Motion Picture News (Apr - Jun 1927)

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June 10, 1927 I 2265 "Snoohums" Sunny McKi'cn, of Stern Hros. "i\i>wlyurds and Thi>ir ISdhy" comedies, romps on the )> /ii'/c Uoiisi' limn with President Coolidge. ( Internaliomd Neivsreel Photo.) Cornell I' oolriili. ii /lo^c itatil, "( hildri'ii of the Rilz." won the S 10.000 prize in the College Humor-First !\(ilionid Pictures contest, and which icill be filmed. Readins; down : E. IT'. Hummons, Sid Graumnn, Dorothy Deiore. Muriel Einns. Toy Gnllngher, Est ell e Bnidley, Amma Slyers and E. H. Allen, during the Edurntioncd convention. G. westward. Ho! ]OK(iE KlODl'V, I'nr ilir past seven years an important and popular member of tlie I'atlie liome office publicity department, has shaken the dust of Broadway from iiis feet, and by the time this is in print will be on a train bound for Hollywood to assume his new post as director of |)ublicity at the Mack Sennett Studios. The tradepaper fraternity will be son-y to see George jro, but glad of the ojjportunity and the advancement given George. Starting as a youngster with the Morning Telegraph, George went from tiiere to RobertsonCole and from that company to Pat he, where he has been continuously since. Where other press agents were satisfied to entrust their copy to messenger boys, George has personally delivered everything to the editorial sanctum of each publication— and, if you don't think that means work, you don't know the publicity "racket." He is a brothei of Joe Reddy, Harold Lloyd's publicity representative these manj years. To our friends on the West Coast we commend George as a hard working, likable and squareshooting publicity man — than which a newsjiaperman can siiy no more of a press agent. w. The Day of Youth ILE the exploits of a 25-year-old flier are filling the papers, it is worth noting that the winning author in the First National-College Humor story contest is a 21-year-old youth, Cornell Woolrich. He won the' $10,000 award with "Children of the Ritz, " Avhich will be his second published novel. ] ilnui llimky. Samuel Goldwyn sttir now playing in "The Magic Flame," presents a rose to Victor M. Shapiro, advertising and publicity director of United Artists, who publicized her during the first year after her arrival in America, when he was publicity director for Samml Goldirvn. George J. Keddv, for sevm yi'iiri uilli the I'athe publicity department, noii ice-itward bound as the netc director of publicity for the Mack Sennett sfiijios. Harry Sinclair l>r<igo, author of "ff hisper ing Sage" and other novels, icho leaves for Hollyicood about June 1 to do screen originals for Fox Films Corporation. » it WM BB JB^^I n Hi L \l 1 " 1 iHpBJ n-k. .;C UK 1^. J ^^^C^^^K~ 25 \^l £ Julius Stern, president of Stern Brothers Comedies, with Sunny McKeen. the Snookurns of ''The A mj7> uer/.-i and Their Kaby" comedies, during their stop in Chicago.