Screen Mirror (Jun 1930 - Mar 1931)

SAN DIEGO SECTION 9 # The Salad Bowl — a cozy EAT Shop Booths and Counter Service APPETIZING MEALS at PLEASING PRICES Special Dishes — Salads Fried Chicken Chicken Pies Chili Short Orders Handy for Fox Theatre Patrons 814 B St. Just East of Montgomery'Ward ({» land, Jack Oakie wouldn’t have time for anything else if I let in all the people who want to see him during the course of a day. They don’t seem to realize that.” O STUDIO ’PHONE BOOK COVERS VARIED TRADES The development of efficiency in one of America’s great modern industries is illustrated by the new studio telephone directory, just issued at the Paramount Publix West Coast studios at Hollywood. In the seventeen years since Jesse L. Lasky began production of “The Squaw Man” in Hollywood, the Paramount studios have developed into a little city of their own. The telephone directory, listing the stations on the lot, is a forty-page book. Every department and its individual makeup is linked together by a system of threenumber dialing, at instant command in this inside ’phone operation. It reaches, like the nerves of the body, into some 350 stations on the lot. Covers Whole Alphabet Every letter in the alphabet is represented in the listings except “Q” and “X.” The final “Z” takes care of the lonely A. C. Zoulis, head of the construction department. The operators in the Paramount telephone system go a little further than the commercial exchanges. They will tell you the correct time. Perhaps this has some influence upon stars and others who might make the excuse that their watches were wrong, when holding up a production. If you own a watch at all on the Paramount lot, there is no excuse for its being out of step. Some of the interesting and mysterious listings in the book are worth mention. There is the blacksmith shop, where the village smithy stands. He is a modern smithy, but if a horse were to canter up and snort for a new pair of shoes, it would most certainly get service. Even Sculptors There Under “construction” in the “C” listings is the plaster shop where sculptors produce anything demanded in plastic art from a simple bas-relief to a full sized reproduction of the Venus de Milo. Paramount’s own private fire department, with a standard chemical engine and its own fire fighting crew, is listed under “F.” An entry that might seem puzzling is that of the “Grip department.” Anyone rushing there to find an alligator valise is going to be disappointed. “Grip” is the name given to the hands who do the heavy lifting on the lot. The portrait galleries where still photographs are made and the powder magazine where the elements of explosion are stored, are notable listings under the letter “P.” The school, once the dressing room and studio quarters of the Talmadge sisters, has its own station. Children on the lot have to divide their time between the studio stages and the classroom. The studio’s private telegraph office has its own number in the book. O OLD-TIMERS OF FILMS RETURN Favorites of Silent Days Start March Back By Muriel Babcock The old-timers are coming back. Across the movie lots of Hollywood marches a steadily growing procession of onetime famous actors and actresses of silent days. The Clara Kimball Youngs, the Mae Murrays, the Lew Codys, the William Farnums are being reclaimed by the movies. They were dropped without excuse. The first talkies threw halos around the heads of stage actors. In the rush to cash in on these halos, producers simply trampled the old-timers underfoot. Many of the latter went down, not to come up for some time. At this writing, in addition to those named above, Harry Carey, Esther Ralston, Adolphe Menjou, Bryant Washburn, Mary Alden, Jackie Coogan, May Robson, Monte Blue, Laura La Plante, Thomas Meighan and Greta Nissen have joined the “back-to-pictures” procession. Harry Carey’s Case The comeback of Harry Carey is one of the most discussed in filmdom today. Carey’s face flashed across the screen, for the first time in two years, on the occasoin recently of the premiere of the African FOX NORTH PARK 29th and University March 15-16-17-18 Marlene Dietrich Garry Cooper in “MOROCCO” March 19-20-21 CLARA BOW in “NO LIMIT” March 22-23-24 WILL ROGERS in “LIGHTNIN’ ” March 26-27-28 Garry Cooper Ernest Torrence Tully Marshall in “FIGHTING CARAVANS” FOX EGYPTIAN Park and University March 15-16 JACK OAKIE in “THE GANG BUSTER” March 17-18 Janet Gaynor Charles Farrell in “THE MAN WHO CAME BACK” March 19 “DIVORCE AMONG FRIENDS” March 20-21 Wally Beery Marie Dressier in “MIN AND BILL” March 22-23 “LITTLE CAESAR” FOX FAIRMOUNT Fairmount and Univ. March 15-16 Janet Gaynor Charles Farrell in “THE MAN WHO CAME BACK” March 17-18 JACK OAKIE in “THE GANG BUSTER” March 19 “ONCE A SINNER” March 20-21 Johnny Mack Brown in “THE GREAT MEADOWS” March 22-23 Wally Beery Marie Dressier in “MIN AND BILL”