Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

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Twenty Cents Twenty cents brings you the miniature Tangee Beauty Set— all six items and the "Art of Make-up." Address Dept. M. P. 7. The George W. Luft Co., 417 Fifth Ave., New York. Name . . . Address Why Movies Go Wrong (Continued from page yi) had in hashing up English customs during production. "The Divine Lady," a story of Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, had altogether some ten technical directors supposed to supervise different points of historical detail. One of these, a retired English naval lieutenant named G.A. Fealman, seemed pretty happy with the way things were going and reported that his advice was actually being listened to. His only squawk was that the sailors at the guns of the Victory insisted on chewing gum. Another technical bozo named Magee, late colonel of artillery in England, was less satisfied with things. He quickly resigned himself to having his advice ignored. After spending hours arranging ship's crews in correct fighting order, he found that the men were shuffled and dealt again because they didn't show up to the best advantage. "Que faire?" said the Colonel (only not in French), and very sensibly didn't try to do anything except collect his weekly stipend and arrange matters so that his name should not appear in connection with the picture. KNOW OR GO ONE of the "Divine Lady" technical directors, reported Agnes Christine Johnston, who wrote the scenario, was fired early in the proceedings because when they asked him which deck Nelson died on he confessed he would have to look it up. The studio people rhetorically wanted to know what they were paying him for. The poor fellow just didn't know that what he suggested wasn't done in Hollywood. If half of what has been shot for "The Whip" reaches the screen, we shall have an illuminating document on life as she is lived in the rustic shires of old England. The technical director of this production was merged in the director, Charles Brabin, who happened to be born in England, where the story is laid. He secretly inquired of several fellow-countrymen, before starting on the picture, whether they could tell him anything about 'unting. Whenever his authority was questioned at the studio, however, he said that he was an English gentleman and knew 'is 'unting backwards. It would have been better if he had known it sideways, for he had ladies dressed in sidesaddle riding-habits sitting astride their steeds, and the entire hunt dressed in pink coats, when of course all but a handful should have worn ordinary riding-clothes. Another episode in "The Whip" that is going to delight the English aristocracy shows racing at Newmarket with a track of dirt instead of the invariable English grass, and with all the male spectators dressed in the grey top-hat and tails which are only worn at Ascot. With Brabin as an alibi, the producers frankly don't care whether "The Whip" portrays its subject accurately or not. WTho the hell knows the difference? Only a few lousy Britishers, that's all. ENGLISH INNOVATIONS DOOR old England is getting it in the -*■ neck a good deal these days. Another picture purporting to be atmospherically correct was made by Paramount, "motion picture headquarters of the world," and was called "The Street of Sin." It was supposed to be laid in London. As technical director, an Englishman named Bertram Johns was engaged. Johns is an extra and bit player who did the technical direction on " Doomsday" and other Paramount pictures with British locale. It is said by those who should know that Johns was last in England over thirty years ago — i.e., when Queen Victoria was on the throne. However, this may be, it is certain that his knowledge ended at the knotty problem of how to spell "Hampstead," one of the largest sections of London, which throughout the subtitles (also on a newspaper contents bill) was spelled without a "p." At the end of the picture there is a chase and 'gun-fight on the roof-tops, involving a small regiment of policemen. They are all armed with revolvers, in spite of the fact that the law definitely forbids English policemen being armed, and that even the highest Scotland Yard officials have practically got to lick the king's boot before they can be allowed near a gun. How much this was due to Johns's apparently scanty information, and how much to the con (Continued on page 103) Don Gillum Like taking candy from a baby — that's the way this tame deer (a resident of the higher altitudes around Hollywood) sizes up Thelma Todd 92