Inside facts of stage and screen (April 19, 1930)

PAGE SIXTEEN INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1930 PERSONNEL OF WEST COAST FILM STUDIOS Permission to use, all or pari; must be secured from Inside Facts Publishing Co. PARAMOUNT MELROSE NEAR VINE HO. 2400 EXECUTIVES First Vice-President in Charge of Pro- duction Jesse L. Laaky General Manager of West Oast Pro- duction B. P. Schulberg Assistant to the First Vice-President in Charge of Product'n_Albert A. Kaufman Executive Manager _M. 0. Levee Exeoutive Assistant to Mr .Schulberg — _ David O. Belsnick Associate Producers Hector Turnbull, Louis D. Lighton, J. O. Baohmann, B. F. Zeidman, E. Lloyd Sheldon. Production Manager Sam Jaffa Attorney for Company Henry Hersbrnn Studio Manager Frank Brandow Studio Comptroller A. 0. Martin Director of Department of Musio Nathaniel Finston Assistant to Mr. 8elznick....Harold Hurley Story Department Editor....Edw. Montagne Scenario Editor Geffrey Shurlock PARAMOUNT STABS Richard Arlen George Bancroft Clarn Bow Evelyn Brent Nancy Carroll Ruth Chatterton Maurice Chevalier Gary Cooper Dennis King Morau and Mack William Powell Charles Rogers 8TAB8 FEATURED PLAYERS Jean Arthur Mary Astor 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 Leon Errol Rosita Barry Norton Stanley Fields Harry Green Paul Guertzman Neil Hamilton Phillips Holmes June Collyer Paul Lukas Fredric March Nino Mattini Jack Oakle Guy Oliver Eugene Pallette Frank Rons Stanley Smith Regis Toomey Marion Schilling Moreno PARAMOUNT DIRECTORS Ueorge Abbott Dorothy Arznar Ludwig Berger Otto Brower John Cromwell George Cukor Edwin Carewe Louis Gasnier Perry Ivins Rowland V. Lee Ernst Lubitsch Lotliar Mendes Victor Schertzinger Edward Sutherland Frank Tuttle Josef von Sternberg Richard Wallace William Wellman Edward Sloman PARAMOUNT WRITERS T. J. Ahearn Zoe Akins Doris Anderson Guy Bolton Norman Burnstine Walton Butterfiald James A. Clark Denison Cliit Bartlett Cormack Lloyd Corrigan Howard Estabrook John Farrow Oharles Furthmann Gerald Geraghty Zane Grey Percy Heath Grover Jonds Patrick Kearney Edwin Knopf Herman Mankiewics 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 Waldcmar Young CONTRACT CAMERAMEN Farciot Edouart Harry Fischbeck Henry Gerrard William Rand MUSIO DEPARTMENT Richard A. Whiting Leo Robin L. Wolfe Gilbert Abel Baer Sam Caslow Newell Chase Frank Harling Ballard Macdonald Dave Dreyer Grand Clarke Harry Akst 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) METRO-GOLDWYN- MAYER CULVER CITY EMpire 9111 EXECUTIVES Louis B. Mayer Hunt Stromberg Irving G. Thalberg Bernard Hyman Harry Rapf Laurence Welngarten E. J. Mannix Paul Bern Albert Lew in 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. 8. Van Dyks King Vidor Wood 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 Adoree Nils Asther Wallace Beery Jack Benny Charles Bickford Edwina Booth John Mack Brown Rosemary Cameron Karl Dane Marie Dressier Mary Dor an Cliff Edwards G-us Edwards Julia Faye Lawrence Gray Raymond Hackett Marion Harris Hedda Hopper Lottice Hawell Leila Hyams Kay Johnson Helen Johnson Dorothy Jordan Oharles Kaley Puul 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 DIALOGUE AND SCENARIO WRITERS Ralph de Alberich Maxwell Anderson Alired Block AlBoasberg Frank Butler Lenore Colfee Arthur Caesar John Colton Mitsie Cummings Salisbury Field Martin Flavin Madame do 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 TITLE WRITERS Ruth Cummings Joseph Farnham Lucile Newmark CASTING DIRECTOR Ben Thau SONG WRITERS Fred Ahlert Lon 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 Tiomkin Gene Markey Sarah Y. Mason John Meehan Bess Meredyth James Montgomery Charles MacArthur Fred Niblo. Jr. Jack Neville Samuel Omits Frank Partoa W. L. River Madeleine Ruthven Richard Sehayer Raymond Schrock Zelda Sears Samuel Shipman B. Sil-Vara May StrauB Lawrence Stallings Sylvia Thalberg A. E. Thomas Wanda Tuchock Dale Van Every Edward Welch P. G. Wodehouse RKO STUDIOS 780 GOWER ST. HOUywood 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 O. D. White Studio Superintendent Major Fairbank Art Supervisor Max Ree Director of Publicity Don Eddy Assistant Treasurer L. B. Smith Casting Director Re X Bailey Asst. Casting Director....Harvey Olaremont Production Manager L. G. Ransome Scenario Department Betty Roberts Purchasing Agent Richard Wild Construction Supt Earl McMurtrU Chief Electrical Dept William Johnson Chief Property Dept.- Sam Comer Ohief 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'Urseau Head of Miniature Dept Don Jahrau. Chief Cutting Dept William Hamilton Chief Sound Department Carl Dreher Photo Effects Lloyd Knechtel STARS AND FEATURED PLAYERS (Under Bebe Daniels Richard Dix Rod La Rocque Betty Compson Olive Borden Ivan Lobedeff Hugh Trever Sully Blane Roberta Gala Polly Walker Helen Kaiser Dorothy Lee Contract) Rita La Roy Renee Macreody Bert Wheeler Joel McCrea Rudy Vallea June Clyde Marguerita Padula Franker Woods Roger Gray Audree Henderson Wynne Gibsou AUTHORS AND WRITERS John Russell Eugene Walter Wallace Smith James A. Creelman George O'Hara Charles MacArthur George Abbott Ben Hecht J. Walter Ruben Hugh Herbert Beulah Marie Dix Jane Murfin Vina Delmar Samson Raphaelson Tom Geraghty DIRECTORS Luther Reed Bert Glenroa Mai St. Clair Lambert Ilillyer Paul Sloane Wesley Ruggles Frank Craven Herbert Brenon Rupert Julian Reginald Barker Mel Brown Harry Ruby Bert Kalmar Oscar Levant Norman MacLeod COMPOSERS—LIBRETTISTS Sidney Clare Harry Tlerney Anne Caldwell Harry Ruby DANCE DIRECTOR Pearl Eaton GENERAL MUSICAL DIRECTOR Maestro Victor Baravalle Ciminl Grand Chorus Pietro Ciminl, Musical and Conductor Director Publicity and Advertising L. E. Heifits Story Dept E. V. Durling Technical Frank Dexter Recording _ _J0, 8. 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 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 Milton E. Hoffman Assistant General Studio Manager _ Marion H. Kohn Production Unit Mgr Samuel Bischoff Production Unit Mgr Bud Barsky Assistant Production Manager Joe Cooke Chief Sound Engineer John Lividary Recording Engineer John Gray Amplifyng Engineer Edward Habn Camera Department Head....Ted Tetzlaff Laboratory Chief -George Seid Property Master Edward Schulter Art Director Edw Jewell Asst. Art Director Harrison Wiley Casting Director Clifford Robertson Location Chief Joe Cooke Scenario Editor Jo Swerling Story Editor D. A. Doran Music Department Head Bakaleinokoff Film Editor Ben Pivar Director of Publicity Abe Marks Purchasing Agent J. Greenstone Chief Studio Electrician....Denver Harmon Comptroller Al Brandt Paymaster „ G. A. Sampson Transportation Manager Joe Cooke WARNER BROTHERS 5842 SUNSET BLVD. HOUywood 4181 Executives . r lce President tive and Production Execu- Jack L. Warner Associate Executive In Charge of Pro- duction _ Darryl F. Zanuck General Studio Manager ...Wa Koenig Publicity Director George Thomas PLAYERS Lois Wilson Patsy Ruth Miller Rin-TinTin 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 Olsen and Johnson MUSIO DEPARTMENT Robert Crawford, Executive in Charge Erno Rapee. Director-in-Chief Louis Silvers Sidney Mitchell Oscar Straus Archie Goettler Oscar Hammerstein DUeorge W. Mayer 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 Claudia Dell Sigraund Romberg Jerome Kern Otto Harbach Joe Burke Al Dubin M. K. Jerome Harold Berg Bud Green Sam Stept Joe Young Harry Warren Harry Akst Grant Clark Eddie Wards Al Bryan Lou Pollack Mort Dixon Walter O'Keefe Bobby Dolan Mitohell Cleary New Washington Herb Magidson FIRST NATIONAL BURBANK GLadstone 4111 PRODUCTION EXECUTIVES Robert North Robert Lord OO-EXECUTIVES IN CHARGE OF PRODUCTION lal B. Wallis 0. Graham Baker SCENARIO EDITOR Al Cohn STARS AND FEATURED PLAYERS Corinne Griffith Richard Barthelmess Alice White Alexander Gray Bernice Claire uiier Pidgeon Doug. Fairbanks, Jr. Lois Wilson Billie Dove Marilyn Miller Otis Skinner Dorothy Mackaill Jack Mulhall Allan Prior Loretta Young Sidney Blackmer Frank Fay Eddie Nugent Monte Blue Joe E. 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 Cahane Auditor „ „ H. P. Ratlff Chief 8ound Engineer R. S. Clayton Assistant Sound Englneer....A. M. Granich Art Director C. L. Cadwallader 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. Bono 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. Italotone Film Prod Robert 0. Bruce Outdoor Talking Pictures, Inc. Daphne Pollard Wm. Jannev Cornelius Keefe Leila Hyams Olive 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 Brown DIRECTORS John Francis Dillon Mervyn Lo Roy Clarence Badger Michael Curtis 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 Jack Okey Anton Grot John J. Hughes MAKE-UP DEPARTMENT Pure Westmore, Hairdreasing Mel Burns, Make-up MUSIO DEPARTMENT Leo Forbstein, Direotor 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 Manager in Charge UNIVERSAL UNIVERSAL CITY HEmpstead 3131 Laemmle, Jr. EXECUTIVES President ....„ Carl Leemmlt General Manager Carl Asst. to Carl Laemmle, Sr..... M. Stanley Bergerman Studio Manager jr t j Ggm Asst. General Manager....Harry HL Zehner Business Manager Walter Stern Production Manager Martin Murphy Supervising Scenario Chief „ ■— 0. Gardner Suiilvan Story Editor ......Leon Abrmms Casting Director Phil M. Friedman Film Editor-in-Chief Maurice Pivar Director of Publicity.... Ivan St. Johns Stenographic _ Q race H . Ryan Art Director q. 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 -...Frank Graves Art Title Department Max Cohen Zoo Department _ Charles Murphy Ranch Department E. E. Smith Accounting Dept -...Graydon B. How* Ladies' Wardrobe Johanna Matbieson Men's Wardrobe., -...Edward Wars Transportation Dept.„Maurlce E. Kurland Police Department Dick Solberg Prop Shop _ jc,. a. Johnson Nursery _ .„._ _ Walter Taner Scenic Dpartment _ James Holroyd Property Dept .Russell A. Gausman Hospital _.Dr. Stanley Immerman DIRECTORS J. Murray Anderson Wm. James Craft Henry MacRae Lewis Milestone John M. Stahl Harry Pollard John Robertson Ray Taylor William Wyler A. H. Van Buren 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 General Manager in Charge of Produc- tion E. B. Den- 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 William Boyd Ann Harding Eddie Quillan PLAYERS Helen Twelvetrees Ins Clairs Harry Bannister James Gleason DIRECTORS Paul L. Stein Tay Garnett Monte Carter Wallace Fox Fred Guiol Frank Davis Robt. De Lacy Alfred Green Edward H. Griffith DIALOGUE DIREOTOR Richard Boleslavsky DARMOUR STUDIOS 5823 SANTA MONICA BLVD. HO. 8704 President and Supervision „_ - Larry Dsrmour Cameraman James Brown, Jr. TIFFANY PRODUCTIONS SUNSET BOULEVARD OLympia 2131 President - A - Yonng Executive Vice-President....Grant L. Cook Chief Studio Executive -Phil Goldstone Comptroller - Ira E. Seidel Purchasing Agent Milton Gatiert Director of Publicity »- - Arthur Q. Hagarman Art Director Herrey Llbbert Head of 8ound Dept ..Lewis Myer Head of 8et Dressing Dept—Geo. Bawley Musical Director Al Short Tom Reed Winifred Reeve Bob Wyler Edward T. Lowe, Jr. Charles Webb Charles Logue H. La Cossitt Win. Houston Branch Ernst Laemmle Albert De Mond Lew Collins Well Root Garrett Fort Matt Taylor Paul Gangelin Sherman Lowe Jed Kiley Gene Towne Elinor Carlisle Len Fields CAMERAMEN Hal Mohr Frank Booth George Robinson Al Jones Arthur Edeson Walter Cline Gilbert Warrenton Jerry Ashe Walter Lantz CARTOONISTS William 0. 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 _ „ Jrvlng Meiliken Technical Director Albert D'Agostlno Genl. Purchasing Agent....Harry Englandsr Chief Electrician _ .Leslie Traoy Publicity Director Wilson B. Heller Assistant Publicity ...Natalie Adelstein Auditor .Florence Hinkle Properties - G. Altwels Scenic and Paints Larry Sorenson Draperies W. S. Hepburn Transportation .— O. E. Norstrum Outter.^a _ Oharles Henkla Chief Engineer RCA ..Ernest Rovers Recorder. l -L. E. Tops CHAPLIN STUDIOS 1416 N. LA BREA AVE. HEmpstead 2141 President, Director and Vice-President and Star ~ . Oharles Chaplin General Manager— Alfred Rssvss -Lois O. Runser Treasurer Chief Cinematographers— — Rollie Totheroh and Gordon Pollock Photographer „ Mark Marlatt Director of Publicity and Advertising— _ - Oarlyle Robinson Script Department - Delia Stasis Executive Secretary Kathleen Pryor Communication _ Oonsuelo Jackson Purchasing Agent Joseph Van Meter Property Master — Hal Atkins Laboratory Chief - ~Val Lane Assistant - Henry Bergman Still Department —Ed. Anderson Chief Electrician Frank Tmtera Foreman Carpenter William Bogdanoff Casting Director Allan Garcia PLAYERS Virginia Cherrlll Harry Myara Albert Austin