hunt Stromberg Irving G. Thalberg Bernard Ilyman Harry Rapf Laurence Weingarten E. J. Monnix Paul Bern Albert Lewin DIRECTORS RKO STUDIOS 780 GOWER ST. Hollywood 7780 EXECUTIVES Vice-Pres. 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 Milhauser General Studio Manager C. D. White Studio Superintendent Mojor Fairbanks Art Supervisor Max Rec Director of Publicity Don Eddy Assistant Treasurer L. B. Smith Casting Director Rex Bailey Asst. Casting Director....Harvey Claremont Production Manager L. G. Ransome Scenario Department Betty Roberts Purchasing Agent Richard Wilde Construction Supt Earl McMurtrie 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 l.,ocntion Department Herb Hirst Chief Drapery Department Frank Vert RCA Photophone Chief Engineer on Coast R. H .Townsend Silent and Foreign Versions Leon D'Usseau Head of Miniature Dept Don Jahraus Chief Cutting Dept William Hamilton Chief Sound Department Carl Dreher Photo Effects Lloyd Knechtel STARS AND FEATURED PLAYERS (Under Contract) Bebc Daniels Dorothy Lee COLUMBIA 1428 GOWER STREET HOUywood 7490 FIRST NATIONAL BURBANK GLadstone 4111 PRODUCTION EXECUTIVES Robert North Robert Lord CO-EXECUTIVES IN CHARGE OF PRODUCTION Hal B. Wallis C. Graham Baker SCENARIO EDITOR Al Cohn STARS AND FEATURED PLAYERS President Joe Brondt Treasurer Jock Cohn Chief Studio Executive Harry Cohn, Vice- President in Charge of Production E.\ecutive Assistant to Harry Cohn I V.^'^ ^.'^'".'i^'", •„ Samuel J. Briskin I l_>'i'"otAy Maokaill General Studio Manager „ Samuel Bischoff lissistant General Studio Corinne Griffith Richard Barthelmess Alice White Alexander Gray Bernice Claire Walter Pidgeon Doug. Fairbanks, Jr. Lois Wilson Billie Dove Marilyn Miller Assistant Production Manager Marion Kohn 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 Pivor Chief Diologue 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. Sompson Transportation Manager Joe Cooke Jack Mulhall Allan Prior Loretta Young Sidney Blackmer Frank Fay F.ddit Nugent Monte Blue Daphne Pollard Wm. Jannev Cornelius lieefe Leila Hyams Cliva Brook Noah Beery Grant Withers Lila Lee James Murray Wilfred Lucas Vivian Oakland Louise Fazenda Raymond Hackett Inez Courtney Montagu Love Betty Compson Hallam Cooley DeWitt Jennings Geneva Mitchell 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 UNIVERSAL UNIVERSAL CITY HEmpstead 3131 EXECUTIVES President Carl Laemmie General Manager Carl Laemmie, Jr. Asst. to Carl Laemmie, Sr M. Stanley Bergerman Studio Munager J. j. Gain AsAt. General Manager....Harry HI Zehner Business Manager Walter Stern Production Manager Martin Murphy Supervising Scenario Chief C. Gardner Sullivan Story Editor „ Leon Abrams Casting Director Harry I. Gmraon Film Editor-in-Chief Del Andrews Director of Publicity Ivan St. Johns Stenographic _ Grace H. Ryan Art Director 0. D. Hall Supt. of Laboratory and Sound _. 0. Roy Hunter Camera Department 0. M. Glouner Purchasing Dept A. W. Klinordllnger Location Manager Sigmund Moos Musical Director David Broekman Technical Department Archie Hall Electrical Department Pronk Graves Art Title Department Mox Cohen Zoo Department _ Charles Murphy Ranch Department E. E. Smith Accounting Dept Graydon B. Howe Lad ies' Wardrobe Johanna Mathieson Men'p 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 Jlussell A. Gausman Hospital _.Dr, Stanley Immerman DIRECTORS Jack Okey WARNER BROTHERS 5842 SUNSET BLVD. Hollywood 4181 Eiecutlvea Vice President and Production Execu- tive Jack L. Warner Associate Executive in Charge of Pro- duction Darryl F. Zanuck General Studio Manager Wra Publicity Director George Anton Grot John J. Hughes Koenig Thomas PLAYERS John Barrymore Al Jolson Dolores Costello Monte Blue Grant Withers Myrna Loy Marian Nixon Frank Fay Betty Compson Lila Lee Louise Fazenda Noth Beery H. B. Warner 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 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 Oon Conrad, Sidney Mitchell and Archie Goettler Oscar Hammerstein and Sigmund Romberg Al Dubin and Joe Burke M. Jerome and Harold Berg Michael Cleary, Ned Washington and Herb Magidson J. Murray Anderson W'm. James Craft Henry MacRae Lewis Milestone Harry Pollard John Robertson Ray Taylor William Wyler ' PLAYERS Lew Ayres John Boles* Kathryn Crawford Robert Ellis HootGibson* Otis Harlan Merna Kennedy Barbara Kent Scott Kolk Laura La Plante* "Sunny Jim" (Law- rence McKeen) Joan Marsh Ken Moynard* James Murray Mary Nolan* Joseph Schildkraut* Nancy Torres Glenn Tryon* Helen Wright * Indicates player is star. WRITERS Tom Reed Winifred Reeve Bob Wyler EdM ard T. Lowe, Jr. Charles Webb Charles Logue H. La Cossitt Wm. Houston Branch Ernst Laemmie Albert De Mond Lew Collins Well Root Matt Taylor Paul Gangclln Sherman Lowe Jed Kiley Gene Towne Elinor Carlisle Len Fields Edward Everett Horton Clarence Brown Lionel Barrymore Harry Beaumont Charles Brabin David Burton Jack Conway Cecil B. DeMille Wm. deMjlle Sidney Franklin Jacques Feyder Nick Grinde George Hill AUuTt Kelloy Sam Sammy Lee Robert Z. Leonard Edgar J. McGregor Marshall Neilan Fred Niblo William Nigh Robert Ober Charles Riosner Ilal St. Clair Victor SeaFtrom Edward Sedgwick W. S. Van Dyke Kinc Vidor Wood Richard Dix Rod La Rocque Betty Compson Olive Borden Ivan Lobedeff Hugh Trever Sully Blane Roberta Gale Polly Walker Helen Kais9r Rita La Roy Renee Macready Bert Wheoler Joel McOrea Rudy Vallee Juno Clyde Murguerita Padula Franker Woods Roger Gray AUTHORS AND WRITERS John Russell Eugene Walter Wallace Smith James A. Creelman George O'Hara Charles MacArt}iur George Abbott Bon Hecht J. Walter Ruben Hugh Herbert Bculah Marie Dix Jane Murfin Vina Delmar Samson Ruphaelson Tom Geraghty DIRECTORS Luther Reed Bert Glcnnon Mnl St. Clair Lambert IHllyer I'aul Slonne Wesley Ruggles Frank Craven Herbert Brenon Rupert Julian Reginald Barker Mel Brown Marshall Neilan METROPOLITAN STUDIOS 1040 LAS PALMAS AVE. GR. 3111 President Charles H. Christie Treasurer and General MaJiager Wm. S. Holman General Representative Phil L. Ryan Studio Manager Leo Cuhan.' Auditor H. P. Rotlff Chief Sound Engineer R. S. Clayton Assistant Sound Engineer....A. M. Qranich Art Director C. L. Oadwalloder 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 Cruze, Inc. Italotnne Film Prod Robert C. Bruce Outdoor Talking Pictures, Inc. PATHE STUDIOS CULVER CITY EMpire 9141 EXECUTIVES General Manager in Charge of Produc- tion William Sistrom Personal Representative for J. P .Ken- nedy Charles E. Sullivan Producer William Con^elman Producer _ Ralph Block Production Manager .George Bertholon Literary Editor Carl Hovey Chief Title Writer John Krafft Studio Superintendent Harvey Leavitt Art Director _ Edward Jewell CAMERAMEN William Boyd Ann Harding Eddie Quillan PLAYERS Helen Twelvetrees Ina Claire Hurry Bannister DIRECTORS Tuv Garnett Paul L. Stein DIALOGUE DIRECTOR Richard Boleslavsky DARMOUR STUDIOS 5823 SANTA MONICA BLVD. HO. 8704 President and Supervision. Larry Darmour Cameraman James Brown, Jr. Publicity ond Advertising L. E. Heifitz Story Dept E. V. Durling Technical Frank Dexter liecording 0. S. Franklin Chief Electrical and Sound Neil Jack Purchasing and Production....Pell Mitchell Property Department Wslcy Mortou 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 TELEFILM STUDIOS 1376 SUNSET DRIVE OLympia 2111 President "W. T. Lackey Vice-President Jack O'Rourke Secretary and Treasurer L. R. Turner General Manager Ralph M. Like Director of Music George Cox Soung Engineers ■"—v;V,. Earl Crane and O. B. Mills Chief Engineer Dick Gray Construction Superintendent..-Floyd Price TIFFANY PRODUCTIONS SUNSET BOULEVARD OLympia 2131 President ^' A. Young Executive Vice-President....Grant L. Cook Chief Studio Executive Phil Qoldstone Comptroller Ira E. Seidel Purchasing Agent Milton Gatzert Director of Publicity - Arthur Q. Hagarmon Art Director Hervey Libbert Head of Sound Dept Lewis Myer Head of Set Dressing Dept Geo. Sawley Hal Mohr Frank Booth George RobinBX>n 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. BoyceSmith Vice-President Maurice De Mond Secretary and Studio Manager Irving Meiliken Technical Director Albert D'Agostino Genl. Purchasing Agent....Harry Englander Chief Electrician Leslie Tracy Publicity Director Wilson B. Heller Assistant Publicity Julie Goss Auditor Florence Hinkle Properties — G. Altweia Scenic and Paints „ Larry Sorenson Draperies W. S. Hepburn Transportation O. E. Norstrum Cutter Charles Henkle Chief Engineer ROA _.Ernest Revere Recorder L. E. Tope CHAPLIN STUDIOS 1416 N. LA BREA AVE. HEmpstead 2141 President, Director and Star ...„ „ Charles Chaplin Vice-President and General Manager.... Alfred Reeves Treasurer JU)i8 C. Runser Chief Cinematographertf Rollie Totheroh and Gordon Pollock Photographer Mark Marlatt Director of Publicity and Advertising.... Carlyle Robinson Scripr Department JJella Steele Executive Secretary Kathleen Pryor Communication Consuelo Jackson Purchasing Agent Joseph Van Meter Propertv Master Hal Atkins Laboratory Chief Val Lane Assistant .'. Henry Bergman Still Department Ed. Anderson Chief Electrician Frank Testera Foreman Carpenter William Bogdanoff Casting Director Allan Garcia FLAYERS Virginia Oherrill Harry Myers Albert Austin