The motion picture almanac (1931)

174 The MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC 1931 "Desire Under the Elms" and this characterization earned him the recognition of an excellent dramatlo Btar. Then successively in "The Barker." "Congo" and "Elmer the Great." About this time Paramount contracted with Huston to appear in two feature length productions made at the Long IsLand studios. "Gentlemen of the Press" and "The Lady Lies." Has also appeared in several short films including "The Bishop's Candlesticks," "The Carnival Man" and "Two Americans." Completing "The Lady Lies" he was sent to Hollywood to play the role of Trampas in the all-talking picturization of "The Virginian"; in 1930 in "The Bad Man." First National; "Abraham Lincoln," United Artists. HUSZAR-PUFFY. KARL: Played in "The Blue Angel." Ufa. HUTH, HAROLD: Appeared in 1929 in "The Scarlet Devil" and "The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel." World Wide. H YAMS, JOHN: b. Syracuse. N. Y. . in 1877; h. 5 feet G1^ inches; gray hair and brown eyes; w. 135 pounds; p. Esther D'Ancona and Simon Hyams. nonprofessional : e. Syracuse high school ; m. Leila Mclntyre, professional: hy. golf. Stage training in minstrelsy, farce and musical comedy and vaudeville. Has appeared in the following pictures: ' Broadwav Scandals" (1929). Columbia: "Cameo Kirby" (1930), For; "Swell People" (1930). Pathe, Manhattan Comedies: "Mind Your Business" (1930). Pathe. Melody Comedies; "Give Me Action" (1930), Pathe. Rainbow Comedies; "Some Babies" (1930), Pathe, Whoopee Comedies. HYAMS &. MclNTYRE: Played in Vitaphone No. 2247. "All in Fun." HYMAN. JOHNNY: Played in Vitaphone No. 22G4, "Playing Pranks with Webster." HYMER. WARREN: Appeared in 1929 in """"The Far Call." "Girl from Havana." "Speakeasy." "Frozen Justice," Fox; in 1930 in "Born Reckless." "Lone Star Ranger," "Men Without Women," Fox; "Sinner's Holiday," Warner Bros. HYTTON. OLAF: Appeared in "Kitty" (1929). World Wide; "Grumpy" (1930). Paramount. I 1NCE. JOHN: r. n. John Edwards Ince; b. New York City: h. 5 feet 10^ inches: gray hair and blue eyes; w. 185 pounds; p. Eunice and John Ince. professionals; e. Trinity Chapel. New York City; m. nonprofessional. Was on stage from 1888 to 1913 and appeared in the following productions: Henry E. Fixey. utility; August Darling, utility: Ada Rehan. "Midsummer Night's Dream"; Katherine Kiddus. "Madame Sans Gene"; Rich and Harris productions: Sullivan, Harris and Wood production; Henry Miller productions; Henrv W. Savage production; Klaw and Erlanger. He appeared in stock at the following theatres: Grand Opera House. Boston: 4 Paws theatre. Philadelphia: Girard Avenue theatre, Philadelphia: Grand Opera House. Philadelphia; Polis theatre. Bridgeport. Conn.; Park theatre, Indianapolis; Benglow theatre. Salt Lake City: Alcasar theatre, San Francisco. Has been in pictures since 1913 as director, producer and actor. Has had part in the silent productions of the following companies: Pathe. Lubins. Equitable. Metro. Thomas H. Ince. Gardner Sullivan Productions, and John Ince Productions. Has appeared as an actor in the following talking pictures: "Alias French Gertie." for RKO; "Hot Curves." Tiffany; "Little Caesar." First National: "Moby Dick" and "Children of Dreams" for Warner Bros. INCE, RALPH: b. Boston. Mass.. 1887: hy. golf and tennis. Stage career: Richard Mansfield company. "The College Widow." Screen career: first as actor then as director. Appeared as Lincoln in "Lincoln Series," for Vitagraph; acted and directed "Not for Publication." "Shanghaied." "Chicago After Midnight." "Bigger Than Barnum's" : directed. "Coney Island." "South Sea Love." "Hit of the Show." "Hardboiled." FBO: "Hurricane." Columbia; plaved Roller McRae in "Wall Street" (1929). Columbia: "Numbered Men" (1930). First National. IMHOF, ROGER: Vitaphone No. 991: "Rural Hospitality." I NG RAH AM, CLIFFORD: Appeared in "Hearts in Dixie" (1929). Fox. I NG RAH AM. LLOYD: Appeared in 1929) in "The Rainbow Man." Paramount: "Don't Get Excited." Educational Tuxedo: "Untamed." MGM; in 1930 in "A Ladv to Love." MGM; "Last of the Duanes" (1930). Fox. INGRAM. AMO: Appeared in "The Wild Party" (1929). Paramount. INGRAM. CLIFFORD: Appeared in "Hearts in Dixie" (1929). Fox. IRVING. GEORGE: b New York: h. 6 feet; gray eyes and gray hair: w. 172 pounds; e. College of City of New York, and American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York; m. Katherine Oilman; has two daughters. Katherine Irving. 22. Dorothy. 21; hy tennis. Has lived in New York. Bayslde. L. I.. Hollywood. Entered pictures in 1913 through Augustus Thomas. Became noted director and after a time drifted back to acting. Pictures include The American Father." "The Goose Hangs High." "Pies." "Wanderer of the Wasteland." "Eric the Great." "Craig's Wife." "Moran of Marines." "Godless Girl." "The Dance of Life." "Thunderbolt." Paramount; "Paris Bound." Pathe: "Coquette," United Artists: "The Naughtv Flirt" (1930). First National; "Young E.iglrs" (1930), Paramount: "Last Performance," "Young Desire" (1930). Universal. IRVING. WILLIAMi Appeared in 1929 in "Nothing to Wear." Columbia: "From Headquarters." Warner Bros ; Vitaphone No. 4160; "Ginsberg of Newberg." Vitaphone No. 4139. "Won to Love." Vitaphone No. 4284. "The Skin Game." IRWIN CHARLES: "King of Jazz" (1930), Universal ; Vitaphone No. 2555. ITA TOYO: "Return of Dr. Fu Manchu" (1930). Paramount. J JAAP. N ELAN : Appeared In "Great Power" (1929). Franklin Warner. JACK. JOE: Appeared In "Dritfwood" (1929). Columbia. JACKSON, EDDIE: "Roadhouse Nights" (1930). Paramount. JACKSON. EUGENE: Appeared in "Hearts in Dixie" (1929), Fox. JACKSON, ORIN: b. Terre Haute, Ind., 1874; h. 5 feet 8 inches: dark brown eyes and iron gray hair; w. 155 pounds; e Terre Haute and Chicago, specializing in law and dramatic; m. hy. golf, riding. Has lived in Chicago. New York. Hollywood. Entered pictures in 1913. Played Dr. Sprague in "45 Calibre War," Pathe. JACKSON, SELMER: Appeared in "Why Bring Up" (1930), Paramount. JACKSON. TOM : Appeared in "Broadway" (1929). Universal; "Double Cross Roads" (1930), Fox. JAGGER. DEAN: b. Lima. Ohio, November 7.-1903: h. 6 feet 2 inches; dark hair and eyes; w. 185 pounds; p. Lillie Mayberry and Albert Jagger. nonprofessionals; e. Collins. Indiana, and Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Indiana; hy. tennis and swimming. Stage experience in the following: "Cappy Ricks," "Matt Peasley," "Shepherd of Hills," "Young Matt." also stock leads and in 1926 and 1927 in vaudeville with Alec B. Francis. Played in "Woman from Hell," for Fox, in lead with Mary Astor in 1929. Freelance player. JAMES. GARDINER: b. New York City; h. 5 feet 8 inches; light brown hair and dark brown eyes; w. 139 pounds; e. Curtis School, New York City. Experience on stage with George Aiiiss. "Snow-White," "The Great Adventure." "Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come." and others. Screen work with Essaiiay. Kalem, Edison, First National, Hodkinson, Metro, Vitagraph, Pro-Dis-Co, Warner. First Division. Paramount. Pictures include "Souls Aflame." "Ladies at Ease." "Eager Lips," First Division; "Kentucky Courage," First National: "The Big Killing," Paramount; Marvin Swallow in "The Mating Call," Caddo; "The Flying Fleet." MGM: "The Studio Murder Case." Paramount; "Dawn Patrol" (1930). First National. JAMES, GLADDEN: b. Zanesville. Ohio; h. 5 feet 11 inches; light hair and blue eyes; w. 160 pounds: e. Columbus. Ohio. Stage experience s.nce the age of six, later' in many productions. Screen work with Metro. Fox. Selznick. Signet Productions, Playgoers. Arrow. Paramount. Phil Goldstone. FBO. Pro-Dis-Co. Among his pictures are "The Temptations of a Shop Girl." First Div.sion; "Sweet Sixteen." Rayart: "Adorable Cheat.'" "The Peacock Fan." Chesterfield; "His Captive Woman." "Girl from Woolworth's" (1929). First National. JAMES, WALTER: b. Tennessee: e. Georgetown University. Screen work with Vitagraph. Whitman Bennett. Pathe. Fox. FBO. Pictures include "Little Annie Rooney." United Artists; "Battling Butler," MGM; "The Blood Ship." Columbia; "Patent Leather Kid." "The Wright Idea." First National; "The Irresistible Lover." Universal; "The Big Killing." Paramount: Sheriff in "Hell's Heroes." Universal,; "Me. Gangster." Fox. JAMIESON. BUD: b. Vallejo. Cal.. 1894: h. G feet; brown hair and blue eyes; w. 270 pounds; e. San Francisco. Stage career: Four years in vaudeville and stock. Screen career: Essanay. Rolin-Pathe. Harold Lloyd. Universal, Fox, Pathe. Sterling; "Jake the Plumber." FBO; "Buck Privates." Universal; "The Chaser." First National; Honey Sullivan in "The Grand Parade" (1930). Pathe; "Traffic" (1930). Pathe. Folly Comedies, second series. JANNEY, LEON: b. Ogden. Utah. April 1, 1917; e. public schools in Hollywood and stage training in professional school in Hollywood; hy. collecting stamps, horseback riding, tennis and study of Latin. Had stage experience at age of 2 years on Pantages and Orpheum Circuit. Entered pictures in 192G. Has appeared with Marion Davies in "Old Dutch": Lillian Gish in "The Wind." Was featured lead in Spanish and English version of "Our Gang" comedy. Featured in "Courage." "Hand Full of Clouds," and the lead in "Father's Son." Plaved with George Arliss in "Old English." Also "Doorway to Hell." "The Sin Flood." Now under contract to Warner Bros. JANNEY WILLIAM: r. n. William Preston Janney; b. New York City. February 15. 1908: h. 5 feet 10 inches; dark brown eyes and hair: w. 145 pounds; e. New York and Hollywood, specializing in English literature: hy. swimming, hiking. Has lived in New York and Hollywood. Stage experience in "Merton of the Movies," starring Glenn Hunter; created title role in "Tommv." which he played in New York and on tour Entered pictures in December. 1928. Pictures include "Salute." Fox: "Coquette." United Artists: "Mexicali Rose" (1929). Columbia: "Dawn Patrol" (1930) "The Right of Way" (1930). F.rst National: "Young Desire" (1930). Universal; "Those Who Dance." Warner Bros. JANNINGS. EMIL: b. Brooklyn. N. Y.. July 2G. 1886: h. 6 feet: light brown hair and brown eyes: w. 200 pounds: p. non-professionals; e. Zurich. Switzerland and Gorlitz; received his stage training working at the Gorlitz theatre and traveling with roving stock company: m Gussie Hill, European variety star, now retired: hy. gardens and pets and the theatre. He did various odd jobs and plays bits as a boy with the Gorlitz theatre in Germany: traveled with a stock company going from place to place throughout the German provinces in wagons; also a member of a stock company at Gardelegen theatre. Gardelegen. Germany, and stock companies at Bremen, Leipzig and Mainz; with the Darmstadt Royal theatre. Berlin, playing role in Shakespearean. Ibsen. Schiller. Goethe and Strindberg He was induced by Ernst Lubitsch to enter motion pictures in 1915. playing roles while continuing his stage work; then left the speaking stage entirely for pictures. He has appeared in "Madame DuBarry." "Passion." which was his first important picture to be shown in America:! "Deception." "The Loves of Pharoah." "Peter the Great." "Faust." "The Last Laugh." and "Variety." all Ufa productions. For Paramount he has made "The Way of All Flesh." "The Street of Sin." "The Last Command " "The Patriot" and "Sins of the Fathers." In (1929) "Betraval." Paramount: "Fighting the White Slave Traffic" Bertad Pictures: "Betrayal" (1929). Paramount: "The Blue Angel." Ufa. JANS 4. WHALEN: Vitaphone No. 901. "Two Good Boys Gone Wrong." JARNIGAN. JERRY: Played in Vitaphone No. 2705. 1ARVIS. BOBBY: Plaved in Vitaphone No. 1070. "Putting It On." JARVIS. SYDNEY: b. New York City; e. In New York. England and France, specializing in literature and music; h. 5 feet 11% inches; w. 187 pounds; black hair and brown eyes: m. Virginia Dare, professional. Six years with George M. Cohan and Sam Harris. Three years with Charles Dillingham, the Shuberts, Ziegfeld. and others. Fifteen years headliner in vaudeville in Europe and America. Entered pictures in 1914. Among his later pictures are "Casey at the Bat." "Circus Rookies," "Kismet" and the "Unholy Night." JEFFERSON. THOMAS: b. New York City; h. 5 feet 6 inches; gray hair and blue eyes; w. 115 pounds; p. Margaret Lockyer and Joseph Jefferson: professionals; e. New York and France: m. Daisy M. Robinson, professional; hy. reading and painting. Twenty years stage experience in New York and France and has appeared in "Rip Van Winkle." "Lightnin' " and all of Shakespeare's plays. Started in motion picture industry in 1909 in New York with D. W. Griffith; later appeared in Metro's "The Spenders." Griffith's "Sable Lorcha." and "The Fencing Master." Biograph's "The Poor Gentleman," Universale "The Beloved Liar." and in Fox's "Paid to Love"; "On With the Show" (1929). Warner Bros.; "Double Cross Roads" (1930), Fox. JEFFREY. WILLIAM: b. Halifax. Nova Scotia. Joined traveling stock company at age of 1G and was leading man three years later with dramatic companies in Washington. D. C. and Baltimore. Has been featured player on Broadway for 18 years, appearing in such plays as "The Garden of Allah." "Three Faces East." "The Tavern," "Such Is Life." "The Squealer." First screen appearance in part of forest ranger in "Eyes of the World." United Artists. JEFFRIES, JAMES: b. Carroll. Iowa. April 15. 1875; e. public schools. Los Angeles. Pictures include: "Jeffries, Jr.," Pathe; "Kid Speed," Educational; "Prince of Broadway." Chadwick: "One Round Hogan." Warner; "Beau Broadway." MGM. JENNINGS. DeWITT: r. n. DeWitt Clarke Jennings; b. Cameron. Mo.; h. 6 feet: dark hair and hazel eyes; w. 180 pounds; p. Georgia and Oliver Salmon, nonprofessionals; e. St. Mark's academy, and at Laramie. Wyo. . college: m. Ethel Conroy. professional, and has three children (2 boys, 1 girl) ; hy. automobiles, swimming and golf. Stage experience with stock company in New York City; with James O'Neil in "Within the Law," and in "The Thirteenth Chair." "Women in Room 13." "Under Cover." "The Red Dawn." Entered pictures in 1920, appearing in such pictures as "McFadden's Flats." "Name the Man." "The Great Mail Robbery," "Home Made," "The Night Flyer." "Marry the Girl." "The Unbroken Purple." "Within the Law." "Alibi." "Trial of Mary Dugan" and "The Valiant." Appeared in 1929 in "The Crash." "Seven Footprints to Satan," First National; "Red Hot Speed." Universal; in 1930 in "In the Next Room," First National: "The Captain of the Guard." "Night Ride." Universal: "Those Who Dance." Warner Bros. JESSEL, GEORGE: b. New York City, 1898. Stage experience began at the age of 9 as kiddie in Gus Edwards' revue, has written many popular songs, "Oh. How I Laugh When I Think How I Cried About You." Pictures include "Private Izzy Murphy." "Sailor Izzy Murphy." "Ginsberg the Great." Warner: "George Washington Cohen," Tilfany-Stahl : "Lucky Boy." Tiffany-Stahl; "Happy Days," "Love. Live and Laugh" (1929). Fox. Wrote titles and dialogue for "Lucky Boy." Tiffany-Stahl. JOCHIM. ANDY: "Hard Boiled Hampton" (1929). Pathe-Manhattan Comedies, first series. JOHNSON, DICK WINSLOW: Played in "Love. Live and Laugh" (1929), Fox. JOHNSON. HAROLD : b. Chicago. 111.. March 5. 1895: e. grade and high school in Chicago, then attended Northwestern University; m. non-professional. Stage experience 14 years in vaudeville as headliner with John "Ole" Olsen. his partner, toured Australia two years. Produced own show "Monkey Business." First screen appearance in "Oh Sailor Behave" (1930). for Warner Bros., and next "Fifty Million Frenchman." Is part of team of Olsen and Johnson. JOHNSON. NOBLE: b. Colorado Springs. Col.; h. 6 feet 2 inches; dark hair and eyes; w. 215 pounds. Screen career: "Topsy and Eva." "The Ten Commandments." "Soft Cushions." "Something Always Happens." Paramount; "Gateway of the Moon." "The Black Ace." Fox: Jeelo in "Black Waters." British and Dominion; Ahmed in "The Four Feathers." Li Po in "Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu." Paramount; "Moby Dick." Warner Bros. JOHNSTON. J. W.: b Ireland: e. New York and Dublin. Stage experience with Sothern. Frohman. "The Squaw Man." "The Waif." in stock. Screen work with Metro. Fine Arts. World. Pathe. American Releasing. United Artists. Paramount. Selznick. Pictures include "Driftwood." Columbia. JOLSON, AL: r. n. Asa Yoelson: b. St. Petersburg. Russia: m. Ruby Keeler, New York Musical Stage Star: h. "Hearts" and high lowered motor cars. He was brought to America while a baby. His father decided for him to become a cantor in the Jewish synagogue, which Asa did not care to do. so he ran away from home to join a circus as ballvhoo man. He later changed to cafe entertainer, and then formed a vaudeville act with his brother and another man and went on the road. In 1906 he discovered his ability to please an audience, and then upon the advice of an old colored man. he blackened his face and became the greatest black-face comedian and "mammy" singer. Then joined Dockstader's minstrels and was with them for two years. His first film was "The Jazz Singer." which was followed by the "Singing Fool" and "Say It With Songs." "Mammv." "Sons o' Guns." United Artists; "Big Boy" (1930). Warner Bros. JONES. BILLY "RED:" r. n. William Charles Jones; b. Wheeling. West Va.. February 9. 1913; h. 5 feet 3 inches: brown eyes and red hair: w. 115 pounds: e. Santa Monica and Culver City, grammar schools and Venice high school; hy. swimming, riding, boating and football. Has lived in Wheeling. Akron. Ohio. Los Angeles. Santa Monica. Culver City. Entered pictures in September. 1923. through Ross Lederman. director Among his pictures are: "Sparrows," "The Cripple." "Three Miles Up." "The Phantom Flyer." "The nound of Silver Creek." "Vacation Waves." "The Final Extra." Lumas; "Sky High Saunders." Universal. JONES. BUCK: b. Vimennes. Ind : h. fi feet; brown hair and gray eyes: w. 173 pounds; e. In