Screenland (May-Oct 1938)

center of importance, as it should be. With a little shout, he picked up another print, his eyes dancing in almost their old fashion. "I'd forgotten this ! I tried to take a picture of my own shadow — see? Evidently all wrong, because the grass is quite white, but you can gather what it is. It's a freak shot. I enjoy freak shots!" He glanced over the shots again and observed that they had had a most interesting time on the battleship. They had visited the admiral — Admiral Claude C. Bloch— and he had let them see everything. It was most interesting. But no — definitely NO — he wasn't going into the navy— anybody's navy. He had "other plans." The "shut look" came back into his face, and he reached for more pictures. "They say you can't get cloud effects without a filter," he said, presently. "But there are lots of clouds in these shots of our house. And I hadn't a filter — I wasn't even looking for clouds. All I wanted was a picture of our house — and I had to take four different shots to get it all in! The shadows aren't bad. The difficulty was that the building is so long, you have to take it in sections !" Freddie isn't particularly interested in photographing people. He'd rather take Hidden Clamor Continued from page 51 marriage that was later dissolved in the divorce courts. The picture made, and well-praised, Fanchon Rover went about selling it to distributors' She was interested in impressing one film man in particular. It was he who told her in the lobby of the theatre: "I know they liked your picture — but an independent producer doesn't have to worry so much about that, as about getting something into the film that will make it a box office attraction." From that time on, Fanchon Royer has stuck to the "exploitation pictures" as they're called in the trade. As' a producer she can tell you down to the last dime how much a picture cost for story, raw film, lighting, camera work, players and laboratory work. In her own field, she is competing with some of the shrewdest business brains the film industry has developed. That it is not by any means a lick-penny business we think we might convey very briefly by telling you that one of the most They make a good team! Leo Carrillo, that ingratiating fellow, joins forces again with Edith Fellowes in "City Street?." Remember them in "Little Miss Roughneck? pictures of animals, boats, planes or "something happening." "The trouble is you are never ready when you need to get an action shot," he pointed out. "And animals are so quick. I have two dogs — Conkle and Toby — but they won't stand still. Here's a shot of Conkle just tunneling under the^fence, and one of them wading in the mud." Other camera fiends may be thwarted artists, but not Freddie. "I don't _ believe Freddie ever drew anything in his life," confided his aunt, when Freddie had been called back to the set. "Or at any rate nothing that could be recognized. He often draws up plans for something he intends to make in carpentry, and shows it to me and says : 'Look, >rm .going to make this !' And I look, and wonder what on earth it can be. But it always seems to turn out all right, although I have to be told what the plans represent. He's really quite good at carpentry, so he evidently reads his own blueprints." Three years ago, Freddie would have run after me to tell me another gorgeous joke on Cissie. Today, he bowed slightly, and unsmilingly, from the set. Politely. He's a gentleman, but a reserved one. SONG POEMS WANTED AT ONCE! Mother. Home, Love. Patriotic. Sacred, Comic or any subject. Don't delay — send your poem today for immediate consideration. RICHARD BROS., 28 Woods Building. Chicago, III. successful producers is a man, still comparatively young, who has amassed a fortune estimated at sixteen millions in independent production and distribution. Fanchon Royer doesn't specialize in those DeMille gold bathtub settings' or great mass spectacles. Nor is she in any way concerned with introducing that mythical thing called "the woman's angle." Her films are action pictures. The titles of some of her films indicate that. Before "Religious Racketeers" there were such thrillers as "A Million to One," "Pilot X," "Ten Laps to Go," "Fighting Lady." "The only difficulty a woman experiences because she is a woman in this business," she told us, "is that it's hard to get the heads of organizations you deal with to believe you're worth bothering with." Asked if she thought there were any advantages automatically falling to a woman producer, she attributed the courtesy she has always had from directors, actors, technicians and laborers on the set to "chivalry." It isn't dead, she thinks. Since she started as a business executive by seeing only the actor's side of it — both as a magazine editor and an actor's agent —we were inclined to think her complete understanding of the player and his position might have something to do with her success in getting along so well with the talent. However, it was nice to get to know Fanchon Royer better, and right cheering to hear that chivalry is not dead. SCREENLAND soft, tendeu gums me/mi its high TIME TO ACT! SEE your dentist at once if you have soft, tender bleeding gums. He'll give you expert care. But you must do your job, too. Forhan's Does Both Jobs CLEANS TEETH • AIDS GUMS Help your dentist keep your teeth sound and shining, your gums firm and healthy, by brushing teeth and massaging gums twice-a-day with Forhan's Toothpaste. Forhan's is different. It contains a special ingredient {or the gums! ^Scratching 111 RELIEVE Itching Insect Bites Even the most stubborn itching of insect bites, athlete's foot, hives, scales, eczema, and other externally caused skin afflictions quickly yields to cooling, antiseptic, liquid D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. Easy to use. Dries fast. Clear, greaseless and stainless. Soothes the irritation and quickly stops the most intense itching. A 35c trial bottle, at all drug stores, proves it —or money back. Ask for D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. AT home: Learn to color photos and miniatures in oil. Noprevious experienceneeded. Good demand. Send for free booklet, 'Make Money at Home" and reauirements. NATIONAL ART SCHOOL _ 3601 Michigan Ave. Dept. 443C Chicago SONG POEMS WANTED TO BE SET TO MUSIC Free Examination. Send Your Poems To J. CHAS. McNEIL BACHELOR OF MUSIC 4153-V South Van Ness Los Angeles, Calif. AM/| SCHOOL t_7i\" OF THE TKe&tre a 45th Year— Drama. Dance, Vocal for Acting, leaching. Directing. 3 in 1 course— Radio. Stage, Screen. Graduates: Lee Tracv, Fred Astaire. Una Merkel etc. Student Stock Theatre Appearances while learning. Apply Sec'j LAND, 66 W.85ili St., N.T REAL HOLLYWOOD SCREEN TESTS Experienced directors and coaches of many years' major studio experience will give you their personal attention. Actors, singers, dancers, bands, etc. — Here is the most modern and sure way to reach the eyes of the busy buyers. Prices include rehearsals, directing, coaching, make-up, studio picture crew, and one copy of film. (Note) — Arrangements can be made for a studio showing. If interested, please write or call SKEELS-LAUHON PRODUCTIONS 6513 Hollywood Boulevard CALIFORNIA HI -9277 HOLLYWOOD WAKE UP YOUR ■ SS& I 1 IB Without Calomel — And You'll Jump Out of Bed in the Morning Rarin'to Go The liver should pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You get constipated. Your whole system is poisoned and you feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk. A mere bowel movement doesn't get at the cause. It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by name. 25c at all drug stores. Stubbornly refuse anything else. 97