Screenland (May-Oct 1930)

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We'll get more, says Metro-Goldwyn, who have just signed Grace Moore of the Metropolitan Opera Company. "Jenny Lind" will serve to introduce you to Grace Moore and Miss Moore to the talkers. Pathe have signed Mary Lewis, another Metropolitan prima donna. However, Miss Lewis isn't new to the screen. She played in Christie Comedies some years ago but deserted the silent screen for the stage where she could open her mouth and sing and not receive a custard pie for her effort. This time Miss Lewis is in pictures as a star — and that's a comeback. RKO have Everett Marshall as their operatic white hope. You'll first see him in "Dixiana," opposite Bebe Daniels. Next he will be starred in "Heart of the Rockies." Then, of course, there are Dennis King and Jeanette MacDonald with Paramount Pic tures. They can give us light operas in heavy doses and we cry for more. And now for the uproars. Let's find out what the comedians are doing; let's look into their bag of tricks. Charlie Chaplin's new picture "City Lights" is said to be practically completed and will be ready for release in early fall. Of course, you know that Charlie simply refuses to go talkie. Buster Keaton is going to give us a war comedy called "War Babies." What with "Journey's End" and "All Quiet on the Western Front" holding sway on Broad' way, Buster's film will be timely. However, the Keaton war film will be different inasmuch as it will have some love interest with Sally Eilers filling that capacity. And speaking of Sally Eilers and love — she and Hoot Gibson are engaged. The wedding date hasn't been definitely set as yet but it won't be long now. Harold Lloyd has started on "Feet First." Barbara Kent will again be his leading lady and most of the picture will be filmed in Hawaii. William Haines' next is "Easy Going." Leila Hyams and Francis X. Bushman, Jr. are featured. The title sounds very much like a typical Haines comedy. The personality kid, Jack Oakie, is making "The Sap from Syracuse." Ginger Rogers, who made a hit as the young sophisticate in "Young Man of Manhattan," will be in the Oakie picture — and that's okay with us. Amos 'n' Andy, who need no introduction to you, will make their talkie debut soon. They have signed a contract with RKO. The title of their first cinema effort will be "Check and Double Check." Needless to say, neither Amos nor Andy are regusted! Since television has not yet put in its appearance, the movies give you a chance to see your radio favorites as they are. Which goes to prove that if you make a hit on the air the next step is pictures. Exhibit A— Rudy Vallee. The crime wave is still on in film circles. Eddie Lowe will play an underworld character in "Scotland Yard." William Powell won't be a detective in "Shadow of the Law"; he will play a criminal for a change. Columbia Pictures will produce "The Criminal Code." And Lon Chaney is remaking "The Unholy Three." More crooks! Dorothy Mackaill had one suppressed desire — she wanted to do a hula dance in a picture. She has been given that opportunity, she shakes a mean grass skirt in "Bright Lights." (Reserve your seats now!) And now Dorothy has no suppressed desires. Columbia Pictures probably look upon the film colony as 'one big happy family.' At any rate, they seem to be working at it cinematically. They are making "Sisters," with Sally O'Neil and her sister, Molly O'Day; and they have secured the screen rights to "Brothers," the play which starred Bert Lytell on the Broadway stage last season. Yes, Bert will play in the talker. Fay Wray and Gary Cooper are costarring again in "The Texan." And so are Mary Astor and Lloyd Hughes — they will be seen in "The Runaway Bride." Ramon Novarro and Dorothy Jam's are teamed again in "The Singer of Seville." And, of course, Richard Arlen and Mary Brian, the most consistent co-stars, are together again in "Light of the Western Stars." Fashion models have found their voices at last. They talked in a recent Fox Movietone News. New voices as well as faces for the screen. Fifth Avenue Studios are training girls to be mannequins. Will they give them diction and voice culture next?