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Old Fulton NY Post Cards by Tom Tryniski — Augutt 26, 193T Pao« Four-l ?f you fail to read THE CALFFORNIA EAGLE you _ moy never know it HappeneH Thura<l<iy, BEHIND THE SCENES LeGon Captures Swank Trocadero Crowd ACTRESS COMPARES Candid Camera Shots of By HARRY LEVETTE HOLLYWOODLAND Theatrical Editor in Guest Performance Show RACE COMPANY lose such -HMW^IN the dickens I ever happened to wrote CORRESPONDENT an important document as an article I rANSEUSE IN 1ST SINCE RETURN TO HOLLYWOOD FILMS STUDIO ever APPEARANCE Press) over a week ago describing the finest party (For the Associated Negro beauty to me, Aug. 27—Talent and tendered show folk is a deep dark mystery By FAY M. HOLL-rWOOD, JACKSON Theresa Harris this high and reaping a rich harvest in Hollywood in and very aggravating but after searching In her firsf persoi^al ap- are and those other memory as well fall, richest since Adolph Zukor low I am gomg to tell about it from pearance since returning Likes Work this ^ the film industry. were visiting Mrs. George Brill Young and pioneers founded from London where she I With NegrO FilmS Little Theatre unknowns, sum- May Johnson, pretty, clever dancer for a long Foreign stars, talented was starred in C. B. Coch- stock players, dancing girls and boys, coUege time at the Cotton Club, and Ruth Givens, HOLLYWOOD, Aug. mer of par- ran s famous revue Fol- studenU and night club entertainers are being singer, were the honor guests at this "party 27. (By Fay M. Jackson scours like campus freshmen on ties" during their recent visit to San Diego. They low the Sun Jem LeGon rushed by talent ^^^ aNP)—"I like work- being oflfered as Brll Young and this pledge day, and contracts are were visiting Mrs. Georgia stopped the show as Sun- • showed ^j^h.the Negro film at a camp meeting. crowning event of the pleasant time she nignts guest special- freely as badges day no'vV course dinner. There are producing company, them was a luxurious five ty in the swanky Troca- but Bill Zimmerman, retired managed by Ralph Coop- PENNIES FROM HEAVEN dinners and dinners, dero. broker, a friend of Mrs. Young, enhanced the er, because in the picture PAUL WHITE, juvenile wonder, claim of Ben- pleasure of the affair by slipping a five dollar of weor- FREDERICK CLARK nie Carter, actor-agent, working out of Chudnow'i Forming a musical I hove the chance twelve plates at the dinner- Agency, has just been SIGNED by Universal . bill under each of the background for the amoz ing clothes," said Theresa of corns table, and a twenty dollar bill under the plate at a NICE weekly salary for many weeks to ing little donseuse were Harris this week. She the ancient Roman Caesar who J the hostess. Surely ' < means a beautiful wardrobe that Fred Clarke did more for his Bennie Carter's Planta- introduced the idea of Eng- parties, never ; who believed in big is usually denied colored wo- WARNERS a in guests than that. Besides this, Mrs. Young had tion Boys, an aggregation men in white movies. lish-speaking Negro butlers FREDERICK at which is said to be one of the Harris is currently starr- I Goes Into to quart of old Mumm's Extra Dry Champagne Miss CLARKE, (see "Ever Since Eve") are reported" most novel "sing bands" yet to ed in "Bargains With Bullets", a the | each place, and of course the finest foods that be angling again for his return from Schulberg's. hit the West coast. gangster film essayed by the i markets affords. The girls were also New Picture And THIS one is funnier OFF the screen than he San Diego Million Dollar Productions com- To producers and stars w h o j entertained by Mrs. Bennie Davis, at her home, pany which grew out of the com- is, so far, ON the screen. If they ever let him do his had seen LeGon in her first per- Frederick Clarke, who seems proprietress of bination of George Randol and me, the Gallery 318 13th street. Mrs. Davis is also formance, over to be the most sensational movie dialogue as he talks to you and two years ago, at prior to their mo- Ralph Cooper, "find" since Jeni LeGon aston- aisles. the Rice Inn at Oklahoma City. the Wilshire Ebell theatre, when j Gods will be rolling over in orchestra tion picture production of "Dark Earl Dancer "discovered" her ished movie critics by being Manhattan". signed and cast in a picture and rushed . Models" did such a land office her onto the stage Not many years ago the ac- EARL DANCER says TWO studios are angling "ARTISTS AND from his without a screen test, this week Tempo Club to try her considered "tops" Business at the Paramount theatre last week wares tress was went into production of "Blos- for JENI LEGON and she'll be positive "colored before the movie critics, film players. among the sepia soms Broadway", at B. see its opening Thursday, that it had to be the girl topped all previous On P. class" (as W.W. reported this week) when you following pre- She played three successive more. dictions that she Schulberg's studios. held over and will run another week or would eventu- hits with Brrbara Stanwyck her new routine in "Ali Baba Goes To Town". ally bring a new class to screen Clarke is cast in the role of of the principal reasons for its drawing power and Joan Blondell in one year. One dancing. They not only remem- "gentleman's gentleman", oppo- lost none of her tal- juicy is its big Harlem sequence featuring Louis Arm- She has CLINTON ROSEMOND is sure to land a bered her—and two years is a site Edward Arnold in the musi- Martha ent but the breaks in Holly- preach- strong, seventy -eight colored dancers, and long time to try the memory of cal satire. contract for his characterizations of the old wood films seem to have de- course there's Ida Lu- whimsical Hollywood—they ac- ' English born, his first picture, er. Raye in brown make-up. Of serted her. She has turned to claimed her return f Gail Patrick and other stare with genuine made within the year, released pino. Richard Arlen, the all-Negro company as an | enthusiasm. She was encored only a few months ago, brought scores beautiful girls and gorgeous set- outlet. UAl'Xie McUAMELS shares^ pictures with besides of four times, asked to make a a new type of colored movie to "A person of any standing pro- tings, but with all the colored patrons and a large speech followed by requests for' the screen with the accent on radio, finishes up this week at Warner's in a comic. The Le Gorr of a year ago stepping it off lightly with Bill Rob- fessionally takes a long chance whites, its that rollicking care- her famous "Judie" that first en- farce being made more in the percentage of the inson in "Hooray for Love". with his reputation in joining deared her to filmland and sent "irony" of a Negro speaking per- free swing of the song' hits and the dancing of pioneer companies." the actress And, altogether, if they save some of these pen- studios hurrying to sign her for fect Oxford English than the notes that brings them out. stated. "Naturally facilities are nies it does seeni that this will be a , from heaven, Louis' silver trumpet RKO and M-G-M before she had drooling, drawling, shiftless limited. We cannot secure the submitted to a screen test. character that has been so long very gay and bountiful CHRISTMAS. very best directors. Good play- them into the Orpheum all It was ill-attached tn the Negro ser- FLOYD R.-W packed a great night for ers are few. But the opportuni- vant. last week also. a= he and his fifteen Harlem Manager Earl Dancer, Jeni's ty of playing in roles otherwise Goldwyn announces that Hollywood's Chinese A Natural into big time. ".Mane". "Puddin'- mentor. denied one in white pictures is actors, most of them extras, contributed over S400 Dictators bowed Clarke, a riot of fun even in a great relief to the a.spiring Ne- head Jones." "Evenin' Sun Goes Down", the old All of Dancer's hopes for his most serious moments, seems to their wounded compatriots overseas. gro motion' picture artist." Jeni did not materialize last -favorite, "Red Sails in the Sunset" and a new ar- the best natural the screen has Asked if she thought the com- year. Her part in "Hooray for brought forth from colored per- rangement of "Trees" were some of the most loud- pany had a future, the girl said: ' HOW MUCH did L. A.s Ethiops give to tb« Love" was changed to the ad- formers in a long time. The numbers. The Three Rhythm Rockets, vantage of Bill "It has as much of a future as wounded Abyssinians? WHO are the leaders of the ly applauded Kobmson. a success of his work in the Ma- any other film company, if ad- and Ivy, Vern and Von, cLassy singmg trio, added bigger name, a more seasoned rion Davies-Robert Montgomery Scottsboro Defense Fund? verse publicity and an impatient player, and certainly a diffi- opus for greatly to the show put on by the band. gained him a contract public do not kill ,t. I believe cult problem for any newcom- with Schulherg in June which Mr. Cooper is sincere in his ef- HARRY LEVETTE. press agent for the Mil- er in the same line.
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