The Motion Picture Director (Sep 1925 - Feb 1926)

18 N ovember T~'*^ MOTION MCTLItt ©irector Other trucks have been sent East where a cross-country tie up it contemplated by which fans from coast to coast will be informed of events in movieland and will be told about current and forthcoming Warner productions. To this end “Chief” Murphy is now superintending the construction of a large portable broadcasting station which will be a miniature duplicate of KFWB. The power to operate will be supplied by two motor generators. Its call will be 6XBR; its wave length 108 meters. EVERY evening between ten and eleven a player from the studio stock company, which includes Marie Prevost, Louise Fazenda, Irene Rich, Dorothy Devore, June Marlowe, Patsy Ruth Miller, Dolores and Helene Costello, Alice Calhoun, M yrna Loy, John Barrymore, Monte Blue, Syd Chaplin, Huntlv Gordon, Willard Louis, John Roche, John Harron, John Patrick, Kenneth Harlan, Matt Moore, Clive Brook, Gayne Whitman, Charles Conklin, Don Alverado and Charles Farrell, is selected to act as guest announcer. This gives fans who have seen them on the screen many times, an opportunity to hear their voices. In all respects KFWB is a motion picture broadcasting station. It is not only owned and operated by a producer but it is the aim of W arners to knit a closer contact with their listeners and the industry. Various motion picture stars and directors drop in of an evening and they are immediately pressed into service to say a few words. On Sunday evening at the regular Warner Bros.’ hour the station holds an impromptu hour. Stars from all over Hollywood are invited and a regular screen family program is floated through the air. The atmosphere of Hollywood, the center of the motion picture industry, is imbued in the entire program. The station itself is a 500 watt Western Electric outfit erected and maintained by Frank Murphy, the studio chief engineer. The 150-foot towers are placed directly in front of the big white studio on Sunset Boulevard, one at each end of it, and all passers-by know that it is the motion picture industry that boasts of Station KFWB. All radio fans know it and know they can hear their favorite star any evening between the hours of ten and eleven, but with mighty good programs every night from six to 12 p. m. “Don’t go ’way, folks, it’s KFWB.” Many of Warner’s directors have also been heard on the station, among them William Beaudine, Charles “Chuck” Reisner, J. Stuart Blackton, and Erie Kenton. New York Shows Disgust Star “And they censor motion pictures!” That was Evelyn Brent’s pertinent comment on the New York shows when she arrived home in Hollywood Sunday after several weeks vacation in Gotham. “I saw and heard things in reputable New York theatres which would bar any newspaper from the mails if reproduced in print,” she declared. “I saw women prancing about the stage, making an exhibition of their nakedness, without a thread to cover them. “I didn’t sneak up an alley to see the sights of the slums. I didn’t seek out nasty shows. I loathe nastiness. I have lived my life in New York and London and Paris and think I am broad minded. But I was disgusted with what I saw in the shows that are most talked of in New York. The music was good, the scenery and the costumes were splendid works of art. The spectacles had been conceived by masters. “A nude woman may be pretty. But a naked one is disgusting. And the show girls in the Follies type of performance were naked. When they wore anything at all it was just to accentuate their nakedness. “And they censor motion pictures in New York!” As GENERAL MANAGER OF KFWB, THE ONLY MOTION PICTURE BROADCASTING STUDIO, NoRMAN MANNING IS CREATING FOR Warner Brothers stars increased popularity through “personal appearances” on the air.