The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

JUN211935 ©C1B 264967 new movie VOL. XII No. 2 • • • AUGUST 1935 CATHERINE McNELIS, Publisher Frank J. McNelis, Managing Editor • Bert Aa'ler, Eastern Editor • John C. Mitchell, Western Editor • Verne Noll, Art Director • Amy Vanderbilt, Director of Home Service A GLIMPSE AT THE EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK THE movie year is closing as this is being written. Nearly all of the studios shut down during the Summer. It has been an unusual year for the producers and, in a way, a most significant one. Grand opera, for instance, which everyone thought would be "too highbrow" for the fans, was introduced through the combined efforts of the Cohn Brothers of Columbia Pictures and Miss Grace Moore. And this subject, which many producers shied away from, became an outstanding success of the movie season. It seems to show there isn't anything too lofty for the fans. If the producers will only take the chance, and give a sincere and capablywrought test to any subject now being held back for this reason, they may find themselves pleasurably surprised. AND this is just what Pioneer Pictures, under i the aegis of John Hay Whitney, is doing. Soon, to your local screen, will come a picture entitled "Becky Sharp," which will be presented to you in color — not the kind of color you have previously seen on the screen, but a vastly improved, three-color process film which will enable you to catch practically every tint of the color chart. (The old method could reproduce, perfectly, only green and a particularly garish shade of red.) Miss Miriam Hopkins will play the leading role. Experts say she is the star most likely to stay in pictures if the color revolution proves as sweeping as in some quarters it is expected to prove — this, because of the especially satisfactory bony construction and complexion-tints of her face. And the entire picture, as far as color arrangements and color lighting-effects go, was directed by Robert Edmond Jones, noted stage designer and color expert, whose work on the New York stage has won him international notice. THESE two outstanding steps, into new realms, were part of last year's program. THIS year, you may be sure, new steps will be taken into unknown fields, and many producers will follow the lead of these pioneering producers. This means we can expect more pictures along operatic lines. In fact, Miss Moore has already completed one. And upon the success or failure of "Becky Sharp" will depend just how many more color pictures will be made, in this year's offerings to you. THE BEST OF THE MONTH'S STORIES OF THE STARS Scouting for New Stars Darryl Zanuck 4 The Title Has Been Changed. . Lowell Brentano 6 Love Laughs at the Little Clown. .Dick Hyland 8 Pictures Need Seven Kinds of Love Louis E. Bisch 16 Who— Me? Katherine Hartley 1 9 Her Four Devils Dolores Del Rio 20 The Dark Horse Is a Blonde Elsie Janis 21 Two Star-tling Views Charles Darnton 30 Two Star-tling People Leon Surmelian 31 Gail Patrick for Governor Gail Patrick 32 Comedians Make the Best Fathers Grace Kingsley 36 Playrooms of the Stars Henry M. Fine 38 NEWS OF THE FORTHCOMING FILMS On-the-Set Reviews Barbara Barry 35 NEW MOVIE'S SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS Tower Star Fashions 24 Summer for Society Grace Kingsley 27 Hollywood Day by Day Nemo 28 Hollywood's Gone Hobo Beth Brown 33 And We'll Just Have a Salad... Mary Martin 34 Feet in the Spotlight 40 The Make-Up Box 40 Younger Hollywood Henry Willson 42 Music in the Movies John Edgar Weir 44 You Tell Us 48 Tower Star Fashions Stores 74 COVER DESIGN BY ROSALIE RUSH When changing address send us both old and new addresses, and allow five weeks For the first copy to reach you. Published Monthly by TOWER MAGAZINES, Inc., 4600 Diverse/ Avenue, Chicago, III. Executive and Editorial Offices: 55 Fifth Avenue New York, N. Y Home Office: 22 No. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre' Pa. Western Editorial Office: 7040 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood Cal! Officers: Catherine McNelis, President, John P. McNelis, Vice-president; Theodore Alexander, Treasurer; Marie L Featherstone, Secretary. R. H. Flaherty, Advertising Director; E. L. Schroeder, Eastern Advertising Manager; S. B. Galey, Western Advertising Manager, R. M. Budd, Pacific Coast Representative. Advertising Offices: 55 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 919 No. Michigan Ave., Chicago, III.; Russ Building, San Francisco, Cal. Copyright, 1935 (Title Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) by Tower Magazines, Inc., in the United States and Canada. Subscription price in the U. S. A. $1.00 a year, 10c a copy; in Canada, $1 .60 a year, including duty, 15c a copy; in foreign countries, $2.00 a year, 20c a copy. All subscriptions must be mailed to our New York office. Entered as second class matter September 9, 1933, at the Post Cffice at Chicago, III., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Printed in U. S. A. Nothing that appears in THE NEW MOVIE MAGAZINE may be reprinted, either wholly or in part, without permission. Tower Magazines, Inc., assumes no responsibility for return of unsolicited manuscripts, and they will not be returned unless accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelopes. Authors submitting unsolicited manuscripts assume all risk of their loss or damage. yOU may be sure, also, that films will be* come more and more artistic and entertaining as the months of the new season pass. There are several reasons for this. First, a number of independent producers have now stepped into the picture-making business, not to turn out hundreds of films a year but to make a few, and make those few good! They are not hampered by traditions of the past, nor by the tremendous overhead of a large, established studio. Such pictures as "The Informer," "Les Miserables," "The Scoundrel" and others were made in this new way, and the success they have achieved is bound to bring about many more changes in this direction. No longer can the producers "get away" with inferior films. There will be too many competent men and women engaged in making good films to take a chance on poor ones. In other words, pictures will not be made just to fill the required running-time for the theaters, but they will have to stand on their own merits as entertainment. THIS brings us to a second reason: the success ■ which is attending pictures being brought into America from other countries, especially England. "Henry the Eighth," with Charles Laughton, "The Iron Duke," with George Arliss, and "Escape Me Never" and "Catherine the Great," both with Elisabeth Bergner, pointed out the significant fact that good pictures can be made elsewhere than in our much-vaunted Hollywood. And you may rest assured the Hollywood producers are not going to let any other country get far ahead of them, if they can help it. It means they are going to make even greater efforts to keep pictures, especially the finest pictures, an American achievement. AND so you can promise yourself that you ** will see, during the rest of 1 935, the finest pictures you have ever seen. Even as this is being written, the great majority of the producers with their assistants and advisors are planning what those pictures will be. And when the new season's product begins to come out, within these next few weeks, you will be able to go to your neighborhood theater and see for yourself how much finer and better pictures are being made. OTHER TOWER MAGAZINES — MYSTERY • TOWER RADIO • SERENADE • HOME • TINY TOWER NEW ISSUE ON SALE THE FIRST OF EVERY MONTH