Talking Screen (Sep-Oct 1930)

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THE TALKIE MLRDER Illustrations by Lowe Biedenmeister By IRVING STONE AM Hollywood was agog! Why did death lie in wait for anyone attempting to direct Murder In The Loop? And who voiced this menace from the celluloid itself? T iHE Cosmic Studios, which occupied a rambling, barnhke building on Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street in Hollywood, were in a turmoil of feverish excitement. The new elearical talkie equipment had just btcn installed and the company was about to start its first talking motion picture, a gigantic gangster story of Chicago. Fishbcin, president of the company, was confident that his first talkie would create a national sensation. This picmre, which, was to be known as Murder in the Loop, had been sold to the Cosmic Studios for $10,000 by a young lawyer who had recently resigned from the District Attorney's Office in Chicago. Now if there is any place in the world to learn die inside of the gangster racket, it is in the District Attorney's Office of Chicago, where American crime is manufactured and distributed to the local agents. And so Fishbein, the director, the actors and the electrical equipment men were all tremendously excited; here was their big chance to create a feature talkie and step into the really big dough. 24 Joyce Joy, the sweet little dish whom you have seen playing cute juveniles up to a short time ago, was to have her first starring role in Murder in the Loop. This faa ought to have made Joyce deliriously happy. But, to tell the truth, she was blue and depressed. Her boy friend, Kenny Dow, whom she thought the best little talkie director in all Hollywood, had been refused the job of directing Murder in the Loop, and Fishbein had engaged Harlin Denis, the cranky baloii^aded man who had never been known to smile while on a set. KENNY, in ordc co be ne;r Jovce. K extra in the s < i^e v/here thi." . ' the murdered officers, m the shac ■, everyone else was jubilantly talkin<2 picture they were going to make, jc secluded corner, in the shadow of a Uu^^ never a comforting MOrd to say to eacii odier Ven a job as an 'wds mill about loop. While 'C .1 wonderful '<enny sat in a Kiieg light, with