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The daily doings of "Krazy Kat" are now conceived at the Hal Roach Studio, where George Herriman keeps his drawing hoard in the office of his old newspaper pal, H.M. 'Beanie' Walker.
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Most people think of Movieland simply as a colony of actors, directors and cameramen, little realising that for every star in the celluloid firmament there are perhaps fifty court functionaries to put her or him there.
Nor are these courtiers merely the artisans of motion pictures. Many of them are artists as great in their own works as the stars are in theirs. In some cases these artists draw even bigger salaries than the film favorites they are helping to put over.
The fact is, the cinema presents the greatest marriage of the arts and sciences the world has ever seen. When you attend a super-production like "Rio Rita" you witness the syndicated efforts of perhaps forty or fifty great artists and scientists who are responsible for the success of the picture.
It is only natural that you should cast your credits to Bcbe Daniels, John Boles and others of the cast. They are the visible artists of the production. But how about the men and women who make their performance possible — those invisible and inglorious Miltons whose multitudinous names appear upon that boresome title list? It is of them I am singing in this little piece.
One day while going through the United Artists Studio, Doug Fairbanks took me into a little room where an old man wTas at work on costume designs for "The Iron Mask.1' "Monsieur Leloir, Bob; one of the world's greatest authorities cn costume."
All Roads Lead Representatives of Every Art to the Film Capital
Stephen Vincent Denet, author of "John Brown's Body," is writing dialogue for D. W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln."
Left: Zelda Sears, noted playwright, now writing screen stories.
Below: Charles Wakefield Cadmau, the composer, is Movie toning.
Maurice doubt the name means nothing to you, but to me — heavens! I began to purr all over. Twentyfive years before when I was an illustrator on the