Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1930)

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r/,0 I 'l l a a f I n c c ) /; MOT DON [P D CTT dJ [RE CLASSIC Talks • Bv GEORGE KENT SHULER, PMsher FOUND at last: a place where a squawk about censorship has done some good. Montreal was the happy battleground. It seems that the local Puritans banned "Joan of Arc," a French film. Prominent citizens promptly rioted, raismg such a commotion that the censors reconsidered, and allowed the show to go on, with only minor cuts. Other self-respecting towns please copy. FROM Hollywood, well-known suburb of our fifth largest city, where natives ask a stranger if he is working before they tell him they are glad to see him, the Better Business has been circulating warnings to film hopefuls to stay away or starve. Now the Great Unknowns are saving their ducats and arriving with enough to last at least six months, figuring that while there's food there's hope. HOLLYWOOD, never noted for experimenting (even talkies were forced on all bur one studio), is not on the look-out for buddmg talent; HolK wood wants full-blown dramatic roses. Helpful hint: go to New York, if you have screen yearnings, get on the stage, and wait to be discovered. It s not eas\ , but It's easier than crashing the pearly gates of talkieland without a reputation. ANN HARDING has revealed that she acquired . her famous enunciation when wiirking in an office a few years ago. She had to use a dictophone, and, the best stenogs scrapping for the best dictophone records, she had to be good to make her letters look fit to send out. She is probably the onlv star who ever became a star h\ t-nlkinc to herself. THE latest news about the strongest and silentest of them all \N illi:mi S Hart is that certain producers are sounding out exhibitors on the possible drawing power of a talkie co-starring him and Davey Lee. also absent from the screen these many moons. 1 he picture to be titled, perhaps. "Gunny Boys. " • • • ANEW producer, announcing his entry into the crowded cinema field, states in an open letter to Will Hays, noted law-giver of Hollywood, that the latter's prayers have at last been answered-for the former's picture program is "the Code of Ethics wrapped up in a bundle of showmanship." To end the suspense: he is going to film the works of Gene Stratton-Porter. Now that they are assured that Mr. Hays's prayer has received due consideration, the rest of the producers can even more blithely go on picturing I.ife In 1 he Raw. • • • MOVIES a few of us would like to see: A comedy of mother love. .A tragedy of college life. A cannibal's adventures in civilization. The millionaire s son turning out better than the hard-working lad. A silent starring Rudy \'allee. • • • MACK SENNETT, inventor of the pastry-pasting comedy, recently relieved himself of this sentiment: "Sometimes now. when I see some of my former actresses playing their great starring rnles. I feel the need of having someone step forward with a luscious, well-proportioned pie and delivering it in the way and manner in which it would do the most good, saying. 'Gome on down from that pedestal and act." " I he pie, we take it, wfnild b*" humble pie. • • • TOM MARSHALL, the best wise-cracking ViceI*risultnt w("\c evti bad' was mi';tak<ii \\ li.nt \nirru a nt-eils is a good five-cent movnv 2.^