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‘STAR GAZING’
with Urie Megahan
ACCORDING to Stanton Griffis,
chairman of the executive com-
mittee of Paramount Pictures,
Hollywood is preparing to
shoulder the burden of develope
ing the complete new field of en
tertainment which will be opene
ed up when the marvel of tele
vision finally makes its practi.
cal bow. fle also intimates that
television is much closer to be-
coming an accomplished fact
than the general public
imagines.
A recently established contact
with DuMont Laboratories, Ine.
a pioneer in the television field,
has placed Paramount in an en«
viable position in the increasing-
ly important television picture.
DuMont has been licensed by
the Federal Communications
Commission to conduct experi-
mental transmission through its
transmitter located at Montclair,
New Jersey, which is expected
te begin operation in January.
“Television entertainment may
be utilized not only through the
present style of dramatic pre-
sentations and specialty pro-
grams and almost any type of
offering that is primarily nar-
rative in nature,” avers Grif-
fis, “but it will have a tre-
mendous field in the reporting
of important news events, sup-
plementing and coordinating the
activities of the present method
of newsreel reporting. This is
where the motion picture pro-
ducer becomes involved.
“As television entertainment
will be edited so as to give the
finest performances possible,
most of the presentations must
be photographed entertainment.
Televised movies must excel
any performances acted direct-
ly for the television transmit-
ter.”
Experiments to date have
shown that controlled transmis-
sion of images by means of
coaxial eable would be too ex-
pensive to make programs
available to widely scattered
* stations. By simply recording
these images on film and send-
ing them around in cans, the
movie industry has already
solved this problem.
EDDIE ANDERSON, who is
Jack Benny’s famous Negro
stooge “Rochester,” plays the
role of “Washington,” Robert
Young’s valet in “Honolulu.”
When Director Eddie Buzzell
called him for a scene at Metro
the other day, he addressed him
as Washington.
“Couldn’t you make that name
Syracuse or Elmira, Mr. Buz-
zell,” inquired Eddie. “They’re
a little closer to Rochester.”
IF YOU'RE wondering what has
become of Arthu. Treacher,
that tall, gloomy English butler
of the movies, we might pass
along that that gentleman has
turned chorus boy. And before
you become too startled, we
might hasten to add that it’s all
in fun and will not be for long.
It’s for his role in 20th Century’s
new “Up the River.”
That the screen’s ace servitor
should turn chorus boy is enough
to surprise anyone, not except-
ing Nick Castle and Geneva
Sawyer, the dance directors
working on the film. They had
viewed the Treacher feet, broad
foundations for his towering
frame, and decided that if nor-
mal pedal extremities are called
dogs, Treacher had a pair of
Great Danes. They envisioned
the job-of a lifetime in trying
te teach him to manipulate
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them in a tricky routine for one
of the picture’s big laugh se-
quences, But they were later to
receive even a bigger surprise.
When Treacher appeared for
lessons, the directors went
through the routine several
times, then nervously asked
Arthur to “make a stab at it.”
“I'll do better than that,” was
his retort. “I'll murder it.”
Whereupon he whipped
through the routine as though
he’d been practicing it for
months,
The explanation for his pro
ficiency in dancin » has now been
revealed. It seems that his first
stage job was as a chorus boy
in “Maggie” some time ago. He
sang and tripped the light fan-
tastic for seven months before
he found another and more dig-
nified job of entertaining.
CLAUDETTE COLBERT, rests
ing up between pictures on
the Paramount lot, takes time
out to venture her opinion as to
what is love’s greatest hazard.
She says that it’s that first look
at the boy friend or girl friend
after coming out of the theater,
“Love’s greatest hazard? Yes,
I'm right in that,” she said. “A
girl comes out of the movies
after gazing for two hours at
the classic features of Clark
Gable, Fred MacMurray or Ty
rone Power, and the first thing
she does is look at her boy
friend. In her state of illusion,
she expects him to look like any
one, or all three, of these gentle-
men. It’s a shock to realize that
he’s still the same Joe Doakes—e
not MacMurray.
“More or less the same thing
is going through his mind. And
he looks down, calf-like, into the
eyes of his sweetie, It’s just
plain Liz.
“This, let me tell you, is a
real hurdle for love.”
EVER INCLINED to be retro-
spective, Hollywood is now
turning its attention to select-
ing the man who will be the six-
teenth president of the United
States. Sixteenth in the illus-
trious sequence was, as if you
didn’t know, Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln, of course, has been
portrayed on the sereen many
times. There have been many
biographical dramas starring
Honest Abe, the first of which
was presented by the old Edison
stock company, with Frank Mec-
Glynn playing the martyred
president. In 1924 the late
George Billings played such a
role, and four years later fol-
lowed Walter Huston. Others,
such as Joseph Hennabury,
Charles Middleton and John
Carradine, have also enacted
the screen Lincoln,
Of these, McGlynn has prob-
ably been the most successful,
for he has repeated his portray-
al so many times for bits in
Civil War films that he has
come to be accepted as almost
the living embodiment of Lin-
coln himself.
Today’s revived interest in
Lincoln may be traced, in no
small part, to the portrayal of
Raymond Massey, a Canadian
actor who is playing Lincoln in
Robert Sherwood’s play, “Abe
Lincoln in Illinois.” It wouldn’t
be surprising to learn soon that
Massey has been signed to re-
peat his role for the cameras.
Massey has seemingly been
responsible for the new interest
shown by major producing com-
panies in finding Lincoln sub-
jects. Paramount, 20th Century-
4 CHORUS OF STARS
Happy as the holiday season are these five members of
the cast of “Thanks for Everything,” released by 20th
Century-Fox this week. They are Jack Oakie, Binnie
Barnes, Adolphe Menjou, Arleen Whelan and Jack
Haley. The picture, which is said to be the comedy hit
of the season, includes a number of other stars.
AORTA TR
Fox, Warner Brothers and Sam
Goldwyn are all reportedly in
the market, with such diverse
troupers as Tyrone Power and
Gary Cooper being mentioned
for the role.
THE RITZ BROTHERS are go-
ing ritzy in the matter of
clothes.
For quite some time now, the
three mad cinemadmen have
clowned through their roles with
striking but limited wardrobes.
For their new flicker, “The
Three Musketeers,” however,
they’re really breaking loose as
far as clothes are concerned.
Fifteen different costumes, their
own interpretation of what the
well-dressed sword-swisher of
the 17th century would wear,
have been created by 20th
Century’s wardrobe department.
Considering the fact that ® the
total cost of their wardrobes in
any one previous picture never
exceeded a hundred dollars, the
change is appreciated in its true
significance.
“The Three Musketeers,” by
way of explanation, is the Ritz
comedy version ol the famed
Dumas story. With music and
laughter woven into the sereen-
play.
WHERE will motion pictures’
new talent come from?
Wiliam Wellman, producer-
director of “Men with Wings,”
has an answer to this old ques-
tion, and claims that this talent
will come from the local stage
and festivals, Wellman, responsi-
ble for the careers of such
luminaries as Richard Arlen
and Gary Cooper, furthermore
declares that such home-town
sources are more valuable than
the radio and the Broadway
stage.
“There is plenty of talent to
be found, and motion picture
producers should not worry,”
says Wellman, “There are al-
ways reports of a shortage of
talent—and it’s right under our
noses.”
Wellman himself recently se-
fected two such players for
roles in his productions—Cheryl
Walker, who gained attention
for her role as queen of the
Pasadena Tournament of Roses,
and Dick Denning, a Los Ange-
les high school boy. Wellman
also points out the many stars
the Pasadena Community Play-
house has turned: out, including
Robert Young, Gloria Stuart
Victor Jory and many others.
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