Inside facts of stage and screen (September 6, 1930)

PAGE SIX INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN SATURDAY, SEPT. 6, 1930 FACTS S<3TP(§QVi Published Every Saturday One Year - - - - - $4.00 Forei gn ------ $5.00 Advertising Rates on Application Established 1924 As a weekly publication: Entered as Second Class Matter, April 29, 1927, at the Post Office at Los Angeles, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. J Published by Inside Facts Publishing Company, Inc. 800-801 Warner Bros. Downtown Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif. Telephone TUcker 7832 JACK JOSEPHS President and Editor ARTHUR WM. GREEN - Vice Pres, and Counsel JEAN ARMAND - - - General Manager LOU JACOBS - - Associate Editor Vol- XII Saturday, Seotember 6 No. 10 SMASH DAYLIGHT SAVING Would you vote for an act in restraint of God? That is ex- actly what you are going- to be asked to do next November. According to Scripture, Joshua caused the sun to stand still until he could avenge himself upon the Amorites. These mod- ern Joshuas, unable to perform a similar miracle, are trying by legislation to cause the sun to delay an hour in its course that they may exact a toll upon the Eaborites—Theatreites and Farmerites. Meddlers and busy-bodies, with suppressed desire complexes, should be committed to a hospital as psychopathic cases. It is the same aggregation who put forth a law that natural food shall not ferment in excess of one-half of one per cent or the owner is liable to a jail sentence. More alcohol than that is distilled in every human body in the process of digestion. Auto- intoxication is a disease, why we are all outlaws! It’s silly, but it’s the law. < We who remember that ungodly nuisance, the Daylight Sav- ing law, which was enforced as a war measure—and who suf- fered thereform financially, are militantly opposed to it. A league has been formed under the slogan, “CALIFORNIA’S ALL RIGHT!” We Californians know it’s all right. Califor- nia is synonymous with Sunshine. Are we to confess to the world that we haven’t enough of it ? That we must pass a law to get more? LET 'EM GET UP EARLIER On November 4, you are to be asked to vote this ridiculous measure upon our statutes. DON’T DO IT! Business is tough enough during the summer months without making it harder on the farmers, the theatres, and labor generally. Let those who would rise and get to work an hour earlier do it of their own accord. DON’T LET THEM TAMPER WITH OUR CLOCKS. It means confusion. Besides, are the proponents of this act sincere? Do they really want to get off an hour earlier to breathe the sun-heated atmosphere? Or do they want to take advantage of the work- ing man to make him work an hour longer? That was its pur- pose during the war. DAYLIGHT SAVING is an abomina- tion, not to say a dire menace. KILL IT, even as you would swat a pesky mosquito. END OF GOLF FORECAST The handwriting is on the wall for the Tiddle dee links. Al- ready the epidemic is on the decline, and while several new courses are being built, many of the first comers are confessing a decided weakness. First evidence of the end is the fact that already they are be- ginning to cut prices. Some of the courses have dropped from 20 cents to 15 cents for a second round, with 35 cents allowing you to play until tired or dead. Many of the previous 35-cent courses are now asking but 25 cents, while others are forming clubs in which members can play free as much as they want. Some of the larger ones are putting in orchestras and human entertainers and for these, we shout a “Halleluja, brother!” Most of us can recall the furore that the first roller skating craze created, and how they packed the rinks. Then came the nickel dances. "Wow, how the deer booblic did fall for that for a while. Some time before the radio, and just before Mah Jong and bridge, folks were induced to stay at home by interest m Ping Pong, an indoor tennis game. Somebody will revive that again soon, too. But any fad that takes hold so suddenly, let’s go and drops with a dull thud just like a popular song' In a few short months Pee-wee golf will be like “Sunny Boy,” a tremendous hit for several months after Jolson first intro- ducel it, but if you sang it today you’d get shot. STICKS HOWL CALAMITY Sticks, as well as the metropolitan centers, have become obscessed with the idea that times are hard. Farmers, thinking that perhaps some day, crops may fail, have been holding on to their coin. Results is that the lot of calamity howling has con- verted normal conditions into something like a signal of dis- tress. Reflection of this mental attitude is in the fact that the big tops are closing frofli a month to eight weeks earlier than is their custom. These big tent shows do more to keep vast sums of cash in general circulation than any other one industry. They travel from town to town and spend money for licences, fodder, supplies, food stuffs and general merchandise. When an organization of some two or three thousand people comes to town and brings in its wake thousands more from all the surrounding country, they leave a period of prosperity behind them which is enjoyed for several days thereafter. By not patronizing the circuses, the country folks are merely adding to their difficulties. “Penny wise, dollar foolish.” I NSIDE TEL-A-PHONEYi JAMES MADISON Short Shots At the Mews Gloria Lloyd, 6-year-old daughter of Harold Lloyd, has a new 4-year- old sister. She’s Margery Elizabeth, whom the film actor and his wife adopted this week. ATLANTIC CITY, N. ;J., Sept. 3.—Mrs. Eddie Canter, was robbed of 20,000 dollars in jewelry while staying at the Ambassador Hotel here. Forty chorus singers and 150,000 dollars worth of scenery left here for the San Francisco grand opera season. Scenery is the property -of the. Los Angeles Grand Opera As- sociation. Thieves robbed the beach home of Lewis Stone, 5309 Ocean Front, Venice. Took an assortment ol small articles. Lily Damita arrived in Hollywood after being notified in Paris nine days previously that she had a film engagement. Receiving a cablegram to return home on August 23, Miss Damita sailed that evening, arriving in New York Thursday. LETTERS To The Editor Editor Inside Facts: Through you, I desire to thank Mr. Jacobs for the lousy notice given me for my Loew’s State en- gagement with the Fanchon and Marco “Southern Idea”— It may interest you to know that notwithstanding Mr. Jacob’s review, I was a laugh riot all week, which can be attested by all who witness- ed the show. The jokes, only six or seven min- utes, are strictly my own used by myself so cannot understand where Mr. Jacobs gets the idea that they are old. I wonder if he would be as readi- ly inclined to say the same thing about Johnny Burke, Frisco and others who continue to tell jokes and stories they become identified with. As for my closing joke, that Mr. Jacobs feels should be deleted may I mention that said joke was not censored in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh or Boston—all of which are inclined- to be a lot stricter than Los An- geles. In closing, may I inquire . just who is Mr. Jacobs and what did he do before becoming a reviewer for Inside Facts? •Siqcerely, Jimmy Lyons. Louis B. Jacobs for the past 20 years has been prominently iden- tified with the writing, producing and managing of musical come- dies and comic opera companies and was also formerly an ex- ecutive with the Bert Levey Vaudeville circuit. For many years He was actor-manager of his own companies and the successful author of some 100 odd tabloids and vaudeville acts as well as many short stories. He has been dramatic critic on some of the most important dailies and peri- odicals in this country and has been a reviewer on Inside Facts for the past four years. Editor. ryatTquits TO PRODUCE Phil L. Ryan, for the past sev- eral years an executive with Met- ropolitan Sound Studios, has re- signed to become a producer. He recently made a two reel com- edy with Chester Conklin and Mack Swain, which he took to New York and was extended the courtesy of having the first preview at the' Paramount theatre. As a result, he was given a contract for a Par- amount release. He will immediate- ly start on the production of five two-reel comedies starring Chester Conklin, the first starting early this month. Ryan formerly was sales mana- ger for Pathe, where he was accred- ited with being the youngest to hold so important a position. ’ Hello, A1 Herman. Hello, Jhmes Madison. Do you know anything finer than “Old English?” Yes; Old Scotch. Hello, Warner Brothers. Hello, James Madison. What’s your favorfte pro- verb ? ‘Dark’s the hour before the Dawn ... Patrol,’ Hello, Katharine Cornell. Hello, James Madison. Why does a Scotchman al- ways build on soft ground? Because just about the time the bills come in, the house be- gins to settle. Hello, Bernard Granville and Neely Edwards. Hello, James Madison. What will the defeated local candidates do now? Lemons are always in de- mand. Hello, Harry James. Hello, James Madison. What is your definition of a 100 per cent crook?' One who can’t even look a potato in the eye. Hello, Carla Torney. Hello, James Madison. What do you think of a mo- vie star who doesn’t go to bed till three in the morning? I call that retiring by early scandal-light. Hello, Mayor Rolph. Hello, James Madison. What do you think of the threat to run a dry Republican for governor? Merely the desire of a des- potic minority to enforce their will on the broad-minded ma- jority. Hello, A1 Wager. Hello, James Madison. What do you think of col- lege graduates? There’s many an owner of a sheepskin who isn’t worth his mutton. Hello, B.B.B. Hello, James Madison. Strasska claims his tooth paste makes teeth look like.' pearls. I suppose if the teeth are false, it makes them look like Tecla pearls. In Hollywood*-Now By BUD MURRAY Bud Murray A NEW GOLF course, and this time it’s another NEW one bv my dear old PAL whom we trouped with many moons ago and who is now doing great things in pictures— Robert Woolsey, of those twio “kids”, Wheeler and Woolsey, stars of “CuckoosL Rio Rita” and the latest, to be released soon, “Half shot at Sunrise”—Yes sir, Bobby has gone into the Miniature Golf racket with another ddar friend George Whiting, who takes you back to Coney Island Days, and later when he was half of that marvelous vaudeville headlining team”, “Whiting and Burt”J- George and Bobby have a peach of a course with excellent shrubbery spotted here and there—calling it ‘Hi-Ho” at Edgemont and .Hollywood Blvd, and should do well. We noticed at the opening many interesting nota- bles, but will only mention personal acquaintances^ amongst whom we canot help but start off with otir boy friend, formerly of Winter Garden shows, Jack Oakie who is another sensation in pictures— Hale Hamilton, whom we remember when we were with Geo. M. Cohan and Hays was with the Fortune Hunter and John Barrymore was doing light comedy m this show. Grace La Rue (Mrs. Hamilton) the ideal aristo- cratic songstress, looked charming. Louis and Charley Moscino who run a darn good dancing school too, naturally their wives, Irene Mitchell (formerly of the Winter Garden) and Margaret Young (Mrs. Charley) anda real singer of songs were-there. Francis X. Donegan playing^ round with Charley Grapewin who wise cracked that “He is going to wait until these golf courses flop, then he will pick one out with plenty of landscape work on it, put a house in the middle of the course arid live there—and this isn’t a bad idea. . Three pretty slick Noo Yawkers who are doing top notch wori^ fn their respective lines, Chuck Reisner, directing at Fox Studios, Grant Clark, writing at Warner Bros, and Wilson Mizner, ho runs the well known Brown Derby. Henry Clive, a brother Masquer pulled one about’making the first hole in 11 —Willard Mack, an actor who writes with the best of them— Charley Irwin, that high class M. C. whom we worked with at RKO Theatre L. A.— Billy Arnold, our juvenile singing and acting comedian whom we were with in the Passing show of 1916— Mrs. Robert Woolsey with her hubby’s boy friend’s wife, Mrs. Bernice Wheeler —Bernice confides Bert is in a plane bound for Hollywood fratal Noo Yawk—A couple of real acting-singing dancing juveniles who still- look in the pink, Clarence Nordstrom and Ered Santley. A few words with Mrs. Joe E. Brown who tells us that Joe opetas in vaudeville this week, and she and her two bbys, Joe., Jr. and Dpn (our pupils) meet their illustrious Pop in St. Louis, and continue jbn and thence to Europe for a well-earned rest—and if thta isn’t a peafch of a crowd for a little shrimp like Bobby to have at a golf opening IN HOLLYWOOD anytime—we will accept the celluloid waffle-iron. At the Olympic Fights noticed a new kind of “3 Graces”—none otHer than those 3 well-known music men— Benny Berman of Brown De Syfva and Henderson, Herman Schenck and “Tubby” Garron —Right next ]to us the two Harrys— Harry Santley, general Booker of Paramount-Pu'b- lix stage shows, and Harry Gourfain, the General Production Manager of same organization—we see that our Philadelphia nightingale is ,baqk in town, Frankie Richardson, the boy with those incomparable top tenor tones—And if you will permit us to touch on a most impressing incident at the fights, when Referee Toby made a very touching speech in honor of Lon Chaney and Frangie Campbell, both beloved in their respective professions, every one bowed in reverent silence for one minute, jin respect to thes two sterling gentlemen. Still another Miniature Golf course opens on Wilshire Boulevard and this one by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, and it was like a Lindy reception, entrance to the “course” was at a premium—This course called the “Wilshire Links” done beautifully in futuristic trees and hazards and while we were “window wishing” at golf courses, We went to our friends’ course In Hollywood, The El Portal (round the corner from Henry’s)—owned and operated by William Setter —we no- ticed Jimmy Starr who is “Cinnematters” himself and who must like this “Midget golf”—we always see him at one of them somewhere— A1 Cohn- also puts around a little too—andEd Kane and Mr. and Mrs. A1 Herman resting after a round— Laura La Plante (our pupil) and if you must know (Mrs. Wm. Seiter) swings a wicked golf game— Brooks Benedict the picture “vilyun” and they are all IN HOLLYWOOD NOW. If this-story seems a bit jagged from now on, please let us inform you that at about 4:40 p. m., Sat.. Aug. 30th, in our office, while writing this column, our typewriter was knocked right into our lap, and the phone thrown off the desk, and a water bottle bumped off, by the njipst ungodly shaking of some kind of “earth tremor”—and we don’t want to go through that again—IN HOLLYWOOD NOW OR ANY OTflER TIME—The American Storage Building we are in, is 14 stories -high, and it wavered like an aspen leaf.