Inside facts of stage and screen (February 21, 1931)

Saturday, February 21, 1931 INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN Page Five In Hollywood -- Now By BUD MURRAY Sfiidio Production Schedule PRODUCTION SCHEDULE To the opening of “Gypsy Adair,” starring Mitzi Hajos, whom we haven’t seen in 14 years, and she looks just as cute and young as ever -—although we must confess that Mitzi has lost that charming Hun- garian dialect that made her comedy stand out more pronounced; now there is hardly a touch of it, and not until the finale of the show did we get a glimpse of that “perk” little figure of hers, when she discards the robe of Florence Standish and be- comes Gypsy Adair —Her too few numbers were very much appreciated by those gathered this nitc for the* festivities. The show itself is not good enough for this clever artist, and the less we say about it, the easier it is for us all. And so we noticed that there were more "chatter” and Dra- matic writers witnessing the play than notables of tiie Stage and Screen—including Miss Florence - Lawrence, Harrison Carroll, Philip K. Scheur, Harry Burns, Miss Llewellyn Miller, During in- _ , ., termission a few words with A1 Cohn writer of Bud Murray dialogue for Warner Brothers. We.-noticed an old timer. Lou Housman who used to be A1 Woods’ Head Man for many years— Colin Campbell who played the jockey with Big Eoy, which we handled for A1 Jolson in 1926— Colin also played the same part fo'r Warner Brothers in the “Big Boy” screen version— Charley Murray rite- down , in front— Mr. and Mrs. Herman Paley seem to be at all the legit openings—That gorgeous talking picture prima donna Jean- ette MacDonald strutting down the aisle—That’s that— Georgie Harris now rehearsing in the Mccloon-Albertson operetta “Paris in Spring”—Another shrimp rehearsing with the same show is. Eddie Lambert, and we hope they take away those big shoes of Eddie’s in this show, because he can be funny without them—In HOLLY- WOOD or any other wood. We. must apologize to Alice White and Cy Bartlett for the mis- print of Cy Kahn’s name in Cy Bartlett’s place—What a break that would be for Cy Kahn or any other mug—So we repeat it was Alice and Cy Bartlett we talked with at the Blossom Room last Friday— Walking up the “Big street” of Frisco last week with Harold Bock, manager of the S. F. Facts offices, we bump into Clarence Muse who was playing there in “Porgy” and doing very well—A few words with Miss Benay Venuta now a steady feature of KPO Radio Station, and who sang for us a year ago for the Harry Carroll Revue — Dick Mar- shall who used to be head man for Henry Duffy up here strolling down the "avenoo”—and then back to Hollywood where traffic is terrific until 9 p. m., then they pull the streets rite in for the Nite— Driving past Western and Sunset we. almost crash into our little blonde girl friend Frances McCoy now at Fox Studios working daj 7 and nite—An unexpected visit from Thea Lightner, sister of Winnie, and with Thea is Newt, or Newton Alexander, and thats the old trio “Lightner Sisters and Alexander” —What a vaudeville act that was— and now Winnie is a real star for Warner Brothers pictures—and Thea is a Theatrical Booking Agent— To the Brown Derby for a lite lunch and in a booth we spy Eddie Cantor telling some brand new gags “fresh from No‘o York”— Sally Starr who workt with us in “Le Maires Affairs and Scandals now has a head of red hair, evidently- doing some technicolor pictures—Thats the new gag now when the “girls” in pictures change the color of their hair—Sally has had some darn good breaks at Pathe Studios—-Another girl who has changed the color of her hair whom we hardly recog- nized, she was so thin—we mean Kitty Flynn, who was our pet under- study in “Good News” here—Tom Gallery genial manager of the Hollywood Fite Club gesticulating wildly— Tommy Dugan a hOy from “The Avenoo” in NOO YAWK now a steady fixture in talking pic- tures-— Lew Cooper one of the yesteryear blackface comics, who has been out of show business for some time and has made a few thousand grand in Real Estate, now has the “Pitcher” business fever and means to stay here, at any rate his “Missus” says so—and if Lew’s brother- in-law Harry Akst can make the “picher racket," why can’t Lew? — Even if he has to be a Supervisor— Bryan Foy who is now contem- plating. producing his own shorts— John |Medbury in a booth by him- self—where oh where is his “Mouthpiece,” Hal Home —A flock of booking agents including Lew Schreiber, Walter Herzbrun, A1 Lloyd, Bill Perlberg and we then have an old-fashioned chat with our boy friend Larry Ceballos who is up to his neck grinding out Fanchon & Marco Ideas—Another fine Dance Director enjoying his luncheon here is Dave Bennett —and believe it or not, they are all IN HOLLY- WOOD NOW. Then to the usual Friday Nite Fites at the Hollywood Legion Stadium where wc again see Mr. and Mrs. Bert Wheeler back in their front row scats:— Jimmy Lucas playing at the RKO Hillstreet finds time to see a couple of bouts—Look at this- flock of talking picture directors scattered here and there— Harry Beaumont who directed us in a picture way-back in 1916 at the old Essanay Studios in Chicago— Norman Taurog, A1 Ray, William Wellman, David Butler —and a few dance directors won’t hurt, f’r instance Dave Bennett, Busby Berkely, Ed Tierney who runs a dancing school too—(In Pasadena)—Wc no- ticed quite a few stage stars who are in HOLLYWOOD NOW and for some time in pictures, such as Hale Hamilton who played in “The Fortune Hunter” with John Barrymore about 1906 at the Globe — Olsen and Johnson vaudeville stars—and Edward G. Robinson who set himself with his latest “Little Caesar” which seems to stick to him wherever he is introduced— Leon Errol rite in the front row gets a big kick out of a pair of wobbly-legged fiters stealing his stuff— B. B. B. loses all sense of bad business when at the -Fites—Our dear friends Mr. & Mrs. Macklin Megley —all IN HOLLYWOOD NOW. A couple of regulars are Dolly Nelson who seems so forlorn be- cause her Eddie is away —We mean Eddie (Sunkist) Nelson who has gone on his usual vaudeville tour—With Dolly is Lee Summers, her sure-fire side-kick, rite in HOLLYWOOD. We drop into B. B. B.’s Cellar for a look-see at the Country people, and the place is all ritzed up with a 5 piece band for the Dancing fiends— Leonard Stevens blows in wearing a pair of smoke- glasses (evidently in pictures) but still a darn good pianist—and B. B. B. knows it. So we drop into Henry’s Restaurant for a “snack.”- and as we enter the “Dummy Newsboy” does a few tap steps for us on the good old sidewalks of the Boulevard—He is still a darn good News- boy — Earl Mastro that clever featherweight fiter from Chicago and Mrs. Mastro lay it on the line and are now rehearsing a vaudeville act with plenty of “hoofing” in it—A large party of’ some sort includ- ing H. B. Franklin formerly of the West Coast Theatres— Roscoe Ates and his Darling daughter with Mrs. Roscoe Ates—Harry Meyer who is once again revived in the Chaplin picture “City Lights”-—An old time Shubert juvenile and originally one of George M. Cohan’s favor- ite singing and dancing juveniles and our brother Masquer and pal, Tyler Brooke — Stan Laurel all slickt up in a Booth— Wm. Beaudine, gentleman screen director—and Joe Berliner talking to a very dear old friend, Ed. Margoiies who used to build theatres for. our old bosses Messrs. Lee and T. T. Shubert and every single one of them rite IN HOLLYWOOD NOW. , . L .