Motion Picture Herald (Jul-Sep 1931)

28 MOTION PICTURE HERALD August 8, 1931 JOBS PLENTIFUL FOR ACTORS AND EXTRAS AFTER LEANEST SEASON "Huck Finn" Prizes! As a probable basis for ideas on future juvenile filnns, Paramount is offering $200 in prizes for the best essays, from grade and high school pupils on "Why I enjoyed 'Huckleberry Finn' more than any other picture I ever saw." The film is playing simultaneously at the New York and Brooklyn Paramounts, and each contribution must be accompanied by a ticket stub for the week of August 7-13. The awards are $50 each for the best high school and grade school essay; second prizes in each group are $25; third prize, $15 and fourth prize, $10. Clara Bow Defamer Sentenced To Eight Years, $2,000 Fine Frederic H. Girnau, publisher, has been sentenced to eight years in the federal penitentiary and fined $2,000 by Federal Judge Harry A. Hollzer in Los Angeles for his printed attacks on Clara Bow in his former magazine, the Coast Reporter. Girnau was sentenced to three years and $1,000 on one count and five years and $1,000 on another, the court ordering that the last two years and 10 months of the second sentence be suspended for a period of five years. The court characterized the matter as "unfit to be fed as garbage to swine." Bowes Gets Hole-in-One Major Edward Bowes, managing director of the New York Capitol, recently made a hole-in-one while playing with Mrs. Bowes at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club, Scarborough, N. Y. College Gets Theatre Mrs. Edward W. Bok, Philadelphia, widow of the late Edward Bok, has given Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla., a theatre, which will cost $100,000 and be called the Annie Russell. Bronx Cashier Robbed of $300 Bandits fled with $300 after holding up Edith McFall, cashier, and George Tupnik, ticket taker, at the Congress theatre, Severn boulevard near 149th street, the Bronx. House Sponsors Paving Through the efforts of the Oaks theatre management, Berkeley, Cal., residents of the Thousand Oaks section now have a paved walk to the business center. Production at Capacity in October Indicated Pictures Starting This Month Bring Work for 700 to 1.000 Part Players and 15,000 Extras Pictures starting this month will provide work for 700 to 1,000 part and bit players and more than 15,000 extras, a survey by the Hollytvood Herald shows. Thus, after the leanest season in the history of Hollywood production, including the strike period of 1929, actors and extras are due for a break this month. Jobs will be plentiful for both classes and all studios except WarnersFirst National will be more active than at any time since last spring, when temporary shutdowns and reduction of schedules made screen jobs infrequent and hard to get. September will be even better, from the employment standpoint, and October probably will find production at capacity on all lots. A checkup of prospects for this month shows : Pictures starting in August will give work to 700 to 1,000 parts and bit players and over 15,000 extras. Major studios (excepting Warner) have listed 47 features. Probably half as many more independent features scheduled. There will be at least 75 shorts. For the benefit of the acting classes, The Hollywood Herald canvassed the studios for a list of productions which will actually be started during the month and for which casting will be done. It found that, in additiofn to those scheduled, some which started late in July will require cast additions in the next few weeks, while in many cases of the new pictures story preparation is backward to such an extent that it is impossible to tell accurately the number of players and extras that will be afYorded work. The figures appearing in the appended list are as nearly accurate as the studios can make them at this time, but work seekers are warned that important changes may be made. In some cases, there may he increases, in others decreases ; but the totals as given are approximately what will be found in the final casting. Here are the August schedules, with indicated number of acting and extra jobs, as estimated by studios at this time : PARAMOUNT PICTURES PARTS EXTRAS STADIUM 20 600 ONCE A LADY 15 300 THE BACHELOR 9 200 COME ON MARINES 25 800 DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE . , 10 300 THE MAN I KILLED 10 1,000 NIGHT BEFORE MARRIAGE 12 250 PICTURES PARTS EXTRAS GIRLS ABOUT TOV/N 12 200 LADIES OF THE BIG HOUSE... 20 700 WORKING GIRL 15 200 SOOKY 15 150 MGM FLYING HIGH 7 200* EMMA 7 MIRAGE 7 MATA HARI 8 500* THE CHAMP 5 300* A FAMILY AFFAIR 7 THE CUBAN 9 250* FOX SOB SISTER 31 600 HEARTBREAK 7 1,000 DOLLAR BILL 10 2,000 SURRENDER 9 1,000 COLUMBIA THE GHOST V^ALKS 24 55 GALLAGHER 32 63 THE DEADLINE 10 80 UNIVERSAL SPIRIT OF NOTRE DAME 25 500* (Parts here confined to star and football squad) FRANKENSTEIN 15 200* HEART AND HAND 4 . . MURDERS IN RUE MORGUE. .. 12 300* RKO-RADIO SECRET SERVICE 15 300 SOUR GRAPES 10 100 ARE THESE OUR CHILDREN?. . . 20 200 OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS 20 150 RKO-PATHE Company will have four features and eight shorts, using about 100 actors in latter. About 1,250 people to be used in two features, no estimates for other two, as scripts are not ready. EDUCATIONAL 4 TIFFANY FEATURES 50 500 1 CRUZE FEATURE 10 300 6 SENNEH COMEDIES 50 300 6 EDUCATIONAL 2-REELERS .... 50 250 2 l-REELERS 45 60 HUGHES-U. A. COCK O' THE AIR 12 500* SKY DEVILS 10 350* TONIGHT OR NEVER 9 ARROWSMITH 3** GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR IT 6** * Estimated. ** Incomplete. These lists, it was pointed out, are not to be interpreted by actors or extras as open invitations to storm the casting bureaus, but are given out to let the players know what they may expect in the way of work possibilities, to be obtained through agents or casting services. All-Pathe Bill at New House The Hollywood at Fort Worth, Tex., newest of the RKO theatres, opens August 8 with an all-RKO Pathe program. The feature will be Constance Bennett's latest, "The Common Law."