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Make Survey 'The Life Of Emile Zola" Opens J^i^den^s See Paris Aj Award Of Educational To Educational Fanfa*&- — . Film Values For FfTm Essay ONCE more two American stu- THE heat of the New York dents have motion pictures to summer has witnessed per- thank for an opportunity to see haps the most important step Europe without expense to them- towards the utilization of motion selves and under exceptionally pictures in education which has happy auspices. They are Jean occurred since the first crude Coleman, a student at Simmons strip of film was turned out by College, and John Moran, a recent the Edison laboratories in New graduate of Brown University, Jersey many years ago. now teaching at the Marlboro, In a projection room on Broad- Massachusetts, High School, who way within a stone's throw of were back August 30 after their Times Square, seven panels of first European adventure. educators, each headed by a speci- The highlights had been the alist in his field, have previewed trip to and from Havre cn one nearly 2,000 films. Most of them of the largest and most famous were short subjects made for ex- of ocean-going ships, the French hibition in commercial theatres. liner, Normandie, and fifteen days Travelogues, scientific subjects, in Paris as the guests of the musical and architectural films, French government, with inciden- films with biographical and his- tal opportunity to familiarize toric content were among them. themselves with all the interest- Out of the 2,000 films reviewed ing facets of the great Interna- hundreds were discovered which tional Exposition now in progress could be utilized in their present there. form, or with slight re-editing One of many dramatic scenes in "The Life of Emile Zola." The Santa Glaus who pre- adapted to classroom use. Zola reads "J'Accuse" to his friends. sented them with this gift, con- The experiment represents a siderably in advance of Christ- on Page unique cooperation between edu- WITH a fanfare of educational professor of the Philosophy of (Continued 4) cators and the producers of enter- trumpets Warner Bros.' The Education at Columbia Univer- films, since it is the first the fanfare. It was tainment Life of Emile Zola will make its sity, initiates of the pro- opinion time that the vaults appearance in theatres through- prepared because in the Wind Up Six Years Of Page such (Continued on 5) out the country. of educators "Zola" contains In J. An eight-page article in Scho- admirable classroom material. Jr. Matinees N. not only lastic Magazine, written by the The article contains with a synopsis of the film itself, but Films Show Right and editor, Mr. M. R. Robinson, Culmination of six years of less dis- much interesting data about an introduction by no successful children's matinees m than Zola's life, and particularly about Wrong Of Driving tinguished an authority Hackensack, New Jersey, was re- Kilpatrick, (Continued on Page 6) Prof. William Heard ported by Mrs. Fred B. Ross, in the film apprecia- While the police department of long active city, at the Richmond, California, has no in- tion movement in that School Head Approves Popular Mickey Mouse of the summer season. tention of going permanently into beginning it did These events, held Saturday the movie-making business, Earth" Display Is Given Dual Honor experiment with the celluloid "Good mornings at the Fox-Skouras medium as a part of a community Theatre, have had an average at- tendance of from 1,200 to 1,500 traffic safety campaign. Vierling Kersey, Superintend- Two new honors have just been Good (Continued on Page 8) Films played the role of ent of the Los Angeles Public showered on Mickey Mouse, who demonstrating the for Samaritan by schools, shattered a precedent and vies with Shirley Temple of operat- favorite right and wrong ways gave fine cooperation to the mo- popularity as the prime automobile, through a Exhibits Form Basis ing an tion picture industry when for the of the films. picture made very interesting (Continued on page 8) (Continued on Page 6) {Continued on Page 8) Of Permanent Album

Plans interesting new use for ex- Films Reviewed Motion Pictures Figure In The An hibits on leading films of histori- In Current Issue For The 1937 Children*s Book Week cal or literary value issued by the producers is reported by the Harvard School of Los An- Broadway Melody, page 7; readers throughout the geles. After being posted in the High, Wide and Handsome, page MOTION pictures are for the juvenile focused upon the ro- library and then circulated to the Armor, page time to be given a fea- country is 5; Knight Without first between English and history classes, the for lild- mance that lies hidden 5; The Life of Emile Zola, pages ture place in the plans C the art de- the covers of books, is the reason exhibits traveled to 2 and 7; The Road Back, page 5; ren's Book Week, to be celebrated they were cut for the new departure. partment, where page ; Stella Dallas, November 14 to 20. Souls at Sea 5 The Adventures up into individual pictures and They Won't For- The fortunate advent of two The fik.is are pages 2 and 7; being filmed mounted in an album for use in are sure to p^ove of of Tom Sawyer, now get, page 2 ; Thin lee, page 7 films which costume study by United Artists with a new connection with Vogues of 1938, page 5; Wee paramount interest to children, (Continued on Page 7) and period art. Willie Winkie, page 2. at a time when the attention of

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Calif. Council Novel Scenes LESSONS from the MOVIES Counts Youth In The Studios Presented for the Committee on Social Values in Motion Pictures by Howard M. Le Sourd,Ph.D., Dean By The Observer Firm Friends Graduate School, Chairman. of Boston University NOT all the fun of watching the making of pictures comes long time the Better For a when, in a small circle of brilliant Films Board of the Women's light, a group of actors performs, Council of Sacramento, Califor- through motion STELLA DALLAS EDUCATION the cameras turn and action is an enviable reputa- (Goldwyn-United Artists) nia, has had pictures is a painless process, recorded according to schedule. picture field. is it that some people can- tion in the motion which is one of the important Why In the hidden corners of movie- fully 90 per cent not rise to their opportunities? The fact that reasons for using them in the dom other things besides film are eligi- Tragedy for Stella Dallas came of all the members who schools. Even more significant, acting are transpiring, things attend its meetings answer through her lack of vision. She ble to however, is the fact that they pro- equally important to the final "present" every time the roll is reached for a bauble and miss'ed vide effective motivation. film. Come with us to see them is one of many testimonies life's richest rewards. Was it a called This motivation takes place not and you will at last have had a of its program. limited background that enabled to the vitality only in schools, but also in the real glimpse of the "behind the the establishment her to see no farther than her But it is in theatres. People are inspired to scenes" Hollywood. relationships with the own little community, or was it of cordial think while they are being enter- With the Film Cutter people of the_ city that its an egotism that preferred im- young tained. The purpose of this col- Take, for instance, the work of perhaps unique. mediate flattery to the struggle work is umn is to share the thoughts the cutter, or film editor, as he for high goals? Phone for Information on Films which are stimulated by the prefers to be called. Lloyd Nesler She missed her opportunity, but Mrs. Josephine Haug, serving stream of motion pictures seen is cutting a film hurricane these she would go to the limit of self- for the eighth successive year as every week by 88,000,000 people. days for Mr. Goldwyn's South Sea sacrifice to see that her daughter chairman of this 16-year-old film Each should do his own think- Island picture, The Hurricane. did not miss hers. organization, reported on a recent ing, but there are joy and stimu- Included in the mass of film that has not less in comparing one's ideas visit East that she lation THEY WON'T FORGET pours in upon him from the vari- than 150 telephone calls a week with those of another. Thus do ous stages are thousands of feet {Warner Bros.) at her home from those who seek we broaden our interests and un- of sound track marked with the Prejudice is inherited passed information about the film pro- derstanding, and 'fit ourselves to — roar and whine of furious gales, on from generation to generation grams of Sacramento theatres live happily and successfully with the booming of waves, the crash by the power of social pressure. and that most of these come from others. of buildings and the shouts and Few there are brave or strong boys and girls in their 'teens. screams of terrified men and enough to resist. When a film opens in Sacra- THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA women. Most of the sound has This particular picture has as mento, representatives of the Bet- (Warner Bros.) been recorded separately from a background the War between ter Films Board attend the first greatness of Emile Zola is the action. Thus the variegated The the States, but the moods and showing. Not later than 5 o'clock noises must be clipped and based on his dedication to human tempers portrayed are present on the opening day their review justice. he was fired from trimmed and assembled with When wherever prejudice raises its ugly of it is in Mrs. Haug's hands his first job because of his un- matching action. Incident to this head. Justice is forgotten. Rea- and by opening time the next writings about tVe poor, Mr. Nesler runs the film of one popular son is abandoned. Unexplainable morning it is posted in the City the underprivileged and the out- day's work through his movieola hatred makes honest people lie Library, the YWCA and the casts, his employer said, "Then (miniature projector). The and kind people kill. YMCA. Most of the young peo- images that pass in swift review go ahead with your scribbling, The most despicable politician ple wait until those reviews are a lean stomach will comprise a strange mixture of and maybe is the one who stirs up prejudice available, but in case they are falling trees, running natives, teach you better." as a campaign technique, but few eager to go to the theatre on the racing waves and terrified faces. To which Zola answered, "But there are who do not stoop to that opening date they rarely fail to far, Each has its place in the dramatic a fat stomach sticks out too level. The prosecutor wanted to consult Mrs. Haug. pattern. Exactly where that Monsieur Larue. It prevents you be governor and was willing to Not long ago a young girl who place shall be, however, is a ques- from looking down and seeing climb over the dead body of an is one of Mrs. Haug's consistent tion that the cutter, the director what is going on around you. innocent victim. telephone acquaintances got un- and the producer must decide. While you continue to grow fat- can society inoculate itself expected permission from her How Before he has finished, Director ter and richer publishing your against the contagion of the parents to go to the theatre. She John Ford will have shot about nauseating confectionery. I shall plague of prejudice? failed to put in her accustomed become a mole, digging here, one hundred thousand feet of call. next night Mrs. Haug hurricane action alone. The sound The rooting there, stirring un the WINKIE film WEE WILLIE department will have met her, almost sobbing. The whole rotton mess where life is recorded (20th Century-Fox) about the she had seen had been much too hard, raw and ugly! You will same amount of foot- that Priscilla : Why is everybody so age. In the final release the mature for her. She felt not- like the smell of my books mad at Khoda Khan? hurricane will be her quarter had been wasted. Monsieur Larue. Neither will the reduced to about Colonel: We're not mad at two thousand feet. All "I've learned my lesson," she public prosecutor. But when the of which it again." Khoda Khan. England wants to be gives some idea of the magnitude confided. "I'll never do stench is strong enough maybe friends with all her people, but if of the cutter's work. "It isn't often that that hap- something will be done about it! pens, however," Mrs. Haug re- we don't shoot Khoda Khan, Good day." But Zola was the The Sound Recorder marked. "Pictures are so good Khoda Khan will shoot us. exception. He did not starve nor Other men there are whose lives these days that it is rarely indeed Priscilla: But grandfather, I was he persecuted. Instead he are merely great elongated ears. that we cannot recommend a film. don't want anybody to get killed. won wealth and fame. They earn their daily bread by Colonel : Neither do I, my child, When we do see one that we do Securitv, ease and possessions but don't worry your little head listening eight to ten hours a day, not particularly care for, we don't in time, however, seemed to make about that any more tonight. as they twirl meters and knobs give it a rating at all. We com- him less responsive to the dis- Priscilla: O, I wish something on a panel in the sound recording pletely ignore it. We find that tress about him. It was his old could be done. room. By means of a machine by far the most telling method." friend Cezanne who shocked his But Priscilla did more than that converts the sound on a near- complacency by reminding him of wish; she acted, and although the by stage into light, they record his early enthusiasm for justice Lucky Winner To Get story has the ear-marks of un- the required selected parts on and it was Cezanne's picture that reality, one does feel that child- film. These men come to know Journalism Training made him charge his mind after like faith and courage might famous voices, although they may he had refused the plea of Mrs. make a significant contribution to never see the owners face to face. Dreyfus for help. And Zola's case A scholarship at Marquette peace and goodwill. Improvement in diction and voice of Journalism is more or less typical of those University School When Priscilla's grandfather control of actors and actresses in who succeed. is the happy prospect which con- learned that she was in Khoda the era since sound came to pic- How easy it is for one who has fronts some young, would-be pub- Khan's fortress, the Colonel tures has been astounding, they arrived at fame and fortune to licist. It is a prize offered by seemed perfectly willing to sacri- will tell you. Eight years ago. James Keith, publicity director say "I've lived my life. I have had recording fice the lives of most of his men all the gadgets in the of the Milwaukee theatres, enough of fighting, turmoil and the Fox to secure her freedom. Why is booth couldn't help most of to the boy or girl who prepares strife I'm happy, contented here, ones the life of one person more valu- voices, but today the good the best trailer copy and news- Why ' should I—?" Well, why of able than another? Voluntary have acquired the knack paper advertising upon a current should any of us heed the cry all sacrifice of life will go on as long "pitching" their voices and feature film, with the press of need in the world when the trim off a MGM as unselfish idealism exists, but that is required is to book of the film as text book and easy road is to do nothing about on Page (Continued on Page 6) inspiration. it? (Continued 5) 3 September 15, 1937 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY Longtime Film WHO'S WHO IN Film Program Worker Lauded BETTER FILMS By Columbia Too late for cataloguing in the May issue of The Motion Pic- TO WOMEN'S groups with an it was not a particularly far cry ture and Family came news of active film program, the ca- to a directorship. PRECEDED by the announce- an honor paid to a longtime work- reers of women directors in Holly- Miss Arzner's first solo film ment by Dr. James S. Egbert, er for motion pictures. wood are always of paramount was an appropriate and char- director of University Extension Cited by the Golden Rule interest. One reason is perhaps acteristic one for Hollywood's at Columbia University, that "the Foundation for "distinction in the that there are so few of them. first woman director, a dram- present status of the commercial profession of motherhood" was Until fairly re- atized style parade entitled motion picture warrants serioui Mrs. Willis P. Miner of Mountain cently, Doro- Fashions for Women, starring recognition by university authori- Lakes, New Jersey, just retired thy Arzner Esther Ralston. She made it ties," Columbia will this fall es- from the active chairmanship of was the only highly individualistic, however, by tablish a new division entitleo motion pictures for the New York woman in the incorporating her own system of Film Study, to function under City Federation of Women's Clubs film capital directing, in which she not only the Extension Department. motion and in special charge of with full direc- handled the megaphone and put Twenty Illustrated Lectures picture activities in schools and torial powers. the players through their paces, The initial phase of the courst libraries for the Motion Picture Another is be- but worked first with the writer will be a series of 20 illustrated Department of the New York cause women before the picture went into pro- lectures on successive Wednesday State Federation directors in duction at all, and later super- evenings beginning October 27 in Seventy-five years old, mother Hollywood vised the cutting and editing, so Dorothy Arzner the McMillin Academic Theatre of three children and grandmoth- could, should that the film from start to finish at Columbia. Actors, directors, er of 14, Mrs. Miner makes sever- and probably was an Arzner product. Since critics, writers will be pressed al trips to New York City each do, interpret the feminine view- that first film, there have been into service as speakers, the list week from her suburban home to point about pictures more ably plenty of stellar productions with including Gilbert Seldes, Mark work actively in the interests of than the average male director. which Miss Arzner's name has Van Doren, William C. de Mille, motion pictures so that the young- In fact, it was the conviction been identified. Sarah and Son, Terry Ramsaye, editor of the er generation may grow up with that they could that first encour- with Ruth Chatterton starred, was Motion Picture Herald, Morris right standards of motion pic- aged Hollywood's and Columbia's one, Christopher Strong with Ernst and others of equal promi- ture taste. ace woman director, Miss Arzner, Katharine Hepburn was another nence. Accompanying their lec- to invade that field. "The greater and Craig's Wife, the Pulitzer prize play, a third. tures, which are designed to part of the motion picture audi- f foster the intelligent appreciation ence is feminine. Box office ap- A High Type of of motion pictures, will be show- Juniors Give Movie peal is thought of largely in Business Executive ings of specially selected films, terms of the women lined up at Education By Radio new and old, domestic and for- the ticket window. If there are Miss Arzner has many char- eign, fictional and documentary. no women directors there should acteristics that are a sound source of satisfaction to women who are In addition to this popular Members of the Junior Motion be," was the philosophy with interested in the progress of busi- course, designed primarily for Picture Council of New Haven, which Miss Arzner approached ness and professional women and those who have not time for Connecticut, have taken to the her first film job. the impression they make on the academic study of the film, Film microphone to spread news of public. Low voiced, exceptionally Study will offer a 28 week course film activities. Every Saturday a She Started as Stenographer well poised, dressed always dur- for those more seriously inter- Council from some New Haven characteristic modesty ing business hours in trim, tail- ested in motion pictures and the School has conducted a broadcast With and excellent common sense, she ored costumes, she typifies the technical problems involved in over station WELL The first evidenced her willingness to start finest kind of woman business ex- their production. This will be was a skit on "The Origin and on the lowest rung of the ladder ecutive. An indefatigable worker, held in the private screening room Progress of Motion Picture Coun- by taking a position as stenog- she earns the respect of her asso- of the Film Library in the Muse- cils," presented by a group of rapher in the scenario depart- ciates by her industry as well as um of Modern Art and will be Hillhouse students. Later a repre- of major studio at $15.00 her competence. Absorbed as she under the direction of John sentative of Sheridan Junior High ment a a week. Once firmly entrenched is in films, however, she is not Abbott, director of the Film talked on "Selecting the 12 Best she was always on the lookout for a one-track-minded person. Be- Library, and Iris Barry, its cura- Movies of the year." Another opportunity, and never failed to tween pictures, and even occa- tor. Cameramen, cutters, labora- talk was given by Bassett Junior seize it by the fetlock. Successive- sionally during pictures, she tory technicians, directors and High on "How to Judge a Motion ly, she became manuscript reader, sandwiches in wide and catholic others who play important roles Picture." Subsequent Councils clerk and cutter. After reading and she is an ardent de- in film production will be drafted broadcasting were Hamden High, script had edited, cut and pieced votee of swimming, hiking, horse- to talk of their problems. Two Fair Haven Junior High, Com- she into harmonious whole millions back riding and other outdoor trips to motion picture studios mercial High, Truman School, film, she concluded she sports. will be included in the course. Boardman Trade School and of feet of was qualified for screen writing In fact, Hollywood's pioneer Enrollment will be limited to 30. Troup Junior High. and turned out several original woman director is a gentlewoman As the climax of the year's discussion by the Camp Fire A scripts. By that time picture par excellence, of whose film activities Film Study will sponsor and the Boys Club was Girls magnates had waked up to the achievements women's organiza- next April an International Ama- another feature. fact that there was such an in- tions have every reason to be teur Motion Picture Show, to be dividual as Dorothy Arzner and proud and from whom much that given in cooperation with leading she got a chance at an assistant is worth while may be expected in amateur film organizations and Even Movie Ushers directorship. From that point, the future. also prominent educational groups in this country,- England, Qet College Training Canada and Japan. New Committee Begins Salem Picture Inspires This, like the illustrated lec- tures, will take place at the Mc- Motion Picture Appreciation Film Activities In Dec. Building Model Village Millin Theatre and amateur films courses are no novelty in colleges of outstanding merit from these days. and universities Twelve newly appointed motion School and library exhibits on Austria, Australia, Canada, Cze- Unique, however, is the course England, France, picture chairmen, each represent- Paramount's Maid of Salem, choslovakia, established at Southwestern Col- Scotland and the United ing a different denomination of issued in the spring, had many Holland, lege in Memphis, Arkansas, this States will be screened. Film the Protestant Church, will short- novel uses. One of the most inter- summer, to train students for Study will award a certificate of ly begin motion picture activities esting has just been reported by service as ushers in a movie thea- Ohio. merit to each film screened. in Denver. They are appointees the library of Ashtabula, tre in West Memphis. The course Charles P. Woodworth, "The display was turned over Dr. Russell Potter, Associate under the supervision of Mrs. of study, created de- to our art teacher for planning Director of University Extension, man, lasted who heads the newly of a practical theatre in which the children is chairman of the Advisory hour partment of "Movies and Radio" a project for two weeks, with two model colonial village. It group for Film Study and asso- of the Federated Council of made a class periods every evening. Those popular ciated with him are colleagues Church Women of that city. turned out to be very who made the most satisfactory well from the departments of archi- Ambitious plans are on foot and the pictures came back rating were guaranteed positions engineering, people movie con- thumbed. However we were glad tecture, zoology, his- and the salaries they receive are to make church Denver moviegoers to know it had been of so much tory, archaeology, English, edu- to be used to help defray college scious and church viewpoint. use," the librarian writes. cation and music. expenses. conscious of the THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY SentemW Ifr. 1937 Film Teaching FILMS FOR THE Library Frames An I. Q. Test Plan Described PUPIL AND TEACHER Keliher By Sarah McLean Mullen WHAT is your Motion Picture By Dr. Intelligence Quotient? Head of English Department and Co-ordinator of Visual Education, The Motion Picture Committee WITHIN a few years the mod- Abraham Lincoln High School, Los Angeles; Author of "How to of the Northville, New York, ern medium of motion pic- Judge Motion Pictures." Public Library wants to know. tures may be invoked to carry the With a view to discovering social message of the hour to all whether the average motion pic- that the printed treat. Based upon a story of of young America. When it is, GRANTED ture enthusiast is really informed page, the radio, the stage Napoleonic intrigue, this elabo- we shall find that it constitutes about films and the subject mat- the motion picture are the rate musical spectacle brings not perhaps the most powerful instru- and ter they cover, the Committee has great disseminators of American only mass shots, superbly photo- ment yet discovered for formu- formulated a timely series of let in our study this graphed, beautiful music from lating the ideals of the younger culture, us questions dealing with recent pic- year keep in mind what the mo- golden voices and pictorial revela- generation, imbuing them with a tures.' These are being tried out tion picture does for us that the tions of a spectacular period and | sense of their responsibility as experimentally and if they awak- other media cannot or do not places, but also gripping emo- citizens, and inspiring them with en interest other series will follow. accomplish with such vividness tional thrills. Most charming of a desire to make a constructive The motion picture-patron who effectiveness. all, however, is a delightfully contribution towards the solution and gets a 100 per cent scoring for We are a story-loving people simple little interlude, "The Don- of the problems of the day." his answers is presumed to make and we enjoy learning our facts key's Serenade," which is in re- The speaker is Dr. Alice V. good use of his time at the movies. as well as realizing our fancies in ality a photographic masterpiece. Keliher, Chairman of the Com- With a slight percentage of mis- story form. We demand of any mission on Human Relations of HIGH, WIDE AND HANDSOME takes he is still credited with medium of communication that it the Progressive Education Asso- (Paramount) having a commendably high IQ. must hold our interest and that ciation, and the inspiration of Another production with a wide Below is the set of questions it must be convincing, so that we her remarks is an experiment sweep is the story of the struggle with answers appended. Perhaps may believe it. Consequently, the which has been carried on during to establish the oil industry in readers of The Motion Picture inevitable standards that we ap- the past summer to determine the Pennsylvania about 1859. It is and Family would like to try ply to any motion picture are first best methods for utilizing on a rousing melodrama, with a errand them out on their friends. that it must entertain us and broad scale the social values free-for-all fight at the climax second that it must give the illu- Try These Questions which exist in screen productions. when a circus outfit joins the sion of reality, whether it por- on Your Friends pipe-line builders to overcome $75,000 Grant Finances Preset trays the known or the imaginary, 1. were the Silent Bar- the wicked railroad opponents. What from the places or persons, the past, pres- riers? The Rocky Mountains. A grant of $75,000 Charming music, appropriate to Foundation has fi- ent or future, material objects or 2. For what is Saratoga most Rockefeller the period,- adds to the effect of and motion moods and emotions. Quite a famous? Horse racing. nanced the experiment authenticity. picture producers have cooperated challenge, isn't it, for the motion 3. What does Camille really by giving Dr. Keliher's committee picture to meet! SOULS AT SEA mean? Lady of the Camelias. mind, let access to their storerooms. With these ideas in (Paramount) 4. A Star is Born only because the essential contri- The project has been carried us consider Souls at Sea is a picture of far she has z determination to pur- made forward in true laboratory fash- bution to our understanding different sort, but no less broad sue what? A career. the notable pictures ion. Dozens of feature films have by several of in scope. It depicts the events 5. Upon what island was the the pic- been reviewed in their entirety of the day. Note how of a sensational shipwreck on the crew of any captured Slave Ship the limitations by a committee of teachers as- tures overcome high seas and its aftermath. The hung? St. Helena. materi- sembled for the purpose from all of time, of space, and of mighty sweep of the great ships 6. Becky Sharp saw the incep- they convincing? Do sections of the United States. Out als. Are under sail, the cataclysmic wreck tion of what famous battle? of these dozens approximately they seem real? and the unendurable strain in the Waterloo. fifty have been selected which VOGUES OF 1938 over-crowded life-boat all impress 7. The Knight Without Armour s present with unusual vividness (Walter Wanger-United Artists) us with their immensity and over- lived during the reign of what of Russian rulers? and power problems of individual This is the most sensational of whelming power. And equally The Romanoffs. adjustments, family relationships color pictures. It overflows with interest are the human beings and 8. Romeo and Juliet belonged or the broader social questions riches like the chests in Ali their strong emotional relation- to what families, respectively? of the day. These have been cut Baba's cave. Gorgeously arrayed ships. Montagues and Capulets. to one and two reel length and girls display stunning gowns, THE ROAD BACK 9. What boy learned honor and carefully re-edited so that every jewels, furs and all that repre- (Universal) became a Captain Courageous? with Harvey. screen moment is pregnant sents feminine luxury. And just If you missed this picture, or 10. What man attempted to win possibilities for discussion em- as lavish are the entertainment make a special point of seeing it. the love of The phasizes some powerful social les- features, among them a negro For strength of theme, consist- Toast of New York? Jim Fisk. son. dance of macabre interest being ency of purpose and grasp of 11. What is Lloyds London? "In this work of reviewing and the high point. Equally fascinat- details, this anti-war picture has of An insurance organization. selection we have used a group ing is a panoramic view of the no equal. Of course it is grim, chosen from 12. What famous pass is the of seventeen teachers ,sky line of Manhattan at dawn. but it is revealing of what we Dr. climax when Wee Willie Winkie schools of varying types," FIREFLY ought to know and it is convinc- have come desires to end bloodshed? Khyber Keliher says. "They (MGM) ing. from metropolitan centres, from Pass. too, i§ an audio-visual (Continued on Page 7) small American cities, from rural Firefly, districts, from public and private Students See Paris schools. Some of them teach in have came and the reactions of their congested slum areas; others in checked and the teachers As Essay Award students will be carefully watched the better residential sections of functioned solely as listeners. On has and recorded. Ultimately it is large cities. Together they rep- other occasions a teacher still expected that these films and (Continued from Page 1) resent a varied and cosmopolitan started the discussion; on others of similar type will find mas, was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, viewpoint. others, the teachers have injected their way into classrooms and the trip came as the reward "We have used this group of occasional remarks when the throughout the country to be used for the two best essays on "Why teachers not only to determine pupils seemed to be getting far in clarifying human relations I Would Like a Trip to Paris," which films were best adapted to afield. Sometimes there has been problems. submitted by competitors in a provoke discussion in the field of rambling discussion on one day Doubt of Their Value Captains Courageous contest. An human relations, but also to par- and the teacher has adroitly No their value when so used ocean voyage was considered the ticipate in group discussions of pointed a moral on the next. "Of have no shadow of a doubt. most appropriate award in con- the films. Students have been "Transcripts have been made we lead boys and nection with a film that smacked recruited from different sections. available to the teaching group Films that will discuss so definitely of the sea. On one day we have had boys and after each discussion and these girls in their teens to spontaneously problems ranging Thousands of people, ranging girls from the better class sub- have been studied with a view to and a revi- in age from high school pupils urban homes; on the next they determining which discussion from slum clearance system to to grandparents and great- have come from the tenement dis- technique was most successful. sion of the probation the social adjustments that must grandparents, participated in the tricts. We have shown each group "During the winter the films the wake of divorce have contest, which was conducted in a film and then allowed one of we have chosen for experimental follow in medium for social cooperation with two Boston the students to open discussion. purposes will be shown in the a value as a is incalculable." newspapers. "Sometimes this has run un- schools from which these teachers instruction that — — —

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Lessons From Starts A New The Movies GRIST FOR THE Department On Pictures (Continued from Page 2) LIBRARIAN'S MILL is not ordering a whole battalion to almost certain death to rescue A monthly symposium on mo- a girl, be she ever so attractive, By Richard James Hurley tion pictures presenting the inhuman, in the light of all social Librarian Roslyn, N. Y., High School outstanding achievements of codes? chairmen throughout the country librarians can replace Allen's Only Yesterday. Students KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR SCHOOL is the new method chosen by Mrs. in business courses would especi- (United Artists) the summer dust on their bul- William C. Brown, Steubenville, ally take an interest in this pic- Against a background of the letin and exhibit boards with a Ohio, Chairman of the Motion ture. Russian revolution, Fothergill, lot of movie publicity of prime Picture Committee of the Gen- Kipling in the Films alias Ouranov, was challenged by interest. The Hoosier Schoolboy, eral Federation of Women's Grades 4 to 8 will certainly love of England, the country of filmed from that perennial favor- Clubs, for spreading the gospel want to see Kipling's Toomai of his birth, and of Alexandra, the ite by Edward Eggleston, is of the promotion of fine pictures the Elephants, alive on the screen Russian woman of his choice. made-to-order. With some stills to the thousands of clubs through- in Elephant Boy. The center of Courting death in service to both, from the picture, a sketch of an out the country. Contributors our exhibit, then, is those he went through bitter trials and early log school, an enlargement to the symposium in the Septem- semi-picture books by hardships. of a page from the McGuffey's two recent ber issue of the General Fed- Flaherty, Elephant Boy and Why does class cleavage de- Reader (an attractive compilation eration Magazine, The Club- Elephant Dance, with fascinating velop such deep hatreds? How can is now available), the book jacket woman, are Mrs. Geddie Strick- stills from the movie and easy those in authority be convinced of The Hoosier Schoolboy and land, Chairman of Motion Pic- include that attractive that the book itself, with a half-dozen text. We tures for the North Carolina Fed- any social system built upon the it, you edition by Doubleday of All exploitation is ultimately doomed appropriate titles around eration; Mrs. Edward T. Her- Mowgli Stories, copies of the two to destruction? have a first-rate focal point for bert, Chairman of Motion Pic- books Jungle Books and the Just So One is impressed by the appar- the movie-book tieup. For tures for the New York State Stones open to the chapter Where ent innocence and harmlessness of on early Indiana we suggest Federation, and Mrs. Wayne F. the Elephant Got Its Trunk. We many of those who make up the Allee's Anne'8 Surprising Sum- Shaw, Chairman of Motion Pic- put in Kim because it ties up this exploiting groups and by the mer and Judith Lankester for the tures for the Kansas Federation. exhibit with a future one on that meekness of many who revolt. 1840's; Hunt's Boy Who Had No Map Spurs Interest Breakfast for 1870, and Lucinda movie. Knowing the appeal of Will the ideal social order ever Preparing a map of Kansas for Civil War days; also Major's the Mukerji stories we add emerge? Kari, the which shows the location of club Bears of Blue River for the 1820's. Hari, The Jungle Lad; THE ROAD BACK and and district motion picture chair- Barton's Parade of the States, Elephant; Ghond, the Hunter Universal) chairmen of better films ( The Hoosier Schoolmaster, vol- Chief of the Herd. Robinson's men and War creates more problems pic- councils has been one of the novel umes of the Pageant of America Elephants goes in with some than it settles. This is especially used to spur film interest. and other supplementary material tures of India and more elephants projects true for the individuals that good Sponsorship of a loan library can also be used. and we are satisfied. For participate. War does something pamphlets on visual "Toast of New York" measure we add a copy of Kip- of books and to the minds and souls of people. education is one of the outstand- For senior high school we have ling's Wee Willie Winkie, although When Albert came home from ing projects in North Carolina. a made-to-order picture for in- Willie in the movie turns out to the war, he killed a man who was switch-over from primary tegrating history, biography, be Shirley Temple! But we put A making love to his fiancee. Willy upon adult film prob- economics and any advanced so- Cote's Story of Sunny Sahib attention stated the issue at the murder lems to special concern with the cial studies The Toast of New alongside to lure both boys and trial: "If has forced of feature films a man been York. This story of Jim Fisk's girls. India offers so much of valu- educational uses for three years to shoot men that is reported by the New York struggle with such financial able and almost Arabian Nights never hurt him, Federation. In this connection have why giants as Commodore Vanderbilt interest that we just shouldn't he shoot that's newly appointed chairman of shouldn't a man and Daniel Drew, based on Jos- let the opportunity pass without a contacting clubs ruined his life?" Ernest added his ephson's book, The Robber Barons, using Wee Willie Winkie and the exhibits is can't wash four years throughout New York State urg- plea, "You can be publicized easily. General Elephant Boy in our library. of killing off the brain with the ing the widest possible use of material is abundant, such as the Interesting Films to Come guides and exhibits. one word, 'Peace'." The film clear- Yale Chronicles The Railroad And there is much more ahead study Should Al- ly poses the question: Builders, Captains of Industry which will interest librarians. bert have been found guilty of list, which and Masters of Capital, Mark Tom Sawyer heads the Make Survey Of murder? Sullivan's Our Times, lives of includes Heidi, Hurricane from preparing men The science of famous financiers, economic his- that dramatic book by Nordhoff Educational Values developed, but to kill is highly tories of the country, and, con- and Hall, and an original script, why has society never thought it present, (Continued on Page 6) necting the past and (Continued from Page 1) necessary to train men for peace? ducers have been opened up to the HIGH WIDE AND HANDSOME inspection of the educators so that (Paramount) they might determine how much ambition of a husband de- The that is of teaching value exists mands understanding and support H AT'S NEXT W the current screen. upon from his wife. It seemed easy for The project began when Dr. days of mar- Sally in the early Mark A. May, director of the In- work kept Peter IN HOLLYWOOD? riage, but as stitute of Human Relations at away from home more and more convinced that Winter Yale University, she became dissatisfied. By Alicb Ames the values of films as a teaching Is there a limit to what a wife were being overlooked, pictures is a has half forgotten these and is medium must sacrifice for the ambition making of THE turning eagerly to things in the asked the producers to lend their of her husband? Are there rights swift-flowing panorama. As making. But there is one story assistance. The second step came wife which a husband must fast as one production is finished, of the while Zola with the creation of an Advisory is a case of about what happened respect if he expects to hold her another begins. It Committee on Motion Pictures in that are be- was being shot that I am sure you loyalty? forgetting the things latent will appreciate. When they were Education to investigate Special strain was placed on hind and plunging into the new. recording the great scene where possibilities. The third was taken Peter, for against him was ar- And one of the things that is makes his impassioned plea by the producers when they made massed infectious in Hollywood is studio Zola rayed the power of had gath- their short subject libraries for that to which the for Dreyfus, the studio wealth. He was fighting for in- enthusiasm available for exploratory pur- setting ered three hundred actors and dividual holdings of oil, when big film folk are currently extras who were to boo and hiss. poses. sought to rob him and his their hand. Everyone feels that capital However, as they listened to To date the experiment has the fruits of their whatever is in formation is pre- neighbors of Muni's eloquence they forgot proceeded only to the point where sacrifice. Is it destined to success. long labor and parts and ap- it has revealed the great wealth big while the summer has given their imaginary the apparent unwillingness of So, and the of instructional material of a new such notable pictures plauded loud and long— business to share with the small to the public order which exists in motion pic- Emile Zola, The whole scene had to be re-shot capitalist that is bringing on as The Life of next step is to de- is just how good Muni's tures. The Such Firefly, High, Wide and Hand- which the revolt of the masses? picture not to be termine whether ultimately teach- Stella Dallas and such de- acting is! A a picture as this makes men of some, this kind will find its way Topper and forgotten or swamped under a ing of small means sensitive to the es- lightful nonsense as curriculum. Hollywood (Continued on Page 7) into the sence of economic democracy. It's Love I'm After, : —

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Educational FILM GLEANINGS FROM Novel Scenes Fanfare Marks SUMMER PUBLICATIONS In The Studios "Zola" Opening (Continued from Page 2) few rough edges with dials and SUMMER publications have so nating account of how unusual buttons. The most difficult record- (Continued from Page 1) brimmed over with film news film effects are secured by mak- ing job recently was that of modu- lating the voices one of the most dramatic chapters that it is difficult to select the ing substitutions; The American of the six New Girl, September: Movie Magic York boys who came to Holly- in it, the chapter which consti- articles which would be of most by Randolph Bartlett, a delightful wood to play in Dead End. They tutes the climax of the film, his interest to readers of The Motion Picture description of what takes place talked through their noses and championship of Alfred Dreyfus. and the Family. Here are some which may repay delv- behind the scenes in Hollywood; said "dese," "dem" and "dose," Biographical data about Paul ing into Radio News, August: Servicing and the pitch of several was so Muni, files: who stars as Zola, and a Movie Sound by W. W. Waltz. strange that all the needles in wealth of colorful material about Scintillant Personality Sketches the sound box gyrated like a com- the noteworthy figures of Zola's Colliers, May 22: Little Lily— Miscellaneous pass over the North Pole. time are included. in which Henry F. Pringle de- Joan Crawford's Red Dress The Fortnightly, July: The Approximately two pages of scribes how diminutive Lily Pons Just for a glimpse of beauty we Fate British Films, long the article are given over to rose to stardom in opera and on of a stepped into the wardrobe depart- and informative article John questions and answers which will screen; Colliers, June 12: Camera by ment at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Grierson; New YorK Times, be used to stimulate classroom by Kyle Crichton—a sketch of not many days ago and saw a August 8 : Defense of the Screen— discussion of this noteworthy film. Hollywood's ace Chinese camera- certain red dress. It is a very in which E.ouben Mamoulian says Interested teachers and librarians man, James Wong Howe; Colliers, special red dress which hangs the public must share the blame who wish to make use of this June 19: Star Straighteners, also proudly aloof from the ermines for sucn material should consult the pages by Kyle Crichton, dealing with poor films as are pro- and laces and cottons on nearby duced; same issue: Hollywood to of Scholastic and if they wish that moot subject, the tangled hangers. Joan Crawford will Aid Teaching, a description of a extra copies should make applica- finances of Hollywood stars; wear it in The Bride Wore Red, new experiment by which films tion to the local theatre manager Saturday Evening Post, June 19 in which she plays the role of a dealing with for them. conclusion of The Great Goldwyn, human relations dancer on the Trieste waterfront. problems will be shown in selected Also because of the unusual Alva Johnston's masterful biog- When Joan read the script weeks schools; The American Scholar, merit of The Life of Emile Zola raphy of Hollywood's distin- before the picture went into pro- summer issue: Music Takes a as a spur to historical and other guished producer, Samuel Gold- duction, she called Adrian and Screen Test, by George Antheil; worthwhile reading, the New wyn; Colliers, June 24: Big Girl read this part: —"She stands be- Christian Science Monitor, York Public Library staff coop- Now, an illuminating sketch by Aug- fore the mirror in her red dress ust 16 : Antic on Sets erated with the producers of the Henry Pringle of the youthful Mood and Anni of the Cordillero Bar stands Marks Seasoyi's Happenings, picture by furnishing a suggested prodigy, Mitzi Green; Colliers, Off wrapped in her dreams come by Frank Daugherty; Christian reading list related to the film. same date: Mr. Chips Meets a true." "I want a dress that will This list is likewise obtainable Star by James Science Monitor, August 23: make those lines come alive," Hilton (fiction) ; she through the local manager, or Hollywood Broadens Plans for Liberty, June 26 : How Janet Gay- told Adrian. And the result was Production in England, also upon direct application to Warner nor Smashed the Hollywood Jinx, by a thing of loveliness that took Mr. Daughtery (Watch out for Bros. Pictures, Inc., 321 West a particularly sympathetic ac- two months in the making, with these articles which are run week- 44th Street, New York City. count by Frederick L. Collins of more than two million red beads check files the vicissitudes and triumphs ly; also back in your from Czechoslovakia sewed by Publishers Put Out New Books for an informative series of 12 encountered by the heroine of hand on crepe romaine from the on Zola articles on various phases of A Star is Born; Good House- looms of France. Hollywood life run the Monitor Publishers, anticipating that keeping, August: Gloria Dickson, by

during the summer months) ; The the film would arouse marked Girl of the Month—a description Lutheran, August 18 : The Church Popular Mickey Mouse interest not only in Zola but the by Dixie Willson of the sensation- and Motion Pictures by Ted period in which he lived, have al film career of "a little girl Is Stump, secretary of the Motion Qiven Dual Honor issued reprints and new volumes from the potato country"; Ameri- Picture Department of the inspired by the picture. One of can Magazine, August: Farewell Na- tional Lutheran Council, in which (Continued from Page these, The Dreyfus Case, written to Youth—Burgess Meredith and 1) a practical picture program for Convinced that Walt Disney's by Alfred Dreyfus and his son, Thomas F. Sugrue indulge in a church groups is outlined; Ameri- popular cartoon character is so Pierre, is published by the Yale duologue, during which Mr. Mere- can Magazine, August: Do You much liked by children that it University Press. dith gives his contrasting views Hold at the Movies? by will encourage early reading, Doubleday Doran have reissued of Broadway and Hollywood; Hands Harry F. Shaw of New Haven, Superintendent of Schools Harold Matthew Josephson's famous Movie Makers, September: A Connecticut, district manager Campbell has placed on the book, Zola and His Times, and The Film Artist's Way—an absorbing G. of a theatre chain a particu- recommended reading list of New Three Sirens Press is putting out biographical sketch by James — larly sympathetic study of the York City elementary schools a a special edition of Zola's novel, Shelley Hamilton of Fritz Lang, relationship of the motion picture book dealing with Mickey, for Nana. The Consolidated Book a celluloid artist who really house to community life; Asia, which Disney himself provided Publishers are also issuing two creates. : India-Made Movies the illustrations. editions of Nana, the one in paper September Motion Pictures and the Dance traveler returning cover and as nearly as possible by F. M. De Mello—a story of Meanwhile a States an exact replica of the original Dance, Ju\y:Will Toumanova what is being done in picture- from the Federated Malay of Mickey paper edition published in Paris; Desert the Ballet? by Anatole making in the Far East. reports that an image discovered in a the other a cloth bound volume. Chujoy and Gone is the Hoofer Mouse has been the Latest among the images With so many means of attract- by Rosalie Livingstone, in the Also Some of Malay temple of Hindu gods, and that many ing attention to Zola, it seems a latter of which the author points Books on Films. file it pay foregone conclusion that the film out that Bill Robinson and Fred worshipers before and Projecting Sound Pictures by it every holy day. will the subject of much inter- Astaire have turned tap dancing tribute to be Aaron Nadell, McGraw Hill Book ested discussion in classrooms, into an art; The American Danc- Co.; Recording Sound for Motion libraries and individual homes er, August: Do You Want to Pictures by Lester Cowan, Mc- Grist For The during the coming winter. Dance in Pictures? by Atholie Graw Hill Book Co.; Footnotes Likewise it probably will form Bayes—advice for the ambitious Librarian's Mill r to the Film by Charles Davy, the basis o1 many club programs. Terpsichorean; A Child Prodigy Lovat Dickson (a book to which Comes into Her Oivn, in which specialists contribute essays) (Continued from Page 5) Patricia Shirley Allen hails the 17 ; Visualizing the Curriculum by Wells-Fargo, describing the pony approach of Mitzi Green to star- AVAILABLE FREE Hoban, express days. Also Cappy Ricks, dom. C. F. Hoban and C. F. the Forsyte Saga, Beau Geste, Pride This bulletin, published month- Jr., The Cordon Co.; Law of For the Scientifically Minded Stage and Radio by Roger and Prejudice, Pitcairn Island, ly, is available free to com- Screen, Ltd.; Silas Marner, White Banners, munity leaders upon applica- American Cinematographer, Marchetti, Suttonhouse, Pictures by Barrett Gone With the Wind and Goodbye, tion to the Motion Picture Pro- August: Interesting reports of Talking the Metro-Goldwin- Mr. Chips. For junior high school, ducers & Distributors of Ameri- the spring convention of the So- Kiesling of Mayer publicity denartment, Kidnapped should be added. Bi- ca, Inc., 28 West 44th Street, ciety of Motion Picture Engi- scientific de- Johnson Publishing Co. (This ographies include Zola, Chopin, New York City. Address the neers, giving latest making; book has already been adopted as Robin Hood and Marco Polo. editor of The Motion Picture velopments in picture De- a textbook by McGill University There is lots of grist for the and the Family. Movie Makers, July: Nine ceits by Earl Theisen, a fasci- of .Toronto). librarian's mill. .

3et)tember 15. 1937 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY 7 What's Next FILMS FOR THE Seasoned Film In Hollywood? PUPIL Students Will AND TEACHER Do Photoplay -(Continued from Page 4)- (Continued from Page 5) THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA BROADWAY MELODY Members of multiplicity of impressions. (Warner Bros.) the Du Quoin (MGM) Township High School Photoplay At Twentieth Century-Fox lot, A picture that will strike a Broadway Melody of 1938 is Club have had an active program I stood in an oriental city square, sympathetic note in the heart of film largely a reproduction of its of study for several seasons. hemmed in by what might have everyone who believes in liberty predecessors, with its elaborate This year they plan to graduate been or and justice is this gripping biog- Damascus Bagdad. Beard- sets, crowds expertly handled, into the role of film producers. ed Arabs and veiled ladies jostled raphy of the French author. Only brilliant spectacles and skillful At the beginning of the schocl me. his early struggles and those at Beautiful Arabian horses dancing. Incidents and special- year the club will divide into four had the end of his life are shown, come over from the Kellogg ties follow each other with such groups. Each group will elect Ranch, I warily for however. Zola's reading of and walked rapidity that one marvels at the a student director and committees "J'Accuse," his trial scene, the there were camels everywhere. A technical expertness that makes representative of the various professor who was a visitor moment of Dreyfus' release from was such an extravaganza possible. phases of film production. Each exclaiming rapturously over the his Devil's Island cell, are superb. Don't fail to take note of the will in turn present a one-act authenticity of the setting. But Authenticity of setting is no less play. extraordinary montage effects. there authenticity for emphasized that that of human paused, Faculty Will Select Play Ali Baba Goes to Town contains behavior, especially in the mob STELLA A faculty committee will delectable bits of fun-making at scenes. And yet it is the little DALLAS see all the plays and select ourselves and our politics, wheth- revealing incidents that will re- (Goldwyn-United Artists) the best of main in your mind to establish the four. This will then be made er in the rival candidacy for office The most impressive Zola's character and personality. study of a into a film production. The com- of Abdullah and Ali Baba, with human soul revealed by the screen pleted film' drama will first be 5 all the hallmarks of modern THIN ICE is that of Stella Dallas. Here is (20th Century-Fox) exhibited in the school to the en- I United States, or whether you a story of mother love that every tire student body. 6. Next it is ;atch a glimpse of "Oasis No. For sheer beauty of background high school boy or girl should see. hoped that arrangements may be !w.P.A."; or watch the camels and skill in execution of difficult No description in words, however made to have it to filling sta- shown at the i being brought up a routines of skating and skiing accurate or detailed, could 1 so ex- local motion picture theatre. ' tion to be filled up with water this musical comedy of ice and actly reveal as does the motion Faculty and students hope foi while a windshield wiper rushes snow is captivating. The Russian picture the conflict in the lives much gain from the practical ex- out to wipe off their noses. number, with its masses of per- of the beloved daughter and her perience in acting and direction formers, is most intricate, and fond mother, who married "above rapidly which will be derived from the It's easy to pass from worth noting, too, is the reflection her station." It is a magnificent new project. It is expected to one scene to another "on the lot," on the ceiling, while the second revelation of human emotions. sharpen the critical faculties of so one departs from Eddie Cantor ballet, performed to the "Tales The last scenes taken in the rain the students and lend added zest in Ali Baba Goes to Town to from the Vienna Woods," is a as the mother watches the wed- to their motion picture apprecia- wander, a little amazed, through revelation of the poetry of mo- ding of her child are well nigh tion study. some acres of the Chicago of 1871, tion. unforgettable. half frontier town, half metropo- I lis—theatres and street signs and Motion Pictures Figure " shops of an age outgrown only a few years ago. Nearby is the In Book j HOLLYWOOD LEXICON Week Plans ; miniature of Chicago that is to be caught in flames in the immor- 3. Montage (Continued tal tragedy of Mrs. Leary's cow. from Page 1) last two or three years On a little further is the German THE age. In this film, in a little more child star, Tommy Kelly, late a yFrankfort of 1878, laden with have brought into common use than three minutes on the screen, schoolboy in the Bronx, in the is title fHollywood snow (which looks like in the studios a brand new term indicated the passage of years role, and Heidi, presenting defin- during which Shirley Temple. t the snow of a more northern —montage. Less sharply a young singer rises world, but does not feel like it) able than the "lighting" and to operatic fame. Snatches of For the benefit of teachers, And then there is a sizable lake "camera" terms which have fig- great arias are blended with librarians and book shop proprie- bf crude oil which makes a per- ured in previous issues of Holly- European folk songs, vocal exer- tors who will want special ma- fect reflecting surface for the wood Lexicon, it is nevertheless cises, the tick of metronomes and terial on these films the producers itnirrored shots of Dutch dances a word with which those who a final flourish of Columbia, the of The Adventures of Tom Saw- (which Shirley Temple, with twen- want to be "in the know" about Gem of the Ocean, as the picture yer have thoughtfully provided a (ty-six other children, is to dance pictures should familiarize them- camera watches the shifting back- three-card exhibit similar to the un Heidi—Heidi at last! It has selves. grounds which harmoniously ac- one made especially for bookstore been a long time projected, but About montage there is no ab- company the music. display on The Prince and the Mr. Zanuck was not willing that solute uniformity of opinion. "Lost Horizon" Is Example Pauper when a Children's Book Shirley should act the part until Pudovkin defines it as "construc- Lost Horizon, now being re- Festival under Herald-Tribune ;he had actually achieved the age tive editing." Mortimer Adler, in leased for the first time at popu- auspices was held in the spring. 3f eight, so that she might match a comparatively recent book en- lar prices, offers an example of These will probably bear the in reality the much-loved heroine titled Art and Prudence, refers a broader interpretation of the Children's Book Week slogan, :>f the famous story. The studio to it as "synonomous with film term. In this picture montage "Reading—the Magic Highway to off cutting and editing." Paul Rotha applies not only to the conjunc- Adventure," together with some j scene is only the focus—far inclusive, crea- tion of separate special slogan adapting the post- t 'Switzerland supplied background. defines it as "the scenes, but to the ||Nearby Lake Arrowhead gave tive and constructive unity that way in which the "psychological ers to films. In addition a study opportunity for speed-boating and is present from the birth of the guidance" of the spectator is con- guide is to be made containing j L-niniature golf. idea in the mind of a scenarist trolled, so that an imaginative pictures and much illuminating to the final act of assembling and probability is given to the way information about the film. At Paramount, Mr. de Mille is editing the film." Less erudite in which things might appear to Juvenile readers of the omniv- at work on The BuccoMeer, the people, or those given to the use an ideal observer. Through this erous variety will also rejoice in ?tory of that most picturesque of simpler terms, might perhaps use of montage a fine balance the fact that the research library rascal, Jean LaFitte, whose pi- refer to ' it as "crescendo," between clarity and variety is of United Artists has made avail- ratical forces changed history "climax," or that elusive quality achieved, and the film builds able a list of more than a hundred when he chose to fight for the in a film which has to do with steadily to a masterly climax. books, magazines and newspapers United States; while Frank Lloyd mounting interest. Whether he adopts the simpler whose pages were culled to se- is telling another side of our If one employs a rather re- or the more abstruse interpreta- cure information for authenticat- •mpire building in the history of strictive view of the term, the tion of the term, however, the ing the sets for Tom Sawyer and Wells-Fargo, half business, half operetta, Maytime, released dur- true motion picture sophisticate preserving the spirit of the book. months, offers an will be sure to wish to add mon- These lists and also lists on Heidi . adventure. Meanwhile Samuel ing the spring to his vocabulary. can be secured by interested I ^oldwyn is deep in Marco Polo— especially good example of mont- tage film ibout whom he ex- young peole through the Motion j has gathered of York State, Picture Producers and Distribu- - :raordinary new material, dig- Old Turk, the goat who butts Clubwomen New ?ing into ancient Shirley Temple in Heidi gets $5.00 pleased with advertising on The tors of America, 28 W. 44th j Tartar history. Rotable pictures all these will be a butt instead of the customary Life of Emile Zola, sent a con- Street, New York City. That letter to is the t ind there will be more to tell of $1.50 because he is a gentleman gratulatory Warner also place to apply for

:hem next month. goat and butts softly. Bros, commending its dignity. , posters and study guides. 15. 8 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY September 1937

Plan Novelty Film Is a Powerful Plea For Slum Acrostic Used Study Guide Clearance Say Welfare Workers To Spur Groups On MusicFilm To Film Effort

ACROSTIC based on the A new kind of study guide will AN go into the classrooms of the coun- word "Federation" furnishes try when the new Universal film, the inspiration lor 'he 436 club motion 100 Men and A Girl, featuring picture chairmen ~nd 14 Deanna Durbin, the captivating presidents of better films "orncils operating under auspices young singer, and Leopold Sto- the of the Kansas State Federation of kowski, orchestra conductor, is Women's Clubs. released. It will be based on Author of the acrostic is Mrs. questions propounded by noted Wayne F. Shaw of Kansas City, musicians as to the values of the one of the most energetic state music in the film. These will be motion picture chairman in the furnished to thousands of teach- country. ers throughout the country and These are the goals set out: the answers to the questions, F urnish the preview lists to given by the musicians them- your local newspapers. will be enclosed on a sep- selves, E ncourage more motion pic- that the teachers arate sheet, so tures with a special appeal the replies of their may check to children and the promo- the replies of the pupils against tion of family night pro- music outstanding leaders in the grams. world. D evelop an artistic sense in Distinguished Musicians choosing pictures. Attend the Preview E ducate children by encourag- Among those who attended the ing the use in schools of preview of 100 Men and A Girl, films which build for better and helped in the formulation of citizenship. this novel study guide, were: R epresent the picture honestly. Dr. Nikolai Sokoloff, former Di- A ppoint a motion picture chair- rector of the Cleveland Symphony man in every Federated Orchestra, now Director of the Club. Federal Music Project; Ruth Hal- The tactics of the street gang illustrate the evils of tenement life T alk good motion pictures with theatre manager. ler Ottaway, President of-the Na- in Samuel Goldivyn's noteworthy film, "Dead End." your local tional Council of Women and I mpress upon your local clubs Chairman of the Preview Board the importance of better new members enroll in Bradley Buell of Community of Musical Films; Dr. Roy MacEl- WHEN motion pictures. Chests and Councils, Mrs. Re- wee; Ivan Ivantzoff. president ard Junior Leagues these days, O rganize "Better Films Coun- the recommendation is to be made becca M. Seligman, member of cils." leading tenor of the Ai l of Musi- to that they attend D»ad the Board of Directors of the Na- out- cal Russia Opera Company; Eu- them N otify your chairman of tional Council of Jewish Women, gene Fuerst, Conductor of the End as a part of their provisional standing work which you which until now T. W. Tinsley of the Brooklyn of Musical Russia Company members' course, are doing. Art Big Brothers, and Mrs. Marjorie Arden contralto, formerly has customarilv consisted of lec- Cecil National Probation Metropolitan Opera Com- tures on social problems and field Bell of the with the Association Want Hard of Hearing pany; Frances Eaton, associate trips to social agencies. editor of Musical America; Mrs. This is only one of many unique Highly Praised by Probation Added To Theatre-Qoers John McClure Chase, President tributes to the newly released Association Officer the New York Federation of Goldwyn-United Artists film, of A campaign to add a potential Music Clubs; Miss Rhea Silberta, which has been characterized by "Dead End is certainly a fine 80,000 people to Philadelphia's Jacques Jolas, concert Robert S. Wilson, staff associate presentation of the natural composer; motion picture goers has been radio artist; Mrs. NationaJ Association for growth of delinquency and crime pianist and of the inaugurated by the Philadelphia Hardy, Music Chair- Travelers Aid, as "containing in a neighborhood where children Theodore M. Motion Picture Forum. These York City Fed- more stirring reasons for com- are the victim of bad housing, man of the New non-attendants at films constitute Women's Clubs; Maude munity action against bad hous- crowding, dirt, disease, poverty eration of Philadelphia's hard of hearing Kindred Perry and Harry Cump- ing, economic inequalities and traditions of crime and misdi- Mrs. Bell com- populace. That they are inter- son, members of the faculty of lack of recreational opportunity rected leadership," probation ested in films is indicated by the Juilliard School of Music. than any material I have seen." mented. "I hope that the fact that the large Speech Read- Prior to the New York release and parole officers all over the ing Club of the city has affiliated of the film, a special screening country will see the picture. Cer- itself actively with ihe Forum Approves was given for representatives of tainly we shall urge them to do School Head and that its members regularly Social Welfare agencies and so whenever we have the oppor- attend meetings and eagerly drink "Good Earth" Display among those who spoke of the tunity." in items of film information. If picture with superlative enthusi- "We shall be glad to mention one or more Philadelphia theatres asm were Dr. Alice Keliher of it in our News Letter which goes would install hearing aids, they (Continued from Page 1) the Commission on Human Re- to member agencies, and possibly could garner in this large and first time in school history he lations of the Progressive Educa- also in our official organ, The not to be disregarded film audi- authorized distribution of a bulle- tion Association; Howard Brauch- Family, wrote Mrs. Ruth M. ence, the directors of the Forum tin to principals, directors and er of the National Recreation Dodd of the Family Welfare supervisors, calling attention to Association, Miss Alice Ray of Association of America after believe. an exhibit in connection with a the Brooklyn Training School, seeing the film. motion picture. Wind Up Six Years Of The film in question was The Good Earth and the exhibit, of Films Shoiv Right And Countless Sketches In Jr. Matinees In N. J. Oriental implements and curios, was displayed at the Carthay Wrong Of Driving Feature Length Cartoon (Continued from Page 1) Circle Theatre where the film was being shown. Of such edu- and a peak attendance of 2,700 at cational value did Superintend- (Continued from Page 1) More than 1,600,000 sketches the Christmas matinee. features ent Kersey regard the exhibit under the direct supervision of will figure in the first feature Occasional special introduced, as for ex- that he advised the teachers to the department. Patrolman A. J. length color cartoon, Snow White have been Wise Maids arrange for school buses and Cuddy, who admits that he is and the Seven Dwarfs, now in ample when Two heroines transportation for the students not seeking to capture Frank the process of production at the with its school teacher Hackensack and all local who wished to see it and in every Capra's directorial baton, but Walt Disney Studios and due for played invited to be guests possible way encouraged atten- does know a whole lot about traf- release as a Christmas gift to teachers were the theatre management. dance. fic safety, directed the picture. the children of the nation. of

493 PRINTED IN U 3 A. The Motion Picture Comment on Current A Bulletin for All who Films by Teachers, are Interested in Better and Educators, Commun- Motion Pictures The Family ity Leaders

Vol. 4 OCTOBER 15, 1937 No. 2

Uses Films East St Louis Stages Novelty Teacher Lauds For Diction Cinema Breakfast At 8.30 History Films Posture Aid In Her Thesis teachers have made INGENIOUS motion picture producers use of motion picture apprecia- THAT are to be commended for mak- tion classes to stimulate interest ing so many films with historical in many studies not directly allied or semi-historical background, to films. John P. Osborne, former history in head of the English Department, and that the use of higher now Assistant Principal at Lin- films not only makes for a coln Annex, Lackawanna High type of motion picture, but also School, Lackawanna, New York, imbues history itself with life and conclu- is one of the first to capitalize color are complimentary upon them as aids to diction and sions reached by Daisy Lee posture. Hughes of Marshall, Texas, in a Twenty Free Tickets thesis she has just written on By arrangement with the man- "The Use of American History in ager of a local theatre, twenty Motion Pictures" in preparation free tickets were made available for her Master of Arts degree at for the showing of Maid of Salem, the University of Texas. to be presented to pupils whose After a remarkably thorough- posture and diction during the going investigation in the field week before the opening of the of historical films, Miss Hughes film had not been criticized by a has divided American history into teacher. periods, has selected some of the The idea proved so successful best feature films typical of each that later in the school year period, analyzed them and demon- similar prizes were offered for TJrbanites and suburbanites turn out in the cold, gray dawn to preview strated both their direct and in- excellence in individual studies "Souls at Sea." direct educative value. and extra-curricular activities. Pictures chosen as illustrative Another novel project intro- ALL sorts of methods are used Cinema Breakfast of the Council of the Colonial and Revolutionary -duced by Mr. Osborne in connec- by public relations groups to and probably one of the first periods are Maid of Salem, tion with the exhibit material on spur public interest in worthwhile events of its kind in the country. Naughty Marietta, Last of the A Star is Born was special lessons films, but it remained for the Bet- As early as 8:30 in the morn- Mohicans, Daniel Boone and Al- style of writing on the scenario ter Films Council of East St. ing the serving of coffee, dough- (Continued on Page 3) and also on the development of Louis, Illinois, to get 300 en- nuts and Danish rolls, began at the "word close-up" as compared thusiastic film-goers up before a charmingly appointed breakfast with the "camera close-up." 8 o'clock in the morning to see a table in the Majestic Theatre Newspaper Office lobby. From the lobby the guests movie. Displays Exhibits "Good Earth" Spurs The occasion was the first (Continued on Page 2) Interest In Orient When motion picture exhibits Films Made Part Of First Four Lecturers go to South Buffalo, New York, they are not relegated to school Interest in Oriental life' and Rochester Curriculum For "Film Study" Series or library where at best a customs is booming in Westfield . r limited number of people can see York, as a result of E special New them. By pre-arrangement with display in the Patterson Library 'For; twto years the West High Attractive and stimulating pro- the South Buffalo Better Films timed to coincide with the release School in Rochester, New York, grams are announced for the first Council, of which Mrs. Hubbell at popular prices of MGM's The'- ,,has ,ha\I elective motion picture four lectures in the "Film Study" J. Adams is president, they are film version ^atftpre'ciation courses for which series, under the auspices of the i Good Earth, of Pearl the pupils receive school credits. Extension Department of Colum- taken straight to the community I Buck's epic novel of China. A newspaper, where display space is large collection of up to date (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 3) provided in the window fronting i books on China was assembled by the main street. "Standing Room the librarian to feature in the Only" is the rule, not the excep- display, together with the exhibit Kiesling's Book On Motion Pictures tion, when the pictures are on material furnished by the pro- display. ducers, and waiting lists for books Rates More Than Casual Notice on Oriental lore have been the result. Stimulates Knowledge WHEN a book about motion thor, deserves far more than pictures is written by some- casual attention. Mr. Kiesling Shakespeare Quotations Films Reviewed one who is "on the inside," who has been in the thick of things in knows from a practical angle Hollywood for a long time and In Current Issue every step of the process of fea- he knows whereof he speaks. Theatre patrons in Jamestown, ture picture-making, that is There is nothing speculative or New York, had an exceptional Dead End, pages 3 and 4; Ebb something of an event. That is theoretical in his context. When opportunity to check up on their "Talking one has perused his lively and Shakespearean knowledge when Tide, page 7 ; Life Begins in Col- why th book entitled colorful pages one knows not Romeo and Juliet came to town. lege, page 5 ; 100 Men o,nd a Girl, Pictures—How They Are Made Cleverly scattered through adver- pages 3 and 4; The Prisoner of and How to Appreciate Them," only how pictures are made, but Barrett Kiesling of why they are made as they are: tisements in the local paper were Zenda, page 7 ; Saturday's Her- of which C. stories to suit quotations from various Shake- oes, page 5; Stage Door, pages the publicity department of why are changed (Continued 3 and 7. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is the au- (Continued on Page 6) on Page 6) 1

THE FAMILY October 15, 1937 THE MOTION PICTURE AND ji E. St. Louis t Boys' Head of WHAT'S NEXT Sees Cinema Offers Work IN HOLLYWOOD? At Breakfast Outline Film By Alice Ames Winter Page 1) When danger lurks, (Continued from documents dealing with Symphony and fron yellow. auditorium where •EVERY Silly appear shadowy dark blues filed into the FEW today offer Mouse is an there rolls while motion pictures -ti every Mickey greens. they munched their motion picture Hollywood but and blue leading suggestions for a event, not only to moves steadily one of East St. Louis' comprehensive for m every In fact, color entertained program more to the entire world, importance. At organists, Paul Godt, L E. earth these into greater that prepared by far corner of the ambitious with an hour's recital. than Secretary and Warner? a most Boys' Work creations are known of Souls at Norbeck Disney of the loved legend Before the preview of Pennsylvama then is our expecta- screening Greensburg, loved. What be made in color, the Cinema Breakfast St upon the theory White and Robin Hood is to Sea, which C. A. Based tion for Snow as "Robin and privileged to Y. M. Right first full-

October 15, 1937 THE MOTTON PICTURE AND THE FAMILY 3 readier Lauds Exhibits Are LESSONS from the MOVIES History Films Worked Hard Presented for the Committee on Social Values in In Her Thesis Motion Pictures by Howard M. he Sourd,Ph.D., Dean In Elmira of Boston University Graduate School, Chairman.

(Continued from Page 1) Hp HERE are probably few cities in the United States where zander Hamilton. Pictures cited DEAD END Reform Schools an adequate ans- research exhibits on motion pic- s good historical films of the {Goldwyn-United Artists) wer of society to the slums' school tures are harder worked than in eriod from 1800 through the cannot see Dead End and for crime? ONE Elmira, New York. Thanks to "Avil War and Reconstruction miss the great ideas that run STAGE DOOR the energetic work of Mrs. feriods are Glorious Betsey, through it. The problems reach (RKO-Radio) Charles W. Swift, every exhibit Horgeous Hussy, Sutter's Gold, the very foundations of our so- Some one has said that true that comes to the city ultimately lobin Dorado, Birth cial and economic order. Here are Hood of El greatness is achieved only through reaches not only the three local Nation, presented in stark contrast the f a Hearts in Bondage, suffering. Feeling, sensitiveness, and two suburban high schools, very rich with their superficiali- lo Red the Rose, Prisoner of and artistic creativity, this pic- but several large clubs which ties and insensitiveness and the >hark Island, The Plainsman and ture seems to say, come through have an active motion picture very poor with their social an- oast of New York. the dark valleys and shadows of program, and is also displayed at tagonisms and hopelessness. Cimarron, Message to Garcia, life rather than through the sun- the monthly meeting of the Mo- Why must some children be ''his Is My Affair, Diamond Jim shine of prosperity. tion Picture Council. cursed by an environment that irady and Viva Villa are chosen Terry wanted a stage career. By virtue of keeping track of offers no privileges, and warps s films typical of the period be- She was willing to seek the at- the exhibits, borrowing them for them mentally and emotionally? ween 1887 and 1914, and The Big mosphere, but her superficiality brief periods and returning them, Is there no way out for society, °arade, Rendezvous, Little Caes- doomed her to failure until she Mrs. Swift is occasionally able which always pays heavily for its r, Special Agent, Bullets or was shocked by Kay's suicide. Out to loan one or more to a group diseased bodies and minds? What ballots, China Clipper and Bould- of the agony of her own soul, be- of people for use at a small can we do about the housing prob- r Dam are some of those illus- cause of her implication in the private dinner party, and she lem? What are the other factors rating important trends or in- tragedy, Terry was sensitized to reports that frequently the whole involved? situations that had before left i dents in more recent American evening's conversation centers Towards the close of the picture :istory. her cold. about the exhibit. As a result of society's solution is presented. Is it true that only as let Miss Hughes justifies the devi- we these activities, many people who Philip, a child of privilege, is the burdens and sorrows of others have not previously attended mo- .tions from historical fact which "mussed up" by the gang, and tear at our heart strings can we tion pictures have now been added ometimes characterize semi-his- his father catches Tommy as one become truly great? regularly to the local audiences. orical films on the ground that of the culprits. Tommy in fear If the exhibit deals with an nany historic incidents lack and rage uses a knife to force 100 MEN AND A GIRL historical film, it is passed on to Iramatic interest and have to be his release and is hunted by the (Universal) the history teacher; if with a olored somewhat to make proper police. Through Drina's persua- The tragedy of depression fell picture based on a literary classic, ,creen material. She points out sion he gives himself up and she, heavily upon the children in un- to the English teacher; and if the Is one of the advantages of his- as his sister, pleads for his free- employed homes. To keep face, to picture is of general interest, to .orical feature films that they dom. Philip's father insists, how- spur flagging spirits—these were the school library, where all the .•ften portray incidents not found ever, that Tommy be sent to a the games that the more ambi- pupils can see it simultaneously. .n the average history, as for Reform School as a means of pro- tious played. Since Mrs. Swift believes that xample those which furnish the tecting society. The gang does Patricia was ready to fight for the exhibits are of permanent >asic plots for Prisoner of Shark not object, for one cries out to her father and he was ready to value, she is keeping the entire vsland and The Message to Gar- him to look up "Smoky," who fight for her. A combination like : collection and advising interested ia. She also says that she be- knows a lot of swell rackets. Are (Continued on Page 5) teachers of its accessibility for lieves films are more important as the use of their pupils in subse- disseminators of historical knowl- quent classes. edge than either novel or play, ince they reach a larger number af people. Another advantage is GRIST FOR THE First Four Lecturers ! the fact that this type of film la rings at least a smattering of In "Film Study" Series historical knowledge to many who LIBRARIAN'S MILL !?/ould otherwise have little or no (Continued from Page 1) history, Hontact with the facts of bia University, which were re- n "I do not believe the discrepan- fered to in a previous issue of ces in recording history are very By Richard James Hurley The Motion Picture and the total of his- njurious to the sum Librarian Roslyn> N. Y., High School Family. These lectures, to be orical data. I also believe that held in McMillin Theatre at Co- T"1 HERE is so much movie grist Railroads, 475 Fifth Avenue, New ne trend is towards better pro- lumbia, will offer on October 27 for the librarian's mill this York City. This organization also uced historical films," she main- Capt. John Craig, producer of month that we let our final selec- puts out tourist maps and illus- tains in her final conclusions. adventure sequences for such tion rest on a childhood favorite. trated pamphlets, some colored. films as Trader Horn and Eskimo, Immortal Heidi by Johanna Spyri Bardeen's Swiss Life panel post- speaking on "Adventures Making ' is on the screen and this means er proved most helpful to us ^heatre Manager Boosts Adventure Pictures"; on Novem- a first-rate, movie book tieup for as did pictures from several units ber 3, Wilton Barrett, executive Safe, Sane Hallowe'en grades 6-10 where the peak of by commercial companies. There >jj secretary of the National Board reading is highest. Some rather is plenty of material available and of Review, to forgotten but vivid books on with such an all-around child speak on "The 1 With Hallowe'en approaching it Nature of the Motion Picture"; Switzerland by Spyri should be favorite as Heidi to motivate in- interesting to note that last on November included in a display on Heidi— terest, we should make the most 10, Terry Ramsaye, j€ar Stanley Kriner of the Fox editor Moni, the Goat Boy, Rose Child, of this movie opportunity. of the Motion Picture ." 'heatre, Pomona, California, was Herald, speak Vinzi, Mazli and Gritle's Chil- Victoria, the Great, a British to on "The March ' irgely instrumental in bringing dren. Perkins' Swiss Twins and photoplay released b y RKO- of the Movies,'' and on November f bout a "safe and sane" Hal- Paul Rotha, maker of English Grover's Overall Boys in Switzer- Radio, is another "find"—this 17, ;>we'en in his city. Hallowe'en A land will attract the younger chil- time for senior high school. Eng- documentary films, to speak on '"ledge signed by the children and dren, as well as the books of Swiss lish and history teachers, es- "Filming Facts." ' puntersigned by the Chief of legends by Kennard, Guerber and pecially, can use this picture to was good for admission to police others. Patterson's When I Was stimulate interest, for an abun- Uses Many Animals special show put on the Satur- a Girl in Switzerland, Finne- dance of correlated books exists day following. The pledge ruled more's Switzerland, of the "Peeps biographies, plays and histories. rEne owner out on any of the cus- at Many Lands" series, and the Laurence Housman's drama, Vic- The largest number of animal J-Dmary Hallowe'en pranks such Carpenter Travel Reader on toria Regina, should certainly be actors ever used by Samuel Gold- ho " "~ "oighbors' gates, Switzerland will also prove valu- included in this exhibit. Among wyn have figured in his 1937 fitting a tick- tack on the neigh- able. As a background for the the many lives of the queen are films. A shipment of sharks from |uors' windows, etc. Parents in display in our own library we Strachey's Queen Victoria, Tap- the South Seas used in Hurri- rose call cane was perhaps the I j'omona up to Mr. Krin- used some large travel posters ob- pan's In the Days of Queen Vic- most novel "blessed." tained from the Swiss Federal (Continued on Page 6) importation. THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY October 15, 1937 Church Editor FILMS FOR THE What's Next In Writes Views PUPIL AND TEACHER Hollywood? McLean Mullen On Pictures By Sarah (Continued from Page 2) shield which actually dates back Head English Department and Co-ordinator of Visual Education, of to the explorer's time. If the interesting viewpoint with Abraham Lincoln High School, Los Angeles; Author of "How to AN policeman's lot is not a happy one, relation to the church and its Motion Pictures." Judge how would you like to be a pro- pictures was attitude On motion ducer, and, having found the spot bulle- IN PREVIOUS evaluations of exploit the voice and personality expressed in a recent news where you can, with verisimili- Lutheran 1 the phases of the motion pic- of Deanna Durbin, 100 Men and tin of the National tude, erect your bit of the Great ture which must appropriately a Girl illustrates our thesis in Council. A quotation from the Wall of China and your Pekin enter into classroom discussion, that it depicts its characters as article is given below. Gate and your splendid oriental this column has referred to the victims of circumstance. Its sim- "Whether our ministers are tents and palaces with all their relationship of character to the ple story is concerned with the lukewarm in their attitude to- furnishings, have to escort to this well-rounded photoplay. have plight of a group of down-and- wards motion pictures or out and We Malibu district 450 Chinamen, 150 agreed that to be interesting a out musicians and the battle out opposed to them, the fact still cowboys (to become Mongol war- be involved in a waged by a little girl to overcome remains that a large percentage character must riors), forty animal trainers, conflict; to believable he must the physical barriers of public of our church members are at- be twenty technicians, three ele- in his actions and indifference in an effort to pro- tending them regularly," the bul- be consistent phants (at $50 each a day), nine interpreted the ac- cure work for them. Skilful blend- letin declares. "We therefore correctly by camels (at $25 each a day), three let us go a step ing of humor and pathos forms cannot ignore them nor do we tor. This time leopards (at $35 each), two various an ideal background for the tal- believe that preaching against further. Let us study the eagles, six vultures, twenty-two the individu- ents of Deanna Durbin and Leo- them has any appreciable effect. factors which cause donkeys, fifteen goats, ten dogs, the screen pold Stokowski. From every It is very clear to all that wheth- als portrayed upon an army of subs and supes? And certain to cer- standpoint this is a beautiful pro- er we approve of it or not, our to react in ways how would you like to make ar- duction, but it is the music which members are attending and are tain stimulae. rangements for housing and feed- characters are re- deserves special attention. Thrill- being influenced by motion pic- Cinematic ing them all in a place where therefore, it ingly recorded, the musical inter- tures. It is equally evident that flections from life; there are no houses, no water, no analyz- ludes never intrude upon the de- there is very little that we can is to life we must turn in electricity, no telephone poles to velopment of the story. The music do to prevent them. It is there- ing these factors. mar the Marco-Poloish back- is so thoroughly incorporated in- fore logical for the churches to Probably the most important ground? Incidentally, ten tons of to the material of the story itself exert their every influence to see factors are heredity, environment equipment will also have to be be not only a part of it, that motion pictures of a high and circumstance. Under the in- as to transported. And these are the but at times almost achieves the moral type are produced and to fluence of environment, the char- foundation for a mighty good dimensions of a character equal support them wholeheartedly as acter may spread and become thin movie with Gary Cooper as Marco. of the pro- they are released. or concentrate and acquire in importance to any and Girl "The motion picture producers strength. Again, the progress of tagonists. 100 Men a There are so many good things proves that the screen in the offing that one sometimes are busineess men. They are in personality and character or their definitely great medium for the pres- wonders how the American public business to make money. They are disintegration may depend upon is a classical music. will be able to resist any of them. only too willing and anxious to physical, chemical and physiologi- entation of To Wells Fargo, now in the mak- produce the type of pictures cal factors; they may depend on DEAD END ing at Paramount, with its epic of which the public will support. As psychological influences, and, fin- (Goldtoyn-United Artists) the welding forces that made our in all kinds of business, it is the ally, they may depend upon the and arresting, Dead End cross-continent nation, (which law of supply and demand. The will. Grim strong sociological has required 75 sets one a won- motion picture producers will With these factors in mind, emerges as a — Although rather ma- derful one of Portsmouth Square, supply what the public demands, make a list of the current motion challenge. ordinary high school San Frrancisco, in 1850) a spec- and the Church can play a big pictures you have seen. Ask your- ture for the — student, it admirably demon- tacular picture because it was a part in increasing the demand for self these questions: What part environment as a force spectacular period that looms -i,lfo; the better type of pictures, but do heredity, environment or cir- strates the actions of its char- large on the pages of our his- this will be effective only if re- cumstance play in the lives of behind Laid in a "dead end" tory, we shall soon add The flected in the receipts at the the characters? What effect do acters. contemporary New Barrier, which deals with the raw, theatre box-offices. these forces have upon their ac- street of York, the story revolves around blustering, ruthless, and unruly "It is our opinion that the tions? Which traits and attitudes activities of a days of gold discovery in Alaska Church has two distinct obliga- are traced directly to these the pre-gangster group of tenement urchins, and our government's moving in tions to fulfill : First, to cooperate forces? Are the characteriza- skill and complete with law and order. with the motion picture producers tions consistent throughout? played with naturalness by six boys recruited in every possible way which will Some things are out of the GIRL the original stage produc- tend towards the production of 100 MEN AND A from beaten track, like Love and is held for these pictures of a high moral influ- (Universal) tion. No hope Hisses, where Ben Bernie and Page ence, and, second, to urge their Although intended primarily to (Continued on 7) Walter Winchell will continue support at the box-office. In other their wise-cracking enmity, with words, since we cannot prevent Simone Simon in most gorgeous, our members from attending and Distribute Handbills Start Second Year be-spangled, white clothes to fur- being influenced by motion pic- nish additional diversion. One tures, it is certainly logical that On Noteworthy Films Scrapbook Contest quite novel bit is to be made at we should do everything possible Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer. "Boy to make this influence an influ- Town," which was founded for ence for good." When a film that is really note- Pupils of DuQuoin Township homeless and deserted boys, is to worthy comes to the section of High School in DuQuoin, Illinois, furnish the theme for the picture. use- Brooklyn, New York, where the expect to be encyclopedias of The real "Boy Town" is not far Films Made Part Of Samuel J. Tilden High School is ful information about motion pic- from Omaha, and Spencer Tracy located, the faculty distributes ture stars and productions by the is to play the Father Flanagan Curriculum year. Rochester to the 12,000 students handbills end of the current school who started it. It is an incorpo- advertising current attractions of For the second successive season, rated city, the smallest on record, been offered for the (Continued from Page 1) merit. The service has been de- prizes have with its own post office, gym- scrapbooks on motion When school opened in Septem- veloped in cooperation with the three best nasium, its own self-elected boy pictures assembled by members of ber, these became a regular part Parent-Teacher Association and mayor and other officers. Punish- fine film will be the motion picture appreciation of the junior year work—a signifi- insures that no ment in the courts consists of >!•: cant testimony to their value. overlooked. classes. having to run the lawn mower or year Author of the courses which will Coupled with the announcement The initial contest last some similar penalty. But a sec- be regularly studied hereafter in of the film is a schedule of the stimulated so much interest and ond offense makes the criminal Rochester high schools is Miss dates and hours at which it will enthusiasm, and was so effective have to stand up through an en- ml Beatrice R. Tripp, member of the be shown in theatres within a in promoting attendance at tire movie with his back to the West High School faculty, whose reasonable distance of Samuel J. worthwhile movies, that the local stage. Could any punishment be effective work in the motion pic- Tilden High. theatre manager not only cooper- worse? Incidentally the real ture field was recognized this year Films advertised on a recent ated with the faculty, but gave "Boy Town" has sent 4,446 boys through her election to the presi- folder were MGM's Captains Cou- an admission pass to his theatre out into the world and none of ifam rageous and Universal's The Road to every individual pupil entering them has as yet fallen foul of dency of the Rochester Motion ! B Picture Council. Back. the contest. the law. m —

October 15, 1937 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY Lessons From WHO'S WHO IN Launch School The Movies BETTER FILMS Program On

{Continued from Page 3) National Scale NO means all people — on tached to the Imperial Court. At that usually wins in real life as BY Hollywood lots and outside four he was a boy well as in pictures. Chance played pianist of note; who contribute to the increasing- at six he began the the National Society, a fantastic role in the story, but study of the WHEN ly high standards of film produc- 'cello; in an incredibly Daughters of the chance was only one of the deter- short time American tion are of the feminine gender. after, he was enrolled Revolution, goes into a project it mining factors of ultimate suc- as a pupil In no phase of motion picture at the Imperial does so on a large scale. nation- cess. We are inclined to laugh Conservatory of A work has progress wide movement at those who are waiting been more Music, where Rimsky-Korsakoff to promote the for use of study their chance, but chance comes was his teacher. He was given guides and stimulate the interest in motion picture and the test is then on the indivi- Anton Rubinstein inedal for appre- his ciation classes has just been dual to take full advantage of it. graduate recital on the piano launched by the National Chair- How much of success in life is and was also laureate of the con- man, Mrs. Leon A. Mclntire. due to chance, and how much to servatory. Mr. William F. Bauer preparation, courage and persis- His appointment to the direc- of the East Orange, N. tence? Patricia, when returning torship of the Royal Symphony J., High School, who is famous for the the pocket book, was doing an followed shortly. Then came the success of his motion picture experiments, honest but routine task. It was war and its topsy-turvy overturn as- sisted Mrs. Mclntire in prepar- her acceptance of the invitation of all things Russian, and the ing the message which accom- into the party and her eagerness next chapter of Mr. Morros' life panied a sample mailing to capitalize this opportunity that found him recruiting musicians of study guides to State D.A.R. differentiated her from the masses. for Russian regimental Motion bands. Picture Chairmen. After the revolution and the LIFE BEGINS IN COLLEGE dis- Nor are individual groups by solution of the Imperial army, any means inactive as will be in- (20th Century-Fox) Morros and his friend, Balieff, or- dicated by some gleanings from ganized a company Each fall there is a deluge of to travel Mrs. Mclntire's correspondence. through Europe. This they called foot-ball pictures that finds en- They show that no less than 5,000 Chauve Souris in recognition of thusiastic audiences. This comedy- junior and senior high school the fact that farce will be enjoyed and it will a "flying bat" flew students enjoyed A Midsummer past the revive in the minds of many col- garden table during the Night's Dream at performances lege men the gayer aspects of first conference they held to dis- sponsored by a single D.A.R. cuss their four years on the campus. their plans. It was the Chapter. Another Chapter stimu- Chauve In the artificial life of college, Souris with its well-re- lated interest in historical films students membered can practice living. They evident than in musical films finale, "Parade of the by offering a prize for an essay learn Wooden much about human relations and no one has been a more con- Soldiers," which brought on "The Best Historical Movie of that is not taught in Mr. class rooms. sistent factor in that progress Morros and his friend to the the Year." Still another Chapter Some practice jealousy, like United Cud- than Boris Morros, general musi- States. The success they aroused interest in biography by dles, who played traitor to the col- cal director at the Paramount scored here is a part of theatrical taking five hundred children to lege. practice Some sportsman- Studios. history. see a matinee of The Life of ship, like George Black, who amid Mr Morros has a career even Louis Pasteur. misunderstanding did what he Engaged by Paramount more romantic than that of the Many Chapters have sponsored felt was best. Some practice free showings of mythical hero of The Prisoner of Engagement as musical direc- noteworthy pic- "getting by", which makes them tures for the Zenda. His early life was spent tor for various theatres under benefit of under- cheaters through life. Some prac- privileged children. not in a rococo little castle the control of Paramount fol- tice hard work, which lays the in a Balkan kingdom, but in the great lowed for Mr. Morros, and later '» foundations for useful careers. Winter Palace in St. he was brought to New York to What most students often for- Petersburg which housed the organize talent shows. was re- Grand Rapids Council get is that the habits, the atti- Czar of all the He Russias, sponsible for tudes, the outlook practiced for as a boy musician of launching such 16 he succeeded present-day favorites Boosts "Courageous" through college days usually stick his father as con- as Rudy ductor of Vallee, Dick Powell, through life. While earlier experi- the Royal Symphony Burns and by direct Allen and Jack ences definitely influence college appointment of Czar Benny upon what When Captains Courageous Nicholas and became a proved to be brilliant careers. living, life begins, in a very real member played at Keith's Theatre, Grand of the royal household. One of Twelve years of service with sense, in college. Rapids, it had a full two weeks' his still treasured Paramount was ultimately possessions is recog- run, an almost unprecedented a lucky token given him by Ras- nized by Mr. Morros' appoint- SATURDAY'S HEROES success in the town. Credit for putin when the latter was a fre- ment as studio musical director (RKO-Radio) this was given by the manage- quent visitor at the palace. It for Paramount in Hollywood, and ment to the Better Films Council This picture as a football story is a necklace made of a peculiar he has taken to the screen capi- and the P.T.A. Council which ad- is entertaining, but as an attack type of stone which changes tal his rich and varied equipment on vertised it enthusiastically in all the amateur basis of college color with the seasons, being as virtuoso, impresario and or- sports it is unconvincing. the schools of the city, and also Be- brown in the spring, green in chestra conductor. This he is now cause gate receipts at foot-ball among adult groups. summer and yellow in the fall. devoting to raising the calibre of games gross annually "Men wept and women sobbed $40,000,- It is supposed to bring luck to music on the screen. From a man 000, is no reason why the col- at the sheer drama of this mas- everyone who touches it, and Mr. with such a background much is leges should enter into open bid- terpiece of literature, and loved Morros, although not ordinarily to be expected that is individual, ding for and ultimately trading it and thanked us for calling their superstitious, is author of the tale interesting and artistic. Mr. Mor- and selling players. If one grants attention to it," Mrs. Liv- that the only person who ever re- ros feels that in spite of the pro- J. W. that there is some professionalism ingston, President of the Better fused to touch the necklace in gress he has already made, he is in college football, and some Films Council of Grand Rapids order to insure himself good for- just beginning in a field that is hypocrisy in dealing with it, the and Kent County, reports. tune failed miserably. yet to realize its potentialities. solution is certainly not abandon- Paramount's musical director The first picture, ment of the policy of amateurism. great musical he was a child prodigy, the descen- This picture will provoke anew is convinced, is yet to be made. dant of seven generations AVAILABLE FREE the discussion of whether or not of Naturally he hopes it will be musicians all of whom were at- professionalism would kill college made by Boris Morros. The Motion Picture and the sports. It offers no real data on Family is available free of the problem, even though it calls charge to librarians, educators, people names and tries to justify Calendar For 1871 Unearthed officers of Better Films Coun- cils | dishonesty on the part of students and others seriously inter- because of the hypocrisy on the A calendar for the year 1871 of Sir W. J. Tyrone Power, ested in the educational and part of cultural value college administrators, was among the antiques un- K.C.B., director of supplies and of films. Apply usually forced on them by the to Motion Picture Producers earthed by the 20th Century-Fox transport, appears on the calen- alumni. Can a wise solution be dar as head of a government de- and Distributors of America, found? Studios in preparing for the film- Inc., partment. He is a great-uncle of 28 W. 44th Street, New This is one of the York City, if interested. problems the ing of Stanley and Ldvingstone. Tyrone Power who is a 20th Cen- picture frankly poses. By an odd coincidence the name tury-Fox star today. : :;

6 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY October 15, 1937

School Offers SELECTED FILM READING Grist For The Very Thorough OF THE CURRENT MONTH Library Mill

Film Program (Continued from Page 3) Concerning Hollywood Merging—John M. Nickolaus of toria, and the sketch in Holland's Personalities the MGM Laboratory outlines Historic Girlhoods. Guedella's "C EW schools can boast a more proposed new experiments in Hundred Years rings the bell, as " thorough-going technique of COLLIERS, September 18 color; Theatre Arts Monthly, Oc- does Maurois' Miracle of England motion picture appreciation than Back Talk by Kyle Crich- tober: Designing for the Movies, and Quennel's History of Every- Saint Matthew's at Kalispell, ton — in which he describes by Morton Eustis—an illustrated day Things in England. And why Montana. According to a member the rapid rise of Jean Muir and sketch of the work of Cedric Gib- not include Maurois' Disraeli, a of the Saint Matthew's faculty, tells how "she just won't keep bons of the MGM Art Depart- picture of the Victorian Age? The the school has "completely re- still"; Liberty, September 25: ment; American Cavalcade, Sep- National Geographic Magazine organized its literature courses I Was a Chump—Can I Come tember: Picking the Great of for January, 1937, has an excel- and vitalized them by the use of Back? — in which Richard Hollywood, by Henry F. Pringle. lent colored picture of Victoria the fascinating material given in Arlen confesses some of his in her coronation robes. The cor- panel exhibits of motion pictures shortcomings and outlines his Of Interest to Librarians onation ceremonies of George VI and the accompanying bulletins." hopes for the future; Current are still recent enough to allow Wilson Bulletin for Librarians, Before any motion picture based Digest, October: The Woman for the use of much of the pub- September: Hitch Your Wagon to on either a play or a novel is Who Wrote Gone with the Wind, licity that came out at the time. the Stars — Maxine Block de- studied, the class reads the novel by Mary Reid — interesting be- Waiting for "Rebecca" scribes how the library may prof- or play to familiarize itself with cause when her sensational best- We are waiting to see Rebecca it from the movies; the Education the basic story. A study guide is seller is filmed, Margaret Mitchell of Sunnybrook Farm played by Digest, October: A Cooperative it will then used to stimulate comment will be an outstanding film fig- Shirley Temple, as be her Film Library for Schools, in and to give illumination as to ure; The American Dancer, Oc- next picture according to 20th which Paul G. Chandler outlines Century-Fox. Better start putting production technique. tober: Miller Dances with. Ann experiments in southeastern Committees are next appointed Ginger Rogers, Winifred Cul- in a supply of copies at once. One Pennsylvania; Saturday Evening of the pictures we also want to to analyze different phases of lum's sympathetic description of Post, October 9 and 16: How to look for is the life of William production and report back to the a screen newcomer presumably newspapers Make Movies—two delightful and Norton, discoverer of anesthesia. class. Magazines and destined for a considerable meas- scrutinized for supplementary informative articles by Grover This is being filmed by MGM from are ure of success; Pacific Coast material on the film. Panel discus- Jones; Stage, October: Two Mil- a screen play adapted from Rene Musician, September 18 : A Star sions are used to develop an in- lion Dollars' Worth of History— Fueloep-Miller's life of Norton. Is Evolved — Helen Jepson de- telligently critical attitude. Douglas W. Churchill's account The popularity that greeted The scribes for R. Vernon Steele how Reference is constantly made of the making of Conquest with Life of Louis Pasteur and its she effected the transition from to the panels while all these ac- Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer. great use in encouraging interest opera to screen; Cosmopolitan, tivities are in progress. After the in medicine and health, can be November: You Don't Have to be Of Interest to Almost Everybody study of the picture is completed, duplicated, we hope, in this pic- Beautiful, in which Bette Davis the panels are still left in place Parents' Magazine, October ture of Norton. While our interest developing for some time, and the interest gives pointers on Your Child's Chances in Holly- is mainly in pictures that have in the picture grows rather than screen personality; Collier's, Oc- wood, by Robert Joseph—appall- just been released, we should declines. tober 2: He Tried to Fly, by ing figures about the limited op- point out that Dead End, from Katherine Roberts a sketch of for three years Public Uses Service — portunities for the 100,000 chil- the play which ran the career of Brian Aherne; Col- in York, is quite usable in So effective a lead has the dren who seek movie jobs every New lier's, October 9 : Blade in Beverly for work in govern- school taken in the stimulation of year. One out of 5,000 crashes classrooms Hills, Crichton in which laws and crime motion picture appreciation in by Kyle — the portals. Many children get ment, protection, points that It portrays the gang- the community that club women, the author out James one day's work in 365 days at prevention. books the public library and the city Stewart is an entirely new type $10 a day, and one out of 120,000 ster cycle, and with so many Collier's, October coming out on this subject by schools call upon it frequently for for Hollywood; is destined to set his or her feet Riley from the rapidly grow- 16: No Intermission (same securely on the path to fame. Francis G. Coe, Courtney material Lawes and ing section in the school library author) —a dissertation on Gale Cooper, Warden A Shortcut to Movie Knowledge others, it lends itself to a very which is devoted to the films. Sondergaard's love of acting; display. The Road As an adjunct to this informa- New Republic, October 13: Cag- Digest and Review, October: specialized sequel to the book by tion service the motion picture ney, Great Guy, by Otis Ferguson, King of the Gagmen—Al Boas- Back, the All Quiet committees of the various classes which pays special tribute to Mr. berg (from American Weekly) Remarque and picture, on the Western Front, is another post a month in advance of their Cagney's performance in Some- Movie Censorship is Wrong, by movie-book that we can push with appearance reading lists on films thing to Sing About. Morrie L. Ernst (from Cinema mutual advantage. Linking the to be locally shown, and these Arts) ; / Am an Extra, by Helen Miscellaneous World War and rise of Hitlerism lists, too, are made the subject of Tensing (from Los Angeles in Germany, it offers contact for general reference. Times Sunday Magazine) ; The The American Scholar, Octo- and is a unifying agent for much Tangle Over Television, by Myron ber: Let the Movies Be Natural, library material. Teachers of M. Stearns (from Elks Maga- Kiesling's Book Rates by Mark Van Doren, assistant modern history, social studies and zine) . professor of English at Colum- current events can profit by push- More Than Casual Notice bia University; American Cine- Books on Films ing this picture and arranging

matographer, September : Tele- for a display of books on the New Horizons, published by (Continued from Page 1) vision Will Supplement but Won't subjects. Bell and Howell Co., treating of the needs of screen drama, how Supplant, by R. R. Beal, Radio school motion pictures; Elephant elaborate is the process of re- Corporation of America; MGM Stimulates Knowledge Tone-Tint (Continued on Page 7) search that goes on before a film to Make Wide Use of Shakespeare Quotations finds its way to the screen; just how the sets are constructed, the excellent case for them. costumes and properties assem- have time to change and so start- out an (Continued from Page 1) In one of his concluding para- bled. ed an international vogue for speare plays, which revived mem- graphs he says "In the enlarged But there is a great deal more blue shirts for afternoon wear, ories of many of the most signi- cinema of the future, brightened than this in Mr. Kiesling's book. is a case in point. Right ideas ficant passages written by the color, deepened by the third It gives the reader a psychologi- about sanitation, fine architec- by noted Elizabethan. Club leaders, dimension, physically extended cal as well as a scientific intro- tural standards, tasteful modes business leaders, educators and duction to the movies. It ana- in interior decoration are spread by television, and immeasurably students entered enthusiastically great lyses not only the content oi by the films just as rapidly as is expanded by a new and into competition for the free will be films, but their social and educa- enthusiasm for a particular style educational market, there tickets offered to those who could tive value and influence, and of coiffure or cut of sleeve. opportunities far beyond those identify the entire list of quota- particularly their far-reaching Mr. Kiesling's book gains added open today. In no other in- tions and many a volume of effect on styles and standards of value through excellent action dustry or rrt is the view of Shakespeare was well thumbed in living. The single example, for pictures which show exactly what the future so bright and al- the process. instance, of the occasion when happens on studio sets, and also luring"—a statement which will John Gilbert several years ago, by an extensive glossary of mo- strike a responsive chord in the Mr. Kiesling's book is published leaving a motion picture set late tion picture terms. minds and hearts of many who by the Johnson Publishing Co. for an afternoon party, appeared Mr. Kiesling is an obvious en- have interested themselves deeply and has a foreword by Will H. in a blue shirt because he did not thusiast about films and he makes in film production. Hays. October 15, 1937 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY

Picking Starlets FILMS FOR THE Ziegfeld Is By New Rules PUPIL AND TEACHER Clubwomen's Says THE OBSERVER •(Continued from Page 4). IN LOOKING over the new First Choice children of the slums ; their 1 young men and women who are paths casts, isolated by fate and cir- lead inevitably to criminal ca- coming rapidly to the top as cumstance in the South Seas. The reers. Characterized by the same screen players, we are impressed members of the trio, played by METRO- GOLDWYN- MAYER with uncompromising honesty, the Oscar Homolka, Barry Fitzger- the fact that they are a is entitled to take a bow. In adult roles are excellently played, ald and Ray Milland, take most unusual group of people. ad- the opinion of the work of Claire Trevor and vantage of representative Not only are the men tall and an opportunity to clubwomen Marjorie Main, in comparatively of America The Great finely built, but they are also steal a ship left uncaptained by small roles, Ziegfeld was the finest film made being unusually com- death. When the ship is disabled skilled mentally and physically. in the year mendable. Technically, the pro- in a typhoon, they are 1936. Mrs. William Requirements for the girls lead forced to A. Burk, duction is extraordinary. Direc- seek Chairman of the West off with intelligence, skill and refuge upon a remote, un- tion, photography and musical Coast Reviewing Committee of personal grace, with facial beauty charted island, where the destiny score are noteworthy. the General Federation of Wo- trailing along as a more or less of each is worked out according men's Clubs, announcing secondary consideration. When STAGE DOOR to his nature. Despite brilliant her Committee's choice of you have seen The Perfect Speci- performances delivered by Oscar 1936's ten (RKO-Radio) best, rated men, a merry farce Homolka and Barry Fitzgerald, Ziegfeld top. in which One of the strongest features Errol Flynn demonstrates the film is at times slow-moving. Other the of Stage Door is the way in which High Ratings mental agility and physical prow- It is produced in Technicolor. Director Gregory La Cava cre- Others in the order ess one might achieve if one put In some instances the color is of their ates and maintains the atmos- choices were his mind to it, you will get some not particularly satisfactory and San Francisco phere of a typical theatrical ;Mr. idea of what the producers are again, as in the typhoon scene, MGM Deeds Goes to Town, boarding-house. This environ- Columbia; seeking by way of new talent. it is used with hitherto un- Dodsworth, Goldwyn- ment was chosen rather than the equalled dramatic effect. United Artists; The Story A Large Order usual backstage or hotel back- of Louis Pasteur, Warner Brothers • ground to symbolize Here, for instance, are the gen- theatrical THE PRISONER OF ZENDA Winterset, RKO-Radio; Fury eral requirements life. The events of Stage Door used to test (Selznick-Vnited MGM; Theodora Goes Wild, Col- revolve around the trials and Artists) girls to play Vassar under-gradu- umbia; and Green Pastumes, struggles of the girl boarders, ates in a sequence for Rosalie: A swashbuckling melodrama, Warner Brothers. have life itself becoming the opposing but indirectly concerned with life "Must attractively intelli- It will be noted that Paul force. Some of these girls meet forces, The Prisoner Muni gent personality . . . must be of Zenda who with Walter life with honesty and fortitude possesses rare Huston and animated . . . must have well- entertainment Spencer Tracy was while others yield to circum- value. Studded with given first modulated voice and must dress excellent per- acting honors stances. Among the latter, formances, by the Committee in perfect taste . . . must show namely those of Ron- appeared in two of the high poise, graciousness, Andrea Leeds as Kay, the girl ald Colman, Douglas Fairbanks, rat- tact and self- ing films. confidence, without who in frustration is driven to Jr., Madeleine Carroll and Ray- being over- Actresses suicide, reaches dramatic heights. mond Massey, this whose performances bearing . . . must have a sense of latest adapta- were especially the fitness of things, a spirit of tion of the old Anthony Hope approved were EBB TIDE Luise Rainer, Irene adventure and a sense of humor." story has everything to make it Dunne and (Paramount) Gladys George, We have carried that bit of selec- a smash success at the box-office. while the child players tivity around with us and asked The Paramount production of The direction is superb, the musi- selected for special recog- nition a number of studio people what Robert Louis Stevenson's Ebb cal score in keeping with the ac- were Bonita Granville, is Freddie they thought about it. Some were Tide a dramatic account of the tion, and the photography breath- Bartholomew and Shir- ley a little amused, saying that girls experiences of three human out- takingly beautiful. Temple. who combined such qualities were The directors who in the opin- ion of the rare indeed, but all agreed that it cats, parrots, geese and flocks of prize for astuteness here. Years Committee did the most outstanding comes pretty fairly close to a sheep, to mention but a few of ago they purchased a large acre- work were Frank Capra, definition of the type of girl most these enterprises. This week there age of the rockiest land in Cali- W. S. Van Dyke and John likely to be successful on the came to our attention the new fornia. On their "farm" great Ford. screen today—providing she also and little-known industry of sup- rocks lie in serried ranks, huge brings with these qualities some plying hair for wigs. By strict cliffs and shoulders of limestone trained skill in music, dancing or regulation the hair used in wigs and granite stand up against the Selected Film Reading acting. must be human hair. In value sky and passes through the And as to the men—a little wigs range from an average of boulders look hazardous indeed. Of Current Month further questioning brought out one hundred dollars up to a thou- This property is now beloved by the interesting fact that the new sand dollars, the latter being the picture makers, and the Iverson (Continued from Page leading men are actually two ones which grace the heads of the brothers make far more money 6) inches taller, as a general aver- stars for period pictures. For The from its ownership than do any Dance, by Mrs. Frances Flaherty, age, than those of a few years ago. Adventures of Marco Polo it was of the owners of the fertile valley Scribner — a delightful descrip- Here are the figures: In 1930 necessary to purchase more than land below them. Here such pic- tion of the taking of the pictures the average height, according to 600 wigs, and from the property tures as Wee Willie Winkie, The for Elephant Boy; Motion Pic- records, was five feet, eleven and department of Goldwyn - United Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The tures in Education—a summary one-half inches. Today, our movie Artists comes an interesting story Charge of the Light Brigade and of available literature, by Ed- heroes average over six feet, one on the business of wig-making many others of picturesque back- ward Dale, Fannie W. Dunn, and one-half inches. The thick inspired by this fact. The grounds, together with unnum- Charles F. Hoban, Jr., and Etta planks that once served as stilts best hair, it seems, bered comes from Westerns, have been photo- Schneider; Of All Places, pub- I for leading men to stand on when the heads of graphed. European peas- The Iversons have a lished by Frederick A. Stokes and close-ups required that ants, where it is sliding they ap- not subjected to scale of prices. For an Co., in which those remarkable pear taller than the ladies have the constant heat ordinary treatments so "Western", they charge Abbe children, Patience, Richard now been discarded. Among those much in vogue among American a flat rate of $25.00 per day and and John, give their own highly who are well over six feet tall are women. An average yield of a dollar each for the large size individualistic impressions of the Gary Cooper, Randolph Scott, heavy, healthy hair stock. earns between For a Class A picture they cinema capital. Brian Aherne, Errol Flynn, thirty and seventy-five dollars, charge a flat rate of $500.00 a Wayne Morris, James Stewart, with an unlimited market for its day plus a special charge for each Of Interest to Motion Picture Fred MacMurray and Joel sale. Most sought-after are the extra and animal used. Over the Chairmen McCrea. natural blonde tresses of the years they have grown a won- * * * Scandinavian countries, where the drous crop of movie sets, with California Parent Teacher, Oc- Many curious and interesting price paid is sometimes as high as here an East Indian village and tober: A Social Force — Sarah businesses thrive by virtue of the three hundred dollars there a for the hair mythical castle—for it is McLean Mullen, coordinator oi needs of picture making. There of one, single lovely head. one of their requirements that all visual aid and teacher of Eng- are the men who make a business lumber and sets must be left lish and motion picture apprecia- of supplying all kinds of bugs, in- standing after the picture work is tion at Lincoln High, Los An- sects and small animals, as well The rental of property lo- finished. for geles, and incidentally a contri- as elephants, camels and donkeys; cation is scenes another lucrative To many people these may butor to The Motion Picture here are others who suoply old business in and around Holly- seem easy ways of earning a and the Family, gives a stimu- 'vehicles of all kinds, old bottles wood. To the Iverson brothers of living but none will — deny it lating account of how to make ht rare vintages, trained dogs and the San Fernando Valley goes the takes astuteness to think them up. community film work effective. 8 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY October 15, 1937

League Shows United Artists Makes Special Lists Value Interest In Poster For Book Week Display Of Exhibits Film Series To Classes FAME of the character educa- TF ELIZABETH tion films developed by the EBERSOLD of 1 Committee on Social Values in Bulkeley High School, Hartford, Motion Pictures and known as Connecticut, has her way, every the "Secrets of Success" series, ounce of value will be extracted has spread across the seas. from all the motion picture re- search From the Institute of Intellec- exhibits which reach the school. tual Cooperation of the League of Nations, to which a report was Last year when the exhibits were submitted on the use of the films, new they were used pri- comes an expression of approval marily to stimulate interest in the of the experiment, coupled with individual films on which they the hope that at some future time were based and in cultural read- a sample may be shipped abroad ing. This year a brief outline will for examination by Institute be prepared of the subjects cov- experts. Meanwhile news of the ered by each exhibit, coupled with expanded program through which suggestions as to the way in the Progressive Education Asso- which they may be used in the ciation is introducing similar various courses, and this will be films into selected schools through- circulated to the entire school. out the country is going forward. A sample listing follows: Maid of Salem — Witchcraft days in old Salem. Hollywood Value to American History classes —shows architecture, cus- toms and costumes of period. Lexicon Value to Home Economics classes—gives Colonial interiors Pictured above is the center panel carrying the Children's and costumes of period. (Continued from Page 2) Book Week slogan. Value to English classes con- wicker contraption laden with tea — stitutes good background materi- time dainties which is wheeled al for study of novel, House of into the drawingroom at 5 o'clock. C SPECIALLY devised for with each other for the oppor- Seven Gables. It signifies the sound control J—* Children's Book Week distri- tunity to whitewash Aunt Polly's Toast of New York—Big busi- table, equipped with dials by bution is a three-panel display backyard fence. The whole trans- ness era. which an expert controls the vol- on The Adventures of Tom Saw- action, from Aunt Polly's original Value to American History ume and clarity of sound being yer, now in production at the assignment of the job to the tri- classes — information it gives recorded on the film, while he studios of United Artists in Hol- umphal finale in which the fence about the Robber Barons and listens through headphones. lywood with 12-year-old Tommy has been whitewashed with three such personalities as Fisk, Gould "Wipe" means the transition of Kelley of the Bronx making his coats, is pictured. and Vanderbilt. Also information one scene into another by liter- moving picture debut in the role Tom's adventures with the about beginning of New York ally "wiping" the first off one the of Mark Twain's boy hero. ladies occupy the panel to the Stock Exchange, New York in screen, revealing the other behind 1860's and transportation meth- Features Familiar Scenes right. The centre picture shows it. Tom making tentative overtures ods in vogue at the time. As for turkey—that is not the Scenes familiar to every reader towards acquaintance with the Value to Commercial Geogra- Thanksgiving bird at all, but of the Yankee humorist make up new girl in the neighborhood, phy classes—vitally interesting merely a bad picture, although the exhibit, which is linked to Becky Thatcher. Included, also, because of the enrnhasis it lays who was guilty of the misnomer Book Week by the appropriate are some of his experiences with upon transportation. investigation fails to reveal. slogan, "Reading, the Magic High- the next-door neighbor, Mrs. way to Adventure," which is dis- Harper, and with Becky after Africa Inspired "Victoria" Captures played on the centre panel. their acquaintance has ripened Centered in this panel is a pic- into friendship. Cut-outs of some By U. S. Film Data Nations Award ture of Tom Sawyer gaily strid- of the principal characters fur- ing along open with a the road ther decorate the panels. Bookmarks from the Cleveland fishpole over one shoulder and a Public Library and copies of The All student and adult groups bait can in his other hand. Tom's Ideal for Bookmarks Motion Picture and the Fam ly keenly interested in motion pic- and Huck Finn's encounters with have reaped a rich reward in tures await with eager anticipa- Indian Joe and their experiences The exhibit is ideal either for motion picture appreciation in tion the American premiere of in the cemetery at midnight when bookstore window, school or lib- faraway South Africa, according Victoria the Great to be released they are attempting to cure their rary display and will lend much to Miss Gladys Oppenheim of by RKO Radio. Premiere is set warts make up the remainder of additional interest and color to the Bloemfontein Public Library. for Radio City Music Hall but the panel. Children's Book Week observance. Enthused by receipt of this date is yet to be announced. The The panel on the left shows Copies may be obtained upon ap- material from the United States film, produced in England by Tom's adventure into organized plication to Motion Picture Pro- Miss Oppenheim began Herbert Wilcox and starring labor, with emphasis upon the ducers and Distributors of Ameri- to post reviews of current films Anna Neagle as Victoria and now famous scene in which the ca, Inc., 28 W. 44th Street, New and to issue reading lists. Anton Walbrook as the Prince boys of the neighborhood vie York City. So enthusias- Consort, has captured innumer- tic was the response of library able honors. patrons that she was moved to Among other distinctions it give a paper on film apprecia- was shown at the 5th Interna- Hollywood Investment New Haven Bulletin tion for the South African Li- brary Association tional Exposition of Cinematog- Over Two Billion Gives Practical Service Convention. raphical Art in Venice and cap- Two schools in Bloemfontein tured the Cup of Nations award. promptly took up motion picture Most appropriately it had its Hollywood's total investment in A practical service to picture appreciation and a number of premiere in England. pictures is set at approximately patrons offered by Theatre News, libraries are following Miss $2,000,650,000 by Cecil B. de publication of the New Haven Oppenheim's example. Mille, well known producer Council of Theatre Patrons, is a But this was far from the final Coiffure to Change He figures the annual pay- two-page spread called "Picture result. As from a pebble dropped The world's most famous coif- roll for Hollywood studios at Parade." This lists all films in in a pond ripples of enthusiasm fure is to undergo a change. Ar- $100,000,000 and production costs first run and neighborhood thea- have spread, and an awakened rangement of Shirley Temple's at $125,000,000. Other invest- tres in New Haven, Meriden and interest in films throughout ringlets will be altered for Re- ments are in plant and equip- Waterbury and the day on which South Africa was the conse- becca of Sunnybrook Farm. ment. each changes. quence. The Motion Picture Comment on Current A Bulletin for All who Films by Librarians, are Interested in Better and Teachers, Community Motion Pictures Leaders

The Family mi :

Vol. 4 NOVEMBER 15, 1937 No. 3

Clever Survey 'Romeo And Juliet" Winners Return Council Lauds Shows Taste Resolved To Study History, French Increase In Film Patrons Family Films

MANAGERS of many theatres SIGNIFICANT commentary up- may be in a fog of indecision on the substantial increase in as to whether or not the pictures the percentage of family pictures they book will please their audi- now being produced by major film ences. J. Noble Arnold, Resident companies is to be found in a Manager of the Carolina Theatre five-year survey made by the Mo- in Durham, North Carolina, tion Picture Council of Chicago never finds himself in that dilem- Land. ma. He can speak with certitude Completed with the close of the

: about the tastes of his patrons. club year in May, the survey A house to house canvass of every shows an advance in percentage theatre-going home in Rocky of family films exhibited in Chi- Mount a few years ago gave him cago from 25.4 per cent in 1932- a fundamental knowledge of the 1933 to 42.1 per cent in 1936- likes and dislikes of the theatre- 1937. The ratio of increase has goers of the community which an been steady, the percentage hav- occasional letter or card has en- ing been 25.4 per cent in 1932- abled him to keep up to date. 1933, 27.1 per cent in 1933-1934; 33.4 per Canvassers Given Preliminary cent in 1934-1935; and Course Adeline Korisch Louise McCauley 39.3 per cent in 1935-1936, with La Crosse, Wisconsin Atlanta, Georgia (Continued on Page 0) Twelve young women were em- ployed to carry forward this in- TF you were a young woman, 18 tronomic joys of traveling on one experiment in public teresting 1 or 20, who had just returned of the world's most palatial lin- Stills In Sets Each, before starting relations. from a de luxe trip to England, ers? Would you babble about the upon her canvass, was given a if you had occupied a first class silks in Liberty's, or the gar- Are Available course of lectures as three-day stateroom on the Normandie and dens in the English countryside, phases of theatre operation, Ito all lived at a big hotel in London, or the thrill of seeing Leslie How- Such a wave of popularity has {Continued on Page 2) what would be your first reaction ard in the flesh, attending a the- greeted the research exhibits on to a question about your trip? atrical performance in London? films based on literary classics or Would you talk about the gas- (Continued on Page 4) historical incidents that a new 'Journal" Film Column demand has arisen. Teachers and librarians are no longer satisfied Used In South Africa Filmed Classics Replace Want Film Bookshelf with these exhibits alone. They want similar Books In Pine Bluff, Ark. In Indiana Libraries material on films for which no special Librarians of the United States exhibits have been provided. flatter themselves that meed not Films are not replacing text- A motion picture bookshelf in people who rely In order to meet this situation 'they are the only books in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, every library in Indiana! With from special arrangements have been upon the list of films made but in some instances they are that laudable new objective the monthly in The made with producing companies books appearing being used as a substitute. Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays, stock their for the preparation of sets of Library Journal to One of the English course re- one of the earliest Better Films stills appropriate for school and i extra copies of these shelves with quirements is that pupils shall groups in the country, has started volumes and with the correlated library display. These have been i read and review a certain number out its fall season. arranged in sets of ten jreading which will be in demand or twelve (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) at a purchase price of 'when the films are released. Ac- $1.00 per set. list of the photoplays cording to R. F. Kennedy, Libra- A upon (Continued on Page Irian in Johannesburg, South Death of Mrs. Mullen Causes Deep Regret 6) lAfrica, too, has adopted the tech- [aique. Browsing about in the Ex- T7OR the first time since The and the Family from the hospi- Columbia Pictures tension Department of the Brook- * tal. lyn Public Library during a re- Motion Picture and the Fam- Mrs. Mullen was regarded as Wins Traffic Trophy pent visit to New York, Mr. Ken- ily was established the ranks of in the forefront of the photoplay (Continued on Page 3) its contributors have been deplet- appreciation movement, having Proud possession of Columbia ed by death. With deep regret we contributed to it through the Pictures is a sculptured trophy announce the passing of Mrs. authorship of text books and from the Motion Picture Traffic Films Reviewed Sarah McLean Mullen, Director study guides, through numerous Safety Committee. Designed by of English and Visual Education lectures at the Universities of Malvina Hoffman, the noted wom- In Current Issue at Abraham Lincoln High School California and Southern Cali- an sculptor, and presented to a in Los Angeles and Editor of the fornia and before many schools representative of Columbia Pic- Films for the Pupil and the and organizations; also through tures at the banquet of the Na- Alcatraz Island, page The j 6; Teacher Department in The Mo- her effective photoplay apprecia- tional Safety Congress in Kan- Truth, page — lAwful 8; Danger tion Picture and the Family. tion instruction at Abraham Lin- sas City, the trophy commemor- Vxtve at Work, page 6; The Pris- Mrs. Mullen's death followed an coln high. Mrs. Mullen's pupils ates the excellence of Columbia's oner of Zenda, page 6; Ali Baba operation and brief illness and and colleagues paid tribute to her The Devil is Driving, which illus- \}oes to Town, page 8; Heidi, she kept up her editorial work at a special memorial service held trated with dramatic force the Images 6 and 7; Victoria, the to the last, sending in her final in the Lincoln School Auditorium evils of careless manipulation of threat, page 6. column for The Motion Picture on November 3rd, automobiles. a

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Fathers City W H AT'S NEXT Clever Survey It Urge Children Shows Taste I To See Movies IN HOLLYWOOD? Film Patrons By Alice Ames Winter every child in Mexico City (Continued from Page 1) IF we have called at- terror, two hundred lives lost, does not have an opportunity to ALREADY including the booking of films, tention to the way in which $200,000,000 worth of property see motion pictures with reason- the arrangement of programs, the picture makers are turning more wiped out, a maddened and des- able! regularity, the fault will not provision of to this, perate population, all because comforts for thea- be traceable to the municipal gov- and more our own Amer- Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over tre patrons, the ernment. ica, for story material. They are various types of a lantern in a barn! This is the Believing that motion pictures realizing the drama, the pictur- sound equipment and the methods dramatic background. But drama contribute to the mental develop- esqueness, yes, and the spiritual of projection employed. This translates the general into the ment of children in a manner too significance of our past as it in- course particular and the picture choos- covered also policies of important to be ignored, the De- fluences today—just as Maid of portrayed what mob-mad- es to take the fictional family of the theatre management. On the partment of Public Education is Salem O'Leary and tell of them such a fourth enlisting the cooperation of thea- ness can do, whether in Puritan day the twelve made a story as seems an embodiment of special tour tre managers in working out a New England or modern times. of the theatre and the indomitableness, the conflict saw the plan to make film attendance easy practical working out Up on a hilltop at 20th Cen- of ideals and ambition, the up- of the for the children of under-privi- various details which had tury-Fox lot (part of the new ward push that together create constituted the leged parents. It has even gone so subject matter of acres that the prosperous Za- the story of the United States. the lectures. far as to advocate appropriations On the fifth and nuck-managed studio has recently big picture is In Old Chicago, sixth for and immediate construction A days they were subjected to bought) is one of the most aston- which you'll be seeing in Decem- an oral of theatres in neighborhoods examination to determine ishing "sets" ever built—several ber. The actors include Tyrone whether they where none now exist. "knew all the an- acres of the Chicago of the sev- Power, Don Ameche and Alice swers". Action Follows Survey enties: flimsy, yet pretentious Brady. wooden buildings, shop windows, Began Their Visits Two This drastic action follows a theatres, street cars, a glimpse And again we must return to Days Later survey which disclosed that 38,837 of the river. Each and every bit Wells Fargo, with these same in- children out of approximately Two days later, they began is true, carefully, even painfully, domitable elements of America 150,000 attending public schools their visits to the homes of the reproduced through that patient shown in another story, of an- in Mexico City did not go to city, armed with questionnaires research that we forget, because other kind, in quite another set- movies. This was regarded as a which the householders were what captures our eyes is the ting. The huge problem of trans- calamity by the authorities. asked to fill out. Attention was realism of the whole. First we portation from coast to coast dur- First reason offered for the directed to such questions as the get a glimpse of the earlier years, ing those years from 1844 to situation was that there were no frequency of theatre attendance, the fifties, "new, raw, bold— 1870 spans the era of the an- film houses accessible; 2, that the local theatre the householders city of easy money, easy ways, nexation of Texas, the Mexican their parents could not afford to preferred, names of favorite ugly, dirty, open day and night, War, the acquisition of Oregon buy tickets; 3, that they had no movie stars, the type of photo- a fighting, laughing, aggressive, and California, the gold rush, adult person to take them to per- play most enjoyed, the type of American city, content to be a the war between the states. In formances. short subject preferred and the hog butcher rather than king the history books it appears as Construction of new theatres a source from which information Chicago!" But not for long. We facts and dates. In the picture it and cooperation with theatre — about current theatre bills was cannot do better than quote the is men and women from the time managers will remove at least obtained. In addition the house- comment of the authors, "We see of man and horse down to the two of the stumbling blocks. holders were asked to fill in the Chicago grow rich and prospei'- time of train and telegraph. names and birthdays of the fami- ous, become the meat-packing Thirty-two sets were made by ly. The succeeding day a special center of the country, Paramount out in the San Fer- home of card was sent out thanking them Films Used To Teach great stockyards and cen- nando Valley. In "Portsmouth grain for the information obtained. In ter of America. Fine mansions Square" two thousand extras took Music in Nebraska addition, each member of the spring up along the lake front; part. The store windows were family thereafter received on his the Palmer House is built and the filled with the merchandise of birthday a card inviting him to Motion pictures have made barrom floor, studded the day. When you attend the with real attend the Carolina Theatre as their debut in a central Nebras- silver dollars, becomes picture you will see the first ar- the talk the guest of the management. kan city in the role of vocal in- of the land. Theaters, operas, art rival of the first "overland mail", On the basis of the returns a structors. Such films as Naughty museums, great gambling houses, twenty-three days from Missouri plan was adoped of sending to Marietta and The Firefly and the Dexter Park race track add to San Francisco; you will see each householder a card notifying pictures featuring Lily Pons, Jea- to Chicago's growing fame. Co- the fight between sympathizers him when his favorite star was nette MacDonald, Grace Moore, incident with the expansion of the of North and South after Lin- playing at the Carolina and also Nelson Eddy, Lawrence Tibbett, city, political factions appear, coln's election; you will see the giving the name of the picture in and even Kenny Baker and Lanny and the ensuing fight for political White House in Lincoln's time; which the star was to appear. Ross, are strongly recommended supremacy through the operation you will see old hotels and rail- by Mrs. E. E. Squires, State of great machines under the con- road stations; you will see the The experiment resulted in an increased friendliness towards the Chairman of Motion Pictures for trol of all-powerful bosses is a gold coup at Hangtown. the Daughters of the American fundamental part of the re-crea- In such pictures "location" management and in a conviction upon the part of the theatre Revolution, as a medium of study tion of Chicago." Then the fire, plays a big part. For Wells Fargo pa- by vocal students. one of the historic catastrophies the company went up 185 miles to trons that the Carolina manage- ment genuinely desired Pupils of the voice can learn of the world—days and night of (Continued on Page 4) to serve much about diction, interpreta- the community. tions, tone placement, facial ex- Interesting facts about the pressions, vowel formation, Film Classics Replace Want Film Bookshelf theatre-going preferences of citi- tongue and lip positions, breath zens of Rocky Mount were dis- control and musicianship from Books In Pine Bluff, Ark. In Indiana Libraries closed by the survey. watching these films, Mrs. Squires Eleven hundred and forty-two points out. patrons of the theatre were found She further adds that but (Continued from Page 1) (Continued from Page 1) to prefer dramas, 1003 prefered for such splendid films and the of books each year. Because J. The plan, as outlined by Mrs. musical comedies, 533 wanted a occasional concerts and special R. Allen, principal of the Pine Ferd Lucas of Greencastle, the lower admission price for mati- programs sponsored by herself Bluff schools, regards certain re- president, embraces putting on nees. Sixteen people in the town and by other concert and opera cent films based on books as so every film bookshelf not only did not go to see films be- artists, Nebraskans would have true in literary content, he has technical data about film pro- cause they were out of the habit, no opportunity to see how great allowed pupils to base their re- duction, but suitable study ma- six had never heard a talkie and artists sing because of their dis- views on the film without reading terial for those who are inter- ten had actually never seen a tance from musical centers. the book—a distinct tribute to ested in films only from a cul- movie. Films, she believes, can carry the the educational value of certain tural angle. gospel of good vocalism to very feature films. Specifically was Popular literature from which Two thousand, one hundred remote centers. this true of The Prince and the motion pictures are made will and forty-seven houses were can- Mrs. Squire is a concert singer Pauper, which showed in Pine likewise be displayed as an incen- vassed and 7106 birthday dates of considerable prominence. Bluff recently. tive to reading. recorded. 1 ——

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Club In Mass. Few Children Inspires Film Upon the Death of H Eoved Contributor In Racine See By Alice Ames Winter Study In India Selected Films LOVERS of fine pictures, east A friend who deepens one's and west, are feeling deep- belief in the fineness, the dig- RECENT survey THREE years ago when stu- ly the loss of Sarah Mullen. nity and the worth-whileness A of the lei- dents in Technical High Readers of The Motion Pic- of our everyday life is a friend sure time activities of boys School, Springfield, Massachu- ture and the Family came worthwhile. From my first and girls in Racine, Wisconsin, disclosed setts, organized a photoplay ap- to look for her well-balanced meeting with Mrs. Mullen I many interesting facts about their preciation club they had little appreciation of current pic- recognized these qualities in motion picture habits. concept of the far-reaching re- tures. But this was only one her and with them that in- But the most interesting was the sults. There was no way for them focal point in her wide and tangible thing that drew one supreme lack of parental super- vision. to anticipate that the experiment wise contacts. A Californian to her. Of 5,455 children regular- ly would prove so successful that a by birth, a graduate of the Of course, she was doing attending motion pictures in flying wedge of Technical High University of California, with notable work in the services Racine, only 124 boys and girls students, known as a "Motion many additional college cours- of education and the cinema went to "selected" films. The Picture Caravan", would carry es to her credit, she has been for which both school and others shopped about on their :he gospel of photoplay apprecia- a worker in social welfare, a studio stand her debtors. We own. :ion to all parts of western lecturer, an author, a mother shall not forget. Still longer More than half of Racine's Massachusetts. Nor did they —touching each phase with shall we remember the fine movie-going boys and girls, or •enow that a demonstration pro- gracious insight. personality. 2,938, attend pictures once a gram given before a Baptist week, it was discovered. Nine Zhurch group with two mission- hundred and 22 go every two aries from India in attendance weeks and 826 attend occasion- vould be the inspiration for the Vermont, shortly after the au- always such a daring type of ally. ;tart of motion picture apprecia- thor's death. young woman in any day and any Two fourth grade boys and one ninth :ion courses in India. So fasci- Another invitation takes these age, such as Scarlet O'Hara in grade boy topped all their companions lating is the story of their ex- junior educators to Worcester Gone with the Wind. Robert tells in the regularity of their jeriment that we present in ab- where representatives instruct the parents in the audience that film attendance. Their pic- breviated form an article de- the Motion Picture Council in young people's pleasures should ture-going averaged over five ex- cursions scribing it, written by their that city concerning the labyrin- be simplified and that play in a week. Eight children eacher, Miss L. Elizabeth Bell. thine psychology of Phyllis Bot- modified forms of work, such as were found in the seventh and tome's Private Worlds. Jerry in the house-raising in which the eighth grades who go regularly the midst of Puritans five times a week and By Elizabeth Bell his speech remarks indulged, would be an 24 in to his eager listeners, "I've done asset to modern youth. grades four to nine inclusive who Pioneer work in motion picture so much research on this psy- go four times a week. Recalls Recent World Events ippreciation was begun in chology in connection with my Only one local activity in Ra- Springfield in the spring of 1934 assignment that I suppose you Due to recent world events The cine transcended motion pictures vhen several far-seeing Technical people don't even know what I'm Prisoner of Zenda stimulates un- in interest. This was the juvenile ligh School students organized, talking about." And maybe they usual interest. Discussion about clubs, which drew an attendance neeting once a week after school don't. Who knows? the social attitudes involved in of 3,326 boys and 3,153 girls. lours to study in detail approxi- A visit to the First Baptist the picture finally reaches a cul- Some of the clubs, however, met mately one interesting photoplay Church of West Springfield mination when various members only once a month. month. brings perhaps the most impor- debate, pro and con, the contrast Before the work was well under tant results thus far achieved by of the king in the picture with should vay invitations began to come to the Motion Picture Caravan. Two David, Duke of Windsor, and the like to ask if you realize he instructor to lecture on this charming missionaries are present contrast of Flavia with the Duch- that all young people like Joan iew project before interested or- from India where the people have ess of Windsor. "If England had must face temptation today, temp- ganizations. Instead she proposed hitherto thought they were forced needed Edward as much as tations of which you at our ages never he appearance of the Tech group to accept pictures of very low Flavia's country needed her, dreamed? In consideration of n actual demonstration of its standard. The visitors are so would Mrs. Simpson have been all this, don't you think we /ork. pleased with the project that willing to sacrifice her love for young folks uphold our social ' standards very well?" ' In three years time their pere- upon their return to India they honor and patriotism?" is one of The meet- grinations have carried them to start a course in Motion Picture the questions. Elizabeth, who has ing closes with Roy's comment, 1 istant villages and cities in Appreciation. not only prepared a report on "It is unfortunate that we don't : lassachusetts where they have the novel, The Prisoner of Zenda, have more men like Judge Hardy, Speak Before College Club and that all fathers do not ! aught various organizations — but has also told the club mem- feel ! as 'igh schools, parent-teachers, Before an audience of some five bers the sequel story, Rupert of the judge does, that, "Peace, /omen's clubs, college clubs and hundred interested Hentzau, thinks that is security and happiness are all j guests (men Flavia 1 lotion picture councils—how to and women) of the Emerson more patriotic than Mrs. Simp- that parents want for their child- tudy and appreciate in a very College Club of Worcester these son. ren, and the greatest fun in the world is in trying ; ainstaking manner this distinc- juvenile instructors try hard to The Parish House of the First to achieve these". e live art, the photoplay. convince their adult listeners that Congregational Church of Spring- Isn't it though? I isn't ; Careful reading of a novel or their study of Maid of Salem has field is the setting for a meeting And it gratifying to • -iography from which a picture taught them the need of a work- before the ladies of the Church know that youth can -•; drawn is the delight of the able religion today which would Guild where the appropriate vehi- profit from these social experi- ences through the medium of the | members, and when Stafford re- not fail them during the depres- cle of discussion is the photo- ,orts that, "it required six read- sion or an outbreak of mob viol- play, A Family Affair, and the cinema; that they are developing jigs desirable ideals and attitudes; , of The Mystery of Edwin ence as did the religion of the boys and girls conclude with the ..'rood" before he could digest Puritans in Massachusetts Bay social values of the production: that their wants are more than .very detail, it is that emotional excitement? t why "just too Colony in 1692. Barbara warns namely "through sympathy, ad" if producers have slipped up the ladies against "the evil of understanding and tolerance, par- authenticity of production. insidious gossip, making big ents can do a great deal to iron

, our or five members of the stories out of little nothings", out the difficulties of their child- Journal Film Column ! roup journey to South Deer- such as the stories of the haunted ren without nagging and fault- " Used In South Africa eld, thirty miles away, to en- school houses in Newburyport finding, which create fear and re- .' ghten the Women's Club on the and the accusations against the sentment on the part of young ' ierits and demerits of the pic- so-called witches, Mr. and Mrs. people." Margaret sympathizes (Continued from Page 1) ! .rial presentation of this, Dick- Hugh Parsons, in Springfield. with Joan of the picture when in nedy fell with avidity upon a cur- I is' last and so-called unfinished Sally does not think that Bar- her explanation to her mother, rent copy of The Library Journal I ovel. The audience and even the bara of the picture would have she says: "It's a fast crowd, and greeted it as an old friend. I roup instructor herself are been daring enough to accept the mother, going at a fast speed, "We check this to give advance nriazed when Stafford, the studi- frilled bonnet as a present from cocktail parties, dances, autoing information about films which are es, informs them that he has un- her lover when the Puritans had and all the rest." And Sally being made from books", the I 'trthed a real ending to the left the Mother Country to do stages a stickler when she says, Brooklyn librarian remarked. "So H.ory, written by Dickens' spir- away with the frills of England. "There must be a number of pa- do we in South Africa", retorted - ualistic medium in Brattleboro, However, Hannah thinks there is rents in this audience, and I Mr. Kennedy. —

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CHINA SEEKS Exhibit Sure To Stimulate Winners Are HOLLYWOOD AID Hollywood's aid has been di- Interest In Stevenson Books Resolved To rectly invoked to build an autonymous China. Backed by the Nanking Government films CARD MO. 3 Study French are to be made for Chinese consumption in which the ten THE SOUTH SEAS (Continued from Page 1) major and hundreds of pro- Or would dilate vincial dialects are to be weld- you upon the things of lasting value that ed into a unified language, you got out of and that language Mandarin. the trip: the thrill of treading James Wong Howe, Holly- pavements that were once trodden wood's ace Chinese camera- by Dickens and Samuel Johnson; the never-to-be- man, is one of the chief pro- forgotten ponents of the plan. moment when you peeped in at the door of Anne Hathaway's cottage and imagined that a spectral figure of Shake- speare was seated there; the What's Next In night you attended the Globe Theatre, and in fancy peopled it Hollywood? with great Thespians of the past? To the great credit of the young winners in the Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer Romeo and Juliet (Continued from Page 2) contest, and as a significant testi- Kernsville for four days; two trips mony to the value of contests of were made to Chino; twelve to this character, they did the latter. one day was Paramount Ranch; Announce They Will Study- spent on the Pandora, an old Almost the first words that frigate; and the whole two thou- This "Ebb Tide" panel depicts Stevenson's life in the South Seas. were spoken by 18-year-old Ade- sand extras were taken up for line Korisch of La Crosse, Wis- eight days' shooting to Sonora, consin, and 20-year-old Louise five hundred miles away, the site reader who has not yet Panel two has glimpses of Stev- ANY McCauley of Atlanta, Georgia, of the old mother lode of gold added Robert Louis Stevenson enson's life at Monterey, Cali- when they landed from the great days. All of which means not only to his list of favorite authors is fornia. Panel three shifts back liner on which transportation, but housing, feed- quite sure to do so after a glimpse to the South Seas and gives de- they had made r their prize-winning trip ing, good drinking water, medical of the film exhibit prepared by tails of Steven on's life at Vaili- to Eng- land were these: "We know what aid close at hand—and the props! Paramount on its recent release, ma and his romance with Fanny we're going Authentic books and ledgers, gold the Technicolor version of the Osbourne. Panel four has further to study next. We're going to learn French; we're go- scales, mail pouches, and even Stevenson novel, Ebb Tide. Vailima pictures as well as photo- ing to know something stamp cancellation had to be pro- The exhibit lays a proportion- graphs of Stevenson and his clos- about mediaeval art; we're going to vided. The William Galloway is ately greater amount of stress est island friend, King Kalakaua, read more Shakespeare ; we're a steam locomotive built for the upon the life of the author than Monarch of Hawaii. Panel five go- ing to travel Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in any film exhibit previously pre- for the first time introduces and see the world." And representatives 1837—while the Overland Coach pared and as Stevenson's life was Hollywood and some of the scenes of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer, who at and the ancient hand fire engine picturesque in the extreme, it is relating to the production of the met them the dock, are part of the "antiques" dug sure to inspire a desire for ac- film. Panels six and seven bring rejoiced that they had made such good use of the oppor- up to form the background. quaintance with his writings. the characters in Ebb Tide to the The first panel is so intriguing South Seas, while panel eight, tunities provided them. not Of course, authenticity does as practically to compel scrutiny the finale, reproduces under the Singular interest attached to It is, however, an make a drama. of the entire exhibit. It is a rare title Monuments to a Great Miss Korisch's victory in the con- interesting side light exceedingly photograph from the collection of Author, the memorials to Steven- test because she is the third suc- on the quality of the elements Mrs. Isobel Field, step-daughter son in San Francisco, at Sai-anac cessive pupil of Aquinas High besides acting which help to make of the novelist, showing him dic- Lake and at Vailima, as well as School in La Crosse, Wisconsin, these significant pictures. In tating a portion of Ebb Tide to the last official photograph of to have won one of these motion Wells Fargo Frank Lloyd gives her at Vailima, the Stevenson Stevenson taken in Sydney, picture competitions. us a corking story of how our residence in the South Seas. Australia in 1890. An Aquinas pupil visited Se- country moved through those quoia National Park at the con- stirring years. Incidentally, it's clusion of the Sequoia essay con- rather delightful to know that test as a guest of Metro-Gold- Joel McCrea and Frances Dee, wyn-Mayer. Another Aquinas who play husband and wife in FILMS FOR THE pupil saw Paris under film au- the picture, play the same parts spices as the writer of the best in real life. PUPIL AND TEACHER critical appreciation of A Tale Dealing with our country of of Two Cities. And Miss Korisch Harold London today is Submarine D-l, in the By Turney has just returned from and the Shakespeare country as making at Warner Brothers Chairman of the Department of Drama, Los Angeles Junior College Studios with astonishing coopera- a Romeo and Juliet winner. tion from our national govern- Miss McCauley is the first to in this field to her ment. The story is a triangular WITHIN the next three months, players are the most fortunate. bring laurels love affair, but the submarine half a hundred films will be They appear in company with the home town, Atlanta, Georgia. scenes, the technique of that new released from the studios in Hol- star; they are given a large share Both girls won the award under-water diving and fighting, lywood. Stars of international of the story emphasis and love through the excellence of the the is the thing. And, of course, all fame will head their casts of interest; they are placed on the notebooks they prepared on stills of it had to be submitted to high players. Their roles, however, side of the protagonist and thus film. Miss Korisch employed naval authorities, who laid down will be focused into prominence receive a favorable emotional re- from the picture with excerpts the law as to what could be done by the performances of hundreds sponse from the audience; their from the text as captions, mount- and what could not be done. of supporting players many of characters are skillfully intro- ed the stills or paper resembling 16th century parchment, edged Stage folk—including cinema whose names will not be listed on duced and developed within the the leaves with gold, and orna- are mostly an open-hearted, gen- the credit strip and will be un- story's limits; they are given mented the cover with a Tudor erous crowd. Over the lot they known to the public. careful costuming, makeup and receive proper Rose. call each other by their first Let us this month consider the direction; they photography; they Miss McCauley discarded pho- names, and it is pleasant to learn contributions of the three major lighting and tographs altogether and did her that Eleanor Powell tries to give types of supporting actors: lead- are usually recognized instantly are own sketches of the play and of as many free dancing lessons as ing players, comedians and char- by the public and their names the characters of Shakespeare's possible, and that her "interna- acter people. remembered and often quoted in day, showing marked originality tional dancing school" now teach- Leading Players in Films relation to entertainment value. es 25,000 pupils. Of these groups, the leading (Continued on Page 7) (Continued on Page 5) November 15, 1937 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY 5 Council Lauds WHO'S WHO IN "The Observer" Increase In Goes Technical Family Films BETTER FILMS OF COURSE actors must emote and cameras ONE of the major qualities fine things which were being ac- must turn, if pictures (Continued from Page 1) that wins laurels for a club complished throughout the state are to be made, but in a visit to the climaxing figures given above motion picture chairman is in- in raising standards of motion a studio to see how screen for 1936-1937. genuity. That is the stepping picture programs and in build- dramas are accomplished, the acting In 1936-1937 the largest per- stone by which Elsie Clanahan ing up appreciative audiences for is by no means all there centage of family pictures was of Belleville, Illinois, has climbed fine pictures so fired Miss Clana- is to see. So -nade by 20th Century-Fox, due from the presidency of a local han's imagination that she de- many pictures of promise are now n part, no doubt, to the presence club in East termined that during the second in the editing stage—pic- tures of such )f Shirley Temple on its roster St. Louis to year of her presidency of the wide and varied interest as )f stars. Twentieth Century was the motion pic- East St. Louis Club she would The Adventures of Marco Polo, credited with 48.3 per cent, Fox ture chairman- appoint) a motion picture commit- Tom Sawyer, Gold Is Where ivith 41.6 per cent and the com- ship of the tee, and that when the opportune You Find It, Tovarich, Wells bined companies with 43.7 per Illinois Feder- time came she would organize a Fargo and The Buccaneer that i:ent. Next in line was United ation of Wom- motion picture council. — we made it our business this past Artists with 42.1 per cent. Only en's Clubs. For a year she allowed the idea month to look in upon this final me company was rated as having The Cinema to develop and then events moved work which is being done fess than 20 per cent family pro- Breakfast held rapidly. First came the motion on some of them. Arduous work it luct and the majority of the re- last month by picture committee; then three is, fitting together the pieces and naming companies had produced the B e 1 1 e r months later a Better Films building into a con- tinuous, ipproximately one-thjrd family Films Council Council, consisting of representa- rhythmic whole the hun- dreds of bictures. of East St. tives from all the outstanding thousands of feet of film that have The figures were related ex- Miss Louis, of clubs in the city, which totalled a been photographed and recorded. clusively to films exhibited in iLlsie Clanahan which Miss membership of several thousand. Chicago, and ratings were based Clanahan is Of this Council, organized in At Work with the Cutters •n the estimates of the preview president, was a case in point. January, 1934, Miss Clanahan So come with us into one of Troups of the Council of Chicago Many organizations have had was elected and still remains the projection u,and. luncheons, dinners, teas, but a rooms where the president. cutters Cinema Breakfast remains work. At first glance it unique. Solicited Theatre Cooperation all looks pretty wild and con- fused, with ribbons of film dinners Resolved Miss Clanahan's first enthusi- One of the first projects to on the floor, in asm for motion pictures was which the new organization ad- baskets and boxes, To Study French overflowing into all awakened some years ago, when dressed itself was securing the corners of the room. as president of the Wednesday cooperation of theatre managers. A little closer investi- (Continued Page gation reveals the fact from 4) Club of East St. Louis she at- At the outset they were a bit that every n design and a pronounced bril- foot of film is tended a convention of the Illi- dubious of the Council's inten- accounted for, ance of technique. marked for nois State Federation. Mrs. Rich- tions. But when they realized filing, for re-viewing, Infinite care went or for final into the ard McClure, afterwards chair- that cooperation with the Council scrapping. We are •reparation of both notebooks, permitted to watch man of motion pictures for the program meant definite assist- the unrolling ut the smiling young of new film through women de- General Federation of Women's ance in filling up their theatres the window lared themselves of a "movieola," rewarded a Clubs, was then state motion pic- on Friday and Saturday, they a fascinating aousand times over. machine which presents ture chairman. were quick to fall in line. Now a very Each said the experiences she clear, enlarged image of the ac- Mrs. McClure's report of the (Continued on Page 6) ad recorded in her diary would tion to the cutter's expert eye. e remembered for a lifetime. Above his head (or ours, as we Opinion was divided as to what peered into the mysteries) a •as actually the high light of radio loud speaker carried the ne trip. "We loved Warwick GRIST FOR THE dialogue, synchronized to the ac- astle and the Abbey," they said tion of the pictures on the film. 1 chorus, "and how exciting it As the cutter, or "editor", works, as to hear the descriptions of LIBRARIAN'S MILL he stops the running of the film le Coronation there! We also at intervals and snips out a piece. 2ard a lot that was interesting An assistant takes it, clips it jout the Coronation from the to another piece and hands By Richard James Hurley it pards at the Tower. to the "splicer", whose job it is

, "We actually saw the King and Librarian Roslyn, N. Y. High School to cement these cuts into an as- i ueen, from a point quite close sembled whole. This goes on daily them in front of Buckingham as the "rushes" TOM SAWYER has met up of United Artists has made a or "takes" from alace, when they drove off the camera | in with Hollywood and the re- list of over a hundred books, work on the pictures ate to open Parliament. come in. sult is a movie-book film sure to magazines and newspapers used Frequently, the cutter "We got a real feel of includes a number know- make a touchdown (this being in getting information for filming, of shots of the English celebrities at same scene. At crucial g Mme. football weather). Not every and this can be secured from the points in assaud's waxworks. the story Sometimes child has read this and those who Motion Picture Producers and the editing responsibili- 2 could hardly tell which were have already followed Tom's ad- Distributors. ty is shared by the producer of ax figures and which were real. the picture, by the ventures will want to renew the Any display on this film should director and "In the main we were most in- frequently by the star, acquaintance. Our motto should include Huck Finn and Life on hence the rested in the things that meant inclusion of extra footage in be "Be Prepared" for the demand the Mississippi, besides a life of the e England of history, but rough film which is to we this movie will stimulate. Novem- Mark Twain. The Boys' Life be viewed ast admit that we were of on the screen, perhaps pretty ber's Boys Life, the Boy Scout Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow that even- cited when we went down (Continued on Page to magazine, features the movie as Paine is probably the best. The 7) e Denham Studios and saw does American Girl, magazine of book lends itself to poster sketch- •bert Taylor, making a picture the Girl Scouts, and stills can be es and assembly or classroom t Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer AVAILABLE FREE — A obtained from the Motion Picture dramatization of outstanding rakee at Oxford and also — got Producers & Distributors of scenes, such as whitewashing the The Motion Picture and the ' glimpse of Maureen O'Sullivan Family America or local theater manag- fence. We feel that not only is is available free of 1 d Victor McLaglen in the flesh. ers. charge The National Geographic can Tom Sawyer going to appeal to to librarians, educators, 'There isn't a ; moment of the likewise be tapped for excellent upper elementary and junior high officers of Better Films Coun- ; oerience we would want to omit picture material. students, but cils and others seriously inter- change. also to those in And we know that this The producers of Tom Sawyer senior high. ested in the educational and • nderful trip has given us a have provided a three-card ex- cultural value of films. Apply ' w love of "Hurricane" Offers Shakespeare, a new hibit with slogans including ref- Possibilities to Motion Picture Producers 1 :dness for English literature erence to Book Week. There is However more directly for sen- and Distributors of America, • d a very great appreciation of also a study guide available con- ior high is Hurricane, the film Inc., 28 W. 44th Street, New 1 I power of motion pictures to taining pictures and pertinent in- from the book of that title by York City, if interested. |ke these come alive." formation. The research library (Continued from Page 6) 6 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY November 15, 1937

expansion of the British Empire \\ during ' STILLS NOW AVAILABLE her reign is left untold. from the The picture centres about her ON THESE PICTURES LESSONS MOVIES romance and family life. It glori- fies Albert, her husband, who Adventures Robin of Hood Presented for the Committee on Social Values in never was popular in England, Adventures Sawyer of Tom Motion Pictures by Howard M. he Sourd,Ph.D., Dean by showing how much she de- Adventures of Marco Polo Boston University Graduate School, pended on him for advice and Alice of Chairman. Adams counsel. His dying words, "I've Adverse Anthony done my best," give insight into As You Like It his character. Bad Man of Brimstone HEIDI THE PRISONER OF ZENDA Victoria's love for Albert gave y'; (20tk Century-Fox) (Selznick-United Benefits Forgot Artists) to her added capacity for appre- Buccaneer ciating essential values in life. I Conquest HEIDI as a book is popular One rejoices in democracy when he sees reenacted It made it possible for her to say r David Copperfield primarily with children, but some of the "If England is true to its ideals I as a picture it will have universal conspiracies of monarchy. De- Dead End of democracy, mocracy, justice and free- t Is Find It appeal. The silliness of stubborn- however, still has its Gold Where You dom, it can mould the destinies of ness, the transforming power of intrigues, which threaten its | Good Earth the whole world." Striving a smile and song, the meanness permanence. to- Great Garrick wards those ideals has given her of avarice, the faith of childhood, This fantastic story has its Heidi a high place among earth's im- the sacrificial character of love lessons. The irresponsibility of f Hurricane mortals. In Old Chicago and the joy of living are the the heir to the throne is dupli- cated again Last Days of Pompeii threads woven into the pattern of and again in our modern life those Life of Emile Zola the story. by who evade great opportunities for Who's Who In Life of Louis Pasteur Personalities are developed. social service and who are false to pub- Little Minister Why certain ones should be Better Films lic trust. loyalty Little Women dwarfed by self-interest and The of the princess, caused Lloyds of London others expanded by self-forget- which her to for- Lost Horizon fulness cannot be explained by sake love for duty, has its coun- (Continued from Page 5) the chance combination bio- terpart in those who sacrifice per- Maid of Salem of every neighborhood theatre in logical determiners in the bodies sonal happiness for social good. Midsummer Night's Dream East St. Louis has a week-end Parnell of individuals. We are what we Love and jealousy, which caused family program. are because of still Plainsman our reactions to the death of Michael, are Every week the Council pre- ' the outside world. How unfor- wrecking lives and ambitions. Al- Prince and the Pauper pares and mails out, for display ' tunate that circumstances play ways will there be a call for one Ramona on selected bulletin boards, a list r"- such tragic tricks on so many who is willing to give without Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm of pictures which will be shown ' people that they become antago- hope of getting, for one who will Romeo and Juliet during the week at first run the- p nistic to the welfare and happi- risk even life itself to attain a Tale of Two Cities atres and also of all the family ness of others! of worthy goal, satis- " Victoria the Great One the most when the only night programs at neighborhood interesting lines that is Wells Fargo of thought faction in the achievment. theatres. grows out of this picture is to Once a month the Council pre- Price $1.00 per set. reconstruct from the flash por- DANGER LOVE AT WORK j — — pares a list of pictures recom- trayals the experiences that made Order through Motion Picture (20th Century-Fox) mended for pupils in grade, jun- the grandfather a recluse, the " Producers and Distributors of ior and senior high schools, which aunt a sneak and blackmailer, the Few comedies have much to America, Inc., 28 West 44th is distributed to all public and governess a cheat and kidnapper, contribute to serious thought. Street, New York, N. Y. parochial schools through co- and Heidi a perpetual distributor Here is one that inspires analy- operation of the Board of Edu- of cheer. sis of the fundamental idea on cation. which it is based. What happens Previewers from the Council 1* ALCATRAZ ISLAND to a family that is raised to do Grist For The attend all first showings and rate as it pleases is the theme of the (Warner Brothers) every picture. Librarian's Mill picture. The results are funny, For the entire four years and USED to think that dough was and constitute a valid, though I ten months of its existence the the greatest thing in the world" greatly exaggerated attack on the PJ Council has presented a weekly {Continued from Page 5) was the expression of complete often misunderstood educational broadcast on motion picture ac- disillusionment of Gat Brady. He principle of encouragement of Nordhoff and Hall. The Bounty tivities. books movie have already had rationalized his racketeering free expression. In the picture and It is the efficiency of the pro- Pri and prided himself on his under- there was no external restraint at made students conscious of these gram of the East St. Louis Coun- authors they need little or world code of ethics. He had any age of development. and cil which has won its president thought his ill-gotten money could In real life freedom of expres- no introduction. In fact the her new state chairmanship. As 1 1 take the place of his personal sion tends to develop initiative Bounty trilogy might be put out Chairman of Motion Pictures for role as father to his growing girl. and resourcefulness. To grant ] with other books on the South the Illinois Federation Miss Clan- He felt that he could find satis- such freedom, however, to one Seas. Some of the books that ahan has 24 district chairmen, faction for himself in this ma- who has no inner control or could be used in connection with 457 senior chairmen and 38 jun- terialistic world only by stuffing standards is not only stupid but Hurricane are Tietjen's Boy of ior club chairmen under her jur- the South Seas, Melville's Typee, safe deposit boxes with money ex- vicious. One who has no sense | isdiction to whom she will com- f Nordhoff's Derelict and Pearl torted from the hands of honest of values is not to be trusted, for municate the same high ideals, Lagoon Ellsworth's business men. a sense of values comes not and Explor- the same efficiency of operation ing he wanted to start life through authoritative platitudes Today. A current issue of When which have characterized her ad- Life Magazine has several pages anew he suddenly discovered that but by experience in living under ministration of the East St. Louis stills the the threads of his life had been competent guidance. As this sense | of from movie and there Council. is a good deal of material avail- snarled and he could not free of values develops, freedom able from travel bureaus and himself. His lovely daughter and should be extended. ship companies. a possible home of peace and VICTORIA, THE GREAT Stills In Sets Occasionally we come across happiness beckoned to him, but he (RKO Radio-Imperator) an excellent picture from a little had to pay the price of his Are Available known book. One is Conquest viciousness. "Poor Old England" expressed from Gasiorowski's Polish novel, What is the greatest thing in the feelings of the Prime Minister (Continued from Page 1) Pani Walewska. The picture cen- the world? Surely the path to its as he went to notify Princess Vic- ters around a love affair of Na- realization is not over the crushed toria that she had become Queen. which sets of stills are available poleon and the patriotic Countess or bruised bodies of fellow trav- A woman on the throne at that will be found in the box on this Walewska. There is an excel- elers. Happiness was not achieved time of crisis seemed a calamity, page. At the present time these lent Group Discussion Guide for "Gat" in arriving at any defi- but how mistaken he was! are the only films upon which sets available for this picture. How- nite, naturalistic goals. Satisfac- From the picture one gets an of stills can be obtained. ever since it offers a dramatiza- tion in life seems to be the re- insight into the personal char- Requests for sets of stills tion of an important epoch in flection in one's own soul of the acteristics of the great Queen. should be accompanied by the modern history general histories happiness that he brings to She loved her people, she insisted purchase price of $1.00 per set of France and Europe and biog- others. on justice for the poor, she de- and should be addressed to the raphies of Napoleon — Ludwig's "Gat" Brady discovered al- manded peace with the United Motion Picture Producers and the point of threatening Distributors of America, Inc., 28 for older students and TarbelPs most too late the real source of States to p for younger—can be used. joy in life. abdication, but the story of the West 44th Street, New York, N.Y. —

November 15, 1937 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY Films For Pupil SELECTED FILM READING "The Observer" And Teacher OF THE CURRENT MONTH Goes Technical

(Continued from Page 4) Concerning (Continued from Page An admirable illustration of Hollywood the series of three articles by Dr. 5) Personalities ing or the next uch a case is found in Para- Mark A. May, Chairman of the day, by those nount's Advisory directly responsible for the suc- recent and highly suc- BECAUSE she is rapidly com- Committee on the Use essful of Motion cess of the production. picture, I Met Him in ing to the fore as such a Pictures in Education, y aris, with explaining the When the "shooting" is all Melvyn Douglas and scintillating personality of the experiment now Robert Young as in progress to determine over, and the first entire rough the two fea- screen, Sonja Henie scores twice the rich ured cut is in order, there comes the leading players, each re- in this month's crop educational material which exists of film per- difficult job of eiving as much emphasis sonality in current commercial films. "boiling down" stories. American Maga- the hroughout the film as Titled Teaching with Films, footage, trimming scenes for the star, zine, November, carries $1,000,000 the Haudette Colbert. first of these articles dramatic effect, or lengthening- Another ex- on Ice, Jerome Beatty's fascinat- in Scho- mple is lastic was published others for rhythm and balanced MGM's Captains Cou- ing tale of the spectacular October 16th, ageous, ca- action. Following the first starring Freddie Bar- reer of Norway's the second October 30th, and the audi- skating cham- ence preview, drastic nolomew and featuring Spencer pion; third and last article is to appear changes are Christian Science Monitor, often made. racy and Lionel Barrymore. in the December 4th issue. Perhaps the audience October 25th, has another tale of Also Can you name interesting are the laughs in the wrong places, be- other outstand- Miss Henie in Frank Daugherty's following ar- lg ticles comes restive through long featured leading plavers and Scenes in appearing in the Interna- Hollywood series in speeches, or does leir current films? Does their tional Journal of Religious Edu- not generally which, under the title Stages react resence strengthen the cation, November: as expected. Often discard- cast and in the Rise of a Skating Star, he Why Visual ibsequently the Education?-The Values ed scenes are substituted (hence entire film? points out that the famous skater of Motion ould another Pictures in the need of keeping close tab on person of less is a business woman Religious Education, rominence as well as all photographed film), some- enact the role as sat- an artist. by Ernest J. Arnold; Creative factorily? Uses times close-ups are added for em- If so, who? Further personality of Visual Aids, by Otto stories of Mayer phasis or clarification of mood, the month ; Visual Aids in the Church The Comedian which may interest and occasionally the Program, by Elizabeth B. Ster- cast is called readers of The Motion Picture back for Generally speaking the comedi- ling; and Where Materials "re-takes". and the Family are — Pacific in i is more difficult to Visual Education recognize Coast Musician, October: An May Be Se- Combining Sound Track and Film id remember. Rarely is he given cured, by Robert M. Authority Speaks—an interview Hopkins, Jr. The business of combining •atured credits or publicity build These three articles lay a very with Paul Kerby, Metro-Goldwyn- sound track and picture film is os. In the majority of cases solid foundation for the Mayer's newest composer-con- use of still another delicate job, calling medians prefer to be free films in church work. ductor, by R. V. Steele; Collier's for finesse and technical skill. rents, signing one-picture con- Christian Science October 30th: Kid Brother, Monitor, Oc- Up to the very last, acts and therefore by the sound, moving from tober 19 : Brown University Quentin Reynolds—a sketch of Ex- including dialogue, extraneous udio to studio. This practice periments with Films; New York the career of Sam Levene Maga- sound effects and music, is car- »es not allow any one publicity ; Times, October 21: zine Digest, November: Bryn Mawr ried on a film strip that partment the opportunity Private Brings Films is sep- to Lives of the Marxes, to the Classroom; arate from the picture iblicize the players by Suzanne film. The with due Chantal Educational Screen, October: The sound track gularity. (from Cinemonde, Paris) is then cut to match Motion Picture as an Aid to —what the French Capital thinks exactly the positive print and is A comedian's presence in a Learning, by William cast of America's erratic comedians; M. Gregory, superimposed on the edge usually as an added Director of the : attraction, Educational Woman's Home Companion, Nov- Museum, film. Two accurate sprockets, tended to give the picture Cleveland Public j a ember: Stars of Yesterday, by Schools; same rigidly connected together, have lies of lighter moments. Some- issue, Training in the W. B. Pitkin, in which the Operation been devised in such a way that ues he is projected into of Sound the film author points Projectors, by Lloyd L. the two films thout out that glamorous are kept together in | any apparent relation Ramseyer, to screen personalities Bureau of Educational perfect relation e story of the past to each other, ( while at other times he Research, Ohio State may prove also to be glamorous University. accurate to the thousandth part definitely instrumental in I ad- screen personalities of the future. Of General Interest of an inch. From this composite, ncing the plot. Who can for- Christian Science Monitor, No- the prints are prepared for dis- t the finest comedy scene The American Girl, November: of vember 1: Pinto Colvig and His tribution. :ent years, not assigned to Tom Sawyer Comes to the Screen, Trade are Odd Even for Holly- It is all a pretty exact science, irs but to first rate comedians, by Latrobe Carroll the story of wood a story that — calling for micromatic m Summerville — could come how a Bronx schoolboy, precision; and John Qual- only Tommy and, from cinema land, about one Kelly, in addition to being scien- . when, in The Country Doctor won the coveted role of of the ingenious personages who tists, the men who do the work ;y re-enacted the arrival of the Tom Sawyer in the motion picture makes a living by imitating odd must be dramatists and intuplets! to be made from Mark Twain's artists sounds for screen masterpieces as well. Many a writer's work 'n production, a selected co- celebrated book, and also some- another of Frank Daugherty's has _ been enhanced by the film dian and his role in the picture thing about the making of the Scenes in Hollywood; Liberty, cutting and many a picture ; often film; Scribner's determined while the Magazine, Nov- "saved" November 13th : Lonely Comic, by by judicious editing. 'ry is being written. For ex- ember: The Birth of a Nation, by Frederick James Smith a sketch ple Edward Everett Horton — Milton Mackaye—an interesting of the career of that beloved and U be signed to a one-picture account of the technique em- well Hobbes, forlorn figure who immortalized Ernest Cossart, and tract before the final shooting ployed in the making of that old Henry Kolker? What do himself as the Vice-President in you con- Jipt is completed. Immediately but famous film; St. Nicholas, sider the outstanding Of Thee I Sing—Victor Moore. perform- comedy role will be enlarged October: Pictures You'll Like, by ance of each?

.1 properly Edith Winter characterized to fit Educational McGinnis, dealing HEIDI 'ible-reaction type especially with of comedy. the making of the (20th Important to all who Century-Fox) !Vho are the leading comedians are seri- Goldwyn-United Artists produc- ously interested in the use of the Shirley Temple's latest the screen today? Are they tion of Hurricane; St. Nicholas, film is films as an educational medium is among her best offerings sistently identified with {Continued on Page 8) to date speci- and presents an studios? Do they depend upon interesting illus- tration of our thesis. A group of :ain mannerisms for their nognized and remembered. In player's particular contribution excellent supporting players is tedy effects? If so, are these other cases, however, one or more which makes the scene as inspir- gathered about the child star merisxns characteristic of character in roles, interpreted by ing one? Reassemble a descrip- the projection of this world fam- "ry interpretation? Or do they the finest actors of stage and tion of the event for the class. ous story. Jean Hersholt as her ^mpt to submerge personal screen, will run for but a few mo- Following is a list of support- grandfather contributes an out- 'its and emphasize the true ments on the screen, yet will ing players who are eminent as standing characterization almost 'edy related to their assigned make a lasting impression upon comedians and character actors. equal to that of the star. Arthur racterization? the auditor and spectator. Can you identify : Arthur Treach- Treacher and Mary Nash as the Check back over The Character Player a list of past er, Charles Butterworth, Edna butler and governess, respective- performances, study the casts and May Oliver, Gregory Ratoff, ly, Helen Westley as a blind (jihe character player, vital to recall the scenes that provided Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, neighbor, Sidney Blackmer, fr-y film, will often be an in- the most interest and the greatest Alan Mowbray, Margaret Hamil- Christian Rub and Sig Rumann Bj-al part of the plot, as was C. enjoyment. Are one or more fea- ton, E. E. Clive, Roland Young, in important minor roles create d > < ey Smith in the 20th Cen- tured players, rather than the Eric Blore, Walter Brennan, Ray- lasting impressions and assist in x feature, Wee Willie star, i-esponsible for the vivid mond Walburn, Berton Churchill, interpreting an excellent blend- I'tkie, and thus easily be rec- moment? Can you point out the Jessie Ralph, O. P. Heggie, Halli- (Continued from Page 8) 8 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY November 15, 1937

Newcomer Is Lettered In Black And Silver, Pictures Play Most Welcome Exhibit Pleases Librarians First Aid Role In Film Field To Bookseller

ANEW baby was born this MOTION pictures continued past month in the field of their role this month as motion picture publications. It "first aid" to the bookseller. was the MGM Short Story, which A publisher who specializes in brings to the short subject, at inexpensive editions of books last, the "place in the sun" which made into films reported that the Better Films groups long ago de- release of the film version of Wee cided it rightfully deserved. Willie Winkie has brought a What study and discussion hitherto unprecedented sale to a guides, posters and exhibits have volume of Kipling's short stories, done to attract the attention of which he has shrewdly retitled teachers, librarians and other in- Wee Willie Winkie and Other terested groups to the rich educa- Stories. tional values of feature films, Sale of Other Books Enhanced this magazine is designed to do Other books whose sales have for shorts. been greatly enhanced by motion Scintillating biographies of pictures are Knight without of the players who started some Armor by James Hilton; The their career in short subjects and Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony have wound up as stars of the Hope; Stella Dallas, by Olive water, glimpses of the inside first Higgins Prouty, and The Road workings of the studios where Back, by Erich Maria Remarque. shorts are produced, factual ma- Books for which high hopes are terial about their reception in entertained are Stevenson's Ebb other countries, make up its spar- Tide, film version of which has kling contents. just been completed by Para- To Be Published Monthly The publicity department the New York Public Library is to be mount, and Adventures of Tom most fas- of But by all odds the Sawyer, now nearing completion article in the 20-page credited for this photograph of a film exhibit in Niagara Falls. cinating at the United Artists Studios in the book is that which describes Hollywood. and dangerous process Miss Gretchen Garrison with pardonable pride that libra- lengthy wyHEN Heidi, just released with Shir- by which Pete Smith, famed short rians would find a lot here which *^of the publicity staff of the New ley Temple as star, is expected to subject narrator, finally arrived would be helpful to them in util- York Public Library arranged a take the lead in all sales of in- authentic dramatization of izing film material to stimulate at an expensive editions of juvenile the discovery of radium by the special motion picture exhibit for reader interest. books this year, while The Prince Curies in their laboratory in the State Library Association Appreciative as the librarians and the Pauper is likely to run 1900. This is good reading for convention held in Niagara Falls were, and they gave the committee a close second. any theatre-goer of any age, or the week of October 4th, she had many compliments on the exhib- for that matter for the scientifi- a library audience primarily in it, it was two hotel porters who cally inclined, as well. mind. were the most enthusiastic spec- Films For Pupil MGM Short Story will be pub- As she placed the stills, the tators, however. Arriving early in lished monthly and is sure to find special exhibit panels, a collection the morning, long before the ses- And For Teacher high favor with photoplay appre- of study guides and several col- sions opened, Miss Garrison found classes and with ciation clubs and ored bookmarks which had been them in rapt attention before the (Continued from Page 7) attention to all who give serious used effectively by the Mount exhibit, the cleaning of the ball- ing of smiles, tears and excite- of culture as films as a medium Vernon and Buffalo Public Libra- room entirely forgotten in their ment. A high point in the film Enthusi- well as entertainment. ries to advantage, she reflected interest in the pictures. occurs in the dream sequence. we bid it "Welcome". astically THE AWFUL TRUTH (Columbia) Selected Film Recorded as one of the smart- Reading of Month HOLLYWOOD LEXICON est comedies of the year, The Awful Truth will be witnessed in ———— 5. Additional Noveltv Terms time by every motion picture at- (Continued from Page 7) so natural phenomena. tendee. It is a fast moving, ex- November: Pictures for All by the THERE are a few terms An actor "blows when he misses ceedingly clever comedy, played same author, dealing with Ebb frequently used in Hollywood up" a by Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. Tide and In Old Chicago. that no one who even pretends line or spoils the scene by some mistake. is Here again the interpretations Wilson Bulletin for Librarians, familiarity with a Hollywood vo- "Blow" the act of of the supporting cast stand out hooking Backward cabulary can afford to be unfa- doing it. November: prominently; Ralph Bellamy and Forward at the Films, by miliar with them. "Boom" in Hollywood has no alliance with inflation. A "boom" plays with conviction a character Maxine Block; Harper's Maga- "Take" Frequent Term is the part of importance; Alexander zine, November: The Orchestra steel crane mounted on D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Es- Conductor, by John Tasker How- One of these is "take". In wheels on which the camera is ther Dale and Joyce Compton de- ard a fascinating exposition of studio parlance a "take" is a sometimes placed to record mov- — liver excellent performances, eachj what the orchestra conductor single recording of a scene. Some ing shots. If only the arm of the a distinct etching. does and what he needs, which times many recordings ai*e nec- crane is moved the scene is re- ferred has a distinct slant towards the essary before a director is satis- to as a "boom shot." If the ALI BABA GOES TO TOWN every cinema; Stage, November: Colos- fied with results and with whole crane moves it is either a (20th Century-Fox) "take" the expense mounts. The "dolly" or a "trucking" shot. sal, in which Douglas W. Church- Bringing Eddie Cantor back toi highest compliment that can be ill points out that the screen "Business" Synonymous the screen after a two-year ab-| paid to a performer, therefore, spectacle is often a "miracle in sence, 20th Century-Fox spares is that he is a "one-take" actor. With Stage Term miniature"; The World Observer, nothing in its attempt to entice Shirley Temple's greatest charm "Business" in Hollywood is November: Mystery Gives Way the audience to like the picture. in the eyes of directors, super- synonymous with stage "busi- to Progress with the New Eyes It is a distinct innovation as a seding even her smiles and dim- ness". It is any extraneous action of Science by Thomas Calvert story for the cinema. Producer! is the fact that she has on the part of a performer in a McClary—examples of scientific ples, Darryl Zanuck was perhaps some-l justly earned the title of "One- scene. He may be toying with a achievements made possible by what apprehensive concerning the Take Temple". key, pencilling designs abstract- the motion picture camera. manner in which the satire pre- "Blow" is another term that edly on a tablecloth, or humming Books on Films sents the New Deal and so has falls frequently from Hollywood a tune—it's all "business" to Hol- Players at Work, by Eustis conclusively strenghtened the ap- lips but it has no relation to lywood. Morton, published by Theatre — peal of the picture by stressing Arts. Inc. More Hollvwood Technical Terms in the Next Issue. musical and dance numbers. The Motion Picture Comment on Current A Bulletin for All who Films by Librarians, are Interested in Better and Teachers, Community Motion Pictures The Family Leaders

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Metropolitan Next Time You Go To The Movies Calif. Juniors Experiment Is Watch Out For These Choir Boys Begin A State Great Success Film Program TWO years ago a Parent- Teacher meeting was held PACE-SETTING, in a manner n Friends' Seminary, a private appropriate to the immediate chool in New York City, to dis- environs of filmland, the Junior cuss how the pupils used their Membership of the California leisure time. The discovery was Federation of Women's Clubs has nade that a generous proportion adopted the promotion of a state- »f it was spent in motion picture [ wide Better Film Appreciation heatres. program as the major project of When a parent reported that the current club year. Fifty mo- i»er eleven-year-old, whom she tion picture chairmen, appointed lad taken to see David Copper- during the past three months, ield and a Silly Symphony, had are already energetically at work witnessed a news reel of Bruno directing the program. Their 3auptmann as an interlude in purpose is to familiarize the he program, the assembled par- youth of the entire state with all ;nts and teachers decided that phases of photoplay production he incident constituted a call to as an incident to creating the de- iction. It appeared that pro- sire to attend films of the high- grams especially arranged for est quality. children were an imperative ne- Plan of procedure in the Junior cessity. Clubs consists first in the ap- It seemed like tilting vainly at They are St. Luke's choristers Long Beach, California and they do of pointment of a Motion Picture i dragon to ask for family night much of the religious singing in the films Chairman who assumes responsi- irograms in a city of seven mil- bility for the group participation. ion people, with the majority A question should arise as to Hollywood lots, but each and of IF Members of the clubs are then which is the most fortunate every one of them has seen a he theatres located in commer- formed into committees group of juvenile choristers in number of noted film stars at on Act- (Continued on Page 3) ing, Photography, Setting the United States, the seventy close range. What is more, they and Sound. Each girl joins boys who constitute the choir of get paid for the privilege. the com- vlake Zola Letter St. Luke's Church at Long Beach, When you see a boy choir with (Continued on Page 2) Center Of Exhibit California, would put forward appropriate ecclesiastical accou- an immediate claim. trements singing in a wedding or Not only have they free access church scene, the chances are ten Another Library Has Pupils of the Township High to that backstage fairyland of (Continued on Page 7) School in Du Quoin, Illinois, are An Oriental Display till pluming themselves upon the ilact that their exhibit on the Runs "One Man" Film Staten Island Starts photoplay, The Life of Emile The Good Earth promises to tola, was probably one of the Program In Community Another New Project reach an "all time high" among I'nost interesting displayed any- pictures for which libraries and r here in tho United States. Upon Mrs. H. V. Maloney, film The Motion Picture Council of schools have arranged special ex- I A letter written and signed by chairman of the Modesto, Cali- Staten Island, New York, always hibits. he distinguished novelist himself fornia, Council of Parents and an energetic and individualistic Latest public library to report Ijvas the focus of the exhibit. An (Continued on Page (Continued on Page 6) 6) an exhibit which aroused great jinergetic and acquisitive pupil of interest not only in the film, |>he photoplay appreciation class but in Oriental lore in general, is Piad discovered it in the posses- Teachers' College Exhibit Shows Material Frankfort, sion of a fellow townsman. Indiana. Educational Stills from the picture consti- On Aspects Of Films tuted the nucleus of the exhibit, 'Urns Reviewed but Frankfort homes were polled in Current Issue EVIDENCE of the steady casting and similar supplemen- for Oriental curios to lend sup- growth in the amount of ma- tary teaching aids. This time, plementary interest. Eev. and Beg, Borrow or Steal, page 2; terial available for use in dis- such a wealth of material was Mrs. A. R. Huber, missionaries I daughter of Shanghai, page 2; cussing educational implications available regarding the entertain- visiting in the vicinity en route ''he Duke Comes Back, page 2; of the theatrical film was the ment film that the exhibit was (Continued on Page 8) Jbb Tide, page 3; Exiled to noteworthy feature of an exhibit devoted exclusively to that phase hanghai, page 2; The Great Gar- on "Aids to the Study of Photo- of photoplay appreciation. Great ick, page 3; Hitting a New play Appreciation" shown at interest was aroused among the Monogram Qets Jigh, page 2; The Hurricane, Teachers' College, Columbia Uni- teachers and school administra- Award >age 3; The Man Without a versity,October 25 to November 16. tors attending, to many of whom 'lountry, page it 3; Navy Blue and Exhibits pertaining to audio- was somewhat of a revelation. Parents' Magazine's honorary iold, page 7; Nothing Sacred, visual education have been held Consisted of medal of merit for the current •age Shi the Octopus, Varied Displays 3; page 2; at least twice annually at Teach- month goes to Monogram Pic- "he Singing Outlaw, page 2; ers College for the past four The exhibit was arranged on tures for their production, Boy Submarine D-l, page 7; Thank years, but all previous exhibits the fifth floor of Teachers' College of the Streets, starring Jackie 'ou, Mr. Moto, page 2; Victoria, have included pictures, slides, si- Library, through the cooperation Cooper, which has been approved he Great, page You're of 7; Only lent and sound motion pictures, Miss Eleanor M. Dye, super- by reviewing groups as teaching 'oung Once, page 2. the commercial film, radio broad- (Continued on Page 6) a powei'ful social lesson. — — 1 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY December 15. 1937 k

PARIS CHILDREN HAVE Thumbnail OWN CINEMA CLUB W H AT'S NEXT Reviews Of Paris school children may IN HOLLYWOOD? count themselves fortunate. They have Late Films a free cinema of By Alice Ames Winter their very own. Founder and patron is Mme. S. Aron, niece STILL Hollywood preserves its in a curious thing that is going of M. Jean Benoit-Levy, noted deep dark secret—who is to be at Metro-Goldwyn Studio now, C'OR the convenience of French film producer whose on teachers cast in Gone With the Wind— but will take perhaps eighteen * and members of Maternelle was so well received Better Films except that Walter Connolly is to to finish. Some thirty groups who in this country. Every Thurs- months circulate weekly lists play Gerald O'Hara. of day afternoon, Yet Mr. acres are being covered with a films with audience rating The which is a half Selznick promises that holiday production kind of composite of the cities Motion Picture and the Family in Paris, boys and girls will start in February. Meanwhile of America. It is a huge "set" is introducing a new all over the city flock to des- department, many fascinating preliminaries with a replica of Times Square in a mid month list ignated halls and school rooms of abbreviated are under way, chiefly in the study New York at the center, and, radi- reviews. Evaluations where films are exhibited un- and audi- of costumes. Europe, it seems, ence der the aegis ating like the spokes of a wheel, classifications are those of of the Cine Club is being combed for examples of streets from some forty cities, so the East Coast Preview Commit- des Ecoliers. Mme. Aron, the the hoop skirt and of the later that no matter where in this tee. More extensive reviews founder, adapts, cuts and re- of bustle era when skirts were country a coming picture may these films will arranges all the films on the appear in the pulled back and draped with flow- be located, there will be an im- January 1st program and sometimes even issue of Selected ers and bows and lace over the Motion makes films mediate true background. Phila- Pictures. especially for the curious protuberances, and children. bon- delphia's Independence Square, The usual film pro- nets were saucy, cedure little, flat af- Salt Lake's Temple Square, Bos- Beg, Borrow or Steal reverses in the Cine fairs, (MGM) much decorated and ton's Beacon Hill, San Francisco's Dir.- Club. Instead of children be- William Thiele. Cast headed perched over one eye. But there Market Street, Washington's ing admitted only when accom- by Frank Morgan, Florence Rice, must also be a search through the Pennsylvania Avenue, New Or- panied by parents, no parent John Beal and others. A zestful South for an entirely different leans' Canal Street, Minneapolis' is allowed to have comedy with an impoverished op- a glimpse of type of costume, the home-made the program Calhoun Parkway, and so on and portunist as its hero. Top notch unless he or she clothing of war time, homespun, on. When you travel, you may humor and an expert is in charge of a child. dyed with cast. Adults vegetable and fruit buy papers from your home town. and young people. juices; hats of corn shucks, deco- If you should ever be so fortunate rated with berries and chicken as to be a visitor at Metro-Gold- Daughter of Shanghai (Para- Calif. feathers; shoes made of wood and wyn-Mayer Studios, you might Juniors Begin mount) Dir: Robert Florey. Cast old carpets. (We all remember even stray into your own home headed by Anna May Wong and the green bonnet Rhett smuggled town. A State Film Program Philip Ahn. A melodramatic through for Scarlett.) Mr. Plun- story of the alien smuggling racket. kett, who is doing this work for Hollywood loves to play with Adults and young people. (Continued from Page 1) George Cukor, the director of itself. Example: the delightful Gone With the mittee of her choice and gathers Wind, expects to periodical publication, Sherwood The Duke Conies Back (Repub- get together the material on that specific subject greatest collec- Forest Gazette, which Warner lic) Dir: Irving Pichel. Cast tion of period costumes when attending the films. Out- of the Brothers put out, carrying gay headed by Allan Lane and Heath- time of the lines, current reviews and round- war between the and alluring bits of information er Angel. An expertly directed States which has table discussions are featured at ever been as- about The Adventures of Robin story of the return to the ring sembled. the regular club, county and dis- Hood, now in production, (wheth- of a young heavyweight cham- trict federation meetings. er Shei-wood Forest be at Chico pion. Adults and young History Word comes from Metro-Gold- people. and development or in the famous Pasadena Busch of the motion wyn-Mayer that they have bought picture industry is followed Gardens). There is a big building Exiled to Shanghai (Republic) as the rights to picturize the other a study course in boom at "Nottingham on the Dir: Nick Grinde. Cast headed by some of the outstanding novel-success, North- smaller club sections, and other Warner", where they are con- Wallace Ford and June Travis west Passage, with its adventur- groups concentrate on facts structing the "last word in cas- An improbable plot built around deal- ous tale of New England, the ing with architecture, costumes, tles", with a moat filled with a the commercial use of television. Great Lakes, London and the historical background corroding acid that will eat Adults and young people. and points famous search for a way through of special interest to them. through armor, and the gates Read- from Atlantic to Pacific. ing lists have been compiled for guarded by pots of boiling oil. Hitting a New High (RKO The dungeons will be deeper and Radio) Dir: the individual club members and Benefits Forgot, Honore Willsie Raoul Walsh. Cast darker than any others in headed by Lily are the basis for book reviews at Morrow's story of Lincoln's time, Eng- Pons, Jack Oakie, land. "The great banquet hall Eric Blore, the meetings. Barrett Riesling's with Walter Huston in the lead Edward Everett Hor- wherein hang the ton. book — Talking Pictures — has as an itinerant pioneer preacher, pennons of all Outstanding in its comedy, the great Norman knights music and been adopted as textbook for the has drawn a circle of actors and and a charm. Family. few punks, will Junior Study Course. Make-up technicians to the Ohio Village seat several hun- dred guests and yet allow Sh! the Octopus artistry, trick photography, au- that has sprung up on the shores suffi- (First Nation- cient room for the casting of al) Dir: William thenticity of atmosphere and pro- of Lake Arrowhead, a replica Mc Gann. Cast bones and pieces of gristle headed by duction details, as well as plan- covering twenty acres or more, to the Hugh Herbert, Allen dogs and cub bears that roam the Jenkins, Mai'cia Ralston. ning, are among the topics of the stores and blacksmith shop, pier A com- castle". Maid Marian, pletely mad, discussion outlines. Special study and steamer, church and home. "the loveli- but hilariously funny is est, purest, sweetest, kindliest, mystery. Adults and given music in the films as a Two more examples—these of young peo- — prettiest, wittiest, ple. means of making a contribution what we mentioned once before sauciest damsel to in Christendom", is by special the movement for developing the way motion picture are dis- concession allowed The Singing Outlaw the true American musical form. covering the picturesqueness and a bath. Sir (Univer- Guy indignantly denies that sal) Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast romance of our own U. S. A., Practical Application Is Made headed past and present. Prince John or himself will have by Bob Baker and Joan Barclay. Practical application of the one. "Baths are for softies like An average Western with pleasing music. »i Juniors' Better Film Apprecia- Perhaps another angle is shown (Continued on Page 3) Family. trf tion plan is made through re- Thank search exhibits, study guides and You, Mr. Moto (20th evaluated the film attended ac- of the state, the groups are aid- 1 picture estimates Century-Fox) Dir: Norman Fos- which are dis- cording to the bet Junior Chart and ing young people to acquire the ter. Cast tributed within the clubs headed by Peter Lorre. and reported results to the producer. necessary knowledge for icre placed in the community devel- A mystery melodrama with inter- under A six weeks' course in Motion Pic- oping their lac; Junior sponsorship. own standards of esting Chinese background and a Matinee per- ture Appreciation is being spon- :ne formances, evaluation. Picture types, story full quota of suspenseful intrigue. special showings and sored lild for the public in San Diego structure, directorship, ethical Adults and worthwhile productions are sup- young people. by the Woman's Club Juniors as and entertainment values and sii ported by the Junior clubwomen, their community contribution to technical points are part of the You're Only Young Once per who attend in a body. In Fontana, the work of enlisting public in- knowledge gained. The study has Dir: ~tra Calif., a recently sponsored Junior (MGM) George B. Seitz. terest. proven a pleasurable project to Cast headed by Lewis By performance was followed by a Methods Stone, of film judging are the 3500 Juniors in California jirk reception at the Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker. community club- particularly stressed and ana- who are house with eagerly sharing their in- Outstanding in its interpretation the young clubwomen lyzed by the Juniors. In coopera- formation with other persons also of the hopes and ideals of typical U t as hostesses. Members and guests tion with the libraries and schools interested in film betterment. Americans. Family. for j

i ecember 15, 1937 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY 3 Metropolitan Study LESSONS from the MOVIES Industry Experiment Is Problems At A Presented for the Committee on Social Values in Great Success Motion Pictures by Howard M. he Sourd.Ph.D., Dean of Boston University Graduate School, Chairman. Club Meeting

(Continued Page from 1) PARAMOUNT in importance THE HURRICANE of Garrick's farewell remarks in among the rial sections where the audience duties of a motion London. They sought to humiliate picture chairman, .vas primarily adult. But the (Goldwyn-United Artists) according to him, but were themselves humili- Mrs. Arthur yroup was not to be turned from artistic and scenic effects Hamilton who heads THE ated. But the great Garrick was the Motion Pictn-e ts purpose. of this picture outweigh the Committee for in turn the prey of his own self- the Third District of the Missouri A second meeting was called problem situations. One is aware, confidence when he failed to dis- Federation of Women's Clubs, is o which parents from other pri- however, of the conflict between tinguish genuine feeling for play- the promotion of public knowl- 'ate schools were invited, and a legalism and justice — between acting. Humility without a sense edge of the viewpoint of the mo- ommittee of three, consisting of dead law with its ruthlessness of inferiority is ever the mark of tion picture industry and public Vlrs. William Barclay Parsons, and the spirit of goodwill and the genius. appreciation of some of the in- Jr., president of the Parents' understanding with its inspira- dustry's problems. ^eague, Mrs. Irving A. Heyman, tion to orderliness. THE MAN WITHOUT A Mrs. Hamilton therefore counts notion picture editor of the bul- COUNTRY Was six months at hard labor as a good-will gesture of impor- etin of the Horace Mann School, too heavy a sentence for the (Warner Bros.-Vitaphone) tance the program given by the »nd Mrs. Alonzo Klaw began the white man to impose on Terangi, One never knows how precious Sojourner's Club which she spon- ounds of motion picture theatres a South Sea Islander, for step- are the commonly accepted rela- sored as District Chairman. n Greater New York residential ping out of caste? After his con- tionships until he is Chairmen throughout the dis- leighborhoods to ask the man- deprived of viction, was subserviency the them. trict were invited to attend, as agers to show week-end programs Thus did the obstinate proper reaction of Terangi rather were members of the faculty of uitable for senior and junior Phil Nolan come to appreciate than revolt? When Terangi had the State Teachers' College, the iigh school students. the land of his birth. Except escaped, was the priest right in Superintendent of Public for the girl he loved, we can only Schools commending the boy for refus- and the Principal of the Junior Surprised by Prompt Cooperation imagine his thoughts during his ing to reveal Terangi's High School. Guests hiding lonely exile. and speak- Thus was instituted what has place? ers, all of whom were well quali- What are the bases of our love leveloped to be one of the most The tragedy of the hurricane fied to give both a fair and an of country? Why not list them, nteresting experiments did something intelligent interpretation of in- in metro- to the Governor. so that the wellsprings of appre- dustry matters, • olitan motion picture coopera- His capacity for human sympathy were Lowell ciation may not run dry? But ion in the United States. For was awakened. How much hap- Lawrence, motion picture critic let us at the same time be con- of the o the surprise and delight of the pier world this would be if every Kansas City Journal-Post, scious of our country's short- R. ommittee the managers capitu- one were trained to see the best C. Russell of Central Films, comings that we may contribute Inc., of ated. The first one approached in others and could through con- Lincoln, Nebraska, and to its further development, for Mrs. Elenore Walton, ;;aid "Yes". Not only did he fidence bring out that best in all motion pic- gree the nation exists not for the privi- ture critic from Kansas to present a family pro- the relationships of human life! City. leged few but for the happiness So great l ram over the week-end, but also was the interest and security of all. aroused I o allow a member of the com- NOTHING SACRED by the program and so Nolan lost his citizenship animated P aittee to attend his first show- the subsequent discus- (Selznick-United Artists) Ing on Friday, so that if she through hot-headedness, a false sion that the honor guests, school ound material unsuited to young Frauds are common in public sense of his own importance and officials and many of the commit- life. Those who build them up an unwillingness tee I ieople either in the newsreel, to admit his members adjourned to Mrs. may be sincere, but as veneered own selfish mistakes. Many men Hamilton's home for cake, sand- [ he trailer or short subject, it wood soon betrays its false base, wiches i ould be deleted or a substitu- and women have lost precious and coffee, and a con- so the tion made. In return for his co- common clay of fakes is heritages by just these weak- tinued consideration of what mo- ultimately peration the committee agreed disclosed. nesses and have spent a life- tion pictures both commercial star his week-end bill in the But let us not be deceived by time in remorse. There are many and educational have to offer to- the aeatre program with the state- apparent lesson of this come- Phil Nolans in every community wards the improvement of both ( dy. While ment "Approved by the Schools we are debunking some of the country, who live in exile cultural and social standards. of the conspicuous lotion Picture Committee". frauds, let us through the isolation of their own remember that mankind overlooks It was not always as smooth unappreciative souls. 1 most of society's real heroes. What's Next In , Ailing as that, yet with surpris- Sentimentality may find expres- EBB TIDE ing rapidity the committee built sion in an undue adoration of the Hollywood ? np theatre cooperation. By the (Paramount) unworthy, but sentiment that ap- |nd of the first three months plauds the every day exhibition Stories which deal with the pur theatres were presenting (Continued from Page 2) of outstanding virtues is usually dregs of humanity are warnings bills for the Robin Hood. No Norman gentle- eek-end family and to those who trifle with the prin- lacking. man would think of one. The men return for their cooperation ciples of self-control and with the ublicity being of the castle sink or swim by the was given them THE GREAT GARRICK basic laws of society. Some de- a the bulletin in established English custom." So, boards, the stroy within themselves all capa- (Warner Bros.) beforehand, we prepare to laugh :hool papers, by letter and word city for redemption. Others by with and at the gay comedy of mouth to parents, and through Professional jealousy gives rise virtue of breeding and early en- Robin Hood—a story all unique, te publications of the various to comedies and tragedies in each vironment have resources for not based on other Robin Hoods. rivate schools to hundreds of succeeding generation. Sensitive- transformation that may reclaim It's a long array of productions ibscribing families. ness to slights makes fools of them for social usefulness. Warner Brothers has scheduled By the end of the second month many otherwise sane persons. Herrick had sunk low in the for the season to come, and a 5 public schools and high schools The actors and actresses of ratings of humanity but the great array of writers to serve ere cooperating in circulating Paris felt aggrieved by reports (Continued on Page 6) you of their best. One can't meas- ie approved programs to pupils ure genius and charm by dollars, id parents. By October juvenile Telegram, the Sun and Cue, a recommended programs weekly. yet it is impressive to know that ;tendance had been so greatly weekly amusement magazine, had Now that the problem of metro- some $5,000,000 worth of novels, icreased at a theatre to which also lent their support. politan cooperation in family night plays and original stories are on actically no children had ever At the close of the first season, programs has been effect their schedule. ne before that when the 87th m 34 theatres were affiliated with solved, the committee, although ild passed the ticket taker for the Schools Motion Picture Com- continuing its efforts in this single performance the man- di- mittee and the committee itself rection, is also hard at work de- Build Huge Laboratory ner sent out a hurry call for an had expanded to include approxi- veloping an inter-schools film li- tra Mickey Mouse. mately 50 reviewers as well as a brary, stimulating discussion of Warner Brothers are erecting By November two of New large number of women whose motion pictures in the classroom in Burbank, California what is ork'8 leading newspapers, the task it was to keep in close touch and making a survey to deter- described as the world s largest imes and the Herald-Tribune, with the theatres. At the end mine the critical reaction of the film laboratory. More than a mil- id offered to print the Schools of the second season there were hundreds of thousands of boys lion feet of film can be run otion Picture List every week, 214 affiliated theatres, while from and girls who attend recom- through the plant in each 24 •fore another season the World- 12 to 25 theatres were presenting mended programs. hours. THE MOTION J PICTURE AND THE FAMILY December 15, ]f): .7 School Film WHO'S WHO IN Erpi Issues > Objectives Set BETTER FILMS Bulletin On By New Jersey School |N previous months we have volution. He fought with the Films 1 told you something about Kolchack forces in Siberia, spent JERSEY has long NEW been women directors and research a winter on the shores of Lake TF THERE were any doubt in a pace-setter in the Photoplay experts and about some of the Baikal; operated a theatre on the 1 the minds of film conscious Appreciation movement. So dis- people who make music such an Siberian coast for the Allied Americans as to the progress *) tinctive are some of the new en- troops. He was wounded by which is being made in the field terprises inaugurated this year shrapnel and still carries a big of visual education, it is speedily by the Finer Film Federation and deposit of it in his body. dispelled by the new publication, the New Jersey Association of When he came back from his Instructional Sound Films Bulle- Teachers of English to foster ap- adventurings in Europe he was tin, issued for the first time on preciation of films that the editor commissioned to paint a 6,400 November 15 by Electrical Re- of The Motion Picture and j the square foot mural, said to be the search Products, Inc. Family asked Mr. William F. largest in the world, for the San- This attractive little pamphlet, Bauer, Chairman of the Photo- ta Barbara Courthouse. Then he eight pages in size, records signi- play Study Committee of both did some painting and illustrat- ficant milestones in visual educa- Ll groups, to describe these activi- ing for Ray Long of the Cosmo- tion which will be a surprise and I. ties. Mr. Bauer's outline is pre- politan Magazine. delight to devotees of this type I sented below. Cecil B. DeMille, for whom of teaching and will furnish i

speakers I Groesbeck now works, was the on visual education with ammunition for a long By William first to recognize his value to time to F. Bauer come. the movies. He bought a collec- Three major objectives for tion of the artist's paintings and Use Films in New Jersey have Prisons been set up for also hired him to "visualize" for Among the noteworthy develop- pr 1937-38 by the committees of the The Crusades. ments to which it Wra Finer Film Federation and of the important adjunct to the films. refers are experiments in teaching through New Jersey Association of Teach- Artists, too, have their place Continues to Visualize films at the ers of English, the dual agencies in Hollywood and a very impor- House of Detention He has continued to "visualize" for Women and the City Peni- which have the state programs tant place it is. The man who for tentiary in iaii for photoplay appreciation in painted the largest mural in the successive pictures. This New York City which Ct charge. world, many of whose canvasses means that his function is to see so successful that they are likely Jin hang in the that in every screen picture there to point the way Organize on County Luxembourg and other world renowned museums, is the right type of composition to a nationwide program. Elec- Administration Basis trical has recently come into the Holly- —a balance of dark and light, Research Products, Inc., the proper placing of reports that it has The first objective is more com- wood spotlight. He is Dan Sayre figures and sent its

second v - plete geographical coverage. In Groesbeck, attached to the staff an artistic use of curves and consignment of instruc- tional every state there are areas in of Cecil B. DeMille. angles. Cameramen and electri- films to the Far East, 27 cians have found his reels in number. which enlightened and enthusi- All of Mr. Groesbeck's life has sketches in- These went in ft valuable the custody astic teachers develop film study read like an adventure story. He in lighting their scenes of Dr. N. L. Dallant W and will - activities. By the same token, was born on an American vessel properly. Just at the present be used in the schools and - there are arid areas, which con- entering the Golden Gate from time he is hard at work on the colleges of Manila. Other parts of tinue to go their merry and un- Honolulu, his father a ship's new DeMille picture, The Buc- the world are far in ad- yance of the r: discriminating way to haphazard doctor. He began his professional caneer, painting costumes and Orient in the use of instructional or casual attendance at film pres- career as a newspaper reporter makeup and conceiving on canvas films, a recent sur- the scenes vey showing entation, with no attempt to ex- in Chicago and progressed into that subsequently find them to be used in their into films. 15 countries. India ^ ercise the prerogative of intelli- cartooning. Then the wanderlust way and the Philip- pines are the 'n gent selection of films that are seized him and he set out for He is one of many distin- only Oriental coun- tries on the list. suitable and salutary for youth. Europe. During months on the guished people whom producers Others are 'V Sweden, An habitual, unorganized attend- Continent he painted pictures have imported to Hollywood so Puerto Rico, Colombia, Trinidad, ance at mere movies must cast which demonstrated that art was that their films may have the Venezuela, Australia, England, n discredit upon the cinema and his true metier. One of them, combination of authenticity and Brazil, Portugal, Cana- da, Alaska r discomfort upon young audiences, "Nymph and Satyr", hangs in artistry which, as intelligent pa- and New Zealand. South Africa is for the fine things in films are the Luxembourg. Circumstances trons, the American public de- a liberal pur- chaser frequently neglected while the threw him into the Russian Re- mands. of instructional films, hav- tsfc ing recently bought mediocre receive attention out of 394 reels. Electrical Research Products, all proportion to their deserving. mittees of the Federation and the ures of results are impossible. Inc., -• has just released 21 new • Thus is created a situation un- Association may be in closer and With such cognizance, library, films for schools which cover U' desirable to producer, exhibitor more effective contact with the community and academic forces human geography, physical sci- and school. The creator or ex- schools that are actually at work can move towards the goal of fr r ence, human biology and animal hibitor of an excellent "A" pro- on certain prescribed pictures measurable rather than bally- life. Five new films dealing with duction is deserving of the plaud- among the excellent subjects hooish progressions. jf the functions of the different in- - its and support of a film consti- scheduled for 1937-38 filming. It struments in a symphony orches- tuency, while the protagonist of is foolhardy to cheer lustily for To Organize Statewide Association tra replace the present symphony a production of less virtue is con- an appreciation program that The third New Jersey objective orchestra series. scious of his shortcomings and does not give to its sponsors a is closer organization of photo- is prepared to take no umbrage species of control and direction play clubs into a State Associa- the photoplay. at an exercise of cinema sense in which comes only with a clear tion of Photoplay Clubs. With Creative work of no mean consumer film selection concept of and sup- the nature of the closer organization will come quality is an outcome of the ac- port. work in progress throughout the closer defining of aims, more tivities of the Weequahic and To achieve complete State. clarifying more geo- A of concept and firmly established lines of devel- Central High Schools in Newark. graphical coverage in study pro- procedure will come only when opment, better criteria and Elizabeth presents a complete gram applications, is the committees are New Jersey thoroughly in- strength sufficient to secure the senior and junior high school set- organizing on a county admin- formed as to the nature and prerogatives which a large co- up. East Orange, South Orange istration basis, with a county chronology of the exhibition operative agency rightfully de- and Madison are enthusiastic chairman for community coopera- schedules of films presented in serves. Among such prerogatives movers along the photoplay way. the school tion and a county chairman for communities of mem- are opportunities for preview- Photoplay conventions, exhibi- educational ber organizations. or school participa- ing, means for disseminating in- tions of student creative film art, tion in each politico-civic unit of It is the purpose of the New formation regarding skills and discussion panels, previewing Jersey steering the State. group to keep it- techniques developed in the nine opportunities, more skillfully con- self exactly informed as to the initiating and < Seek More Satisfactory progressive club ceived and widely administered [S exhibiting whereabouts and dates groups. Distributor Cooperation Those boys and girls who measuring procedures,—these are fta of the important ' films selected have been photoplay conscious fields that New Jersey must en- The second objective is more for school study. Without this and active over a period of years compass if the state is to con- t satisfactory distributor coopera- exact information, timely testing are now prepared to ia take a more tinue on the way to photoplay i n tion, whereby the central com- procedures and significant meas- important part in the study of study success. )ecember 15, 1937 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY description of FILMS FOR THE Leaders Start "Stairway To PUPIL AND TEACHER Film Classes Stars" Given By Harold Turney In Churches Chairman of the Department of Drama, Los Angeles Junior College By The Observer

leaders in Greater ^EFORE we again "go techni- PRACTICALLY every film-goer identification? Does the opening CHURCH thinks he something command and compel your inter- St. Louis are giving 100 per J cal" this month, we want you knows about motion pictures; their pro- est? By what methods? Does the cent cooperation with the Better > rub Aladdin's lamp and go on a duction, exhibition film sustain that interest to the Films Council by sponsoring an Dur of the spacious new apart- and evalua- tion. plying very close? active program of Cinema Ap- lents recently constructed at Upon him with searching questions, we who are preciation for young people, letro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios to 2. Question No. 2 should be : Is diligent which is likely to prove a pattern ouse professionally their great students of the form re- the place of the action clearly for many other communities. nes of the screen. This ornate alize that his sketchy informa- specified? Does its identification tion is As a ew structure of stucco and mainly based on publicity depend alone upon the visual im- result of it, children in St. material Louis nromium, known as "The Stair- furnished by the Holly- pression of the setting with its church groups are learning - wood studios and disseminated to evaluate pictures ay to the Stars", is super-mod- by accompanying properties and and are way of "shopping" rnistic in design, built in two newspapers, magazines, lighting or is it included in the before they decide radio and word-of mouth refer- dialogue? Does it rely in any way which movies to attend. Bulletins ; ings around a lovely, flower-filled ences. of approved patio. Each suite reflects the upon the costumes, the makeup, and recommended pictures are iste in color and period fur- We have already discovered the movement and business of the being posted in the church ishings of the individual owner. that in order to appreciate a players; on the preceding or ac- and conscientiously con- film, our consideration goes deep- companying music and sound sulted by the boys and girls. Norma Shearer's furniture is er than this veneer of superficial effects? If the action is at all de- 1 mosque green, chartreuse and Churches Have Film Study understanding. pendent upon it, is the nationality Groups Dpaz, against beige walls and We must proceed into an analysis of the story of the characters properly identi- Many churches artains of striped taffeta. Joan and also have defi- theme, the entertainment, social, fied? the country, province or nite film study groups. In the i rawford's dressing room fea- technical artistic values, city? Is the identification aided by Old Orchard ures white furniture for the and In Congregational this way we become more observ- its inclusion in the title? or by Church, 45 Junior aost part, with touches of silver and Senior ant and discriminating the any other means? High School nd blue satin upholstering. Luise and boys and girls regu- film subsequently becomes more larly devote a part of Gainer's general color scheme is 3. Third, we should ask our- every Sun- enjoyable. day evening me and peach, with Louis XV selves: Is the time of the action to the study and dis- cussion of urniture, while Jeanette MacDon- As an exercise, then, in devel- sufficiently identified? If the ac- current films. Meeting at the church for tea, Id's rooms are quite formal in oping our capacity for apprecia- tion is contingent upon it, is the they have a short devotional hades of DuBarry blue and tea- tion of films, let us consider one time of day, week, month or year program, a discussion of some ose, with furniture of the Louis of the initial components of the identified? If so, what method of motion picture they have seen VI period. Myrna Loy's suite car- dramatic type of story presenta- projection is used? during the week, and then games and ies out a classic motif in midnight tion: 4. Next it is important to de- guessing contests. A young lue, white and pale yellow, We shall begin by searching termine whether the atmosphere theological student from Eden Seminary, jarbo's choice is grey and beige out the first hint of the story to and mood of the film are clearly who is their leader, attends .irniture with an Italian note pre- be told. This starting point may identified. Ask yourself: Does the with them each week the be the title first strike film which i ailing; Eleanor Powell's quar- of the film, the back- scene the keynote? Is constitutes the basis for ters are in 18th century ground of the credits, the music it continued throughout the en- Sunday done discussion. mglish design with white, rose or a subtitle preceding the first tire presentation? pictorial Frequently special ! nd green prevailing; Rosalind frame. 5. Are all of the characters programs are arranged. The iiussell's dressing room is done necessary to the action definitely Chairman of Exposition Cinema Appreciation In typically New England re- and clearly identified? Are any of the Bet- ter Films Council spoke at 1 L-rve—fine old pieces of mahog- 1. First we should ask our- of the characters addressed by a re- cent meeting. On the same even- I ny, hooked rugs and quaint pa- selves these questions: Does the name? If so, is the statement re- ing research posters I'ered walls; Gladys George, too, story start immediately and con- peated for emphasis? Does the of The Good Earth, Maid of Salem and The » elected furnishings in early currently identify the place of dialogue state the present and Plainsman, study s.merican, with a cobbler's bench the action, the time, mood, atmos- past relations of the characters guides on films and copies of Selected pr coffee table and quaint little phere and characters? Or does it to the story? To one another? Motion Pictures and Leading lliaple syrup buckets for waste deliberately prolong this identi- Does the exposition present the Motion Pic- tures were displayed askets. fication? Or does it strike a sin- environment and social position and copies of The Motion Picture Across the patio are the studio gle sharp note to gain the com- of the important characters? and the Family were distributed. The partments of the male contin- plete attention of the audience Does it give the stratum of so- pros and cons of Federal censor- ent of stars. Here again is a and then follow with a leisurely (Continued on Page 7) ship and block booking were amous group, any one of whom, de- bated with animation. ingly, would cause the summon- During a )g of the riot squad if he stepped question and answer period grown-ups present jff the train in the average gained a clear indication Lmerican or European city. In GRIST FOR THE of the young Hollywood, they are merely a people's film tastes. It was evi- dent that art of the studio's panorama. they have no enthu- siasm for the depiction of drunk- L mong the men, choices are LIBRARIAN'S MILL enness, ither early American or English gruesomeness and cruelty on the screen, |8th century. In the first group that they do not enthuse over emphasis \>e find Clark Gable, Robert Tay- upon sex pictures for this month Dunbar's History or family hr, Nelson Eddy, Robert Mont- MOVING of Travel in disruptions, and that the they pmery, Spencer Tracy and Lio- tend to be historical. Some V. S., Glasscock's The Big have definitely outgrown the hap- Bonanza, Driggs' Pony custard pie era el Barrymore. Preferring the of them deal with foreign Express and do not like rowdy actions Inglish influence are William penings—two with highly impor- Goes Through, Swan's Frontier depicted in films. Days and On the other 'owell, Wallace Beery and Fred- tant events in American history. Covered Wagon Days, hand their enthu- Rogers and Beard's siasm for the fine ie Bartholomew. Wells Fargo, Paramount, is of Heels, Wheels historical films the latter order. It shows the and Wire and McSpadden's How and for pictures based on literary development of the pioneer stage They Carried the Mail are all classics is both genuine and gen- line from which it takes its very usable. There are many erous. Visitors to Hollywood studios, name, and provides an abundance units on communication — Child Meetings like these are re- wide-eyed eagerness to see of motivation for librarians, em- Development Foundation, Comp- garded as definite indications that amous players before the camer- bracing as it does communication, ton's Pictured Teaching Mate- the young people have achieved often overlook many of the , transportation and history. The rials, Britannica Junior Unit No. sound standards of film evalua- ther intriguing phases of motion Pony Express is part of the story 12 and Bardeen's Progress of tion and that the work of the icture production. For instance, and because of the many books Communication among them. pioneer Better Films Council ot far-distant from the studio and pictures available, and the The interest in communication leaders in endeavoring to edu- partments of the stars, on every adventure and thrill in it, is the hits stf many levels of students cate a movie-conscious future (Continued on Page 6) best focal point. Such books as (Continued on Page 6) generation has not been in vain. \

THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY December 15. 19; 'i = Exhibit Shows SELECTED FILM READING Description of i Educational OF THE CURRENT MONTH "Stairway To

Side Films Behind the Scenes in the Movies Of toon, Snow White and the Seven Stars" Given Christian Science Monitor, No- Dwarfs; The American Dancer, December: American (Continued from Page 1) vember 15th: As an Ohio Film is Ballet in visor of the Curriculum Reading Shot on a California Mountain— Hollywood, by Dorathi Bock (Continued from Page 5) Room; Mrs. Mary Allen Abbott, Frank Daugherty, the Monitor's Pierre—charming off the record glimpses lot, lecturer in photoplay apprecia- Hollywood writer, describes the of Balanchine's Com- are the grim, forbidding, con- pany on the f| tion, and Miss Etta Schneider, making of Honore Willsie Mor- Goldwyn lot; Chris- crete buildings which house the tian Science Monitor, November film laboratories. Not associate in sub-visual education. row's Benefits Forgot; Christian very inter- i ic- 29th: Novelty in e-sting, It consisted of a bulletin board Science Monitor, November 22nd: A Hollywood— you think? Just come in- I Frank Daugherty describes the side the fire-proof, display, a sampling of a large How Introduction of Sound has dust-proof, air- dramatic number of pamphlets and periodi- Transformed Newsreels, by Frank school at Universal conditioned, windowless struc- Studios, which is under the tures cals and a display of books re- Daugherty; Collier's, November sup- and have a look at their ervision of Lyonel magic. lated to films. 27th: Property Man, by Kyle Margolies. Here you will see miles r and miles Stills were used from such films Crichton—a vivid story of the In the Field of Science of narrow picture film traveling its as A Star is Born, Life of Emile difficult achievements of the man Scholastic, December 4th: Tele- seemingly endless journey through Zola, Elephant Boy and Dead who literally provides "material vision "Just Around the Corner"? huge vats of de- veloping solution in the darkness, End. Juvenile players featured for miracles"; Pacific Coast Musi- —if you want to know all about ,. then out to the included the Mauch Twins, Shir- cian, October 2nd: Molecules and television in terms that a layman "fixing baths", only a little less dark. ley Temple. Jane Withers. Deanna Music— R. V. Steele interviews can understand read this fascin- Spinning continuously, Durbin, Freddie Bartholomew, Douglass Shearer, perfectionist ating article by Bruce Rogers. like a miniature power belt, the Jackie Searle, Mickey Rooney, in the field of sound recording; Christian Science Monitor, De- film dips through the chemical Timothy Kelly, the newly dis- Pacific Coast Musician, November cember 7th: Fashion Mannequins solutions and out into its baths of pure rinsing covered star of Tom Sawyer, and 20th : Fairyland Goes Hollywood Parade before Television Camera, water. Thence it others. —an interview by R. V. Steele by Albert D. Hughes—the story spins through drying cabinets which can't Selected Listings with Leigh Harline, who com- of an interesting experiment by be Film heated ' posed the music for the above 95 degress without Selected film listings Walt Dis- National Broadcasting Com- from a danger of explosion. This pro- ney's new full length feature car- (Continued on Page 8) L dozen or more organizations en- cess requires 45 minutes per 1000 gaged in raising the standard of feet of film. taste among movie-goers were Runs "One Man" Film Staten Island Starts A number of these developing - displayed, among them the bul- systems permit processing of f letins of such groups as the In- Program In Community Another Project New 750,000 feet of film daily in one ternational Federation of Catho- (Continued of the larger studios, all in a lic Alumnae, the Westchester Mo- from Page 1) (Contiyiued from Page 1) never-ending , band. Thus, '. Teachers, falls an unusual re- organization, has inaugurated a emo- tion Picture Council, the Horace tional scenes may be riveted sponsibility. new project—a traveling film ex- to lift, Mann Parents' Association and gay comedy, tragedy linked with []„ All material for the motion pic- hibit featuring books which are ] the Finer Films Federation of slapstick, a lovely piece ture classes which are a regular in display of col- New Jersey. in the library motion ored landscape part of the high school curricu- picture beauty with the Pamphlets and brochures from corners. This exhibit in- stark realism of the city I' slums, i such varied agencies as the Mo- lum is furnished by her. The cludes stills and other data about Although connected, they are Wfa free telephone service regarding current films which are either tion Picture Producers and Dis- easily identified because each tributors, the current films which is maintained made from books or likely to Inc., H. W. Wilson scene was catalogued before by the public library is also stimulate reading. A regular Co., Museum of Modern Art, shooting by holding a numbered traceable largely to Mrs. Ma- place is set aside for its display, Pennsylvania Department of Pub- black board in loney's efforts. She, front of the cam- raj lic Instruction, too, was the and it is routed to the library Federal Council era. Blank, blue-colored "leaders", Churches of Christ in Ameri- prime mover in having film in- nearest to the motion picture of or "threaders", keep the spindles |K formation, stills of current pic- theatre in which the film is play- ca—to mention only a few—were loaded when they do tures and short synopses of films ing. not contain exhibited as well as a full array "live" film. This obviates reload- Pirei trade displayed in the library. The Council is also planning of papers. ing the entire maze of spindles, Recently she has achieved a new three or a f'ic A significant contribution to four open meetings dur- tedious process requiring hours fifth the photoplay appreciation move- triumph. She has succeeded in ing the year at the high school to of time. This film is wound on H arranging for weekly matinees for discuss photoplay \ ment was represented by the appreciation. 2,000-feet capacity children for is spools and large research stills which have which she privi- The first was held in cooperation sent to the printing rooms. Here, F\< been compiled indicate the leged to select the feature pic- with the Jewish Community Cen- to men huddle in the darkness over ture. The balance of the pro- tre with Hal Hode of Columbia painstaking research undertaken machines of intricate gears which ) in connection with films such gram is made up of selected shorts. Pictures as the speaker. [t K: as synchronize the picture and High, Wide and Handsome, The ' sound tracks. Then it must be Plainsman, Prisoner Zenda of cleaned, waxed and polished to and Toast York. Grist For The Librarian's Mill hr of New prevent scratching. In the base- Ik- Articles on motion pictures ment stand rows of electroplaters , (Continued from Page 5) from such specialized magazines through which used fixing fluids , as Time, Forum, Fortune, Scrib- that it will be found easiest to illustrated folder and a package are run to reclaim the silver. ner's, and Scholastic were dis- handle it from this angle. of stills are available from the As the proud and expert lab- i played, as well as articles from An exhibit and package of Motion Picture Producers and oratory chief said to us, "If you stills for $1 can be obtained from Distributors of magazines of more general type America, Inc. for really want to see pictures the Motion Pictures Producers made, which devote much space to mo- $1.00. The picture has the Oriental don't waste your time watching and Distributors of America, Inc. tion pictures. splendor of the court of Kublai actors emote." Books and pamphlets concern- A two-reel Technicolor, The Man Khan. For a display use such ing the motion picture have without a Country, from the books as Kent's / Went with famous story by Edward Everett grown to such an extent that it Marco Polo, Bagley's To Far Lessons was impracticable to display a Hale should be as popular as this Cathay, The Travels of Marco From complete sampling. Of the col- perennial favorite. The story is Polo, Byrne's Messer Marco Polo, The Movies lection shown, a typical few were retold in the December 4th issue Cottier and Jaffe's Map Makers h New Technique of Screen Writ- of Junior Scholastic which fea- and Heroes of Civilization, Power's k ing, tures the movie. Across the Medieval Motion Picture Appreciation People and Webster's (Continued from Page 3) in American High Schools, You Pacific and long, long ago Marco Readings in Early European decency of Faith, a girl from and I and the Movies and the Polo comes to life in the Goldwyn History. Stories of early ex- home, roused in him latent re- shooting script of Romeo and production just finished, starring plorations and discovery and pic- sources of individual respecta- Juliet. Gary Cooper and Basil Rathbone, tures of early and ines present-day bility. In his defense of her, he Teachers College students inter- with a cast of five thousand. An China can be used. found life anew. One of the great As ested in motion picture apprecia- problems of civilization is find- y tion are assisted by all these by Prof, and Mrs. Allan Abbott theatre in American life is given ing adequate stimulation for pro- means and also through mimeo- and one on "The Motion Picture serious attention, too, in such social living even in an environ- iga graphed source lists and through in Education" by Prof. Fannie -rat courses as social psychology, ment which is much more con- course offerings, which include a W. Dunn and her associate, Etta curriculum, adult education, rural ducive to it than are the South |»i unit on "Photoplay Appreciation" Schneider. The role of the cinema education and many others. Sea Islands. lea* [December 15, 1937 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY 7

Watch For STILLS NOW AVAILABLE FILMS FOR THE ON THESE PICTURES Choir Boys Adventures of Robin Hood PUPIL AND TEACHER Adventures of Tom Sawyer Adventures Marco Polo At Movies .(Continued from Page 5). of Alice Adams ciety, establish their heredity, serves as an excellent illustra- Anthony Adverse traditions, education, etc? How tion of well-planned exposition. As You Like It (Continued from Page 1) is the leading character given The method of presenting the Bad Man of Brimstone to one that it will be the St. prominence and special emphasis credits, the background of appro- Benefits Forgot Luke's choristers. If a group of in the opening? priate music, the subtitle and the Buccaneer boys gathered about a campfire 6. Another question to sound effect of tolling bells lead Captain Blood bursts suddenly into captivating be con- sidered is: Do the opening scenes the spectator into the opening Come and Get It melody it will undoubtedly be naturally reveal past? without an obvious break in the Conquest this same junior group. the Or are they related as a mere artifice, atmosphere and mood. A thor- David Copperfield The wide-eyed youngsters in directed to the audience and not ough exposition of all points nec- Dead End the coronation scene in The to a person of the film? If the essary to the subsequent action Ebb Tide Prince and the Pauper who latter is true, does the action is achieved adroitly as the rising Gold Is Where You Find It lustily shouted "Vivat Edwardus seem to halt abruptly? action culminates in the corona- Good Earth Rex" and cheered the advent of tion scene. From this point to 7. Does the exposition suffi- Great Garrick the boy king were Long Beach the very ciently clear the decks for the conclusion of the film Heidi :hoir boys. So was the group the action? At what precise moment interest is maintained at all High Wide and Handsome in the church scenes in Beloved times. does the action enter the film? Hurricane Enemy and in Green Light. A After this entrance does the ac- In Old Chicago zroup of St. Luke's choristers, tion rise deliberately, with the NAVY BLUE AND GOLD Last Days of Pompeii Tiinus their surplices, sang some expository material running par- Life of Emile Zola of the brilliant Spanish music (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) allel with it? Does the action con- Little Minister tor the opening fiesta scenes in currently characterize? so, does In Little Women Jeanette MacDonald's The Fire- If Navy Blue and Gold three it also aid in an understanding separate distinct Lloyds of London fly. Other of their fresh young and openings of the story? Does the charac- serve Lost Horizon voices were effectively raised in as an expository device for terization precede or Maid of Salem he strains of "The Holy City" accompany identifying the central characters the action and thus create an and their Midsummer Night's Dream in San Francisco and again in characterizations, the emotional response in the specta- Mutiny on the Bounty he "Ave Maria" in Bobby place of the forthcoming action, tor? Parnell Breen's picture, Rainbow on the the time, atmosphere and mood. With the beginning Plainsman River. And it was St. Luke's 8. Select the first plainly de- of the main Prince clared dramatic situation. Does story the exposition is further and the Pauper Choristers, accompanied by a full Ramona -ymphony orchestra and organ, it suddenly spring forth or does aided by authentic scenery, cos- tumes, make-up Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm v'.-ho sang a Handel chorus and it grow quietly from its inception and navy proce- Romeo and Juliet >ther equally impressive music earlier in the film or in life dure. The montage showing the Scarlet Pimpernel n The Prisoner of Zenda. antecedent to the film? With this passing of a school year is per- entrance of the first dramatic fectly executed. Story of Louis Pasteur Spent Days at Malibu situation, is the interest hereto- Submarine D-l Tale Two Cities During the filming of Make a fore displayed in the artistry of SUBMARINE Dl of Wish, in which Bobby Breen was the settings, in the music, in the Treasure Island ilso starred, the boys spent sev- costumes and makeup of the (Warner Brothers) Victoria the Great eral days on location at Lake players and in the dialogue, Wells Fargo Beginning with atmospheric Malibu to record a number of transformed into dramatic inter- music and backgrounds for its Price $1.00 per set. ;ongs specially written for them est? Does the situation become — credits, Submarine D-l estab- >y Oscar Strauss. It was a St. the dramatic link between the Order through Motion Picture lishes quickly every necessary i.uke's Chorister, Master Allan opening and the film proper? Is Producers and Distributors of point of exposition as it concur- hurchill, at that time senior so- there an immediate audience re- America, Inc., 28 West 44th rently forwards the ;rano soloist of the Choristers, sponse? In other words, has the interest of Street, New York, N. Y. the audience to the first vho sang the soprano solos in film as drama begun? dramatic situation when the student sub- >oth San Francisco and A Tale This month excellent films some marine collides with a passing Concerning Snow White f Two Cities. present unusual opportunities for ship. Note, however, during this The reason why St. Luke's an analysis of exposition. sequence that the injected comedy horisters regard themselves as Few people who see Disney's is destructive of the scene's and the Seven o fortunate, however, is not en- Snow White VICTORIA THE GREAT mood. Other than this rather will realize tirely because they have the Dwarfs how much minor point the film moves to a Measures of intimate contact with (RKO Radio) work it occasioned. Disney em- highly dramatic finish while ex- he leading lights of Hollywood ployed 570 artists who drew a Victoria the Great, a docu- tending many valuable educa- r because they see pictures in total of 1,600,000 sketches. But mentary film, yet a picture of tional points on submarine war- he making. Their earnings 200,000 will find their way to the from unusual entertainment values, fare technique. heir film appearances enable screen. hem to spend an annual vaca- rival at the studio the boys go ion at some California resort themselves with music they have ture and the Family who attend to school for the required three here they enjoy hiking, horse- never seen before in a single re- motion pictures during Christmas hours. Since the choir is too large ack riding, swimming, baseball hearsal, as the recording is made week will hear and see these boy to accommodate in one of the the nd all sorts of outdoor sports, same day. choristers in a special Christmas regular studio schoolhouses, ta- rom the proceeds of their pic- The benefits to the choir as a trailer which has been made by bles and chairs are usually set jre engagements also comes the whole through these film engage- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to carry up upon some vacant stage. ;rvicing of their club room, On ments are memorable since they their holiday greetings to the one occasion, during the filming have enabled the 'hich is liberally stocked with boys to buy their world. Little Judy Garland will of San Francisco, school was held own music ae finest of games and a se- and hymnals and meet sing "Silent Night" with a choral in a wrecked house while the the full ated list of books and magazines expenses of their club background of boys' voices in earthquake scenes were in prog- room and camp. f high type. They have also four part harmony. The scene is ress. The boys themselves and Mr. made many gifts to the church, laid in St. Luke's Choristers consist of a church, appropriately William Ripley Dorr, who is di- including a beautiful stained decorated for Christmas, and the Cl first sopranos, 12 second so- rector of the Choristers, consider glass window. Individual boys in ranos, 10 first counter tenors, boys appear vestments. Thou- that their motion picture engage- have profited greatly by these sands of copies of the trailer will j second counter tenors, five first ments have educational and musi- sorties into the films. Many of be and will sent nd five second tenors, six bari- made be to prac- cal value, since before a record- them are purchasing their own >nes and six basses. tically every important theatre ing is made absolute perfection clothes with the money they earn in the world, so that St. Luke's As all of them are minors, each of performance must be achieved and several of them, who come Choristers will to all practical has by to have a permit for and that establishes a high musi- from families which could not intents give a Christmas message ;;udio work even though his en- cal standard for all the perform- have financed a college course, to all of Christendom. agement is only of one day ances of the choir. The boys also will be able to go on to college In the face of opportunities like iration. Educational regulations become very resourceful about solely as a result of their film these no wonder the boys regard .so have to be conformed to and reading music rapidly, since fre- experiences. Hollywood and the motion picture lerefore immediately upon ar- quently they have to familiarize Readers of The Motion Pic- industry as a fairy godmother. 8 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY December 15, 1937 Films Depict Extraordinary Epoch In American Council Will The Business History Shown In Film and Exhibit Try To Start Woman Fairly School Groups APPRECIATION goes to the DATE Delaware has no motion picture industry in TO COSTUITIES motion picture the report presented by Mrs. DDIT1ET0 LIFE appreciation ffS classes in its schools, and the Odessa Davis of Los Angeles, energetic, 10-year-old Better California, to mark the second Films anniversary of the organization Council, which has such of the Motion Picture Committee fine achievements to its credit in the motion of the California Federation of picture field, has undertaken Business and Professional Wom- to organize them. en's Clubs. This, and a course in training "Business and professional for its members on how to view women were featured in twenty- pictures in such fashion as to six pictures produced last year," extract from them the more im- Mrs. Davis reported. "In every portant social and educational, as one they were presented as well as entertainment values, con- charming, efficient, intelligent and stitute the two major projects of sartorially very smart. We must the year. The question raised in look to our laurels if employers a recent discussion of Dead End are to base the selection of their was whether it was merely a employees on the impression they repetition of the oldtime gang- gain from the screen secretary, ster picture or carried a definite nurse, teacher or librarian." social message. Summarizes Advantages Dramatic, acting, directional, musical of Reviewing and other values are studied in all major pictures. Mrs. Davis summarizes several In A panel from the "Wells Fargo" exhibit order to get the utmost value definite advantages to business out of the study and professional women which the Council imports motion picture that deals room days, read about the Pony a speaker every other have resulted from the formation ANY month, with an epic event in American Express, but few of us have while the program of the Motion Picture Committee. more of the inter- history is welcomed with enthusi- than a scattering recollection of vening month is devoted First among them she rates the to dis- asm these days not only by adults where it joined the railroad and cussion, with the members them- opportunity to describe the pro- but by that avid new film public where the long trek by stage selves in the role of film critics. gram and purposes of the Na- or composed of the boys and girls in covered wagon began. From an organization with tional Federation of Business and The map a the classrooms of the nation. which introduces the Wells Fargo small membership, started ten Professional Women's Clubs at That is why Paramount's Wells exhibit leaves us years ago and entirely financed luncheons and other functions in no doubt Fargo, which will have its premi- on that score, as by the chairman, the Wilmington given to national and internation- a replica of ere on December 22, is regarded the Brass Betsey which in Council has grown to a member- al leaders by the Community Ser- 1858 as an appropriate Christmas gift brought ship embracing many clubs, local vice Department of the industry. trans-continental tour- to the nation. It will strike a ists as far as Tipton, organizations and church groups, As second in importance she Kansas, is familiar chord in grandfather's reproduced in which meets all current expenses counts the opportunity to cooper- miniature to mark memory. It will interest father the spot. through annual dues. ate with other groups by associa- be- So, too, the map indi- cause it deals with the building cates all the Mrs. Edmund M. Barsham, tion with them in the Better various transporta- up of the great transportation tion routes of the founder of the Council, is now Films Council of Southern Cali- '40s, '50s and system which ultimately '60s. advisory chairman and Mrs. fornia as representative of the succeed- George E. Cox is chairman. Business and Professional Wom- ed the Pony Express as a means Once a study of the map is en. of trans-continental travel. And over, the exhibit turns to a de- it will appeal Third, but perhaps equally to the boys and piction of San Francisco in the Short Honored girls in the schoolroom MGM vital to the interests of her or- because days when gold mining went on ganization it is romantic history incarnate, the summit of what is today aris- is the favoi-able re- For the second time in film action in the with its locale in the California tocratic Nob Hill. Much at- press towards the history a short subject made es- business gold rush days, its adventurous tention is devoted to primitive and professional woman pecially for commercial exhibition as portrayed incidents of Pony Express riding, mining methods, to reproductions in the films, a re- has been incorporated into the action stage hold-ups and its story of of old stamps and playbills and based in part at least upon curriculum of a school system. the business the gradual development of a to photographs of some of the women's own evalu- The Los Angeles Board of Edu- ation of raw, new country into the Golden characters, now grown historic, the films about them cation has selected as a text sub- which West of today. who were the great men of the have been released in Hol- ject for the Division of Educa- lywood. Most of us, in our own class- day. For the future Mrs. tion Romance of Radium, a film Davis is suggesting that when short based on the discovery of pictures are released featuring a radium, with Pete Smith as com- business or professional woman mentator. This is a Metro-Gold- and presenting HOLLYWOOD LEXICON her in a particu- wyn-Mayer picture, like the larly favorable light, publicity be 6. Miscellaneous excerpts from single, previous short film hon- given to that fact in connection the film vocabulary ored in this way, which was The with news of clubs activities so Servant of the People, based on that ic AST month we told you in the all, but a small business women at large will spotlight with the framing of the American seize concentrated beam. the opportunity to see an ' Hollywood Lexicon what was Constitution. authentic film replica of One of the most easily under- them- the Hollywood meaning of "take". selves. standable film terms, so far as This Selected month we are defining derivation is concerned, is "iris Reading "takem"—which with true Holly- in, iris out". When a scene as- Another wood Library Has inconsistency has no rela- sumes its full proportions on the {Continued from Page 6) tion to "take". When a Holly- pany in An Oriental Exhibit screen through dilation of the recording fashions by." wood sophisticate refers to a camera lens from pin-point size, television. "takem" he means a player's it is an "iris-in". When it dis- New Books on Films (Continued from Page 1) facial reaction to an unexpected appears by the reverse process, it's Christian to the Philippines, their enthusi- Science Monitor, De- remark or situation, which is an "iris-out". asm aroused, loaned The name comes cember 7th: The New Technique some of their usually startled or humorous. In prized from the dilating and contracting of Screen Writing, by Tamar possessions. An extensive the old days the word was spelled of the iris of the eye. Lane, published by Whittlesey display of books on China by "take-'em". "Chase" is another widely used House, Pearl Buck served to stimulate New York — a practical Many unusual Hollywood terms Hollywood term. Often a director textbook interest in collateral reading, on how to write for the quite naturally refer to lighting will be heard saying while the Chinese that a pic- films by a man who has been curios kept the since this is such an important ture has too much "chase". In associated with writing depart- attention of film-goers focused on phase of film making. A '"rifle", that instance he invariably means ments of several Hollywood the film. in Hollywoodese, is not a gun at that it contains too much action. studios.

G|3||||ife> 493 PRINTED IN U. S. A.l The Motion Picture Comment on Current A Bulletin for All who Films by Librarians, are Interested in Better and Teachers, Community Motion Pictures The Family" Leaders

Vol. 4 JANUARY 15, 1938 No. 5 Extends Prep Production Of "Snow White" Education School Course Marks New Film Epoch And Films Into College Join Hands

comes an illustration EDUCATION and films joined AGAIN hands of the old adage "Great oaks on Friday, January 14th, to celebrate from little acorns grow," for Dr. an event of im- portance in Kent Pease, who last year con- filmdom, Cecil B. ducted a course on motion picture DeMille's 25th anniversary as a and radio appreciation at Ham- producer of motion pictures and the den, Connecticut, High School, is impending opening of his his- this year continuing his efforts torical epic, The Buccaneer. in the enlarged sphere of Spring- Under the sponsorship of the field College. Department of Arts and Sciences Designed for teachers and of Columbia University, notables based on the interests of con- of the film, literary, club and sumers, the Springfield course, society worlds gathered at a to borrow Dr. Pease's own luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria phraseology, "rejects the elabo- in New York. Will H. Hays, presi- rate study of individual programs dent of the Motion Picture Pro- and attempts to aid the pupils ducers and Distributors of Ameri- in finding out their entertain- ca, Inc., presided as toastmaster, ment interests." It will work out and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, the criteria by which the pupils president of Columbia Univer- themselves feel that such enter- sity, not only dignified the occa- tainment should be judged and sion by his attendance, but also then demonstrate how to apply gave a stirring address in which these criteria in the actual judg- he pointed out the great strides ing of movie and radio programs. One of the most engaging scenes from "Snow White," in which the that had been made in film pro- •princess and the dwarfs make merry. duction and the very close rela- Will Score Use Card tionship of present-day films to As an aid in doing so, Dr. Pease ONCE in a while there is an A third has happened within education. will make use of score cards event in the motion picture the past month with the release Present Script to Library similar to those employed in the world which may truly be called of Walt Disney's first feature- Hamden course. These are some epochal. Such an occasion was the length, Technicolor, animated A significant feature of the oc- of the queries which will be launching of D. W. Griffiths' cartoon, Snow White and the casion was the presentation to the raised and will figure in the Birth of a Nation. Still another Seven Dwarfs. So many volumes New York Public Library of an evaluation of "movies of ro- was the memorable evening in will be written about the antics embossed script of Mr. DeMille's latest film, mance" : 1929 when Al Jolson's voice was of the merry little men, so many which records the ex- briefly heard 1. Story: New combinations of in The Jazz Singer tears will be shed about the tem- (Continued on Page 6) old items or ideas. and the era of talking pictures porarily sad fate of the little was born. (Continued (Continued on Page 2) on Page 4) Chicagoland Council Helps 30,000 Homes Atlanta Greets De Mille Picture Exhibit Sacramento Board With Great Enthusiasm Stirs N. Y. Readers Holds The Better Films Council of Anniversary Chicagoland set a goal of 30,000 A triumphal visit to Atlanta by families for its third annual fine phase of library-film L'ecil DeMille to mark the launch- A The early part of January Movie Basket Party which is cooperation ing of his film, The Buccaneer, is instanced by the marked an important anniver- given in cooperation with local n the southern city is reported New York Public Library, which sary in the better films move- theatres, and on Christmas morn- during December and January ment. Seventeen years ago the (Continued on Page 4) ing the tired but happy individ- has been displaying stills from news was flashed all over the uals who constitute the Council The Life and Loves Beethoven United States that a Better Film ^ilms of were inclined to believe that it Reviewed (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 4) had not only been reached but In Current Issue exceeded. Function of the Council in this Films reviewed in the current Business And Professional Women's Clubs annual Christmas venture is to ssue of the Motion Picture and pack and deliver the baskets, ^he Family include: The Boss Of California Plan Film Exhibit after generously inclined Chica- Didn't Say "Good Morning" goans have paid their way into a special morning performance fMGM), page 7; Boy of the the first time in history, display space at the Convention. FOR by donations of non-perishable streets (Monogram), page 6; motion pictures attended the The primary reason for the ad- foodstuffs. task that Hollywood Hotel (Warner Bros.), Convention of the National Fed- vent of films at this particular And what a proved this year with the highest >age 8; Snow White and the eration of Business and Profes- time was the formation of a pre- attendance ever rolled for a Seven Dwarfs (Disney-RKO sional Women's Clubs in Atlantic view group representing the Fed- up function of this iadio), page 7; Thoroughbreds City last July. A six panel ex- eration of Business and Profes- type. jon't Cry (MGM), page 6; Tov- hibit illustrating how modern sional Women's Clubs of Califor- The Chicagoland enterprise is rich (Warner Bros.) page 6; films interpret the business and nia to see and evaluate, films in perhaps the largest community nd Wells Fargo (Paramount), professional woman to screen West Coast projectfoh rooms enterprise of its kind in the age 6. audiences was given prominent (Continued on Page 2) United States. THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY January 15, 1938 Theatre Mgr. FILMS FOR THE Extends Prep Develops Fine PUPIL AND TEACHER School Course Cooperation By Harold Turney Into College Chairman of the Department of Drama, Los Angeles Junior College TO Lester Lockwood, former AFTER the opening scenes of pending tragedy to the leading (Continued from Page 1) manager of the Lido Theatre a motion picture have given character. When this tragedy oc- 2. Interest: Sustained without Ijl in the Bronx, New York City, us quickly the "who," "when," curs we accept it without an ar- being tiresome. and now promotion manager for "where," "why," and "what" of gument because we have anticipat- 3. Love Element: Intelligent the Levy Circuit, goes credit for the story, something dramatic oc- ed its arrival. How it was to hap- and not "wishy-washy". clearly defined; 4. a particularly effective plan for curs. In other words, the plot be- pen had not been Actors : Convincing portray- i tying films into the school cur- gins gradually to unfold before only the fact that it would hap- al of part rather than mere taken riculum and at the same time our eyes and ears. This devel- pen was evident. So we are superficial resemblance. confidence of the story- giving the schools the benefit of opment arouses our interest and into the 5. Ending: Must not sacrifice teller, allowed to peep into the the best that feature films have increases that interest step by story to technique. future and to feel more keenly 6. Technique: to offer along educational lines. step towards the climax. Each Must not sacri- than the character feels, because fice story to technique. Keenly interested in the educa- successive stage is arranged in logical order, one after the other, we know more of the future than 7. Backgrounds accurate and tional possibilities of ' films, Mr. and we become absorbed in the he knows. Simultaneously, how- not obtrusive. Lockwood first developed a co- ever, these fingers of preparation These are the questions that operative project with the French story. arouse our curiosity and the de- will be asked regarding detective departments of Bronx high Preparation for Film Study velopment partially satisfies it, and mystery movies: schools. He submitted to the In order to accomplish this suc- but never completely so, until the 1. Story: Plausible and well heads of these departments a cessfully the preparation lays the culmination of the action. worked out. list of French films which might foundation for all important Occasionally certain points of 2. Suspense: Must be unusual, available for special be made forthcoming events through the preparation are given too much and not too complicated. Saturday morning showings. The use of the film's established back- emphasis and become stronger, 3. Relief: Various kinds of re- they teachers selected those which grounds, coupled with their prop- dramatically, than the actual lief must appear in the picture. to class- thought best adapted erties and lighting; the selected event, or they are too obvious and 4. Characterization: Suitable room needs and experimental characters, with their costumes, we solve the outcome before we casting and dialogue. showings drew a big audience makeup, acting, business and should. Conversely, situations are 5. Tempo and Recurrence : Suf- and developed a keen student in- characterization; the dialogue; often presented without sufficient ficient for interest but not fatigu- terest. the music and sound effects. Each preparation or are introduced ing. Experiment Started of these blends naturally into the too far ahead of the event for 6. Settings: Appropriate to the in French Classes framework of the whole picture; our memories to reassemble story. Many classroom and extra cur- for example, the makeup blends quickly the necessary informa- 7. Endings: Fresh, yet socially ricular activities are growing out into the costume, the costume in- tion. When the former is true we acceptable. of the experiment. Pupils are to the setting and these into the are distracted from our enjoy- Similar score cards will be reading, outside school hours, the plot. Likewise, the other phases ment and brought back to our used for other types of films. books upon which the films are of preparation merge together surroundings. In the latter case In explaining the viewpoint based, or correlated material. and we are able to enter vicari- we must use our mental processes that motivated the course, Dr. Knowledge of French history and ously into the spirit of the story- for determining the gaps in the Pease says: customs is being promoted telling, without being jolted into story and a portion of our en- "Producers are in the business through the classroom discussion a critical attitude by distracting joyment is lost. of entertainment and not in the which follows the showing of matters. Minor points of comedy, char- business of education. Thought- each film. The film dialogue is At the same time fingers of acterization, retrospection, music- fully considered, the statement used as the basis for exercises dialogue, pantomime, business, al interpolations and the develop- implies that whatever is good box in conversational French. properties or sound effects point ment of secondary plots should be office has a legitimate place in Encouraged by the success of towards future events and thus treated so lightly in the film that movie and radio businesses. Those while they are interesting and this project, Mr. Lockwood is now logically motivate the action as programs which are primarily entertaining to us at the moment, in the process of developing sim- it progresses; for instance, a line educational have little real appeal ilar cooperation with the History of dialogue may hint of an im- (Continued on Page 7) to the average audience. It is and Economics departments of only in its largest sense that pro- one of the leading Bronx high ducers are interested in education. schools. A list has been assembled Business And Professional Women's Clubs When outside agencies attack the talking pictures which film and the radio script for their of all of California Plan Film Exhibit might be available for special failure to give proper education, Saturday morning showings. such agencies are failing to un- derstand the producers' Teachers of the History and (Continued from Page 1) ter for 20th Century-Fox; Dor- problem." With this belief in mind, the Economics departments are en- prior to their public release. Now othy Arzner, only woman direc- Springfield course is planned to gaged in checking those which the West Coast preview group tor in Hollywood; Phyllis Laugh- help teachers to establish classes they would most like to see re- has taken a leaf from the page ton, M.G.M. dramatic coach, who in appreciation in which the vived. Special performances of of Convention history and with has taught many incipient stars pupils will have opportunity to these films are being arranged. the cooperation of the West Coast the way to film fame; Nathalie make their own judgements Teachers will canvass their classes office of the Motion Picture Pro- Bucknall, titled Russian who es- during the Revolution and freed from the control of authori- and make sure that a represent- ducers & Distributors of Ameri- caped became the head of M.G.M.'s Re- ties or teacher-prejudices; to dis- ative number of students will ca, Inc., has evolved a film ex- will be search Department; Edith Far- cuss these opinions thoroughly pledge to attend. Study guides hibit of its own which of peripatetic character and rell, head of the Script Depart- with their fellows to arrive at and other correlated material will some common agreements; and travel to district meetings ment at M.G.M. ; Miss Fanchon, be provided in quantity whenever throughout California. Paramount producer; Frances finally to use these opinions in it is available and the films will Unlike the Atlantic City exhibit Edwards, head of the dining room judging the pictures that they be definitely integrated into the this will not only deal with the at M.G.M.; Edith Head, costume would and do see. curriculum through classroom business woman as she is pictured originator at Paramount; Nan The method used in the course discussion. in the films, but also with some Blake, publicity woman at R.K.O., is based entirely upon the ex- The project distinct ad- has of the women who are responsi- and Dolly Tree, designer at MGM. periential backgrounds of the in- vantages both for the industry ble for technical phases of film The panels which deal with the dividual pupils. Types of pro- and for the schools. It taps makiag or, in production and other business woman as she is shown grams are studied for their nec- latent educational resources in fields, make film history. on the modern screen are three essary elements and score cards films which are no longer cur- Among the women who are in number. One is devoted to are elaborated for judging groups rent and gives them a lengthened honored in this fashion will be: pioneer women; another to en- of pictures or broadcasts. commercial value. It enlivens and Frances Cary Richardson, libra- tertainers who have found film Dr. Pease claims for the course romanticizes classroom subjects rian and head of the Research De- fame, with Sonja Henie, various an independence of thinking on which without this powerful new partment of 20th Century-Fox; Metropolitan Opera stars and one the part of individuals and a medium for stimulating interest Paula Walling, French teacher or two ballet dancers included; method that will carry over into might become dry and unprovoca- for Shirley Temple; Gwen Wak- and the third to women who are the actual enjoyment and appre- tive and so has a distinct educa- eling, stylist for 20th Century- prominent in the medical or nurs- ciation of programs as seen later tional value. Fox; Barbara McLean, film cut- ing fields. by the pupils.

i January 15, 1938 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY

Shows Social Film Exhibit Theme Films W H AT'S NEXT IN HOLLYWOOD? Invades Dept. To Students Store Centre By Alice Ames Winter HARDLY a mail comes into the CLOSE is the present-day office of the Motion Picture MOVIEDOM is at present Of oldsters, dear May Robson and SO alliance between the home and Producers and Distributors of swept with a passion for Walter Brennan are in the cast. motion pictures that the Family America, Inc., these days that laughter. Perhaps never in our Now that he has made his Information Center of Jordan does not bring news of some time has the public so longed for debut in pictures Tommy looks Marsh Company in Boston, which significant correlation of educa- that "escape" which comedy gives. forward to his own personal and specializes in exhibits illustrating tion or social service with the So we have delicate wit, clever private ambition. "If I can be a phases of home life, has just pre- films. absurdities, approach to horse- movie star for a few years, I sented an exhibit on films titled Dr. Howard M. LeSourd, pio- play, mingling of music, dance can save enough money to go to In the Interest of Good Movies. neer in appreciating and calling and farce, thus covering almost college and play baseball," he The emphasis was placed both attention to the social values of every phase of laugh-begetting. says. So we remember Jackie upon the value of pictures as a motion pictures, has recently had And there is likely to be much Coogan. stimulus to family discussion of the inspiring experience of pre- more of this type of product. historical, literary and current senting films as a basis for ethi- It is a long swing from classic topics, and upon the responsibility cal discussion to a group of rep- Meanwhile, however, other Tom Sawyer to classic Marco of parents, teachers and civic resentatives of five hundred uni- more serious pictures take form. Polo, the first great traveling leaders to give youth and adults versities at Oxford, Ohio. His Of course there are occasional salesman and adventurer of the more intelligent guidance in the impressions of the student con- fairy stories among the successes world, who back in the 13th Cen- selection and appreciation ference are given of Hollywood, even tury took the three-year journey of below with the but what photoplays. hope that they will stimulate looks to the public like sudden from Venice to China, and told his adventures so colorfully that similar experiments elsewhere leaping from obscurity to fame Many Organizations even though on a less pretentious is neither so swift nor so easy he was considered the prize liar Furnished Material scale. as it seems. Given that intangi- of all time, until later centuries ble something that captures the confirmed his marvelous tales. Among the organizations which The National Assembly of Stu- affections and applause of the You can't believe it, but it's so. furnished material for the ex- This is the dent Christian Associations which public, there must be added to it very substance of hibit were Motion Picture Pro- met at Miami University in plenty of self disciplinary hard moving picture material. But no ducers and Distributors of Ameri- Oxford, Ohio, during the holidays work. So we await the screen ap- one realized it until Samuel Gold- ca, Inc., Newton Motion Picture gave significant recognition to pearance of Tommy Kelly, chosen wyn came along. Mr. Goldwyn Council and the Division of Mo- belongs motion pictures as resource ma- after brief surveys of 25,000 pos- to that smallish Holly- tion Pictures of the Massachusetts sible wood group who have a genius Federation terials for their campus pro- boys and more intensive of Women's Clubs. In- . for the grams. Along with a variety of tests of over 500, to play Tom unusual, the dramatic, the eluded in the display material other features, the use of motion Sawyer in Selznick's new version soul-stirring. It is worth noting were exhibits of Romeo and Juliet that he swings pictures as a spring-board for the of that beloved tale—chosen be- from the tragedy and The Adventures of Tom Saw- of youth in discussion of vital personal, poli- cause he seems to be the actual Dead End and the yer, study guides on important melodrama of the tical, economic and social prob- Tom. Tousled hair, a captivating South Seas in recent films, copies of The Motion Hurricane, lems was presented by the writer grin, twinkling eyes were among to this impossible haz- Picture and the Family and of ard of "far Cathay". from two to four each afternoon Tommy Kelly's assets. And now The mind of Selected Motion Pictures, the pub- such a man does in and from nine-thirty to eleven he has gone through months of not run ruts. lication which carries evaluations each evening. pretty severe training—to make So now we have this fighting of East and West Coast preview him not only "be" but "seem to be" cock of an Italian boy, athletic, groups, and classroom posters for Room Crowded at Sessions —that is to act. There have been fearless, seeking danger, son of Servant of the People, 100 Men The room was crowded at all other versions of Tom Sawyer, great traders, plunging for sev- and a Girl, Victoria the Great, enteen into these sessions and the discussion of course, but every few years it years the life, the The Life of Emile Zola and Con- politics, was eager and keenly analytical. must be re-told. This time it will the hatreds and loves, the quest. The display was arranged That this group naturally related come in color. There are good wars and stratagems of Kublai in a modern and appropriately Khan, greatest .he situations portrayed in the reasons why, in this case, it was of Chinese em- decorated "silver screen" room picture to the problems which better to film the picture largely perors. While research people which had been devised with the :hey considered in the commission in the studio, where light can be have been delving into interior approval of the Modern School studies demonstrated far better regulated; so trees and sod, flow- China, a land that preserves of Applied Art. The exhibit was .ban an explanation the practic- ers and bushes, cat-tails and traditions and ancient goods, endorsed by important education- ality of the use of motion pic- water lilies must be kept exqui- bringing back astonishing con- al groups, including schools, col- tures in setting forth problems sitely fresh in order that their firmatory weapons and accesso- leges and social agencies. ries, here n which students are vitally in- color will reproduce. There must Hollywood is speeding The Family Information Center up a gorgeous spectacle-melo- erested. even be a gentle wind machine of the Jordan Marsh Company is drama. Presentations centered around to keep leaves stirring and grass- And won't Gary Cooper a unique institution whose fame have hree types of pictures: first, the es rustling, so that backgrounds fun playing the daredevil is becoming widespread. Governed with xcerpts from feature photoplays shall not be dead, motionless a head on his shoulders! In- by a governing board made up of cidentally rhich present practical, every things. Because of their color Marco Polo will intro- leaders in the various social wel- ay problems for discussion suit- accuracy, it has been necessary duce to film audiences Sigrid fare agencies and councils of to Gurie, is ble for class room projection, get dog-eared old school books, who expected to leap Greater Boston and the State it lince such pictures are not avail- books of 90 years ago when boys into stardom in her performance acts as a clearing house for prob- ble for general distribution studied "The American of Princes Kukachin. Me I like lems relating ! now, Intellec- — to family life. It hey were used as examples of tual Arithmetic". Around the battles and perils back in the 13th also provides up to date refer- roblems appearing in the gen- boy star are gathered others Century, even if I hate them in ence material and opportunity for ral run of theatre offerings. whose names are better known, the 20th. consultation regarding personal A second type of presentation not only Jackie Moran, but a problems or educational careers. And so to swing 'as the theatrical "short", which dozen children who are the next back the cur- Thousands of visitors from tain to other resented a subject in one or two generation of stars of yesterday, adventurers, this forty states and eighteen foreign eels. some 50 boys countries Because of the high stand- and girls in all. {Continued on Page 4) have already made use rd that has been attained in of this service, offered by New Dme of these productions, they England's largest department It was pointed out that advance of the pictures. 'ere enthusiastically received. Sets of posters store. Many of these states The information concerning the and com- on outstanding pictures were dis- some foreign countries lieges and universities which ing of pictures were rep- presenting vital played as publicity possibilities resented o not have regular theatre pro- personal and in the hundreds of visi- social issues could and discussion promoters. tors who jction facilities can see these be secured, saw the film exhibit. and that selected pic- Based on the reactions of the lorts in the theatre and use tures could be lem advertised as a students a new wealth of interest- R.K.O. Radio as bases for discussion in basis for student Pictures are of- assembly dis- ing and stimulating material was fering what ie campus meetings. cussion. For appears likely to be samples, copies of thus brought to the attention of another The third type of presentation Selected Motion notable combination. Pictures, study student leaders throughout the Leopold as a discussion of the possibil- guides, and Stokowski, symphony The Motion Picture country—an interest which will 7 of using feature pictures as and the conductor, is preparing the musi- Family were distributed take practical form in many uni- appear in the local cal score for Walt Disney's new theatres. as indicating resources on some versity centers. short, The Sorcerer's Apprentice. THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY January 15, 1938 MGM'S Epic WHO'S WHO IN Film Exhibit Sends Girl BETTER FILMS Stirs Readers

To College (Continued from Page 1) Holly- playing dolls she was devising HERE is another of in twenty-eight branches. Thirteen schemes to make money. Her first naval wood's "women in the news". stills chosen by a committee of MGM made its venture was a brother-sister act WHEN She isn't a motion picture star, librarians make up the exhibit. epic, Navy Blue and Gold, in which she played the piano and that but a few months ago she Available to those whose interest it probably little anticipated the youthful Marco the violin for distinction of be- is stirred by the pictures is a an aspiring young student or achieved the the moderate fees one might ex- screen capital's only selected list of books about students would be able to go on coming the pect from lodge entertainments producer. Beethoven. to college as a result of the woman and church socials. With the pro- production of the film. If we men- ceeds, and by selling subscriptions Some of the librarians have Navy Blue and Gold, however, tioned her full for a Los Angeles newspaper, she added to the effectiveness of the will constitute the program for name you raised enough money to pay her exhibit by displaying also books the third annual motion picture wouldn't even tuition to dramatic school. She about the master musician. This College benefit given by the recognize it. went to the school alone but she particular device has not proven Women's Club of Montclair, New She goes by the kept brother Marco in mind. too successful, however, since the scholar- Jersey, to increase its title of Miss Everything she learned she passed demand for the books was so ship fund. Since the fund was Fanchon. Usu- on to him, till presently the two great that they had to be con- ago, established a quarter century ally it's still were equipped to make their stantly removed and replaced. seventy local girls have received debut as a dancing team. While further short- Assistance in preparing the ex- gifts of money which have en- to Fan- they were at work in a restaurant ened hibits was given by the office of abled them to continue their col- for be- in San Francisco Fanchon dis- Miss Fanchon chon, the Circulation Department of the lege educations. Book sales, gar- covered the flair which has * <> re she was a Paramount : , New York Public Library, located den tours and many other fund- producer she brought her into the ranks of producer in the main Library at 5th Ave- raising method were used — and was a member Hollywood producers. She had, it occasionally be- nue and 42nd Street. are still invoked — of the famous dancing team of seemed, an ability not only to fore the potentialities of movies Fanchon and Marco. pick, but to train talent, and she as educational money makers be- launched, under the aegis of Fan- Her career is not only an in- evident. The motion picture chon and Marco, a number of Sacramento Board came spiration to other women who benefit has been a big feature of artists who ultimately became want to write a success story in scholarship fund activities for stars in their own right. Mary Holds Anniversary headlines or electric lights. It is the last three years, and from the Lewis, afterwards of Metropoli- also a convincing demonstration percentage received by members tan Opera fame, Williams and that character is just as likely to (Continued from Page 1) of the club on tickets they have Vanessi, vaudeville headliners, flower among the artifices of Hol- a goodly sum has been raised. and Myrna Loy were among Board was being organized at sold, lywood as amid the rugged peaks them. Sacramento, California, to coop- of Colorado or on the rockbound erate with theatre managers. The coast of Maine. For Miss Fan- Came an episode in which Fan- What's Next In slogan adopted was "Advertise chon was born in nearby Los An- chon and Marco were producing the the best pictures in order to make Hollywood? geles, yet her success is a monu- not one show but many, with them pay the best." This was the ment to a determination which is whole Pacific Coast as their field, and a later day when they had first film board of the type ever ' (Continued from Page 3) rare among either men or women, simul- organized. Its work has so pro- and a patent proof that it is not three score or more shows time in the persons of Stanley and the country. gressed that today Sacramento only the small town girl, but the taneously touring \ Livingstone, whose filming by can truthfully be called "a city big town girl, as well, who oc- That was when Fanchon at- 20th Century-Fox involved a five casionally "makes good". tracted the attention of the film of clean motion pictures." safari into the African months magnates, for Hollywood always The telephone has been the ef- - of An impoverished childhood in jungle and the reproduction has an eye for talent. As a dance fective instrument which has car- explor- a family with many children was the trail followed by the director for the films she first ried the gospel of better films times what really launched Fanchon on ers. Back from old down demonstrated her skill for sensing to all residents. her career. She couldn't bear to be Sacramento At to today is the never-ending suc- stellar possibilities and for de- the monthly luncheon meeting in a stifled atmosphere with a cession of adventurous, undaunted veloping stars. Then Hollywood paucity of the things that go each delegate obligates herself to spirits, and always the tale of ready to put the reins of pro- towards easy and graceful living. was make ten telephone calls promot- their lives fills the rest of us with duction in her hands. Today she ing a Nor could she bear to have her good pictures, using as belief in the unconquerable- new is creating for the screen beauty guide the list announced the pi little brother, Marco, suffer simi- by ness of the human race. Chairman, Josephine r larly. So while other girls were (Continued on Page 8) Mrs. Haug. Sacramento residents rely upon fa And now to come home. A part this telephone service as their L of our own history is the story film Bible. of the rascal-pirate-free-lance Production of "Snow White" man of chivalry, who changed Marks New Film Epoch the course of our history, Jean Atlanta Greets De Mille Lafitte, of Gulf of Mexico fame. In The Buccaneer Cecil DeMille, (Continued fr om Page 1) With Great Enthusiasm who never fails to catch high Princess, and so many sighs of American will probably see the drama on the wing and color it joy will be breathed by audiences film for himself or herself. What he (Continued from Page 1) with swift emotions, is giving a when she is at last freed from may not discover when he sees the Richardson, Sec- part answer to the question, the spell of the Wicked Queen celluloid classic, however, are these by Mrs. Alonzo Review, "What would have happened to that anything which could be facts which indicate that a full retary of the Board of Atlanta's pioneers in the United States if the pirate written about it here would be length color cartoon is no mere and one of the better films movement. had not come to the rescue?" superfluous. incident of motion picture pro- The scene above, in which the duction but a task of epic propor- As a result of the fine preli- of Atlanta's Still closer home. How much do dwarfs first discover the presence tions, and knowledge of them minary campaign adherents, the affair we dare to make picture stories of Snow White in their little may add to his enjoyment. better films all the atmosphere of a New about men, heroes or villains, who house, is a typical keynote for Snow White was three years had DeMille was still live? For the Paramount pic- the film. Note the varying expres- in the making. It cost $1,500,000. York premiere. Mr. the ture, Spawn of the North, the film sions on the faces of the little One million sketches were drawn, greeted at the station by Ma- the troupe have gone to Alaska, al- men and you will gain some idea from which 250,000 were cho- yor and taken to his hotel in most losing their lives when a of how cleverly Disney has dif- sen for the final film. An orches- official car, with candid cameras great ice cap of the Juneau Gla- ferentiated his characters and tra of eighty musicians provided covering the entire journey. cier cracked within twenty feet made each a real person. the musical background. Five Two hundred and fifty repre- of their speeding boat. They have Snow White's premiere at the hundred seventy artists worked sentative citizens attended a din- turned inland to catch the great Carthay Theatre in Hollywood on the production, the list in- ner in his honor the night before silver hordes, glittering in the was one of the most brilliant in cluding 32 animators, 102 assist- the opening of the film. waters at spawning time. Mean- the annals of motion pictures. ants, 167 "in-betweeners" who The house was entirely sold out radio broad- while, they are a little startled The success was repeated at the filled in the less consequential for the premiere and to meet the real men whom they Radio City Music Hall in New bits of action, 20 layout artists, casts and newsreels helped to think of as subjects of fiction. York. Sooner or later every and 25 water color artists. make the occasion memorable. January 15. 1938 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY 5 Tribute Paid To GRIST Mothers Look Character Folk FOR THE On Film Worker By The Observer LIBRARIAN'S MILL As Good Fairy WHO are the Parliament mem- bers, the insurance brokers, By Richard James Hurley MOTHERS in Allegheny :he senators, doctors, judges, mer- Librarian Roslyn, N. Y., High School County, Pennsylvania, look chants and millionaires of the upon Mrs. Samuel B. Cuthbert of films you see? Hollywood's very THE movies aim to please the and New Orleans. An exhibit of Pittsburgh as a sort of fairy existence depends IF upon a group librarians, and we presume they excellent panels from the Motion godmother to their numerous of little-known men and women do, they have done royally this Picture Producers & Distributors brood. 9 whose faces are familiar to the month. For the elementary grades of America is available for this Thanks to her efforts, for the public, but whose names are rare- Walt Disney's Snow White and movie. last three years the children of ly remembered. These are the Allegheny County have been guar- the Seven Dwarfs, full-length For the junior-senior high character actors and actresses anteed at least one day's delight- Technicolor production, will hold school girls, Rebecca of Sunny- who surround the glamourous per- ful entertainment every week un- the stage. Around the stills and brook Farm, starring Shirley sonalities and are the foundation colored in der proper supervision, while their reproductions found Temple, is made to order. This upon which the star structure parents have had an opportunity Life and other magazines can be happy story by Kate Douglas rests. to take a brief holiday from pa- grouped books of myths, legends Wiggin should be given publicity, Many of them came originally, folklore, which prophesy rental duties. March 6th marks and I for the book is a prime favorite and contine to come, from the the third anniversary of the in- will have considerable attention and an easy tie-up can be made. New York stage, from stock com- from the older classes and from auguration of the Junior Mati- panies and from Little Theater adults, as well, for Walt Disney As something of a follow-up nees which are held every Satur- groups. Many have been in pic- has a universal appeal. to Wells Fargo, we are promised day in 59 motion picture theatres a picture of the opening of the in Pittsburgh. tures for almost the entire life For the Junior High and yes, Chisholm Trail and the driving Chairman of the Motion Pic- of the screen. Some were stars the seniors, too, The Buccaneer of herds of cattle from Texas to ture Division of the Allegheny of another day. will ring the bell. This story of Kansas City during the Recon- County Federation of Women's Jean Lafitte, the pirate-patriot Guild Lists 2,000 Seniors struction Period. Other Clubs, Mrs. Cuthbert is the who became a hero at the Battle historical movies scheduled or in prepara- "mother" of the idea. Since she The Screen Actors Guild lists of New Orleans, has much to offer. tion are Northwest Passage, Gone instituted the Junior Matinees in about 2,000 on its Senior List, There is first the considerable with the Wind and Drums Along Pittsburgh the project has spread which includes stars, featured number of books written on pi- the Mohawk, dealing with events throughout the state, with an and contract players and impor- rates. M. V. Charnley has writ- in American history; The Rise average attendance of 2,200 child- tant free lance players. Of these ten a life of Lafitte, and Stockton of Disraeli and Marie Antoinette for ren every Saturday morning in only about 100 are stars. When includes him in Buccaneers and Europe. The latter offers excel- hundreds of motion picture hous- one is a star, as you well know, Pirates of Our Coasts. General lent integration with A Tale of es. Pittsburgh tops the record his or her name is billed above books include Stevenson's Treas- Two Cities and to some extent with 4,000 children in the audi- the name of the picture. All oth- ure Island, Calahan's Back to with Conquest, the movie featur- ence every Saturday morning in irs follow in the cast list, or are Treasure Island, Paine's Black- ing life one of its leading theatres. With beard Buccaneer, Shannon's Taw- the of Napoleon. .isted as special "featured names" such a strong bond between thea- nymore, French's Great Pirate just beneath the picture title. For the literary minded we tre managers and their juvenile Stories, DriscolFs Doubloons, offer The There are, then, about 1900 char- Adventures of Robin patrons, it was to be anticipated Wilkin's Pirate acter players with whose faces Treasure, Pyle's Hood, Pride and Prejudice, The that Pittsburgh theatres would Book Pirates, Gilbert's School 3nd voices you are more or less of for Scandal, Stevenson's play the role of Santa Claus to Boys' Tamiliar. But how many can you Book of Pirates, Saba- Kidnaped and O. Henry's Dr. Pittsburgh juniors throughout the tini's Captain Blood and Hawes' Rhythm. :all by name when you see them? Bambi, that beloved holidays. All the Warner Thea- Dark Frigate. Second, we have to story of a family of deer, is I "Talking pictures have made tres held special morning shows offer the historical Hollywood the Mecca of the char- angle of the scheduled, as is the life of Mme. for children, distributing candy War of 1812, most of which is Curie, tcter actor," says Lionel Barry- Jack London's Sea Wolf, and toys. On the morning of De- to be found in general histories. Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. nore, who explains it this way: Chips and cember 24th the nine Harris Third, there is the travel and Cronin's social problem novel, Tn silent days all plays were the Brothers Theatres had a free descriptive material on Louisiana best-seller, Citadel. ibout adolescent love, and a boy matinee for children attended by md a girl were the central fig- ten to twelve thousand of Pitts- burgh's ires. But when the screen spoke, "Character players are having to school for weeks and learned younger generation. All the mdiences found incongruous the a field day just now," writes a the silent language so that he independent theatres likewise ophisticated lines coming liter- studio correspondent, "commit- might play the part convincingly. presented special children's per- formances. .lly from the mouths of babes. ting grand larceny of scenes, and Again, cast as a violinist in a role Characters apparently capable of having more emphasis placed on so small that many actors would reating the thoughts in the lines their parts than ever before. The have considered it too unimpor- "Bowery" types, rough seamen, hen came into demand." fact is pointed up by a decision tant to think twice about, Tamiroff college football types, mechanics, Today the character player's of Cecil B. DeMille to build up took violin lessons and practiced trained horsemen or bearded for hours peasant types are all grist jot in Hollywood is a compara- scenes of Akim Tamiroff, Walter and weeks so that he for the ively happy one. These players Brennan, Hugh Sothern and would know how to handle the mill. Each is essential for the instrument particular .ork steadily, with many finding Frank Melton—all of whom are when the time came. need of the story, and featured with Fredric March neither can supplant the other in : more profitable to work as Junior List Even Larger importance. free lance" players, not under and Franciska Gaal, co-stars of The wage scale for The Buccaneer with addition- On the Screen Actors Guild extras in large numbers for mis- 'ontract to any one studio, due to — al and close-ups." Junior List, supplementing the cellaneous crowds ranges from he steady demand for their ser- dialogue Sothern, taken from a Federal Senior list mentioned above, are $5.50 a day to $16.00 a day for ces. Their contribution to the Theater group to play the role some 12,000 additional names, what are known as "dress extras", icture as a whole is definitely of Andrew Jackson because of men, women and children, who or those who own their own ex- ognized by the producers. his unusual likeness to "old for the most part make up the tensive wardrobes. You see them Lside from providing the neces- Hickory," has had his part ex- ranks of the "extras," with here occupying the stadium seats in a ary characters for the picture, tended to include many more lines and there an opportunity to speak football picture, for example. le experienced ones are of great and scenes than were called for a line or portray some expression Those high up on the bleachers ilue in initiating the beginners in the original script. Akim before the cameras. These people are simply the "human furniture" ho will be the stars of tomor- Tamiroff, a product of the Rus- understand that the nature of of the background. In the boxes ^w. On the sets can be seen sian Theater, offers an interest- their work is purely "casual", below, or surrounding the prin- juthful players like Florence ing example of the deserved suc- that there is little hope of more cipal players, perhaps, there may ice, Judy Garland, Cecilia Par- cess which crowns earnest en- than an occasional day's work. In be more important personages, :T, or Brent Sargent listening to deavor, intelligence and thor- most cases an extra player is en- such as the mayor of the city, ie wisdom of a Harry Daven- oughness in this field of character gaged as a "type", to lend atmos- leading sportsmen, or important, >rt, a King Baggott, a Herbert acting. When he first came to phere to the action of a motion well-dressed business men. The awlinson, or some other vet- Hollywood and started playing picture. Here acting ability plays day's pay for these dignitaries an. The old-timers are glad to bits, he had one small scene in no part whatever; type is the runs a little higher, to cover the •lp these youngsters in their ad- which he played a deaf and dumb basic requirement. Here, "gentle- necessary upkeep of wardrobe re- mce toward stardom. man. For this brief role he went men of the distinguished mien", quirements. THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY January 15, 1938 Education Thumbnail LESSONS from the MOVIES And Films Presented for the Committee on Social Values in Reviews Of Motion Pictures by Howard M. Le Sourd,Ph.D., Dean Join Hands of Boston University Graduate School, Chairman. Late Films

(Continued from Page 1 1) TOVARICH to be heard before being con- C VALUATIONS and audience 1 ploits of Jean Lafitte, the New (Warner Bros.) demned, even when there seem to classifications of films re- Orleans buccaneer turned loyalist, be no extenuating circumstances. deep viewed by the East Coast Preview who fought with the American HOW and lasting can Committee since January 1st are forces in the War of 1812 and loyalties become? Tovarich is BOY OF THE STREETS presented turned the tide to victory in the the story of a Russian Archduke (Monogram) below. More extensive Battle of New Orleans. who was entrusted with billions reviews of these same pictures of francs by the Czar. In the "They didn't play fair they Recognized as a significant con- — will appear in the February 1st face of starvation he would use used rods," complained Jackie. tribution to historic data not issue of Selected Motion Pictures. not a centime. Driven from his "In our fights only about the colorful Lafitte, we always save native land the other fellow City Girl (20th Century-Fox) but also about America's naval and persecuted by the a chance." Thus Dir: struggle with England because present rulers, he was still loyal did this boy of the streets react Alfred Werker. Cast: Phyl- lis Brooks, Ricardo of the vast amount of research to the nation and in her hour against the big-time gangland in- Cortez, Rob- of to which his ert Wilcox, Douglas Fowley. which was made to authenticate need he turned over the entire desire to get ahead Fair- ly exciting melodrama, with in- the background of the film, the trust for the benefit of the people. had led him. teresting sociological implications, script was received with enthu- In America today how much What a powerful story this is telling of a young girl, anxious siasm as a valuable addition to fundamental loyalty to the nation to show the hopelessness of the for the good times and clothes the Library's permanent collec- is there? Patriotic as well as in- poor, the degrading effect of bad she cannot have, who becomes tion by Dr. H. M. Lydenberg, dustrial organizations raid the housing and the influences that involved with gangsters. Direc- the distinguished director of the public treasury for personal pro- tend first towards delinquency tion and acting are excellent, with institution. fit. Many officials federal, state, and later towards crime. Rays of — interest kept at a high pitch al- and local seek graft hope shoot through Mr. DeMille enlivened the pres- — and rob the the fascinat- most continuously. Adults and ing entation of the script by an in- people, even though they take but tragic story—the doctor young people. teresting solemn vows to be honest ser- with his ministry of healing, the story of how films add Hollywood Hotel Warner to the fund of historical vants. How can loyalty to the new tenement house owner who ( documen- Bros.) Dir: Busby Berkeley. tation. read the transcript public weal be made the rule in did not wish to make money out He of Cast: Dick Powell, Lola Lane, this country instead of the misery an original letter unearthed by of the ex- of others and Rosemary Lane, Alan Mowbray, his research staff which ception? O'Rourke, the understanding cop. was writ- Hugh Herbert. A swift moving ten by Zachary Taylor, one-time It did not seem necessary WELLS FARGO to me musical comedy with a well known President of the United States, to picture the police social work- (Paramount) and capable cast tells of the ro- to his niece while on a visit to ers in so distasteful a light. As mance of a country boy who has The rule New Orleans in 1838, which has importance of rapid com- a they seem more under- obtained a Hollywood contract, been hidden munication in standing for many years in developing national than the cops. and a star's double. The lavish an old leather trunk in unity is vividly portrayed the in this The only solution offered to settings, good music and the com- niece's garret. The letter dem- stirring picture. The vision and this dramatization of human need bination of radio and cinema onstrates beyond a shadow of a courage of the men who planned was to join the navy. The rest stars offer excellent entertain- doubt the part which Lafitte and executed the westward march were left apparently without ment. Family. played in the Battle of New Or- of stage coach, pony express and hope. What should be done for Everybody's Doing It (RKO leans and reveals him as a true rail service stand out on the them? Was fixing up the tene- Radio) Dir: Christy Cabanne hero of American history. pages of history with all the ment wise, when many tenants Cast: Preston Foster, Sally Mr. Hays, who presided as lustre of generals and soldiers. apparently did not appreciate it? E iters, Paul Guilfoyte. A moder- . toastmaster, in presenting Pres- Ramsay MacKay was important The future of America depends ately amusing farce of the slap- ident Butler referred to him as because of the qualities of his in no small way on how society stick variety tells of the romance being the exemplification of what personality, which continually deals with its slums. Socially between two commercial artists he himself has declared to be manifested themselves. Anyone minded people will want to see employed by the same company. the function of a university, who sees the picture can give this picture. The production suffers from over- "scholarship and service." vivid illustrations of ten or fif- emphasis of the farcical moments President Butler in a brief ad- teen traits of character most sig- THOROUGHBREDS DONT CRY and spotty direction. Family. dress declared that he considered nificant for efficient economic (MGM) Mannequin (MGM) Dir: Frank motion pictures the most impor- leadership. The westward march Borzage. Cast: Joan Crawford, When self-pity takes posses- tant instrumentality we have for of civilization could be built on Spencer Tracy, Alan Curtis, sion of one's soul, courage and adult education, greater even than foundations which he laid. Elisabeth Risdon. Katharine determination take their depar- radio because it reaches the eye Brush has furnished the trite but Was Ramsay justified, how- ture. Roger had a series of ex- as well as the ear. "I hail the in- plausible plot for a production ever, in his long, bitter resent- periences that would break an dustry," he said in closing, "not replete with human interest and ment against his wife, Justine, ordinary spirit. He was mocked only for what it has accomplished melodramatic value which em- even when he felt that he pos- by other boys his own age and but for what it is going to accom- ploys for its theme the attempts sessed absolute proof of her will- then betrayed by a jockey plish in the years to come." he of a young girl to escape from ingness to sacrifice the success trusted, which in turn caused the In introducing Mr. DeMille poverty. Her struggles are sym- of his mission and even his life for death of his grandfather and left Mr. Hays referred to him as pathetically portrayed by Joan a the South in the War between him almost penniless. superlative leader in the field Crawford, who is immeasurably of the States? Every one has a right (Continued on Page adult education and said that a 7) aided by Spencer Tracy as well as recitation of his accomplishments the supporting cast. Adults and would be a story of comparative young people. The distinguished guests who Robert I. superlatives. He had been a Gannon, president of The Spy Ring (Universal) Dir: occupied seats on the dais, besides Fordham University; pioneer in the use of this new Mr. Earle Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: William Mr. Hays, Mr. DeMille and Pres- W. Hammons, medium of celluloid. president of Edu- Hall, Jane Wyman, Jane Carle- ident Butler, included Dr. Har- cational Films Corp.; Mrs. Oli- ton, Robert Warwick. A convinc- Mr. De Mille's own emphasis old G. Campbell, Superintend- ver Harriman; Dr. Walter A. ing story of army intrigue telling was laid upon the value of motion ent of Schools, New York City; Jessup of Carnegie Foundation of the attempts of spies to ob- pictures not only as a medium of Mr. Daniel Frohman, dean of for the Advancement of Teach- tain a new machine gun inven- enlivening and vivifying history the American theatre; Mrs. ing; Mrs. James F. Looram, tion is developed with exciting ac- for the student, but as an inci- Jesse M. Bader, Motion Picture chairman of the Motion Picture tion. Some excellent polo playing dental contributor of importance Chairman, National Council of Bureau, International Federation adds to the entertainment. Adults to historical records, since the Protestant Church Women; Mrs. of Catholic Alumnae; Dr. H. M. and young people. sums of money spent by research Ruth Haller Ottaway, president Lydenberg, Director, New York departments in authenticating of the National Council of Women; Public Library ; Mrs. Leon A. Mc- pictures was greater than was Mr. Harry D. Buckley, vice-pres- Intire, Motion Picture Chairman, The only woman production devoted by any other agency to ident of United Artists Corpora- National Congress, D. A. R.; and manager in Hollywood is Irene similar research about a single tion; Dr. Eugene A. Colligan, Mr. Frank C. Walker of Comer- Schreck. By a strange anomaly historical incident or period. president of Hunter College; Dr. ford Theatres. she supervises cowboy pictures. :

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Films For The SELECTED FILM READING N. Y. Pastor Pupil And For OF THE CURRENT MONTH Running Film The Teacher Open Forum Personalities Evans employs to gain entry for

his clients ; Collier's November 20 : (Continued from Page 2) COMMENTATOR, December W. C. Fields, Dignified Droll, In Character, by Henry F. Prin- interesting experiment in we do not allow them to command AN by John B. Kennedy an interest- gle—delightful article on the the use of motion pictures as our attention away from the ma- — ing and sympathetic sketch of the training of animals for work in a medium for the teaching of jor action. man who made Micawber one of motion pictures; Collier's, Janu- ethical principles has been inau- Students of cinematography ary the classic portraits in all the his- 1: Shooting Pains, by Isobel gurated by the West End Pres- will find a consideration of prep- tory of the cinema; Ladies' Home Stuart—vivid pages from a script byterian Church of New York aration and development an in- Journal, February: Miracle Mop- girl's diary describing some of City. Beginning on January 9th teresting study this month in re- Vet, by Thornton Martin—which the thrilling experiences encoun- and for four succeeding weeks an lation to our selected films. The tered in as everyone will guess is about making a wild animal open forum is being held from Disney picture will admirably Shirley Temple; Christian Science movie; Scholastic, January 8th: 6:45 to 7:45. illustrate most of our thesis, Monitor, December 6: Second Overland Express—the issuance Mimeographed slips stating the while in Hollywood Hotel the plot Generation Comes to the Fore in of Wells Fargo stimulates another ethical principles which are in- serves merely as a thread to tie Hollywood a sketch of the career reminiscence about the days when volved in the reels subsequently :ogether a series of musical num- — of little Marcia Mae Jones, true America's transcontinental trans- to be shown are distributed be- bers. Therefore an analysis will daughter of the cinema, by Frank portation systems were in the fore the picture is run off. A live- oring forth a great deal of illumi- Daugherty who writes the Moni- process of development; St. Nich- ly discussion period follows the nating criticism. tor's The Scene in Hollywood; olas, December: Christmas Fare showing of the picture. Students Music students also will be Pacific Coast Musician, December in the Movies, by Edith Winter from the neighborhood and mem- irawn to the selections because McGinnis 18: A Teller of Stories—in which —intimate glimpses of bers of the classes of Union if the many and varied opportun- the R. Vernon Steele reveals that Nel- making of Heidi, Snow White Theological Seminary are swelling ties for musical study. and the Seven son Eddy's major objective is "to Dwarfs and Wells the audience for these Sunday 5NOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN tell stories in song." Fargo; Story Magazine, January: evening discussions. DWARFS The Films Face Reality—one of In the Field of Science "Broken Lullaby" (Disney—RKO Radio) America's most interesting and is Christian Science Monitor, De- unique publications invades the Among Films Chosen Walt Disney's masterpiece of cember 22 : The Movies Woo Tele- film field to tell in the words of inimation The pictures chosen for this follows an outline of vision (a title which is self-ex- Paul Rotha, maker of Great Bri- iramatic construction highly interesting series are: as perfect planatory) — article by Frank tain's finest documentary films, Broken Lullaby, which emphasizes n its introduction and develop- Daugherty. how films of this type "do a job ment as film the breakdown of national and any yet produced. Educational of creating living realities in The story, familiar to old and racial prejudices, the responsibil- Movie Makers, January: terms of human experiences for 'oung alike, is divided into con- Sound ity of the individual for war and Projection the safeguard of democracy"; in Schools, by Arthur the opportunity of the church Tasting episodes, each of distinc- McCall's, February: What's Go- to A. Hebert, Jr.—in which the promote peace; Gentlemen ive character and each building ing On This Month — Movies, Are growth in the use of films Born, with its he parallel action upward and by Pare Lorentz stress upon sports- as a medium of education is — one of the 'orward towards the tear-pro- de- manship and the stamina to scribed; same issue: many superlative reviews which oking climax. What Movie achieve one's objective in the Tempo Is have greeted the issuance of Walt —an analysis of how the face of adversity; Sign the All extraneous material is Disney's Snow White and the of quickening and retarding of ac- Cross, dealing houghtfully omitted and in its Seven Dwarfs. with the idealism tion contributes to the dramatic of the early Christians; i ilace Mr. Disney has included at- and value of films. Books Cradle Song, which : nospheric scenes of exquisite emphasizes Meauty and action which color Miscellaneous Films and School, a Handbook family relationships and partic- in ularly stresses the responsibility * nd emphasize the main thread American Scholar, Autumn Moving Picture Evaluation, by Helen of the parents for I f interest. For example, the 1937 : Let the Movies Be Natural Rand and Richard Lewis, overcoming selfish love I »rince is briefly introduced in the (self- explanatory title), by Mark published by the National Coun- for their children pening sequence, then dropped Van Doren; Christian Science cil of Teachers of English—mem- which would be likely to lead to ntil a propitious moment in the Monitor, December 20: Warners orable not only for its intelligent the dwarfing of the child's per- sonality. I onclusion. In his place the extra Plan Entertainment, Not 'Mes- approach to the problem, but also Dotage is allocated to the dwarfs, sage—the Monitor's Hollywood for the skillful way in which mo- Although the series is still in | ,ae animals and to Snow White, writer, Frank Daugherty, ab- tion picture stills have been used its experimental stages, great in- jj'his is true throughout the en- solves the Warners from being for illustration. terest was aroused in the dis- cussion tire film, with scene after scene "men with a mission," but points We Make the Movies, published on the evening of the first eveloping out that in showing and mounting enthu- I sheer beauty coupled serving the interests by W. W. Norton and Company nth pure emotional of art they frequently siasm is anticipated. \ reaction, al- also serve —a symposium in which lumina- The Sunday ways strung along on a thread the interests of humanity; Col- ries of the screen world, rang- evening motion picture showings i f excitement and of mounting lier's, December 25: Movie En- ing from Walt Disney and Paul are appropriate- trance, ly correlated with a series j jspense. by Kyle Crichton, who Muni to Sidney Howard and Jesse of Step by step the quotes Harry Evans, Wednesday evening lectures ; action rises, free-lance Lasky, tell in language that the ' which are being Iternating skillfully between two talent scout, on how few are the layman can comprehend the prob- given by the chances pastor of the church, Dr. hoods; first, with the Queen and in the movies, but also lems and techniques that go into An- drew R. Osborn. In these l ex plan to remove the Princess, reveals some of the methods Mr. the making of films. he is discussing JJaen with Snow White and her such topics as the prob- light to the home of the dwarfs, lem of authority, the Hebrew ien back to the Queen mixing Lessons From the ethics of justice and neighborli- Movies ness as contrasted le fatal potion, then to the with the doc- warfs trine of privilege and self-inter- and their reconciliation (Continued from Page 6) est, and the social ith Snow White, then to the Roger, however, relationship of was not a quit- the psychological reactions of a men and hieen as a witch, and finally to women in respect to ter. What is it in the heart of man who, though quite happy and marriage and now White's fatal eating of the some the family—a se- that makes them rise to oc- contented in home and ries jisoned apple, the union business of topics which leads very of the casions and do their best, while relationships, rirallel action. became an irritable naturally into the films that will others are completely unnerved and disagreeable Illustrated in father and be under discussion on successive ; consummate skill and helpless? Confidence, courage friend when the Boss did not Sunday nights. artistry; colored in tones of say —call it what you will there is oat — "Good morning". How much do variety, beauty, and start- a quality which makes crying un- we depend upon friendly and en- ig contrasts; dialogued in The life of Mme. thinkable and action unavoidable couraging attitudes from our Amantine • otry; accompanied by perfect- Lucile Aurore Dudevant, in the faee of a great crisis. friends and associates known executed sound effects and em- for our to her contemporaries own mental health and and to the jllished with strikingly original THE BOSS DIDN'T SAY GOOD social ef- hterarily inclined ficiency? of succeeding id melodious What is the responsibil- musical selections, MORNING generations as George Sand, will by ity of those in authority for the U "Hi Ho" and "Whistling (MGM) find its way to the screen. Twen- mile encouragement of the men and You Work", Snow White tieth Century-Fox is the This "Pete Smith Speciality" women over whom they pro- (Continued have ducer, the time will on Page 8) presents an interesting study of supervision? be spring and the star Annabella. : : — ,

8 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY January 15, 1938

Pittsburgh Jrs. Cecil B.DeMille's "Buccaneer" Catholic Film Watch Traffic Marks His 25th Anniversary Group Chooses After A Song 25 Best Films

RECOMMENDED to Better WITH film groups all over the Films Councils in other com- country indulging in the popu- munities is the Safety Song sung lar New Year pastime of selecting at all Junior Matinees in Pitts- the Ten Best Films of 1937, the burgh, to the familiar tune of International Federation of Cath- No, No, A Thousand Times No, olic Alumnae, America's premiere with the words thrown on the previewing group, fell logically screen to stimulate lusty parti- into line. cipation. However, its reviewers found Leaders in Pittsburgh's Better such a wealth of films to choose Films movement say the boys and from that they did not content girls always look both ways be- themselves with ten "best". They fore crossing after they have selected fifteen, of which Metro- sung their Safety Song. Here are Goldwyn-Mayer's Captains Cou- the words rageous heads the list. The others, Mary was a third grade pupil in order of choice, were: The Johnny was up in 4B. Life of Emile Zola (Warner Each day they walked home Bros.), Stage Door (RKO-Radio), together The Good Earth (MGM), 7 Met in Paris Lost As happy as happy, could be; Him (Paramount), Horizon They passed a corner where autos (Columbia), Camille whizzed by, (MGM), One Hundred Men and (Universal) Lloyds a Girl , of Johnny said, "Come on let's London (20th Century-Fox), The run." panel A from Paramount's interesting exhibit on this noteworthy Awful Truth (Columbia), Pris- Mary cried, "No Sir, I'll not risk historical film. oner of Zenda (Selznick Interna- my life tional-United Artists), Maytime Cause I think that living's more CECIL B. DeMILLE has ap- son from the White House with (MGM), Prince and the Pauper fun." propi'iately celebrated his the Declaration of Independence, (Warner Bros.) Chorus and Night Must 25th anniversax*y in motion pic- and the attack by the United Fall (MGM). No, No, a thousand times No, tures by producing the second of States Navy on Lafitte and his Spencer Tracy won the year's Red means a danger unseen his "sagas of America's unsung pirate crew. male acting honors for what the No, No, a thousand times No, heroes"—to quote from some of reviewing committee referred to Wait 'till the light turns to Study Guides and the press matter on the film. as his "unforgettable delineation" Green. The first was The Plainsman, Exhibits Available of the role of Manuel in Captains Now all you youngsters take which constitutes an important Study guides and exhibits on Courageous, while Irene Dunne warning page in recent motion picture his- the film will shortly be finding was acclaimed the best actress Cross when the green light says tory. The second, which yet awaits their way into schoolrooms for her portrayal of the "Go" stellar its New York premiere, is The throughout the United States and role in The Awful Truth. And all the folks who drive autos Buccaneer, the story of that pic- fascinating they will be to read Seven of the choices of the surely will thank you, I They turesque rascal, Jean Lafitte, who and to see. A single panel from film reviewing group coincided know. redeemed himself for his past the many-paneled exhibit which with those of film fans through- Cross streets at corners and not misdeeds by enabling the Amer- is available is pictured above. out the country who registered, in the block ican forces to win the Battle of This shows some of the historic their opinions by ballot in the Stop Take a good look each — New Orleans in the War of 1812 personages of one of the most nationwide "Film Daily "poll. The way. and saved to the United States romantic eras in America's his- Life of Emile Zola, The Good And if somebody says, "Aw, take its vast empire of the West. tory who are pictured in the Earth, Captains Courageous, Lost a chance" It is a worthy film to celebrate film, and who include Dolly Horizon, Stage Door, Dead End Walk up to him and then say a 25th anniversary, one of the Madison, Andrew Jackson, the and The Awful Truth were the Chorus: most spectacular that has yet picturesque Lafitte himself and seven. The "Film Daily" poll, No, No, a thousand times No, been made by this maker of spec- the various officers who bore the however, gave The Life of Emile Red means a danger unseen tacular films and master of mass brunt of the Battle of New Zola first place, while on it ap- No, No, a thousand times No, scenes in motion pictures. It em- Orleans. peared A Star is Born (Selznick Wait 'till the light turns to ployed 6,000 in the making. It It is a foretaste of the interest International - United Artists) Green. uncovered many hitherto un- and pleasure which the entire ex- Romeo and Juliet (MGM) and known pages of American his- hibit can give not only to the Winterset (RKO-Radio), which tory. It revived such historic in- studiously inclined but to the lover were not given recognition on the Who's Who In cidents as the Battle of New Or- of romance in drama and in Catholic list. Better Films leans, the flight of Dolly Madi- literature. Films For The Pupil (Continued from Page 4) And For The Teacher and sophistication and finesse HOLLYWOOD LEXICON such as have marked the Fan- chon and Marco stage shows for (Continued from Page 7) a long time, and adding to all music is so closely Spots the musical scoring. and the Seven Dwarfs bids fair these the touch of individuality SWING — allied to films these days to set a milestone in the art of which is a distinctive attribute of Papermen—musicians who can- that the picture making, genius. student of Hollywood not improvise but can only terminology cannot afford to be Successful in other fields, Fan- read spots. ignorant of the vocabulary of HOLLYWOOD HOTEL chon is uniquely successful in Hot—true jazz music as dif- swing. (Warner Bros.) keeping her private life separated ferentiated from the styl- Here are Benny Goodman's from her work. Years ago she ized music of such musici- Famous for many years as aj own definitions of some well- married a Los Angeles restaura- ans as Paul Whiteman. radio feature, Hollywood Hotel teur, Bill Simon. After her day's known swing terms: in its motion picture version be- Piston a trumpet. work in the studios she slips Cats—swing musicians in gen- — comes a musical extravaganza quietly away to become as nearly eral. Agony pipe—a clarinet. building the interest steadily to the equivalent of an aproned Sender—the musician who sets Suitcase—the drums. a climactic scene in the now-fa-] housewife as one can in the lavish the pace for the rest of the Gobble pipe—the saxophone. mous "orchid room". The con- setting of Beverly Hills. Two band. Push pipe—the trombone. trast between the two situations adopted children add to the joys In the groove—the musician's Dog house—the bass viol. in the opening sequence lends of her home life and their days happy feeling of being just Jam or "jive" or "swing"—the plausibility to the subsequent in, are passed far from the studios. right when he plays. music of hot bands in general. Hollywood episodes. H PRINTED IN U. S .A, A Bulletin for All who

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Vol. 4 FEBRUARY 15, 1938 No. 6 Clever Teacher Juvenile Stars Of "Tom Sm»Ver» " Chief Honored en Decorate Mark Twain Withwv^$. l»^br Industry's Cartoon —— Fine Service mentally retarded TO children •"THE motion picture industry at P. S. 84, New York City, 1 took a bow in Philadelphia counting to seven on used to be a January 18 in the bit of a hurdle. person of one of Then along came its most outstanding Walt Disney's figures. The Snow White and occasion was the the Seven presentation to Dwarfs and the hurdle Will H. Hays, vanished. There president of the isn't much trou- Motion Picture Producers ble counting up to and seven when Distributors of America, there are quaint Inc by little creatures the Poor Richard Club such as "Sneezy" of its gold and "Happy" 7 medal achievement award and "Dopey" and in rec- "Grumpy" to ognition of policies encourage them. formulated by Mr. Hays which have brought motion Uses in Ungraded Classes picture productions to such high standards It was Marjorie of artistic E. Burke, and ethical excellence. clever teacher of the ungraded Sounded Optimistic classes, who conceived of utilizing Note Mr. Hays took advantage the Disney film in this unusual of the occasion to sound an fashion. Inspired by its optimistic interest and heartening and charm, the beys and note about Ameri- girls can life in managed to write general and about the quite entertain- motion ing compositions picture industry in partic- about the film. ular. They also drew pictures of the "We have heard so characters, made dolls to resem- much, so Jong about what's ble the dwarfs, built wrong with miniature America that furniture for them, and I propose to consid- modeled er what's " the birds, the right with America animals and the he said. various characters in the film. "After all, it is with our assets, not our liabilities, that we must build ever Shirley higher standards of First In (Continued on Page 7) Hearts Of Public Action Youth's OHIRLEY Temple, who if she Film *J Formula has not usurped Mary Pick- ford's place as "America's Sweet- " A CTION, action and more ac- heart" has certainly entrenched /~\ tion"—that is youth's for- (Continued on Page 8) mula for a successful movie ac- cording to a report just presented Tommy Kelly and Ann Gillis by- the Advisory Films Reviewed visit Clemens shrine in Elmira, N. Committee on Social Questions to the League o± Nations, after a survey in Current Issue YV/HEN twelve-year-old of the Tommy No boy and girl cinema habits of boys VV Kelly could learn the and girls and his diminutive dialogue of Tom m 42 countries. friend, Sawyer, go in Films reviewed in the Ann Gillis, the Tom Saw- and out of Tom Any lingering current yer and Becky Sawyer sets on doubt as to the issue of The Motion Picture Thatcher, respec- studio lots, talk and wnolesomeness of and tively, of think with juvenile reac- the Family the new Adventures of the characters tion to film include: The Buc- Tom Sawyer of Tom Sawyer offerings is dispelled caneer, pages 3 and opening next week come alive, for a long by a further 6; Change of at the Music period of quotation which Heart, page Hall, New York City, months, without reads: "Virtue | 3; Everybody Sing, are growing to have triumphant is I page grown up, the date of Febru- a real cheered 3 ; Forbidden Valley, page reverence for Mark Twain. to the echo; villainy ary 9, 1938, will is I 3; Gold Is still live in their That was why booed with Where You Find It, memories. February 9 wili a fine enthusiasm." pages 3 and (Continued on (Continued 6 ; Goldwyn Follies, Page 4) on Page 4) page 6; Happy Landing, page Hawaiian 5; Buckaroo, page 3; In Film Stars Freddie Draws Old Chicago, page 6; Internation- Forsake Homes Of Qlamour al Settlement, page 3; Midnight- Says THE OBSERVFR Long Trousers Intruder, page 3; My Old Ken- tucky Home, page 3 ; Night Spot, •yiME Freddie was when the glamorous these Bartholomew is a page 3; The Purple mansions now complain bit- Vigilantes, A ones of Hollywood happy boy these days. page lived in terly that the homes of the "pic- Thanks 3; Radio City Revels, page show places, to the intervention great palaces that ture people" are no of Greta ^; The River, page 6; Scandal spread longer Lrarbo he has over acres of ground, com- marked by the been permitted to Street, page 3; Snow White and gorgeous opulence abandon plete with elaborate tennis courts of English knickers for 'he Seven Dwarfs, page the good old days. It is a per- his 5; Squad- and swimming pools. first long trousers. His ron Honor, Enterpris- sonal matter with them and they aunt of page 3 ; Where the and ing men who made a living, not resent guardian, Miss Myllicent West Begins, it. True, there are still a page 3 ; A Yank at Bartholomew, so many years ago, by taking few landmarks, was a little reluc- Oxford, page 3. but they are tant to tourists to see and to wonder at (Continued make the change but a on Page .2) word from Garbo saved the day THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY February 15, 1938 Stars Of Films SNAPSHOTS OF Well Satisfied Forsake Homes FILM PERSONALITIES With Pictures Of Glamour In Maryland an initiate were asked to name "New York World." When a IF William the way up for women in Holly- secretaryship to C. De {Continued from Page 1) jumped wood the chances are ten to one Mille offered itself she WHATEVER may be the atti- passing into the hands of Mille rapidly that he would say "through steno- at the opportunity. Mr. De tude of young people in other and eastern wealthy oil magnates graphy". In the film business, was writing plays and it seemed parts of the country towards mo- millionaires, who thereby intrigue possible short cut as in other businesses, there are to her like a tion pictures the majority of the with reflected glory. their friends thousands of typists and secre- to the stage. But Mr. De Mille, youth of Maryland greet them of the last of these was phraseology, soon One taries who play those roles to the to use her own with a complacent satisfaction. the home of William Powell, "put me straight on that belief". end of the chapter. But almost A study of youth's interests which not so long ago was sold could speculate as to whether He and attitudes towards motion for the fabulous sum of a quarter she a good actress; but he was pictures, conducted under the of a million. Powell built it for she was a good secretary, knew sponsorship of the American "bachelor quarters", with tennis her tied to the desk and so he kept Youth Commission, reveals that courts of Grecian design that sug- typewriter. By the time he went 47.6 percent of the more than gested the Acropolis, gates that to California in 1914 to help his 13,000 young people interviewed flew open at the approach of his brother, Cecil B. De Mille, and during the survey are "generally car, steam baths with vita-glass Jesse Lasky establish a scenario satisfied" with the type of enter- X-ray machines, sun rooms and department in their newly formed tainment offered on the modern gymnasiums with all the latest motion picture company, Miss screen. A lesser but substantial electrical gadgets. He confesses Bauchens was so much estab- number, 25.2 percent of the youth- that it was all too much for him, lished in the De Mille menage ful moviegoers of Maryland, greet that he never felt at home in the that she quite naturally went the film output with pronounced midst of its Georgian grandeur along. 22.9 percent enjoy a rid of it. enthusiasm. and was glad to be all the In the old days of films, few films but not all of them. So Simple Affairs Homes Now directors cut their own pictures, small a percentage as to be neg- doing the work at night Today the movie star's home is usually ligible, 1.6 percent, feel for films shooting was over. Miss more than likely to be a rather when the an active dislike, and 2.7 percent became Mr. De Mille's simple affair, capacious, perhaps, Bauchens never attend film entertainment. this task and soon with a lovely garden, but with assistant in the technique. When an Musical Comedy Rates First not more than two or three bed- mastered emergency arose at the studio rooms and a two-car garage. With Maryland's young people, and William De Mille was tem- These, to the initiated, may be musical comedy rates first in film porarily unable to go on with the seen along the winding, tree- entertainment, 21.4 percent of the job, he succeeded in convincing shaded streets of Beverly Hills, young filmgoers preferring it to who has risen to his brother and Mr. Lasky that or in Westwood, adjoining the every woman all other types of motion pictures. Hollywood in any Miss Bauchens could finish the campus of the University of Cali- eminence in Historical films are second in line, of film star task. She lived up to his faith fornia at Los Angeles. A few capacity but that enlisting the preferences of 21 secretary to and has been cutting films ever stand out as reminiscent, at least, began her career as percent. Action and Western films writer, story de- since. of the grandeur of yesterday. some scenario are third, with a rating of 16.2 producer. Jeannette MacDonald and Gene partment editor or Cecil De Mille stood out for a percent, and love stories fourth doing Raymond have a four acre estate Miss Anne Bauchens of Para- long time and insisted on with a rating of 13.5 percent. In editing on which they have built a home mount's West Coast studios, all his film cutting and view of the modern vogue for he got in of English design, with cathedral- whose picture appears above, is himself. Ultimately mystery reading, it is rather sur- VI Miss of ceilinged living room and many- no exception to the rule. In her step with the procession and prising to note that only 9.2 per- cutting and mirrored dressing rooms; Miriam adolescent days she cherished the Bauchens has been cent of the young people care for for nearly Hopkins has recently remodeled very natural, youthful longing for editing films for him mystery films. Gangster and G- outstand- the castle-like home of the late Thespian fame, but it was her 21 of his 25 years as an men pictures, which had quite an John Gilbert, high in the hills; flying fingers flitting over the ing producer. appeal some years ago, have Boyer and his wife have that finally Charles typewriter keys Edited "The Buccaneer" slipped down to 5.7 percent, and purchased the old Ruth Roland brought her to the trusted posi- comedies of manners to 5.1 per- the lovely, of of the many world- home and redecorated tion of film cutter on some A few cent. A preference for news and to Mille films she has Spanish, hacienda-type house Paramount's greatest screen known De educational films is limited to their hearts' The Ten Command- remould it nearer to epics. edited are less than 5 percent of the group. desires. type- ments, The King of Kings, The Miss Bauchens' very first Some of the young people inter- houses could talk, many Sign of the Cross, The Plainsman If writing job was with the ad- viewed were married. Oddly their would have strange tales to tell, of the old and The Buccaneer. J vertising department tastes differed slightly from those no doubt, and if they could ex- of single filmgoers. Historical press their feelings they might William, Zeppo Marx, films led over musical comedy have much to say about upset vi- and some could not be content Warren Taylor, Al Jolson, Edward among the single women who brations. For instance, what with less than fifteen rooms and Robert and others. Here were interviewed, whereas the might the house of Colleen Moore a dozen servants, but still it was Everett Horton fruit growers, headed married women preferred musi- have said when Marlene Dietrich a departure. the citrus by Wallace Beery, have formed cal comedy to historical pictures, t moved in to possess its hearth? Movement Begin "Back to Farm" pot" brigade to pro- far larger percent of married p Or the walls that once protected a "smudge A crops and manned it people, both men and women, such feminine folk as Miriam Then came another change and tect their Robert Taylor, whose liked action and Western films, r Hopkins, Bette Davis and Greta this time it was drastic. Per- themselves. is an extremely modest, Love stories rated much higher Garbo, now that Irvin Cobb has haps Will Rogers led the way. house affair, doesn't smudge, with the married than the single moved in to toast his toes and At any rate, there came the back- four-room exodus that at pre- as he has only the more hardy and the same was true of mys- smoke his pipe within? to-the-fax-m Ameche sent is in full swing. Today, crops on his farm. Don teries. Folk Become ice Film while boys and girls on farms prefers sprinklers to form Cottage Dwellers are over his foliage as a protection throughout the country executives. frost. Joel McCrea and well-known studio The first flight of the movie dreaming of such Hollywood against raise hay, wheat Bing Crosby has his domain the hills of Babylon homes as they have seen in the Frances Dee stars from at Santa Fe Rancho, where he j:r and simpler rotogravure sections of their Sun- and vegetables and garner a nice in search of privacy has space for the breeding and the sea papers and in fan magazines, profit from their sales. living took them to day Paul laq lovely sweep of land training of race horses; coast. At Malibu Beach, just the Hollywood folk are moving- In a "Hidden Valley" be- Muni has a pleasant, livable sr north of Santa Monica, they out to farms, actual farms with known as yond Sherwood Lake, an hour home under the spreading trees ~:t, formed a colony of "cottage cows and chickens and their own near Van Hollywood by motor, is an- of a walnut grove £ gardens. At the little from : dwellers". Some of these "cot- vegetable too, has his other unique colony where many Nuys; Gary Cooper, tages" were still rather grand, it town of Encino and in the San haven. farm where he may indulge his l|Btn famous folk have found a ' is true. Some still clung to their Fernando Valley, there is a thriv- Ronald Colman, Fred- boyhood love of the wide open night-lighted tennis courts and ing colony of film farmers: Here live March and some of the spaces. their azure blue swimming pools Wallace Beery, Spencer Tracy, ric February 15, 1938 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY

Thumbnail Council Shows Reviews Of LESSONS from the MOVIES Presented for the Committee on Social Values in ighbrow Film Late Films Motion Pictures by Howard M. Le Sourd,Ph.D., Dean of Boston University Graduate School, Chairman. Public Likes It EVALUATIONS and audience _ classifications of films re- INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT seemed attained. the Motion Picture viewed by the East Coast Preview But old sins WHEN have a way of catching up Council of Elmira, New York, Committee since February 1st are (20th Century-Fox) with one just at the wrong time. La- decided to experiment with the presented below. More extensive interest THE of the world cen- fitte, the patriot and hero, presentation of three foreign reviews of these same pictures be- ters in China today and tales came again the pirate with a made films, all of the so-called will appear in the March 1st of Shanghai and the International price on his head. "highbrow" variety, as a means issue of Selected Motion Pictures. Settlement have special interest. of making money, Everybody Sing the manager of (MGM) Dir: The story of this picture against CHANGE OF HEART the Regent Theatre Edwin L. Marin. Cast headed said it by a background of the bombing of (20th couldn't be done. Allan Jones, Century-Fox) Judy Garland, a great city raises old problems The Council members did not Fanny Brice. A highly enter- in What are the bases of perman- new settings. agree with him. taining comedy, with some excel- ent peace and happiness in the Blithely they To what extent are the secret went on with lent musical interludes, telling of home? Surely not suspicion and their plans. A agents of munition firms re- strip of three an eccentric family of artists jealousy! Certainly not self-cen- tickets was issued sponsible for war? Are they vul- to cover whose young daughter saves them teredness! This picture outlines showings of Man of tures that prey upon desperate Aran, The from a financial fiasco. Family. the "don'ts" in no uncertain Blue Light and La people or their benefactors? Do Maternelle, on three Forbidden Valley terms, but emphasis is placed on successive (Universal) reputable firms sell to both sides weeks. The strip Dir: uncompromising pride as the ticket was $1.00, Wyndham Gittens. Cast when a war is in progress? cause of estrangement the individual tickets .33^- No headed by Noah Beery, Jr., and as the But the deeper questions have rock on sooner was the enterprise Frances Robinson. A well acted which reconciliations to do with the reasons why some were launched than the committee suf- Western in which a young man wrecked. try to attain wealth and security fered a set back. The dates chosen sets out to vindicate the memory But there are also in the photo- by preying upon others. While play for the presentations coincided of his father, wrongfully accused some important "do's", which most nations, groups and indi- in the end with those of Bank Night and of murder. Interpolated scenes of brought happiness. viduals are industrious, honest, Recognize the council did not want a rival horse breaking and Indian danc- your faults and seek just, there are some who feel that to overcome attraction to draw attention awav ing are interesting. Family. them ! Get new inter- they are limited and thwarted to from the films, so hasty notices Hawaiian Buckaroo (20th Cen- ests in life which will open up the point that their progress can new had to be issued advising all those tury-Fox) Dir: Ray Taylor. Cast wellsprings of human sym- only come at the expense of to whom word of the special headed by Smith Ballew and pathy! A couple must have com- others. In this picture these mon interests outside showings had been sent of the Evalyn Knapp. A Hawaiian set- of them- three classes of exploiters are selves, if they are change in date. ting gives a novel twist to a to find supreme portrayed. What are the cures? devotion to each In spite of the reasonably well developed and ex- other. The or- fact that the phan boy in the films were highbrow, citing story of the Western type. THE BUCCANEER picture brought in spite of The music husband and wife together. the seemingly justified skepticism is enjoyable and the (Paramount) acting adequate. Family. of the management, the three EVERYBODY SING showings Midnight Intruder (Universal) This thrilling picture enlight- were a huge success. Not only Dir: Arthur Lubin. Cast headed ens while it entertains and gives (MGM) was the theatre packed by on each occasion but frequently Eric Linden, Louis Hayward, a vividness to conditions during The one outstanding idea that Barbara the people stood in line to wait for Read. Channing Pol- War of 1812 that will turn comes from this picture of song lock's many seats. exciting and amusing story people to re-reading Ameri- and romance is the place which of can history. All the an unemployed young man, children ought to have in the customary film enthusi- who, asts caught in a rainstorm, It is difficult for us today to councils of the family. Parents were there and a great many breaks people into a supposedly deserted believe that intermingled with the by attempting to shield their sons who rarely go to motion picture summer home and enters upon patriots of that day there were and daughters from financial theatres. The French De- adventure, partment has been given inter- traitors who would sell their worries only make the situation of Elmira College, in- esting terested screen development. Adults country's welfare for gold. The more difficult for all concerned. in La Maternelle, allowed and young any student people. attitude of most of the political Cooperation is the essence of who wished to attend it to My Old Kentucky Home (Mono- leaders in New Orleans was es- family life and depends upon a substitute attendance at the film gram) Dir: Lambert Hillyer. sentially traitorous, but General frank interchange of hopes and as credit for his French les- son. Cast headed by Evelyn Venable, Jackson was equal to the emer- fears, ambitions and disappoint- Supplementing the feature film Grant Richards. An unconvinc- gency. What were the personal ments. The logic of this picture each evening was a program ing and uninspired story, with qualities of Andrew Jackson that is "Honor thy father and mother of shorts selected by Mrs. Charles little W. Swift, to recommend it except the made him such a powerful leader? by disobeying them"—a situation moving spirit in the excellent singing Elmira Council by the Hall The story of the picture centers that arises only when artificial and Motion Pic- Johnson Choir ture Chairman of old time South- around Lafitte, buccaneer and barriers are thrown up between for the 6th Dis- ern melodies. trict of the New York Adults and young pirate. His support in the battle parents and their children. State Fed- people. eration of of New Orleans was very impor- Women's Clubs. Night Spot GOLD IS WHERE FIND (RKO Radio) Dir: tant, but his loyalty to the States YOU IT "Even the shorts were worth Christy Cabanne. Cast headed by was due to his love of a girl. She (Warner Brothers) more than the price of admis- Allan Lane, Joan Woodbury, changed his whole scale sion," was the customary of values Jared Whitney found gold in com- Parkyakarkus. A reasonably in- and after he had ment of those who attended proven his trust- the mountains, but the real the teresting story of a young girl, worthiness film. in action, his goal of values of life he discovered not an inadvertent witness to a shoot- marriage and respectability (Continued on Page ing, who uses the occurrence to 5) the attempt of a scheming aid in the capture of a gang of ranch owner to secure jewel thieves. tale of an unsuccessful possession of a Adults and young song writ- Squadron of Honor (Columbia) valuable people. er neighboring property who uses lyrics composed by Dir: C. C. Coleman, Jr. Cast owned by a young girl. The The Purple Vigilantes (Repub- his song writing pupil in his sleep headed by Don story Terry and Mary complications are over-prolonged lic) Dir: George Sherman. Cast: and brings success and fame to Russell. A somewhat far-fetched and confused and the Bob Livingston, all. Catchy tunes and whole pic- Ray Corrigan, a general drama in which the National ture lacks Max Terhune, atmosphere logic and continuity. Joan Barclay. An of good fun. Family. Commander of the American Leg- Adults undistinguished and young people. Western in which Scandal Street (Paramount) ion is framed for a ruthless mur- mystery A Yank at Oxford and suspense play a Dir: James Hogan. Cast headed der by those interested in large (MGM) large Dir: Jack Conway. part. Beautiful scenery by Lew Ayres, Louise Campbell, scale armament manufacture. Cast headed by and expert Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore horsemanship add to Virginia Weidler. A story good The plot is obvious but the sub- the story Maureen O'Sullivan. The enjoyment. Family. in most respects is marred by ject matter has timeliness. Adults scenic beauties of ancient Radio City Revels (RKO several implausible incidents and young people. Oxford and her interesting Radio) Dir: Ben Stoloff. Cast: Bob dragged in to cast suspicion traditions form on Where the West Begins (Mono- a delightful Burns, Jack Oakie, Kenny Baker, the heroine. background for an The spiteful small gram) Dir: J. L. McGowan. Cast engaging Victor Moore, Milton Berle, Helen town types are new vehicle for Robert well drawn but headed by Jack Mulhall, Fuzzy Taylor. The Broderick. A musical farce of the the production contrasts of English somehow misses Knight, Luana Walters. rep- and slapstick variety A American college life are recounting the fire. Adults and young people. etitious, unconvincing story of beautifully brought out. Family —

4 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY February 15, 1938

Education Dept. SELECTED FILM READING "Tom Sawyer" Asks Reading OF THE CURRENT MONTH Juvenile Stars

Personalities form a company to make films for At Twain Shaft Lists On Films church use; Christian Register, COLLIER'S, February 5 : Choice February 10: The Silver Screen (Continued from Page 1) for a Queen, by Kyle Crichton to Paul Harmon Again the adage "Great oaks Goes Church, by forever for —which tells the story of Anna be a red-letter day signi- Chapman—dealing with the use from little acorns grow" is Neagle and the struggles that Tommy and Ann. On that day Publication in of motion pictures in religious ficantly illustrated. preceded ultimate triumph in her they made a pilgrimage to El- Motion Picture and the education; same issue: Moving wreath, The selection to play the role of Queen mira, New York, to lay a reading Pictures and the Church School, Family in a fall issue of Victoria the Great; their votive offering, on the hand- Adventures Victoria in by Delos W. O'Brian. lists on Heidi and The American Magazine, February: some marble shaft bearing a of Tom Sawyer has been the pre- bronze head of Mark Twain which The Man Who is Always Soyne- About Snow White and Its Creator liminary to a state-wide plan of marks the burial place of the man body Else—Jerome Beatty, who cooperation between the Adult magazine opened who through his writing they have knows his Hollywood as few peo- Almost any Education Department of New at will have something to come to revere. The pilgrimage of ple do, gives an intimate glimpse random York State and the libraries of the Disney because of the youthful movie stars reveals of that much talked of screen say about Walt state. success of his how completely many of the adult star, Paul Muni, and his wife, the phenomenal new years of Mark Twain's life were From the Division of Adult Bella; Christian Science Monitor, feature length cartoon. Here are appeal to suggestions: Pub- spent in Elmira. It reveals also a Education has gone an January 10: Couple of Yanks a few of many A comparatively unknown incident local libraries to feature book ex- Back from Oxford, from Frank lishers' Weekly, February 5: in the life of the great American hibits correlating current films Daugherty's Scene in Hollywood Snow White and the Seven supplement humorist. That Twain married with the libraries. To —Maureen O'Sullivan and Robert Dwarfs — interesting data on book collec- Olivia Langdon of Elmira is well the relatively small Taylor describe their experiences books dealing with this subject; tions in libraries in villages and Science known. That he fell in love with in the cloistered halls of one of Christian Monitor Maga- the Library her picture shown to him by her unincorporated places England's great universities; zine, February 2: Mickey Mouse Division plans to offer brother Charles while on an ocean Extension Christian Science Monitor Maga- Comes of Age, by Frank these libraries collections of books Daugherty fascinating ac- voyage is a bit of knowledge that zine, January 12: A Man of — a for exhibit purposes and to in- the making of has been shared primarily by El- Parts, by Lewis Rex Miller— a count of "Snow clude when possible also a library mira. Old inhabitants well remem- delightful interview with that White" and of Walt Disney's poster. ber that the then rising young films," C. plans for the future; Magazine "grand old man of the author came to visit the family, Appeal to The Motion Picture Digest, February: The Arch-Con- Aubrey Smith ; Collier's February indulged in a whirlwind courtship, and the Family for reading lists spiring Mouse, written by Her- 19: Your Gal Sophie, by Katha- married Miss Langdon and car- on various current films for this bert Russell for the New York rine Roberts—about the career of ried her off to Hartford. Every purpose gave rise to the sugges- Times of December 26th — still that Queen of Funmakers, Sophie summer, however, they returned tion that a monthly reading list more about Disney's best known Tucker; The Girl's Own Paper, to Elmira to visit Mrs. Clemens' be published on outstanding films film character; Stage, February: London, England, February: ano- sister, Mrs. Susan Crane, who oc- of the month, with the hope that The Adventures of Snow White malously an article entitled The cupied a picturesque, rambling other State Education Depart- and the Seven Dwarfs, by Munro Fat Boy, an interview with house on the brow of East Hill. ments and libraries, as well as Leaf a whimsy inspired by the Graham Moffatt, as recorded by — Eventually Mrs. Crane built a those in New York State, may find Disney film, illustrated by A. Winifred Sykes; Stage, Febru- studio for Mark Twain adjacent them useful. The Motion Picture Birnbaum. ary: Music to My Ears, by to her home and in this studio the and the Family presents here- Douglas Churchill, a sketch of author wrote nearly all of Tom with suggested reading on The For Those Interested in Music what is being done with music Sawyer and of Huckleberry Finn. Adventures of Tom Sawyer and in the films primarily a per- Pacific Musician, Janu- The studio still stands and this Robin Hood. — Coast sonality story because it concerns ary 15: Interview with Richard was one of the objectives of the research went Such a wealth of itself so much with Deanna Hageman, by R. Vernon Steele youthful movie stars' pilgrimage. of Selznick's into the making Durbin. in which the well known composer Sawyer Visit Marked by The Adventures of Tom and director of musical films ex- of Articles with an Educational Slant Much Entertainment that we suggest only a few presses the belief that sooner or will in- The visit of the juvenile play- scores of volumes which Scholastic, February 12: Jean later opera will be written direct- of biography, ers to Elmira was made the occa- trigue the reader Lafitte, Pirate and Patriot, by ly for the screen and that Haensel sion for a luncheon under the history and simular subjects. Margaret Hauser — emphasizing and Gretel and Le Coq d'Or are auspices of the local Motion Pic- the historic background of Para- in their present form well suited For "Tom Sawyer" ture Council to which were invited mount's The Buccaneer; Educa- to motion picture production; one privileged student from each Among them are: Walter A. tional Screen, January: The same issue: Interview with Emit grade school and two from each Blair's A Raft Pilot's Log; Minnie Present Status of Teacher Train- Gerstenberger, by the same high school as well as adult lead- M. Brashear's Mark Twain, Son ing in the Use of Visual Aids, by author a story of one of those — ers in civic, religious and educa- of Missouri; Fred Erving Day- Gayle Starnes, Dept. of Ex- Hollywood musical geniuses who W. tional fields and the officers of the ton's Steamboat Days; Everlein's University of Kentucky; everything blues to tension, writes from Motion Picture Council. The Practical Book of American Scholastic, January 15: High symphonic tone poems for the Antiques; Willard Glazer's Down School Teachers' Edition—with screen and radio; Pacific Coast the Great River; Clifton John- much fascinating material about Musician, February 5: West from Action Youth's son's Old Time Schools and School educational uses of the drama, Lisbon, New Hampshire—an in- Books; Elsie Lathrop's Early radio and films; Library Journal, terview with Cecil Copping by R. Film Formula American Inns and Taverns; February 1: Cataloguing and Vernon Steele, which tells the Lighty's Shanty Boat; Elizabeth Filing of Motion Picture Films, story of a smalltown music teach- (Continued from Page 1) McClellan's Historic Dress in by John E. Abbott, Director er and violinist in a three-piece Another cause for adult worry America; Merrick's Old Times on Museum of Modern Art Film theatre orchestra who now has as to children's cinema likes and the Upper Mississippi; Albert Library; International Journal his feet firmly on the rungs of dislikes is removed by the dis- Bigelow Paine's Boys' Life of of Religious Education, Febru- the Hollywood ladder of fame; covery that "love and sex bore Mark Twain; Rose's Thesaurus ary: The Use of Motion Pictures Pacific Coast Musician, Januai'y the children to distraction". of Slang; Van Rensslaer's Early in Religious Education, by Mil- 1: Ghost Composers — an inter- American film stars rate high American Bottles and Flasks; dred Macfarlane. view with John Kurucz, by R. in popularity around the world. Richardson Wright's Hawkers The Living Church, February Vernon Steele—telling something Harold Lloyd and Joe E. Brown and Walkers in Early America. 9th: New Religious Film Project about the musicians in Hollywood are among the prime junior favor- Undertaken — the story of how whose names do not appear on ites, while Buck Jones, Hoot For "Robin Hood" Reverend James K. Friedrich, cu- the screen credits but who make Gibson and Richard Dix have a Few films will be produced in rate of St. Stephen's Episcopal a big contribution to music in following thousands of miles from the next few years which send Church, has launched a move to the films. the Western plains which are the research experts delving more scene of their cinema exploits. and deeply into history, legend Junior Matinees Infrequent folk lore than Robin Hood, soon Besant; History of Everyday Robin Hood by Pierce Egan, Junior matinees and special to come from the Warner Broth- Things in England, by Quennell; Henry Gilbert, J. M. Gutch, G. C. children's performances, so com- ers studios. Here are a few of Matrimonial Institutions of the Harvey, Eadith Heal, Howard England, by Pyle and N. C. Wyeth; Story of mon in the United States, are of many books which were read as Middle Ages; Old _ comparatively infrequent occurr- a preliminary to its making: Knight; Pleasures of the Torture the Saxon and Norman Period, Early London, by Sir Walter Chamber, by Swain; books on by C. W. Airne. ence in other countries. ! —

February 15, 1938 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY Lessons From Is Made Film * The Movies W H AT'S NEXT Conscious By (Continued from Page 3) IN HOLLYWOOD? in the ground, but in rich human 3-Day Program relationships. By Alice Ames Winter This story presents a series of conflicts—the rights of the farm- THERE is a postcript to the dentally, Dr. Rhythm brings back T7AST St. Louis, Illinois, was tale of •Lj ers against the rights of the min- "Tom Sawyer". Tom Beatrice Lillie, who years ago made unusually movie con- Kelly has, scious ers, the spirit of the conservatives to be sure, finished shook the dust of Hollywood for three days, January 13, his work against the spirit of the adven- in Hollywood and gone from her very lightsome feet and 14 and 15, when ten varied groups, back to including turers, the selfishness of the ex- New York to school. But told us how she scorned us, but the junior and senior on February high ploiters against the desperation 17th, when The who returns now to tell us that schools, Radio Station Adventures of the exploited. Miners pleaded of Tom Sawyer opens she loves us. Well, both Miss WTMV, St. Theresa's Academy, at the for social progress through gold Music Hall, Tommy is Lillie and the pictures have Better Films Council of East St. to_ take regardless of the effect on indi- his whole class as guests, changed these recent years. Louis and also McKendree Col- vidual peace and happiness which with a section set aside for them, lege, Lebanon, Illinois, had the to see are the essence of civiliation. his screen debut. And no An intriging episode concerns privilege of hearing Dr. Irving matter what E. Deer, The picture portrays contrasts the years may bring, Paramount's Big Broadcast of representative of the certainly —the gay, careless life in the this particular night 1938. It so happened that Ralph Community Service Department will be a of cities with the quiet refined life pinnacle of glory to the Rainger came across a song called the Motion Picture Producers small boy of the country; the placidity of who eleven months ago "The Waltz Lives On", and this and Distributors of America. stepped out the older men with the pioneering of the unknown into set him thinking of the hundred Planned by Council the well-known. outlook of the young; the gen- years since waltzing and waltz The program was planned by uineness of a girl with a back- music captured the world and how Miss Elsie Clanahan, State Chair- ground Hollywood has never it of high ideals with the known a has outlived generations of man of Motion Pictures for the silly greater loss than shallowness of a social but- came in the dances and come back into pre- Illinois Federation of Women's terfly. death of Irving Thalberg, keen sent-day favor, "withstanding the Clubs and President of the Better business man, executive, poet HAPPY LANDING and assaults of the hi-de-ho dances of Films Council of East St. Louis. well-beloved. So now it is watch- the jazz (ZOth age". Hence, in the This organization has been very Century-Fox) ing with immense interest the picture, a lavish and gorgeous active in the community for the This glorious beginning of Marie Antoinette, picture portrays to impressionistic panorama of the past four years and this year, in the spirit of be played by the starry-eyed adventure which has dances of a century. carrying out the program of the always blazed Norma Shearer, his widow, new trails to suc- who Motion Picture Department of the cess. Trudy is coming out of her shadowed "What's in a name?" is almost Ericksen might have Illinois Federation, has been in- stayed in life to take the part that a slogan in Hollywood. her home town, but she she When strumental in interesting several never would has coveted for years. Metro- you see Sally, Irene and Mary, have won fame and of the local schools in movie clubs fortune. Goldwyn-Mayer has a gift for don't say "I saw that long ago", Many adventurers, how- and photoplay appreciation class- ever, super-productions and this for the silent picture that intro- who start out bravely from pic- es. Recently it has presented each home, ture will lend itself to such treat- duced Joan Crawford in days encounter only tragedy. of the classes with a copy of Bar- ment in its gone by, has Who then should venture forth? contrasts between the under 20th Century- rett C. Kiesling's Fox blossomed book, "Talking Many qualities are helpful, but the gorgeousness of the decadent into a musical Pictures," and French comedy with other curricular essential for success is a well de- Court and the sordid little except the material. veloped skill tragedies of the Revolution. With name to link it to the old produc- which can function Besides giving numerous ad- - tion. effectively Conquest in Metro Goldwyn - Three very lovely girls, 1 in the "new environ- a dresses in East St. Louis, Dr. Deer ment Mayer's immediate past, one blonde, a brunette and a red- —Trudy could skate. may was able through the courtesy of Contrasting guess that Marie Antoinette will head, are the ladies, but is is in philosophies of life Mr. J. L. Menges and Mr. Russel give this picture not fall behind during these long new songs that the lure lies, such of beautiful Goodier of the State Theatre, to skating, months when it will be in the as "Half Moon On the Hudson", of elaborate ice pageants show one of the Secrets of Suc- and of good making. "Picture Me in a Picture Hat", music its dramatic cess films and then conduct a dis- conflicts. and "Who Stole the Jam?" Three Of the four principal cussion period with a group of characters new, little, dancing, singing two were fickle, er- A good many years ago it was girls, junior high school students. School ratic, impulsive said who declare that "radio is their and irresponsi- that the motion picture was board and faculty members of ble; racket" bloom onto the the other two were serious, a kind of safety valve. Never screen. East St. Louis public schools Which leads were dependable and genuine. The was this more true than now, us to note the invited to immense and attend the demonstra- happy landing of each in proper when laughter, gay spectacle and growing vogue for tion. children in mating may raise anew in the glitter seem to offer myriads an the films, and the equally minds of some the place of an hour or two of escape from a immense difficulty in find- ing real child Teach Use Film harmonious outlook on life in the perplexing and not - too - happy talent, in spite of Data continuity of happiness. world. The studios are respond- the clamors of fond and proud parents. In Beaumont, Texas It is, however, the aesthetic ing to the need, sometimes with It is not a matter of childish afterglow of grace and beauty real beauty of effervescence, charm and curls, but of real When the Motion Picture Coun- that is the dominant, lasting im- music, dance, clever "gags" dramatic genius, a genius that cil of Beaumont, Texas, persuaded pression from this picture. sometimes in more tawdry form. seems inborn in the child who is local public libraries to establish SNOW The Goldwyn Follies, which will literally one in a million. WHITE AND THE a motion picture information ser- be released this month, is an SEVEN DWARFS And are we glad that the do- vice, it did not leave the method arresting example of success in (RKO Radio) mestic difficulties that have ob- of utilization to chance. A com- all these lines comedy, music, This — scured Freddie Bartholomew have plete information bulletin giving unique and appealing pic- romance, song, with great beauty ure is so skilfully cleared away, and that he is to the purpose of the service and designed and of setting. A water-nymph ballet io effectively come back to us in Stevenson's minute instructions for its use presented that the is very lovely. Bits of grand characters Kidnapped! Recently in the high, was sent to every library. The seem to be real people. opera fall harmoniously into Scot village that 20th Century- two not only comprised data on How effective is the portrayal place and laughter runs rippling >f vanity and Fox has built in the hills, men how to set up alphabetized card jealousy as turning through it all. The cast ranges beautiful were pouring soot into the mud files but also how to instruct the woman into a witch of all the way from Helen Jepson of the streets to make it blacker child in the use of the files inspeakable ugliness! How true through the Ritz Brothers and so t is for the Kidnapped boys to sling that he would be able to choose that kindness and gentleness Charlie McCarthy—and then some ittract even the at each other. "'Aim for the for himself pictures in a suitable wild animals and more. In short, it is that extra- nake cheeks, not the eyes", ordered the audience grouping. The plan them tame and cooperative ordinary mixture of extrava- low director, and the boys aimed, embraces also a test to determine inspiring are beauty and ganza, vaudeville, comedy and ervice to those though Freddie did catch it in whether the children are making who are accus- opera that the motion picture is omed the eye. But, also, when the intelligent use of the cards. to crudity and hardship! making into a new, acceptable !now White scene was satisfactorily acted, In junior high schools the libra- enriches the lives form. And if your fancy turns f all with it was discovered that there was rians have given definite lessons whom she comes in towards crooning, you will see rmtact, a gob of mud on the camera lens. in the use of the reviews, which except the one who was Paramount's Dr. Rhythm, which jalous in many instances has permitted i of her. has taken an old story of 0. Speaking of youthful genius the There is young people not only to use a "lift" in the picture Henry's (of blessed memory) and there are two young ecause everyone people film the brief film estimates of public wants to be- brought it well up-to-date, with audiences should keep eve that "the meek their eyes relations groups but also to seek shall inherit Bing Crosby cavorting riotously upon Universale Deanna le — Dur- out lengthy reviews in more earth." through many adventures. con- Inci- bin and MGM's Judy Garland. sequential publications. 6 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY February 15, 1938

STILLS NOW AVAILABLE P-T-A Gives ON THESE PICTURES FILMS FOR THE Adventures of Robin Hood Service To L.A. Adventures of Tom. Sawyer PUPIL AND TEACHER Adventures of Marco Polo By Harold Turney Alice Adams Jr. High School Chairman the Department Drama, Los Angeles Junior College Anthony Adverse of of As You Like It CONFLICT is the very essence struggling against organized vice, Bad Man of Brimstone of drama. Without the for- and family loyalty against in- STUDENTS of the John Bur- Buccaneer ward movement of two or more dividual selfishness. roughs Junior High School of Captain Blood opposing forces struggling The great Chicago fire of 1871, Los Angeles have no excuse for Come and Get It against each other and simultane- thrillingly and realistically pro- making a wrong choice of film Conquest ously building our interest to a duced, presents an example of an- fare. A column of movie reviews in David Copperfield climactic moment there can be no other type of struggle, the con- "Far and Near," the weekly news- Dead End lasting impression, no holding flict between man and the forces paper published by the journal- Ebb Title power. This is just as true of a of nature. ism class of the school, keeps Gold Is Where You Find It news item, a short story, a novel, THE RIVER them posted on offerings at the Good Earth as it is of a newsreel clip, a short nearby film theatres. (Paramount Farm, Security Great Garrick film and a feature motion picture, — The column is contributed as Administration S. Depart- Heidi for the instinct to take sides in a of U. a bit of practical service by Mrs. ment Agriculture) High Wide and Handsome conflict is deeply rooted in hu- of Emery Huse, Motion Picture and Hurricane manity. In The River, the second gov- Radio Chairman for the Parent- In Old Chicago In a well-organized photoplay, ernment-produced documentary Teacher Association of John Bur- Last Days of Pompeii therefore, after the opening film, however, this latter type of roughs Junior High School. Re- Life of Emile Zola scenes have projected the intro- opposition is more truly illustrat- views are frank and discriminat- Little Minister duction, a dramatic action ap- ed, showing as it does man's ing and are helpful in establish- Little Women pears and the characters immedi- struggle against floods and ero- ing intelligent standards of film Lloyds of London ately line up with or against each sion. The film is the story of the appreciation. Lost Horizon other. In other words, the con- Mississippi River and man's con- Choose Six Best Films Maid of Salem flict becomes evident, complica- quest of its almost over-powering That they are not without their Midsummer Night's Dream tions result and the tensity of strength. It stands and will live effect in developing film taste is Mutiny on the Bounty emotion increases as the plot de- forever as a record of our times. indicated by the list of six "Best Of Human Hearts velops. Films of 1937" just chosen by Parnell Only that conflict which is the THE BUCCANEER John Burroughs students. They Plainsman result of a definite incentive is (Paramount) were Lost Horizon, The Life Prince and the Pauper dramatic. When the protagonist, of Man's own desires in conflict Emile Zola, The Good Earth, Cap- Ramona or the leading character, starts with social forces form our third tains Courageous, Stage Door and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm out to achieve something, he must type of conflict. The Buccaneer Navy Blue and Gold. Romeo and Juliet have good reasons for doing so is an example, for Jean Lafitte, Equally discriminating taste Scarlet Pimpernel and the antagonist, in opposing early nineteenth-century pirate, was shown in the selection of the Snow White and the him, must have equally good rea- refused to abide by any laws two best film players for 1937. Seven Dwarfs sons for his actions. Overcoming other his Paul Muni, long to be remem- Story of Louis Pasteur these obstacles should necessitate than own. bered by his superb characteriza- Submarine D-l great effort and struggle, for the Although The Buccaneer re- tions in The Life of Emile Zola Tale of Two Cities greater the obstacle, the greater leases an interesting subject for and Good Earth, and Spencer Treasure Island the conflict and subsequently the analysis, American history classes Tracy, whose delineation of Victoria the Great greater the emotional response should also be steered towards Manuel in Captains Courageous Wells Fargo from the audience. the film. Based on the results of many months spent in research, was one of the outstanding por- set. traits of the year, tied for male Price— $1.00 per IN OLD CHICAGO it follows factually the historical honors. Jeanette MacDonald was (20* h Century-Fox) happenings in the early days of Order through Motion Picture chosen as the actress. New Orleans. The only difficulty best Producers and Distributors of Perhaps the most popular type in this connection is the sustain- America, Inc., 28 West 44th of conflict, in and out of Holly- ing of suspense, for every history placer gold miners of the upper Street, New York, N. Y. wood today, is that in which a lover knows the outcome of each Sacramento and fruit farmers of man struggles against one or incident when it is first presented. the lower valley, drawing to a more of his own kind. Here we However, history, as screen ma- spectacular climax in the dyna- find a basis in human desires and Emporia Shines At terial, offers great pictorial pos- miting of a huge power dam and passions. In Old Chicago, a semi- sibilities and The Buccaneer fully a flood that sweeps the upper val- historical spectacle-picture of accomplishes its purpose of offer- ley. In the presentation of the State Film Meeting Chicago in its early days before ing entertainment based on fact. story several complications in- and through the great fire, is a crease the level of interest. Space film illustrating to a marked de- GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT permits mention of but one. Jared William Allen White's home gree this outstanding type of con- (Warner Brothers) Whitney, placer mining surveyor, town, Emporia, Kansas, took the flict. and therefore an antagonist, falls spotlight at a recent meeting of Very early in the story the vio- In an earlier paragraph we in love with Serena Ferris, the the 4th District of the Kansas lent death of the father, one mentioned complication. The film daughter of the protagonist. In Federation of Women's Clubs at Patrick O'Leary, strikes the re- Gold Is Where You Find It pre- a climactic moment, well along in Clay Center when Mrs. R. H. quired dramatic situation, and a sents several interesting illus- the film, he transfers his allegi- Jaquith, chairman of the Em- minor conflict, the mother's at- trations of this important quality. ance and the complication there- poria Better Films Council, pre- tempt to secure a living for her Complication, dramatically, upon blends into the main con- sented to 300 clubwomen the family of three small boys, opens adds one or more factors to a flict. MGM short subject, A Servant of the forward action. situation and makes the solution the People, which describes the When the boys have grown to more difficult. Entering the plot GOLDWYN FOLLIES making of the Constitution. by way of a second theme, or ac- young manhood and Tyrone (Goldwyn-United Artists) The showing constituted the Power develops into a political tion, or angle upon points at contribution of the 4th District wardboss and Don Ameche a issue, it contributes something Goldwyn Follies does not follow Motion Picture Department, of mayor-by-accident, the major generally unexpected by, yet in- along the usual pattern of dra- which Mrs. Jaquith is chairman, conflict of brother against broth- teresting to an audience. At the matic construction. Instead it to the Federation program. One er results. These opposing forces same time it must be reasonable presents a slight story with little hundred and fifty history and clash openly several times at according to the predetermined or no conflict, yet as strong in its American citizenship students of climactic moments with the ac- standards set by the story. emphatic response as a perfectly the city schools of Clay Center tion and the audience-interest In summary, then, the conflict constructed story-film. enjoyed the film along with the climbing steadily to the crisis, or might be considered a main The picture might be said, on clubwomen. All were agreed that turning point, when the elder thread and the complication a the other hand, to feature con- the film was a revelation as to brother is killed in the fire. series of threads, all woven to- flict by contrast, the simplest form the effective fashion in which Several minor conflicts are in- gether into a single thread of of opposition; the contrast be- modern films, designed for show- cluded in this story of fraternal the same color, or of blending tween grand opera and swing ing in commercial theatres, can devotion: leaders and citizens colors. music, between ballet and tap be correlated with the educational with opposing ideas regarding the "Gold" shows, as its main con- dancing, between comedy and program of the schools. city's progress, law and order flict, the struggle between the farce. — — —

February 15, 1938 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY Chief Honored Start Course For Industry's GRIST FOR THE For Jr. Pupils Fine Service LIBRARIAN'S MILL In Brooklyn {Continued from Page 1) living, better opportunities for By Richard James Hurley our people, greater plenty EXCELLENT results are re- to Librarian Roslyn, N. Y., High School share, and the greater reserves ported from an experimental which human security course on the History and will re- READ the book — See the also be used Ap- quire. in science, history preciation of movie" has long been a slogan and Motion Pictures "The social studies. In fact the full which was fact is that our richest for our movie corners. Lately use arranged for students we of movies is only limited by at the our indestructible—asset is not have taken Lew Wallace Junior High the idea into several our imagination and insight in our material resources. into School in Brooklyn. It is classrooms where plays and biog- the possibilities not the gold in of such tieups. Subjects covered the hills. It is the raphies are being read by the were: Origins iron in the hearts of the people. of Motion Pictures, Motion Pic- students. "Read the play — See Book Movies in I refer to Production tures in Their our national heritage the movie" or "Read the biogra- Infancy, The Fea- —The American Spirit. ture Picture, Introduction It lives phy—See the movie" is the slogan Glancing over the book-movies of today as it did in the Sound, Types of Pictm-es, Color days of here. Later we shall extend it to m production we find Robin Hood our fathers. It is Pictures, Foreign Films, away back in science, history, art and social promising plenty of interest for The the headwaters and Making of a Motion around the studies. In all of these fields will upper elementary and junior high Picture, hearthstones of the nation. What Makes a Good It was be found plenty of movies and school. There are any number of Movie? and the star which Written Criticism of hung over the books. And studying all of these attractive editions available. For a Current cradle of our Movie. liberty when the subjects will be found students an exhibit on Robin Hood could Republic was born Each lesson is in the streets who need such motivation as also be used Noyes' play—Sher- divided into of this city. It is three parts. The first the glory of movies provide. wood, or Robin Hood and the is a lecture the American Democracy. by the teacher, the second, For those studying plays we Three Kings, Lansing's Life in the the showing of an Urges Rekindling put on the bulletin board of their Greenwood, The Merry Bal- illustrative reel rooms lads and the third, student discussion. of American Spirit copies of the movie guides of Robin Hood, Creswick's All of this, of of plays, stills, pictures from Robin Hood, Gilbert's Robin Hood course, is supple- "I urge a rekindling of that mented by attendance "life" and other pertinent materi- anal the Men of the Greenwood, at commer- spirit now. It is that cial which will al. Pyles Merry films. The students keep urge us forward We then mimeographed a list Adventures of to new heights of twenty Robin Hood, Rhead's scrapbooks on forthcoming pro- of progress, while we plays that had been or Bold Robin preserve the are appearing Hood and His ductions and outstanding film principles that on the screen. Op- Outlaw Band and made us a great posite Perkin's personalities for all important nation. each title we placed three Robin Hood. Histories of It is that spirit which England, pictures, and also save newspa- columns for checking—the first if such as Quennell's A burns away the dross and leaves per and magazine they had seen the moviej, the History of Everyday Life in Eng- criticisms. the stark realization of the neces- Results second if they had land and books of noted are not only that sity of personal, moral, read the book, legends such and spir- the as Bulfinch's they devour avidly every availa- itual third if they had done both. Age of Chivalry, fit accountability. From it ble we Any score over well into this exhibit. book on motion pictures but have derived the impetus 50% was good. The Bar- that has This deen Company that whereas they used to carried us focused attention on these puts out a group see safely and triumphant- of panels pictures indiscriminately ly "movie" plays and made a game on Robin Hood. The they through every crisis and to now shop of it. We then arranged colored plates from the for the type of films constantly higher peaks with our Wyeth of pros- local edition of which their studies lead them perity and theater manager to supply Robin Hood published to distinction." us by McKay, believe are worth seeing. Referring with dates of the showing of sold separately, are to the industry about current films on the list. as fine illustrations as one which he specifically represented, The students were surprised to find can get. Robin Hood forms a good short subjects produced by the Mr. Hays said: "The motion pic- some of their movie favorites on art project, with either scenes industry are valuable educational ture was not born with a silver the list of plays surprised that from the story, pictures of the material when adapted to the spoon in its mouth. It was born — plays could be so much fun. The characters or a frieze showing classroom. And just now in the in poverty, in doubt, in the cour- plays we used included: outstanding events in his life. fields of pure fantasy the age of men. No fairy godmother Winter- artistic set, Mary of Scotland, Quality advancement has flowered into an of finance attended the industry's A new Warner Brothers pro- Street, Barretts of Wimpole astounding demonstration. We birth. Unlike most of the arts, duction Gold Is Where You Find Street, Green Pastures, are seeing the rise of a new it was not reared Caval- It—promises much grist medi- in patrician cade, for our um of story Tovarich, Stage Door, Men mill. telling, spun from surroundings. It has no vested It is a story of the conflict sheer in White, Dead End, Having imagery, as the little fan- rights. It must conform to public of gold miners and wheat farmers Wonderful Time, The Late Chris- tastic figures of the screen speak demands, public taste, and the in the Sacramento Valley in the topher Bean, The Plough the language of all men public's sense and the 1870's. There is a folder and of of decency and Stars, with two all ages. Ah Wilderness, Emperor pages of The significance of this goodness in entertainment. It is stills available from the Jones, As You Like It, cannot be overestimated." a true child of Democrary. Romeo Motion Picture Producers & Dis- and Juliet, The Petrified Forest, Public Praised "In a single decade, this busi- tributors of America and contain- for Damsel in Distress and Room Ser- Picture ness waif from the side streets ing a list of questions of interest Progress vice. Some of these plays can for has purchased a billion dollars' classroom discussion. "Picture progress," Mr. Hays said, worth of steel and stone and ce- after reviewing not only the ment and lumber. achievements but It has become served, and twelve million persons mocracy the self regu- the biggest of entertainment. It was lation process of single customer of every day in this country see mo- the industry. the thought that the entertainment " is a furniture, printing and li- tion tribute, to the cooperation pictures — the principal appeal of an art thographing trades, founded on pan- given to the industry and one of amusement of all the people in tomime by educa- the heaviest would be destroyed by tional, social, and taxpayers in the na- the world and the sole recreation religious lead- the intrusion of sound on the ership. tion. of millions and The processes of criticism, millions. screen. It was argued that "It provides steady employment the selection, and education have en- "Further, science has found the screen had to to a population be gauged to a low larged, not restricted, greater than the motion picture a useful adjunct; common the artistic number of denominator of public and dramatic inhabitants of some of education has discovered that opportunities of the the appreciation and would never screen; our states. Its payroll is one film they have increased, not of is an animated blackboard; have cultural or the backlogs of prosperity, educational sig- decreased, motion picture and it all business recognizes in it a nificance. attend- buys nearly ance. For this cooperation $100,000,000 worth salesman without limits of terri- "Today, and of great works of litera- criticism we newspaper, magazine, and bill- tory or hours, and the are grateful. pictures ture, drama, history, and biog- "In board advertising annually. are friendly ambassadors the whole result lies the as they raphy, pictures that incorporate true "With a capital investment of travel from country significance of the planned to country the music of the masters are path approximately two billion dollars, of self-regulation. It is a introducing each nation to every among the greatest it uses successes. path on which the products of 270 differ- other in sympathetic portrayal. the twin necessi- Many of the most significant new ties ent industries, arts, and profes- "Artistically, of a constantly improving motion pictures pictures are due to sions in the making comedy, dia- quality of supply and of a single have passed every boundary that logue or a constant- picture. music made possible by ly rising standard Twenty-seven thousand had been placed upon the pro- sound. of demand are miles of And our better pictures moving forward film every day pass gress of the art. It was together. It said that not only enlarge the lives but en- means through the hands of the distri- the need of an industry built upon a popular appeal would rich the minds of their audiences. bution exchanges in this country wider basis of public service stunt the film as an art form Furthermore, leading and alone, as educators an art that can rise to our 17,000 theatres are that art would not mix with de- the highest have discovered that hundreds of social ends." -ri'.--:-"-—i <•};#

THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY February 15, 1938

Films Discover Lincoln Talks To Stubborn Son An Auspicious Business Girl In Film About Circuit Rider Program Given Film Heroine ByN. J. Juniors

a pace-setter in mat- years ago the California ALWAYS TWO ters pertaining to films, New Federation of Business and Jersey scores another distinction. Professional Women's Clubs began What is believed to be the first previewing pictures on the West statewide secondary school fed- Coast. It was the first time a eration of motion picture appre- business women's group had evi- ciation classes in the United denced any official interest in the States, is not only organized, but films. well under way, as the program What has happened since has of an all-day conference pre- borne out the ancient saying, sented under its auspices on "Behold how great a matter a January 22 in Newark will dem- little fire kindleth". For what onstrate. occurred as a natural sequence First event of the morning was to the business women's interest the private showing of a feature in films has been the sudden film at Proctor's Lyceum Theatre awakening on the part of feature followed by discussion by the writers and film producers to junior enthusiasts. Following this the realization that business came the screening, at Loft's women play an important part diningroom, of a prize film made in the social fabric today and by the students of the Photoplay that they have their distinct qual- Club of Central High, Newark. ifications as heroines of the up- A stereopticon lecture on the to-date screen drama. making of a photoplay followed, An appealing scene from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Ohio epic given by the High School Photo- West Coast Writer Comments "Of Human Hearts". play Study Classes of the Wee- A clever, West Coast feature quahic High School in Newark, writer who has been regularly re- WHEN the International Fed- The picture is a true American illustrated by pictures taken "on ceiving the previews of the Cali- eration of Catholic Alumnae photoplay of typical American location" in Hollywood by Dr. fornia Federation, in which spe- prepared its weekly radio broad- scenes and situations, sympatheti- William Lewin, pioneer in the cial emphasis is laid upon films cast on films on February 11, it cally revealing that period in pio- photoplay appreciation field. that depict the modern business commented of the new MGM neer history when a new nation Discussions on "How the Photo- woman, phrases it this way: "To- picture, Of Human Hearts: "Long was being born. From the circuit play Club Can Help the High day screen charmers all have after you have seen this picture rider days, it moves on to stirring School to Become Photoplay Con- jobs. They've gone in for 'gain- vou will find yourself remember- incidents of the Civil War and it scious" by the Barringer High ful occupations' in a big way. ing it." has its climax in the moving scene Photoplay Club and "How the If they are not something respect- Their sentiments were echoed, in which President Lincoln pleads High School Photoplay Club Can able like nurses, secretaries, law- or rather anticipated, by a pre- with the stubborn son of the Ohio Cooperate with the Community yers, they are apt to be spies or viewing group made up of repre- circuit rider and sends him back Better Films" by the Madison night-club entertainers. Anyway sentatives of some of the leading home to appreciate "the benefits High Photoplay Club followed. we gather they all draw pay organizations and social work he has forgot." Time off was allowed for in- checks." agencies of the country, who saw John Carradine as President spection of student made movie the picture in a preview on Tues- Lincoln, Walter Huston as Ethan Interesting outcome of two sets in miniature shown by the day, February 8th. Wilkins, the sternly righteous cir- and years' Federation previewing is Orange High Photoplay Club Of Human Hearts is an adapta- cuit rider, James Stewart as his the testimony of the Chairman of of periodicals, books and pictures tion of Honore Willsie Morrow's rebellious son and Beulah Bondi the Preview Committee, Mrs. collected by the Columbia High novel, Benefits Forgot, which will as the self-sacrificing mother Maple- Odessa Davis, to the effect that Club of South Orange and add a new historical and cultural whose life is dedicated to trying several hundred pictures pre- wood. of chapter to the development of the to bridge the gap of misunder- she cannot recall a single Discussion followed on "The viewed modern film because it picks a standing between father and son, one that distorted the profile of Integration of High School and locale and period that have been all contribute unforgettable per- Municipal Projects for Better the modern business woman. "The little pictured on the screen. The formances. Of Human Hearts is Films" by the Photoplay Club of screen secretary," she comments, place is settlement, an Ohio the the kind of film that is sure to find the Elizabeth Schools, and an ad- "is charming, efficient, sartorially time in the opening scenes is pre- its way into class room discussion dress on "How I Teach Photo- smart and usually better balanced Civil War, the story is that historical and from a angle. From the play" by Dr. Lewin. than the screen boss." of a circuit rider who settles in angle of a significant bit of a folk Luncheon and informal discus- little Ohio town and tries to im- drama it is educational, cultural sion followed. pregnate it with his ideals of and revelatory of the American The newly organized junior Christianity. spirit. Shirley First In federation is affiliated with the New Jersey Finer Films Federa- Hearts Of Public Special Stills On "Snow White" tion (adult) through the Educa- tional Committee headed by Wil- liam F. Bauer. W. Paul Bowden Snow White and the him to bring back Snow White's (Continued from Page 1) WITH of the East Orange High faculty Seven Dwarfs the talk not heart to the final fadeout when herself in everyone's affections as is the sponsor. only of the whole film-going the little princess and her Prince "The World's Sweetheart," again public, but of artists, educators Charming ride away into the sun- emerges as the biggest money and religious leaders as well, set. Incidents covered in the making star of 1937. In eighth German "Mickey" Seen there will be special interest in series include Snow White's flight place in 1934 the year of her — the announcement that a set of through the forest, her first meet- For years America's Mickey debut as a full-fledged juvenile 12 motion picture stills which ing with the animals, houseclean- Mouse has been making friends star in Baby Take a Boiv she — tell the consecutive story of ing at the home of the seven for Old Glory around the world. went to the head of the line in Snow White's adventures is avail- dwarfs, Snow White slumbering Now Germany's Mickey Mouse, 1935 and by 1936 had greatly in- able at the price of one dollar, before the dwarfs' arrival, her Wupp, the animated puppet which creased her lead over the best through the Motion Picture Pro- discovery by the seven little men, so closely resembles the individ- adult maker of that pe- money ducers & Distributors of Ameri- the jollification when the dwarfs ual whose picture adorns the riod. ca, Inc., 28 West 44th Street, New find out what a good cook she cover of Esquire, has made his Shirley's persistent re-appear- York City. is, their departure for work, the American debut and been taken ance in first place as a box office Selected with taste and dis- arrival of the wicked queen dis- to Hollywood's heart. The South- attraction is not only significant crimination, these twelve stills de- guised as a witch, Snow White's ern California Film Society, com- testimony to the charms of the scribe what happened to Snow slumber after she has eaten the posed of members of the film col- little star, but also emphatic White from the moment when the poisoned apple, and the arrival ony and their friends, was the commentary on the underlying wicked queen gives to the hunts- of the prince to awaken her with first to see Wupp on the screen wholesomeness of audience tastes. man the box in which she wishes his magic kiss. and greeted him with enthusiasm.

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Vol. 4 March 15, 1938 No. 7

Frankfort Has Public Relations Croups Acclaim Chicago Croup An Interesting Young Singer's "Mad About Music" Plans Motion Movie Test Picture Week A CONCLUSIVE evidence of THE Better Films Council of the value of motion pictures ' Chicagoland, of which Mrs. in making history vivid has been Richard M. McClure, former Mo- achieved in Frankfort, Indiana, tion Picture Chairman of the through a unique series of tests General Federation of Women's conducted by the Lincoln School. Clubs, is president, has pioneered Students beginning with grade in many noteworthy motion pic- 4A and continuing through 7B ture enterprises. It is, therefore, were tested as to their knowl- no surprise to learn that it is ex- edge of an event of primary im- perimenting again in a new field. portance in that section of the Its project this time is the ob- country, the obtaining of the servance of a Motion Picture Northwest territory from the Week which will be Chicago- British for the new United wide this year, but which the States. After the children had Council hopes to make nation- answered 20 questions dealing wide in 1939. with the incident a motion picture Dates are April 16 to 23 covering George Clarke's famous The dates selected are April titled Vin- expedition, which was 16 to 23, which are also being the pupils. cennes, was shown to celebrated in Chicago as Youth The same 20 questions were again Week. They are particularly ap- submitted to them and the im- propriate for a motion picture 2)rovement between their rating observance that will unquestiona- first test at the close of the and bly expand to nationwide propor- their rating at the close of the tions, for April marks some of the second second was noted. A most significant events in the his- and showing was then arranged tory of the industry. The first again the test was applied. The peep show was opened in New to the response of the children York City on April 14, 1894. The The youthful vocalist sings Gounod's "Ave Maria" with the Vienna Boys' Choir tests was charted in red, black actual birthday of the motion and blue and provided an ex- picture as an entertainment form graph. In each tremely interesting IN her last picture, 100 Men and will not acknowledge her because was April 23, 1896, in Koster instance the increase in knowl- a Girl, young Deanna Durbin of the possible effect on her career and Bial's Music Hall in New edge was noteworthy. divided honors with Leopold Sto- will long be remembered. York City, and April 14, 1914, kowski. In her current picture, The filming of the production (Continued on page 7) Mad About Music, she is sur- brought some interesting innova- (Continued on -page 2) rounded by an excellent cast, but tions in sound technique. One of Manager Aids In selections sung by the 15- in spite of that fact this is Dean- the Montana School Has year-old is "Ave Safety Program na's picture. This is not primarily star Gounod's Others a more popu- because of the young star's de- Maria." of Fine Book Week Plan "I to Whistle," i en- lar order are Love Children responsible for lightful singing, but because it of originally sung by Deanna when School in Ka- forcing the safety program establishes her as an actress who Saint Matthew's the Bryant School in Kansas City, she leads a group of her school- lispell, Montana, where motion is a consummate mistress of Missouri, get a weekly reward of mates on bicycles through the picture appreciation has flourish- pathos. Her moving portrait of merit. lovely Swiss mountain country ed for a number of years, re- the wistful young daughter of a James Long, civic-minded man- ports having developed its own film star whose mother (Continued on page 6) ager of the Plaza Theatre, gives famous "film book" project in connection free admission to the fifteen chil- with the observance of National Book Week. Stress laid dren who comprise each week's Showing for Blind Staged in Toledo was upon safety patrol. | (Continued on page 6) dialogue I Films Reviewed I F you were to assert that mo- chosen in which and In Current Issue ' tion pictures were purely a vis- music are especially appealing. Woman's Club Contest- there are at least two pub- Blind film enthusiasts and their Reviewed in this issue are: ual art Spurs Film Tastes attend free of charge and Adventures Tom Sawyer, lic relations groups that would be guides The of of Council serve as inclined to quarrel with you. members the Attention of the children of I page 4 ; The Adventures of Marco are the Better Films hostesses. Polo, page 5; The Beloved Brat, They Middlesex County, Virginia has j Council of Toledo, Ohio, and the page 4; Call the Mesquiteers, E. Brown Is Favorite been focused on the right kind Organiza- Joe page 3; Condemned Women, page Southwestern District of films through a review contest of As Joe E. Brown is a native of 3; Hawaii Calls, page 3: He tion of the State Federation sponsored by the Middlesex Coun- is special enthusi- Couldn't Say No. page 3; Holly- Pennsylvania Women. Experi- Toledo, there ty Woman's Club. Essays are sub- one of his xoood Stadium Mystery, page 3; ments with blind people have con- asm for his films and mitted monthly on some worth- is whenever pos- In Old Chicago, page 7; Mad vinced these two groups that al- pictures secured while movie seen by each young about Music, pages 3 and 5; Mer- most as much enjoyment is to be sible. writer and prizes presented for rily We Live, page 3; Of Human derived from "hearing" films as The Pennsylvania Women have the best manuscripts. Teachers in Hearts, page 4; Prairie Thunder from both seeing and hearing not gone so extensively into the English and other classes report page 3; Prison Nurse, page 3 them. project of serving the film inter- that the monthly contest with its Renfrew of the Mounted, page 3 The Toledo Better Films Coun- ests of the blind. However, a prize awards has had a strong The River, page 7; Romance in cil, of which Mrs. O. E. DeLong blind speaker, Mrs. C. C. Taylor, bearing on the picture-going hab- the Dark, page 5; Sally, Irene is Chairman, arranges a monthly delivered an address on "Hearing its of the children and has defi- ami Mary, pages 3 and 5; To the showing for blind men and nitely encouraged higher stand- Victor, page 3. women of the city. A film is (Continued on page 5) ards of film taste, : —

THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY March 15, 1938 B'klyn Council Chicago Croup Stages A Fine WHAT'S NEXT , IN Plans Motion Jr. Matinee HOLLYWOOD? Picture Week By ALICE AMES WINTER I a N suburban section of New (Continued from page 1) 1 York where local motion pic- ture managers had been wont CCASIONALLY, when one is they were in In Old Chicago. O marked the opening of the Strand to use everything from "lollipops ^ shown a picture that is near- Producer Darryl Zanuck, who has ing Theatre in New York City, which to live puppies" to corral a ju- completion, the director says proved himself a canny financier, was the forerunner of present- venile audience, a local motion apologetically, "You know the is spreading himself to the extent day de luxe motion picture houses. picture council has just succeeded music isn't dubbed in yet. You'll of two millions in this picture. Although Chicago's in inaugurating a fine program of have to discount that." But Fritz Thirty-three Berlin songs (add- Youth , Week and the Motion junior matinees without any of Lang of Paramount (and long ing three new swing tunes Picture to Week observance these extraneous attractions. before that, of Austria) is now thirty selections that are already coincide and there will accordingly be appre- How it happened to engage in reversing things. He is making a famous) are woven into the ciable emphasis upon the char- the project and what were the recording of his musical accom- story, which covers the period acter-building phases of films, techniques that led to success are paniment to You and Me and is between 1911 and today. You will the appeal is to both adult vividly described by the Council's having it played to the players remember that this includes that and youthful audiences. Emphasis chairman, Mrs. Lewis P. Addoms, as they are acting, so that they major episode, the World War will not be placed primarily upon from whom we quote random may harmonize their moods and ( May there never be another , so ! ) motion picture attendance. paragraphs movements to it. In this way he huge army trucks and war-time The purpose will rather be to make "To put on a satisfactory chil- makes the music a definite help tensity play their parts. Inciden- dren's to the director the people who are regular program in a city of the in obtaining the tally, also, since cinema food is patrons of the films appreciate size of Brooklyn takes determina- atmosphere he wants not only to generally real food, good food, the privilege of attending them tion. For years these programs "pace the moods" of the actors, food meant to be eaten with gusto, but and also to stress the artistic had been given by local exhibi- also to substitute for dialogue the actors were not so pleased and cultural aspects of the mo- tors and a more or less stereo- in the plans. This really pushes when they faced a mess of war- tion picture with a view to de- typed pattern set up. Induce- forward the movement to keep time "grub," and very grateful veloping a more discriminating ments for attendance were varied. pictures more and more away they were to the director, Henry mass audience. The program was sometimes of from literary forms and increase King, when he called, "Cut!" just secondary importance. But popu- their eye and ear emotional ap- before they might have been lar demand peal. Community Enterprises for children's pro- "Someone should have called upon to fall to and eat it. to Cooperate grams is strong. The feeling pre- thought of it long ago," says Mr. But if the "grub" was without vails Lang. that if a show bears the But after all it is only gusto, there is plenty of gusto in Every community enterprise children's recently label, it must of that music and pictures the three hundred singers, men in and interest will be called into necessity be good. have come into their near har- uniform, rolling out "We're on play to further the program. A mony and understanding. Our Way to France," with a survey of schools to ascertain the Mother's Request Spurs Action — marching extent of visual dance routine—on a education, the in- I "When a woman, the mother It seems impossible to turn any- battleship. Our young friend, auguration of a film library, the of two small children, came to where in movie-land now-a-days Tyrone Power, has been studying sponsorship of school movie clubs one of the Council's district com- without becoming music-con- violin for months so that he may are among the educational proj- | mittee meetings and expressed a scious. Isn't it rather intriguing play with verisimilitude his part ects recommended. Librarians wish to present a children's show to_ have Stokowski collaborating as orchestra leader in the picture. will be contacted and asked to I with one of those casually se- with Walt Disney in Sorcerer's arrange for a permanent motion lected programs at a local house, Apprentice] Quite another musical device picture corner. Exhibits and

the Council's Junior Matinee appears in Stolen Heaven, at allied material will be supplied to : project was born. Paramount. They call it a libraries, art institutes Somewhat re- This month has seen Deanna "danc- and mu- I seums. luctantly the organization decided Durbin's new picture, Mad about ing camera," and it means that Libraries will be encour- to seven aged to try an experimental per- Music, released by Universal. We times the piano is moved, increase the number of formance to each time on their film reference determine if the pub- all hope the huge popular de- beat, to a portion books and lic would support a of Moskowski's Waltz, community groups will be urged children's mand for this child who is so danced program that through to purchase film would stand on its much the ideal girl, so smiling a household by Olympe equipment for merits without lollipops Bradna, a new star library use. or pup- and entrancing, so bird-like in on the film pies. horizon, and Gene Attractive film displays will be her musical spontaneity, is not Raymond. Mu- sical arranged in "One of the largest circuits working her too hard. In her dialogue—that is, unrhymed book stores, depart- gave the theatre dialogue spoken to ment stores and music shops. and Lincoln's present vehicle there is less of music—and Birthday Churches will was selected as the date. ambitious operatic music, more musical montage—swift overlap- be urged to incor- Tickets ping of porate motion were 10c and the circuit that seems fitted to an adolescent images illustrating Lizst's pictures into their asked that Second weekly program. the Council provide girl, and a touching story of her Hungarian Rhapsody Theatre men one thousand children, also appear in the picture. will be asked to play films but de- fumbling to find a father's love. such manded no guarantee. Bravely as King of Kings, Ben Hur and the Committee started. Film after Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer have Sign of the Cross for the special Ranking high among ambitious film was previewed to select those also caught the Lizst fervor and benefit of church audiences. performances will come Alexan- which had no flaw. Posters and made a charming color poem, Camera stores, electric shops and der's Ragtime Band, three years fliers were printed and dis- with no humans or animals, just photographers will be asked to in the making (with that new at- tributed. Letters were sent to an animated picture of moving pay tribute to the four men who titude of taking plenty of time to schools and churches asking co- objects in color, with a symphonic had most to do with the develop- do a good job instead of rushing operation. orchestra of fifty pieces syn- ment of the industry—Edison, things to meet a date). It really "Answers were practically nil. chronizing Lizst's 2nd Hungarian Eastman, Daguerre and Lumini- creates a great cavalcade of Irv- When we tried personal follow-up Rhapsody with a color theme. ere. Health centers will stress ing Berlin's music as it is taking we found that many of the Emphasis on music and on films on child care and guidance. form at 20th Century-Fox, with church men 'did not approve of rhythm—they are comforting and Theatres will inaugurate morning Tyrone Power, Alice Faye movies; their children did not and programs with short talks about Don Ameche again teamed attend'; that school principals as (Continued on page 7) film history and technique. Re- could not cooperate because they vivals of outstanding films will be had refused 'similar requests' encouraged. Newspapers and from the theatre men; that 'our radio will be approached for ap- hostesses and 21 older Girl and children do not get up on Satur- "The lights went out; talking propriate publicity. Boy Scouts in uniform day in time for a were their ceased, and for two full hours morning show'. assistants. Signs bearing the they either laughed or were si- "We found that the Committee All-Day Forum Is Climax names of the schools cooperating lently attentive, must sell the plan before it could showing their were displayed throughout the sell the tickets. The telephone was complete absorption in the screen. The observance will climax theatre so that children could the with an all-day forum invoked, the women went to the "At close of the show the and lunch- find their friends. Scouts eon on April heads of schools, and finally came walked slowly up the 21st when guest "Three-quarters of promises of support. an hour be- aisles, clearing the house to the speakers will present all phases fore the opening the lobby was a last child. of the motion picture problem. "The program selected included jam; twenty minutes before, the "Letters from the Elephant Boy, The school men Chicago's experiment will be Perfect Tri- children could be held out no long- and parents bute, have come in. The watched with keen interest and in honor of Lincoln's Birth- er. In they came, thirteen hun- program has gone over. Brooklyn its inevitable success will be day, and two cartoons chosen for dred strong, laughing, hurrying, Council has established a prece- noted as a signpost directing the their healthy, normal fun. Moth- but orderly, eager to find good dent for successful children's way towards possible ers from a local school served as nation-wide seats. matinees." endeavor. T March 15, 1938 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY 3 Thumbnail SNAPSHOTS OF Mo. Council Reviews Of Works Closely Late Films FILM PERSONALITIES With Schools

THESE are evaluations and au- DASSAGE of an encouraging UOLLYWOOD glories are often who is primarily responsible for ' dience classifications of films new milestone in the better evanescent but there is at giving to the film public glorious reviewed by the East Coast Pre- film movement in St. Louis, least one Hollywood personality music with a color and natural- Missouri, view Committee since March 1. was reported to the who will have a permanent niche ness that has never been achieved More extensive reviews will ap- editor of The Motion Picture in the Hall of Fame. It is Doug- before through any recording de- pear in the April issue of Selected and the Family by Mrs. Arretus las Shearer, a clever press vice. It is whom he, too, who first made Franklyn Burt, founder of the Motion Pictures. screen voices sound normal. St. Louis Better Films Council, in Although the sister of this re- a recent visit to New York. Call the Mesquiteers cording wizard is one of the most For the first time in the history (Republic) glamorous actresses in Holly- of this highly successful Council, wood, Douglas Dir: John English. Cast headed Shearer has not which has been a pace-setter for traded on his by Bob Livingstone, Ray Corri- sister's laurels, but much of the United States, a has found his gan and Max Terhune. way to the top strong tie-up has been effected be- alone. He served an apprentice- tween the Council and the city Mistaken for silk robbers, the ship as a camera technician, but educational system to enable St. three Mesquiteers, about to be he was an engineer by training Their Louis students to utilize to the hanged, stage an escape. and by inclination, and when robbers utmost the educational values in attempt to locate the real sound pictures approached he but acting current films. furnishes excitement, could not forego the fascination direction mediocre. Council Recommends Films and are of experimenting. Long hours of Adults young people. and study when he was free from his When the Council, through its camera duties equipped him to Educational Committee, of which Condemned Women take over the role of sound engi- Mrs. Burt is chairman, recom- (RKO Radio) neer when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer mends a picture, it is at once in- first installed sound. tegrated into the school program Dir: Lew Landers. Cast Sally Since that day his has been and every effort is made to en- Eilers, Louis Hayward, Anne one of the outstanding courage students to see the film Shirley. names identi- fied with the development of and to incorporate discussions A prison psychiatrist, inter- sound technique and he has won about it into the classroom a ested in the rehabilitation of Academy Award after Academy schedule. a sentence for young girl serving Award for the perfection of his The Educational Committee is larceny, falls in love with her work. made up of educators and of rep- happiness. An and the two find agent has dubbed the "David of The automatic camera, the de- resentatives of leading civic and picture of prison life, interesting the Sound Track" because for six vice for starting and stopping re- character-building organizations, over-sentimentalized. slightly years he conducted experiments cording, the first steadily moving the list including Mrs. Burt, Dr. people. Adults and young in sound recording against the sound track, can all be attributed John Rush Powell, assistant Goliath of disbelief, doubt and to Douglas Shearer, as can the superintendent of schools; Mr. Hawaii Calls opposition, and overcame the invention of most of the equip- John Bracken, superintendent, (RKO Radio) modern colossus as successfully ment which gives to present day Clayton Public Schools; Mr. as did his Biblical predecessor the sound pictures their verity. Banks, superintendent, Univer- Dir: Edward F. Cline. Cast giant of an earlier day. Truly he has the characteris- sity City School; Father Forrey Bobby Breen, Ned Sparks, Ir- Douglas Shearer is the person tics of a "David." of St. Louis University; Brother vin S. Cobb. Henry of the Catholic High A pleasing medium for Bobby School faculty; Dr. Lentz of Breen. As a young stowaway he Washington University, Webster helps recover stolen government Groves; Mr. Simmons vents an explorer father for the a mercy killing. Adults of the Y. Excellent Hawaiian and M.C.A.; Mr. documents. edification of her classmates. young people. Gilbert Harris of music and dancing. Family. Lovely singing by Deanna Dur- the Y.M.H.A.; Miss Elaine Bryan of the Y.W.C.A.; bin. Family. Renfrew of the Royal Mounted Miss Anna He Couldn't Say No Louise Petri, president of the St. ( Grand National) Louis Federation Bros.) Merrily We Live of Music Clubs; (Warner Mrs. James (MGM) Dir: Al Herman. Cast: James Randall, president of !Dir: Lew Seiler. Cast headed by Newill, Carol Hughes, William the St. Louis Council of Parents Frank McHugh, Jane Wynn Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. Cast: Royle. and Teachers; Mr. Elmer Arndt and Berton Churchill. Constance Bennett, Brian of Eden Seminary; Mr. Uneven direction redeemed by Emmett Aherne, Billie Burke, Alan H. Hood, president An amusing idea, drolly pre- the beauty of the wild Canadian of the St. Mowbray. Louis School Principals; sented and well acted by the forest and the excellent singing Mrs. The vogue for comedies written Hood, leader in Child whole cast, but somewhat marred of James Newill. Family. Welfare and by a weak ending, which fails to around engaging people who are Parent Education; Dr. Willard maintain the high comedy level. slightly mad continues unabated Sally, Irene and Mary Shelton, editor of a religious pub- and this one establishes lication; Mrs. Frank Adults and young people. a new (20th Century-Fox) Ives of the high for lunacy, with no lapse in College Club and Mrs. Ernest entertainment value. Hilarious Dir: William A. Seiter. Cast Krueger, chairman of Photoplay Mystery Hollywood Stadium fun, excellently acted and di- headed by Alice Faye, Joan Appreciation of the Better Films (Republic) rected. Family. Davis, Marjorie Weaver and Council of St. Louis. Fred Allen. The Buccaneer Cast headed was one of the jDir: David Howard. Prairie Thunder films recently Hamilton and Evelyn A comedy detailing the efforts recommended by by Neil the Educational Committee Venable. (Warner Bros.) of three manicurists to attain for its Broadway success by converting value in revealing a little-known writer of mystery stories, Dir: B. Reeves Eason. Cast A a river steamer into a showboat. incident in American history and -rying out his theories, identifies headed by Dick Foran, Ellen Dialogue and situations was avidly studied by students in Excellently acted, Clancy. are . murderer. St. Louis schools. Through A western "bad man," in order funny and comedy well handled. co- with a strong feeling of mystery operation between the school to maintain his freight transpor- Family. de- ,nd intrigue. Adults and young partment and the Better tation by wagons, induces Indi- Films people. Council study material is secured ans to help him fight the coming To the Victor for the use of the students. Mad about Music of the telegraph and the cross- (Gaumont British) country railroad. Mediocre acting (Universal) Dir: Robert Stevenson. Cast: and weak direction. Family. Laurels To Rainer and Tracy Dir : Norman T a u r o g . Cast Will Fyffe, John Loder, Mar- headed by Deanna Durbin and Prison Nurse garet Lockwood, Graham Mof- Luise Rainer and Spencer Marshall. fatt. Herbert (Republic) Tracy are this year's winners of This new Durbin film is de- An intensely moving film which the Academy of Motion Picture ightful entertainment. The tai- Dir: James Cruze. Cast headed divides interest between two Arts and Sciences awards for the nted miss plays a young Ameri- by Henry Wilcoxon and Marian clever dogs and several vital hu- best performance of 1937—Miss an girl placed in a private Marsh. man characters. The remarkable Rainer for O-lan in The Good ,kchool in Switzerland by her A far-fetched story of a young performance of Will Fyffe is a Earth and Mr. Tracy for Manuel nother, a movie star, who in- doctor serving a jail sentence for histrionic triumph. Family. in Captains Courageous. a

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Church Leader Film Reading LESSONS from the MOVIES Outlines Fine For The Month Presented Fit m Program for the Committee on Social Values in Motion Pictures by Howard M. Le Sourd, Ph.D., Dean Personality Stories You Will All of Boston University Graduate A PRACTICAL program for School, Chairman. Like to Read helping the church-going CTAGE, March: From Organ youth of the country to shop in- Loft to Kliegs—Marcia Daven- telligently for the finer type of (""YNE who is sensitive to the re- ness and sympathy, of selfishness port, talented daughter of Efrem film entertainment has been sources for adult education and generosity, of cruelty and Zimbalist and Alma Gluck Zim- adopted by the Department of in the current entertainment pic- kindness, of indifference and love. balist, presents the first instal- Religious Education of the Na- tures will find in those reviewed One sees in the dramatis personae ment of a two-part article about tional Council of the Protestant this month a wealth of significant the traits of his friends and his the career of Leopold Stokowski; Episcopal Church. Its purpose material. Everyone realizes the acquaintances, but have we the same issue: Methods in Madness, is effectively outlined by Mrs. contribution which comedies of all courage also to identify our own by Douglas W. Churchill—side- B. J. Reynolds, Young People's kinds make to the recreational shortcomings? lights on two scenarists, Gene Secretary, who is in large meas- life of people, but pictures which Towne and Graham Baker; ure responsible for this "shop combine education with recrea- THE BELOVED BRAT Dance, March: Twenty-five for good movies" project. She tion should have special support (Warner Brothers) Shoivs a Year—Anatole Chujoy's points out that the proper con- and patronage by all those who breezy sketch of Florence Rogge, Civilization is conditioned on cern of the church in dealing are interested in social progress. ballet mistress of the Radio City the realization of a society of with youth is to help young peo- Failure to secure large attend- Music Hall; Liberty, March 12: normal, friendly and cooperative ple to develop standards of value ance for I'm No Glamour pictures that will stimu- people, and the most important Girl—direct rather than merely to warn them late thought on important sub- quotes from Sylvia Sidney's own factor in the development of such against indifferent films. jects is unfortunate for society as story as told to Frederick James individuals is a wholesome, happy a whole, for not only it Smith; McCalls, April: Telling What Not to See does mean home life. Glamour a loss of the possible influence of Begim at Thirty Hildegarde Makes Forbidden Alluring There are many causes of ner- — a particular picture, but it means Fillmore gives a pen portrait of "Simply telling them what to vous, irritable and rebellious also discouragement of produc- Claudette Colbert; Collier's, see and what not to see makes the youth. This picture outlines viv- tion of similar pictures in the fu- March 12: Industrious Butterfly forbidden more alluring," she idly and effectively one source of ture. —in which Katharine Roberts comments. "It will not build con- difficulty. It has a wealthy home It is unusual in a single month writes of Zorina, new sensation structively for the future." as a background, but the sins of to come across three photoplays of the films; Atlantic Monthly, "We have prepared a packet the parents portrayed may be dealing with problems of parents. March : From Hollywood to Paris of material on the movies for the found in all types of homes. This To be sure, other problems are —the second instalment of Elsa use of church young people's picture will give us insight into currently presented, but all par- Lanchester's fascinating story, groups," she adds. "In this ma- why some children behave as they ents ought to see Of Human "Charles Laughton and I"; Chris- terial, through a skit, questions do, and raises the question as to Hearts, The Beloved Brat and tian Science Monitor, March 7: for discussion and suggested read- whom the law should punish for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Swing Music Here to Stay— ings, we try to show the young their delinquencies. and parent organizations ought to brilliant sketch of the career of people the good sense of shop- What are the elements in home use them as bases for discussion Irving Berlin, master of jazz, by ping for pictures as carefully and life that develop the finest traits of problems which are real and Frank Daugherty, the Monitor's as wisely as they do for other of character and personality? vital in many homes today. Hollywood correspondent; New things which they spend their What are the "don'ts" that par- on York Times Magazine, March 6: ents should keep in mind? What money. Frankly the approach is OF HUMAN HEARTS Disney's "Philosophy" by Douglas personal and almost mercenary. is the significance of individual W. Churchill—in which the crea- is 'getting (M G M) differences in determining meth- Emphasis placed on tor of Snoiv White and the Seven your money's worth.' perhaps ods of dealing with children? This But "Pride pride and selfishness! Dwarfs explains how his "crea- it is best to start with the im- — picture will help to answer these They're out of place in our fam- tures of the screen" merely laugh mediate concern of the young questions, but it will also give its ily, Jason. Unless you conquer at our human weaknesses. This people. they have arrived audience a most enjoyable period When them, they're going to make you Week, March 6: Movie Music Man of entertainment with its laughs at some standards for their own unhappy, and those whom you —a sketch of the career of Boris selection of motion pictures, they and tears. love unhappy, too." Thus did Morros, musical director at Para- may be led to consider the wider Ethan Wilkins admonish his son. THE ADVENTURES OF mount, by Lupton A. Wilkinson. social significance of good mo- Harsh discipline seemed to the TOM SAWYER tion pictures and the part which father the only method of break- (Selznick International- Primarily for Child Consumption they can take in securing better ing that spirit, but how futile it United Artists) films." proved! The tenderness of the St. Nicholas, February: Pic- films are undesirable be- Pictures which portray the "Many boy's mother, however, in- tures You'll Like, by Edith was as hopes and fears, the pranks and Win- cause they are so utterly trivial ter effective in developing apprecia- follies, McGinnis—a delightful ac- rather than because of any defi- the struggles and entan- tion as was the cruelty of his count of the making of The nitely features," glements, the defeats and vic- bad Mrs. Rey- father. Adventures of Robin Hood; nolds continues. "If young people tories, the fantastic dreams and After his father died Jason, as March issue: same title and same stern realities of boys and girls can be helped to realize this, they a medical author dealing with student and army sur- will always be popular, because — Rebecca of may begin to spend less money on geon, made continual demands on Sunnybrook Farm and in them youth recognizes itself Mad trivial and wasteful pictures and his poverty-stricken mother and about Music. to concentrate on those which are and through them adults are gave himself no concern for her stirred to worthwhile. It is astonishing to almost forgotten mem- happiness. How appropriate that ories. Miscellaneous and Technical discover how many of them go to Lincoln, who was most sensitive Parents cannot see this the motion picture theatre on the picture Scholastic, March 12: The to the deepest emotions of the without getting a new under- corner every Friday night, sel- soul, should Louisiana Purchase a summary bring Jason to his standing of their children. — dom even asking what the picture De- of a new short film which drama- senses by speaking thus of his fense mechanisms is. have never read a critic's are forced on Many mother: "I'll tell you what she tizes the greatest real estate deal picture. form the young by parents, who are all comments on a They did. She carried you around in in history; Fact Digest, April: too slow in recognizing their own their opinions—if any—from the her arms, steps Television in Europe—taken from more than you inadequacies in dealing with the previews and the advertisements could ever count. She nursed you. the American Weekly; Theatre complex situations that arise. De- in front of the theatre." Covered you at night. Arts Monthly, March: Films of Prayed for ceit, running away, lack of frank- you. Cooked, served, Fact and Fiction, by Paul Rotha, Urge Attendance at Films scrubbed for ness are the result of poor tech- you. Tried to teach right outstanding maker of documen- "We urge young people of our you niques on the part of parents, from wrong. And you repay her tary films; Scribner's, March: Church occasionally to attend mo- who in the end pay deai'ly for with what? Silence. Silence for What We Liked about Holly- tion pictures in groups. Doing their ignorance. two long years." wood, by Joel and Gertrude Sayre this involves careful considera- Tom was exploring in his ad- What a marvelous portrayal —a humorous sketch of the gay tion of pictures available. This ventures his own abilities and re- this picture gives of human film capital; same issue: Motion is an opportunity to read the frailty and strength, of callow- (Continued Pictures, by Gilbert Seldes—an of various critics on page 7) comments and appreciation of the work of Walt to use them in deciding what pic- Disney; same issue: In the Work ture to see. Afterwards, one or "This kind of practice in selec- family. —a list of important pictures now more meetings may be spent in It is infinitely more tion and evaluation has proved in the making; Consumer's Di- discussing the pictures from var- worthwhile than arbitrary de- gest, March: Motion both interesting and helpful to Picture ious points of view—story, cast, Cameras and Equipment an many boys and girls. The same cisions as to what pictures youth — photography, educational and ideal article for amateur camera amusement value." type of thing could be done in a may see." enthusiasts. :

March 15, 1938 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY 5 U A. Director FILMS Evanston Has Appreciative FOR THE Fine Library PUPIL AND TEACHER V EARS ago it used to be said Distribution 1 that films based on child clas- By HAROLD TURNEY sics could not be made to pay, M EWS of perhaps the most Chairman of the Department of Drama, Los Angeles Junior College but that was before public rela- " ^ comprehensive system of tions groups of the country be- school distribution of film re- MMEDIATELY after the char- came active. j is to be found in Mad about search exhibits which exists in The new Techni-color version acters have been properly in- Music. In this whimsical and de- the United States was brought to of TIte Adventures of Tom Saw- troduced in a film story they are lightful story, beautifully mod- the editor's office this month by plunged yer opened to the record-making into a conflict. As the eled for the unusual singing and Miss Ida F. Wright, head li, business which is indicated be- action progresses these charac- acting talents of Deanna Durbin, brarian of the Evanston, Illinois, low. According to Monroe Green- ters are marshaled on opposing the four musical numbers are an Public Library. This wholesale thai, Publicity Director of United sides by two leaders, the protag- integral part of the entertaining circulation of exhibits to ths onist Artists, this could not have hap- and the antagonist. Minia- story. Never do they allow the grade schools of the city is made pened but for the effective work ture warfare results, with the au- forward action to stop complete- possible by a unique relationship done by public relations groups dience sitting on the sidelines and ly; instead, they definitely aid in between the Public Library and over a long period of years in rooting for its favorite. the normal advancement of the the Public Schools. building audience appreciation of Events proceed rather smooth- plot, giving it a distinct and en- Every grade school in the city the best in films. ly at first, favoring the protagon- tertaining flavor. of Evanston has an especially This is Mr. Greenthal's letter ist, when suddenly the opposition The climax is wisely placed in equipped library room in charge of appreciation to these groups wins and brings about a crisis or the dramatic action rather than of a specially trained children's a throughout America: turning point in the protagon- in a musical sequence, as was the librarian who is paid jointly by ist's experiences. After a slight case of 100 Men and a Girl. By the Library and by the School A Letter from readjustment to the new condi- so doing, Universal has increased Board. Mr. tions and a further Greenthal development the admirers of Miss Durbin and Librarians Jointly Chosen of the story, another crisis oc- added to her value as To Better Films Councils and an actress. Selection curs, more dramatic than the pre- of these librarians is Film Appreciation Groups: made ceding one. Thus, the forward SALLY, IRENE AND MARY after a thorough canvass of the Time was when people would movement continues through a (20th Century-Fox) field by Miss Wright. Out of large have said "it can't be done." series of crises until finally the numbers of applicants Again, we find in Sally, Irene she chooses the Those were the days when whole- main crisis is reached. This three best and Mary a climax placed in the equipped people some films with child change forces the climax, or the who in turn visit characters story and resulting from a series highest the school which makes the final predominant played to a losing emotional point, and re- of five dramatic crises. A brief selection. The sharing process re- business. Thanks to the splendid solves the action to the close of summary of these will illustrate sults in the certainty that the efforts of the the film. men and women a previous statement. In the first candidates chosen will Sometimes the order is re- be accept- who in clubs, classes and film ap- crisis, the three show-girls lose able versed, as in Goldwyn's master- to the librarian from the preciation groups have labored to their positions as manicurists; in standpoint of training film The Hurricane when the cli- and ac- create finer film tastes, The the second, their rehearsed show Ad- max of the wind storm brings ceptable to the school on a per- ventures of Tom Saivyer closes before its formal opening; sonality basis. has about the major crisis in the lives These librarians do made the astounding in the third, the show-boat where not function record de- of the two leading couples. Be full time in a single scribed below. their new musical extravaganza school To all such groups that as it may, the climactic but serve either two or is to be presented breaks from its my deep appreciation. scenes, including three schools, spending two or the obligatory moorings and heads out towards Sincerely scene and/or the climax and three days a week in each. yours, the open sea; in the fourth, the The crisis, form the ultimate goal of same care which is exer- MONROE GREENTHAL, minister who is to perform the cised in all stories, no matter the choice of librarians is Director of Publicity, United what may real marriage service jumps over- be the order of the technique exercised in the choice of books Artists Corporation. board and swims to shore; and in utilized. for the school libraries, which are the final crisis, which brings selected and supplied Opening Day Record jointly by about the climax of the actual the School Board and ROMANCE IN THE DARK wedding the Li- NEW during the performance, brary Board. LONDON, Garde The- the captain is (Paramount) selected as the last School libraries function atre — Tom Sawyer hits top also in resort for the reading of the mar- some sections mark for opening An unusual number of musical of Evanston as day and keeps riage ceremony. neighborhood up over films of all types have been pre- libraries, being kept first week-end, as War- While Sally, Irene and Mary open viewed lately. The first of the after school hours and dur- ner Brothers theatre officials ex- includes a total of nine musical ing present cycle was Romance in the early hours of the evening. i tend playing time. numbers, only a few are a definite Dark, a smart, continental story As a result of this system, ex- BINGHAMTON, Riviera The- part of the story's action. based on the famous play The hibits on motion pictures which atre Thousands — jam theatre as Yellow Nightingale. As has been were originally sent to the Evans- each THE ADVENTURES OF MARCO I succeeding day ton Public tops the pre- the custom of past musical pic- POLO Library and whose vious one. merits were recognized tures, the climax is placed in a (Samuel Goldwyn-United by the Li- spectacular singing number brary, have had the most wide- Week-End Records pre- Artists) sented on a theater stage before spread use in Evanston Schools. Passing from musical Every ATLANTA—Manager Eddie an audience. However, the epi- pictures exhibit makes the rounds to straight drama, two excep- of all the Pentecost of sode is more notable than its pre- grade schools and is j Loew's Grand wires tional films of entirely different shown in each grade from kinder- 'Today from 10:30 a.m. to 1.00 decessors because of the added types demand our evaluation in garten to highest, provided there p.m. 'Tom Sawyer,' nine hundred elements of story, conflict, sus- relation to the major premise. is ninety-four pense and comedy, increasing and anything of interest for the child admissions and Marco Polo, expanding the interest. In telling the oft- very young pupils. The same ex- i sixteen hundred sixty-nine adult this repeated story of the world's first hibits are also displayed in the 'admissions. Sidewalk in front of way it becomes more than a mere traveling salesman in an amus- Public Library and have aroused theatre still blocked with wait- musical treat. It continues the ingly satiric manner, is a glamor- much interest in subjects ing line." And what's more, Sun- action rather than allowing a allied ous comedy of high adventure in to the historical or dramatic con- day, the third day of the run, break and a subsequent pause the thirteenth century. The Rob- tent of the films. In fact Miss topped all previous Sundays. while the number is being exe- ert E. Sherwood script broadly Wright reports that nothing NORWALK, Palace Theatre- cuted. has but subtly parodies the story by ever been used in the Library Biggest first two days of any giving it a modern, colloquial which has so greatly attracted Selznick hit; tops rec- MAD ABOUT MUSIC even those flavor, with only sufficient touches young men. ord breakers, Star is Born, Noth- (Universal) of the flowery, mediaeval speech ing Sacred and Prisoner of Zenda. to sharpen the contrast between SCRANTON, Strand Theatre- The most marked change in the Showing For Blind Thousands turned away as first presentation of musical numbers (Continued on page 6) Staged In Toledo Saturday attendance record shows (Continued from page house jammed at every perform- 1) Four- Year ance with more than 2,000 turned Record in the past four years. the Movies" at a recent District away. Tom Sawyer opened March Meeting in which she made it WILKES-BARRE, Capitol The- 1st at the Denver Theatre, Eleven-Year Record DEN- plain to her audience that films atre—First three days send Com- VER. Its fourth day was $407.00 PHOENIX — On Saturday, are not without their attractions jerford Theatre operators into bigger than its third day and March 5th, at the Fox Theatre, even for those who cannot see the raves as Sunday grosses again Saturday and Sunday were the the take on Tom Sawyer was exciting events which take place op all Selznick record breakers. biggest combined week-end gross the biggest since 1926. on the screen. —

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FIVE U. S. FILMS Luck Plays Strong Part Films For Pupil AMONG 10 BEST Voting on the "ten best" In Shaping Film Careers And Teacher pictures is not a practice con- (Continued from page 5) fined to the United States. says THE OBSERVER Thirty-five thousand patrons of styles and to heighten the comedy the Rex Theatre in The Hague T HERE is a rather general im- talents have a of element. chose five American-made pic- way coming 1 pression abroad today that the forth. Some, like Chester The action glides along smooth- tures out of a total of ten best Morris business of being a motion picture and Neil Hamilton, are ly in an easy, logical flow, reach- in a recent popularity voting clever star is a highly enviable and sleight of hand performers; Jean ing a natural climax in the spec- contest. They were: Lives of glamorous one. And perhaps it Hersholt is a talented portrait tacular fight between Gary a Bengal Lancer, Mr. Deeds is, yet those who have scaled the painter; John Beal wields a skil- Cooper, an easily recognized pro- Goes to Town, Desire, Life of heights know that it was not an ful pencil in character sketches tagonist, and Basil Rathbone, the Louis Pasteur and The Invis- easily won position and they of his friends. John Barrymore antagonist. This dramatic climax ible Man. Two French, two know, too, that success was made draws caricatures; Frank Mor- results in the crisis, when Cooper German and one unidentified un in no small measure of luck. gan is an expert ventriloquist; overpowers Rathbone and forces foreign picture made up the The stars of tomorrow may be Don Ameche and Fredric March him to drop into the lion's den. balance of the popularity poll. your young neighbors going about are both talented violinists; Vir- their business in far different ginia Bruce sketches modish Assign Film to Group "Robin Hood" fields of work, unmindful of gowns and Una Merkel simply Each motion picture apprecia- Shakespeare's words, "There's a cannot suppress her talent for in- tion group should also be assigned divinity Reading List that shapes our ends, venting kitchen gadgets that her the film for appraisal and intelli- rough-hew them as we will." friends assure her would make gent study. A GAIN we present a selected There was for instance, not so her a fortune if properly mar- Suggestions for consideration list of books used by the Re- long ago, a young girl graduating keted. in relation to our thesis are as search Department of the pro- from high school who planned to Quite naturally motion picture follows: trace the minor crisis become a sculptor. ducing company in preparing one With this in folk find it good business as well through the action. What occurs of the "films of the month." The mind she studied art and opened as good fun to use their "sup- at the moment of the major a picture in question is Warner dancing school to pay for les- pressed" talents and hobbies as a crisis? Select the climax. Out- Bros.' The Adventures of Robin sons. That was Myrna Loy, who kind of second business. Knowing, line the dramatic action leading is today Hood, of which we shall have one of the leading ten of as the wise ones do, the fickle u;> to this climactic scene. Show more to say in the next issue. Hollywood's popular stars. Clark fancy of the public, that today how the characters involved in Gable, Out of a list of scores of fasci- who is currently playing lauds them and tomorrow forgets, the climax are introduced and de- the title role in Test Pilot nating volumes we have selected with they find it very comforting to veloped logically up to the high- these few into which old and Miss Loy as his leading lady, have some other means of support est point of interest. Notice how young who are interested in le- studied to be a surgeon. One day against that day when their naturally the characters come to- standing gend, history, art, architecture backstage during a stock names are no longer twinkling in g-ether for this scene. How does and allied subjects may care to company's performance he de- the neon signs of the theaters of the action drop away from the delve. cided to become an actor. It was the world. climax and resolve into the His tori/ of Everyday Things in a long, hard row for him, with story's ending? Study the audi- "A radio or screen star is lucky England, by Quennell; Mediaeval much hardship and much dis- ence during the scene and note if he can retain 20 % of his earn- couragement, but he finally its response. England, by H. W. C. Davis; Na- ings after taxes and normal run- reached the pinnacle of success in tional Geographic, July to De- ning expenses are paid," says his profession. Spencer Tracy's cember, 1932; Pleasures of the Bing Crosby. "I believe in side father was sales manager for a Croups Acclaim Young Torture Chamber, by Swain; businesses and think every pro- truck company and expected his Story of the Saxon and Norman fessional person should have Singer's Latest Film Period, by C. Airne; son to follow him in the business W. English them, but I recommend one thing; (Continued when Professor Boody, instruc- from page 1) Inns, Past and Present, by Eber- make sure that the extra enter- lein & Richardson; Highways and tor at Ripon College, Wisconsin, prise is agreeable—a sort of pay- interested him in dramatics. For and recurrent at intervals Byways of Nottingham; Old Eng- ing hobby." And so Bing sets up him, too, it was a long fight and throughout the film. lish Country Cottages, by Charles a racetrack and breeding farm A third is, success did not come early, "A Serenade to the Stars" and Holme; Complete Guide to Her- for race horses, that he may in- though no one today denies him a fourth is "Chapel Bells." aldry, by A. C. Fox-Davies; dulge his joy in fine horseflesh the honor due a great actor. Nel- The latter involved the Dresses and Decorations of the and incidentally make the future most son Eddy began life as a news- interesting sound experiment, Middle Ages, by Henry Shaw; a little more secure for the young paper reporter and stayed by it since it marked the first English and Scottish Ballads— Crosbys. instance Cambridge Edition; and Highway for five years. Then his voice of "perspective" recording on Joe E. Brown is in a class by and Its Vehicles, by Hilaire Bei- won him fame. William Powell the screen. To get the true himself with a number of base- loc. was enrolled in the Kansas Uni- impression of distance for the versity law school when a small ball clubs, which are his great chimes, the bells were removed to part in an amateur play lured delight. A part of the handsome varying distances from the mi- Plan Montana School Has him away from the legal profes- profits gleaned therefrom he uses crophone, the greatest distance (Continued from page 1) sion; Wallace Beery ran away to help young athletes who play being two miles. The recording from home to join a circus and on his teams. was then done at night, so that four films which had a strong gradually found his way to a Near our office on Hollywood traffic noises would not obtrude. book tie-up Souls At Sea, High, Broadway musical; Rosalind Rus- Boulevard, Reginald Denny has a Mounted on a heavy truck, the Wide and Handsome, The Bucca- sell was divided between becom- fascinating little shop where boys chimes were driven to various neer and The Adventures of Tom ing a writer or a theologian when coming home from school love to spots in the valley while micro- Saivyer. the stage led her to picture work; linger. Here he displays toy air- phones recorded their distant Use of exhibit panels on these Gail Patrick had political aspira- planes which sell all the way from sound. films, the posting of book lists, tions when a contest brought her twenty-five cents to several hun- Locomotive Presents Problem the writing of essays, and re- to Hollywood'; Claudette Colbert dred dollars each. His orders last search into the economic and had decided to be a dress design- year exceeded the million mark Another problem in sound tech- historical factors which were out- er when one day she went to tea and just recently he has an- nique was involved when Miss standing in the films, enabled the and met a famous playwright who nounced that his new model will Durbin sang the whistling song students when the films were is- changed the course of her life; be tested by the U. S. Army for on a moving locomotive. During sued later in Kalispell to follow James Stewart had planned all target practice. These new ones this recording the Universal them with an exceptionally high his young life to become an ar- have a 60-foot wing spread, are Studio's musical director worked degree of appreciation. chitect, when as a member of equipped with one-half-horse- with a set of headphones over The Tom Sawyer panel at- the Princeton Triangle Club he power engines, and are capable his ears connected to a sound re- tracted unusual attention with found that it was more fun to act of 40 miles an hour. That kind of producer that played into his ears the junior high school group and than to draw. "hobby" business, as all boys actual train sounds. In this way Saint Matthew's Library reports know, would be real fun. he was able to conduct singer a constant demand for "more of Suppressed Talents of Film Stars and orchestra in exact tempo with those Twain books just like it." the exhaust of the speeding loco- Snow White and the Seven And so it goes. Today there are Hobbies Give Slants on Character motive. Dwarfs is the newest film to be many of the top-notch players Since "hobby" is defined as Gounod's "Ave Maria" was introduced into the classrooms, who still find time to develop "absorbing interest in a subject," sung by the young soloist against the senior high concentrating up- those interests which were so it follows that knowledge of a a background of music provided on technique and production much a part of their early person's hobby offers an interest- by the famous Vienna Boys' values while the romantic appeal dreams. When players gather for ing slant on that person's char- Choir, oldest organization of its of the story is being stressed an informal evening in a friend's kind in the world, in existence with the junior groups. living room these suppressed (Continued on page 7) over 400 years. ) )

March 15, 1938 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY ' Lessons From STILLS NOW AVAILABLE The Movies CRIST FOR THE ON THESE PICTURES Adventures of Robin Hood (Continued from page 4) LIBRARIAN'S MILL Adventures of Tom Sawyer Adventures Marco Polo sourcefulness. He was of blessed -By RICHARD JAMES HURLEY. Alice Adams with abundant energy, which had Librarian Roslyn, Anthony Adverse to find expression. To curb it N. Y., High School was As You Like It impossible and his aunt had no Bad Man of Brimstone idea of how to direct it. Someone COME of our readers may have floods and misery. It is a good Buccaneer has said that it is the fate of ^ desired copies of the lists of supplement to the film of last Captain Blood good little boys to be forgotten "movie plays" used at Roslyn or year The Plough that Broke the Come and Get It and of bad little boys a preliminary to make list of the 60 "book Plains. No fanfare accompanies Conquest world history. What a tragedy movies" mentioned in this column the film, but make sure that your David Copperfield that more history has not been last month. I shall be glad to students have the chance to see Dead End made by men who as boys had send them on request. This holds it. It will stimulate use of a tre- Ebb Ti le learned to direct their energies good also for the biography, his- mendous and wide group of ma- Gold Is Where You Find It along socially constructive lines. tory, science and social study list. terials in social studies, conserva- Good Earth No doubt of many you have tion, New Deal, TVA, agricul- Great Garrick IN OLD CHICAGO ideas just as good if not better ture, share-croppers, geography Heidi than the ones presented (20th Century-Fox) in this and geology, etc. High Wide and Handsome column. If so, we should like to Marie Antoinette is on the Hurricane "It's know about them. The gone—and my boy with it more of way! Since A Tale of Two Cities In Old Chicago —but what stood an exchange of ideas the column he for will never made such a hit, we can utilize Last Days of Pompeii die. can become, the more meaning it It was a city of wood and the interest in that picture to Life of Emile Zola will have for all of us. now it's ashes. But out of the A method stir up enthusiasm for this forth- Little Minister firell be coming you have personally found of steel." In the coming one. Fiction and non fic- Little Women help may be of tremendous midst of tragedy Mrs. O'Leary value tion about the French Revolution, Lloyds London to innumerable other of could look forward to a brighter teachers and biographies, histories of France Lost Horizon and better librarians. Give them the break tomorrow that con- and modern Europe can all be Maid of Salem serves the and give yourself some well mer- best out of the past. used. Fiction includes Dickens' Midsummer Night's Dream She gave ited publicity. expression to the indom- A Tale of Two Cities, Gorman's Mutiny on the Bounty itable spirit that has made Amer- Send Us Statistics Mountain and the Plain, Saba- Of Human Hearts ica great. Be sure to send us tini's Scaramouche, Gras' Reds Parnell As any inter- one sees the picture he is esting statistics on the increasing of the Midi, and Orczy's Scarlet Plainsman conscious of a marked contrast circulation of certain books be- Pimpernel for senior high, and Prince and the Pauper between the material progress of cause of a movie tie-up. The news Adam's Red Caps and Lilies for Ramona our great cities and the develop- will be greeted joyfully. We have junior high. Biographies consist Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm ment of civic righteousness. personally found films one of the of Anthony's and Zweig's lives of Romeo and Juliet Wood has changed to stone and most valuable media for creating Marie Antoinette, Holland's His- Scarlet Pimpernel steel, but crooked politicians and enthusiasm for reading that we toric Girlhoods and Cather's Girl- Snow White and the ruthless exploitation continue. have been fortunate enough to hood Stories of Famous Women. Seven Divarfs How can Jack's idealism Guerber's triumph come across and we are eager to Story of Modern Story of Louis Pasteur over Dion's machinations? have other teachers and librari- France and Tappan's Hero Submarine D-l The Great Fire is Stories impressive ans benefit from it. of France are two of the Tale of Two Cities as a spectacle, but the terror, suf- By the way, a 1937 publication, best "easy" books for senior high Treasure Island fering and heartbreak school, that ac- Film and School, by Helen Rand with more detailed mate- Victoria the Great companied it leave a sense of un- and Richard Lewis, mentions on rial in Mathew's and Carlyle's Wells Fargo speakable tragedy. Slums must page 52 the book-picture scoring books on the French Revolution. be abolished, Price poverty must be al- device used at Roslyn which I de- General, modern histories are —$1.00 per set. leviated, people must have decent legion. The "Life" magazine scribed to you last month and cov- Order through Motion Picture fiomes and some sense of security presents ering A Tale of Two Cities had many other interesting Producers and Distributors of —these are the ideas that arise ideas a good plan of the Bastille and as to the utilization of films America, Inc., 28 West 44th as one thinks about the rebuilding appropriate pictures for this in making pupils book conscious. Street, New York, N. Y. of our social structure. If you have done comparatively movie which could be utilized little book-film promotion these again with Marie Antoinette. And THE RIVER pages might provide a good of course you will want to post (Paramount) "take-off" point. the familiar painting of "Marie Luck Figures One of the current movies to Antoinette on Her Way to the Guillotine." There is a growing apprecia- be on the lookout for is The In tion in America of the effort to River, a film made by the Farm Kidnapped, Stevenson's favor- Film Careers present our governmental objec- Security Administration, U. S. ite and best story, is also in pro- (Continued from page 6 tives and programs in interpreta- Dept. of Agriculture, and re- duction and has many possibilities tive films. While we have a natu- leased by Paramount, a gift from for the classroom and library. acter. ral antipathy to propaganda, we the government to any theater This tale of the Scottish High- By that token, some of the following interests have a right to know what is go- that wants to show it. It is the lands in 1751 and the Jacobite may surprise you; some not. ing on, not in cold and forbidding story of the Mississippi from plots to restore the Stuart line, may Jack Oakie is the enthusiastic governmental reports, but in source to mouth; of mountains might prove not only an introduc- part-owner of a nursery devoted •lear and dramatic motion pic- and rushing tributaries, of the tion to Stevenson's writings other exclusively to the culture of orchids and t ures. beauty of our country and alsc than the well-known Treasure gar- denias. Bob Burns has This story of the Mississippi is the destruction man has wrought Island, and to its sequel, David a golf practice range; not Interesting and illuminating. in the name of progress—ruthless Balfour, but also to this vivid only does it pay well but it gives That it is true is conceded. That lumbering, erosion, overtilled soil, page of European history. him free practice facilities, he says. the attack it presents on the so- James Cagney buys first editions cial problems portrayed is prac- and rare books; his library is said ticable, some may doubt; but it is to What's Next in Hollywood? Frankfort be one of the thrilling to know that we, the Has Test most valuable in the country. This, too, wisely people, can act through our gov- (Continued from page 2 (Continued from page 1) pur- sued, may be a ernment to stem the tide of ero- paying hobby. Edward G. Robinson collects sion and utilize the forces of joyous and harmonious elements Mr. 0. G. Gheen, principal of paintings and by virtue of nature for constructive social in a very disordered world. De- the school, and Mr. D. D. Pitman, his long study has become an art purposes. liberately the studios are multi- teacher of history, who were re- connoisseur of no small repute. Threats to our national secur- plying these pictures, as well as sponsible for the demonstration, Binnie Barnes interests ity and welfare will never come in pictures of comedy comedy high, herself — kept a close scrutiny of the chil- m de luxe bindings ; Eddie Cantor governmental projects that con- comedy effervescent, comedy slap- dren in the discussions which fol- owns a smart and exclusive an- serve our natural resources and stick—to meet all grades of taste. lowed the showing of the film and tique shop; Norman Foster nreate new sources of power. The It used to be said in early, noted in how many instances is the secret owner of a book shop •eal danger arises from the activ- crude days of motion pictures visual repetition had in quickened Beverly Hills. Lionel Barrymore, ities of those whose greed for that the cinema was an escape their mental alertness and how as most people know, is a skilled personal gain ignores the inher- from the drabness of life. Per- many things they saw in the sec- artist. His etchings, recently dis- ent rights of the present and fu- haps now it is something of an ond showing which they had played at a New York gallery, fure generations to all the poten- escane from the tumultuousness missed in the first. Both were were the cause of active and tial values of this great country. of life. ap- pleased with the result. preciative bidding. 8 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY March 15, 1938 A Glance At Exhibit Stimulates Reading "Plainsman" The Mailbag Of Lives Of Composers Ranks High In Of The Editor < Creensburg of the most stimulating \A/HEN 178 boys from 5th ANE vv and things about being editor of 6th grades in the Greens- The Motion Picture and the burg, Pennsylvania, schools were Family is the mail that comes ifint cue cetcLa/&j vurtiuL invited by Mr. 0. E. Norbeck, is Lncx&axc uaun. tryoynunt from all parts of the country, and Boys' Work Secretary of the THE UK AND 10VES Of^ in recent months from many BEETHOVEN" local Y.M.C.A., to choose what parts of the world. picture they would want to take A distinct joy during the cur- with them if they were stranded tutieaf uxnjLs and rent month was the receipt of a ucUon,ar-d on a desert island, the vote was usica ofc music funaj letter from Miss Gladys Oppen- overwhelmingly for The Plains- heim, librarian in the Bloemfon- man, an indication of the red- CUVEIANDPUBIKUBRARY tein, South Africa, Public Library, blooded taste of the average to whom the editor furnishes bi- American boy. monthly a list of films from books "Wells Fargo" Second in the process of production in Welts Fargo, historical epic, the West Coast studios. was the number two selection of thanks for the lists," "Many n practically the entire group. Miss Oppenheim writes. "I have Choice of these motion picture arranged to prepare a selected films was part of a personal in- list them for regular publi- from ventory conducted by Mr. Nor- cation in the South African offi- beck with a view to gauging the cial library journal 'South Afri- personal tastes of the boys and, can Libraries'. I hope later to if occasion arose, pointing the make some arrangement to get way to more critical standards stills and research exhibits in of appreciation. Each boy was free. can take still duty Then we asked to indicate what record he another leaf from the American would bring with him during an display in our Cleveland Public Library arranges attractive display on "Life book and them and Loves of Beethoven. enforced sojourn on a desert libraries." island, what book he would pre- IT is a far cry from the reading Miss Gretchen Garrison of the fer to salvage, what play would Even a correction brings its of the average man or woman Publicity Department of the New live longest in his memory, what share of pleasure. Miss Marjorie to the biography of a great com- York Public Library reports that piece of sculpture he would Davison Sharp of the Tower Hill poser. Lives of the men who have the exhibit shown in branch li- choose. School, Wilmington, Delaware, made the world's greatest music braries in New York stimulated Having- experimented along writes "In our copy of the Decem- might normally be supposed to be much conversation about music similar lines with older boys, Mr. ber Motion Picture and the of interest only to those who and composers and a great de- Norbeck was greatly impressed Family I notice the statement have themselves had musical mand for musical books. The by the individualistic attitudes of 'To date Delaware has no motion training or are deeply interested Cleveland Public Library recom- the younger group and its varied picture appreciation classes in its in music appi'eciation. mended such books as Romain but definite film tastes. Although schools'. You may be interested Films Prompt Reading; Rolland's Beethoven, the Creator, The Plainsman and Wells Fargo to know that for several years Came films and the situation Edouard Herriot's The Life and ranked first among the boys' Tower Hill has had definite units was reversed. Exhibition of book Times of Beethoven, The Complete choices, enthusiasm was expressed for of motion picture appreciation in jackets and correlated material Book of the Great Musicians, Mutiny on the Bounty, for High School English courses. about Beethoven by two great The Unconscious Beethoven by Captains Courageous, for Lloyds^ of London, for the Charge the This year a similar course is be- public library systems in connec- Ernest Newman, and other works of Light Brigade, for The Prince ing given in our ninth grade Eng- tion with the release of the film, of similar consequence. Strangely and the Pauper, lish class. The faculty committee The Life and Loves Beethoven, enough, many people whose cus- and even for of Anthony Adverse on the study of motion pictures has demonstrated that the non- tomary demand was for the latest and Green Light. is also cooperating with local film musical as well as the musical fiction or the most sti-iking, pop- Among: the encouraging signs houses in the matter of education public is responsive to the drama ular type of recent biographies, Mr. Norbeck noted were the fact for better motion pictures." in the life of a great musical found these books of absorbing that not one boy cast a vote for a Apologies to Miss Sharp for genius. interest. our misstatement, which as a war picture, that both The Devil matter of fact was intended to Is a, Sissy and Captains Courage- apply to public schools, only, but ous rated high and were appar- did not clearly so specify. We are ently liked by the boys for their delighted, however, that the in- Memphis Council Has Educators Approve ethical content as well as for their story and drama interest. advertent inaccuracy brought to Monthly Discussion "Man Without Country" light an interesting experiment in Boys who recorded a preference a private school of which the edi- for Lloyds of London were in- Private screening of a current Educational value of Warner tor had no previous knowledge. variably those who had particu- film followed by a discussion pe- Bros.' two-reel film, The Man larly high intelligence quotients. * * riod is now a once-a-month fea- without a Country, was strik- Extremely active boys were Naturally the best letters of all ture of the Memphis Better Films ingly attested when the picture fond of Buck Jones, all of the are ones like the following, which Council program. Wells Fargo was shown in Albany, New York. boys liked Joe E. Brown and perhaps over-praise this unosten- furnished the basis for a recent A special screening for all State Will Rogers was affectionately re- tatious little publication, but discussion and was voted an ex- and City Educational Depart- membered. The Last of the Mo- nevertheless warm the cockles of cellent picture of great historic ments was arranged by the man- hicans was also well liked, the the editor's heart. Appreciation and educational value. Added in- ager of Warner's Strand. Con- votes for it being explained on the to the reader who wrote "Al- terest was lent to the Wells Far- vinced of the merits of the film, ground that "any Indian story though you have numerous letters go showing through the model- teachers ai'ranged for announce- captures a boy's imagination." from me, each one praising, in ling of a black velvet evening ments of the current run to be Believing that "motion pictures tones louder than the preceding frock worn by Miss Francis Dee made in all classes and at all are one of the most effective letter, your publication, I am in the film, the model being the school assemblies. Local play means of capturing the imagina- again putting into words my ap- Council's own Miss Dorothy dates of the film were also an- tion and clear thinking of youth," preciation of it. Each issue is as Fisher. nounced to Boy Scout troops. Mr. Norbeck conducted his ex- intriguing and interesting as the periment with the assumption previous ones, perhaps more so, that helping the boys towards and I am constantly making ref- help individuals and groups in tion field and founder of the proper selection of films would erence to it myself and referring their special activities, but spurs St. Louis Better Films Coun- stimulate the juvenile mind to others to it. To me the merit of them on to newer heights." cil. Always promoting new plans. "think things through" and would * * * the paper lies in the fact that it Mrs. Burt brings news of a new broaden the horizon of the boys isn't merely the thoughts of one A DELIGHTFUL call this Motion Picture Council for Col- under his care and encourage individual, but is a history of ac- month from Mrs. Arretus ored People—probably the first them to lead a better rounded tual happenings in a kindred field Franklyn Burt, a real pioneer in the United States. More physical, mental and spiritual of endeavor, and not only does it in the motion picture apprecia- about it in an early issue. life. .

The Motion Picture A Bulletin for All who Comment on Current Films by Librarians, are Interested in Better and Teachers, Community Motion Pictures The Family;; ^ Leaders ' 6?t> «...

Vol. 4 April 15, 1938 No. 8

Film Chairman New Film Epic Is Coincidental Joins National Starts a Live With Children's Book Festival Movie Week Rural Program Observance NOT to be outdone by Chicago, film appreciation classes which is observing a "Na- ARE tional Motion Picture this an undesired luxury in towns Week" year, Cleveland, too, will have a where there is no motion picture city-wide celebration honoring theatre? Is it a waste of time to teach standards of film apprecia- the cinema. tion in women's clubs in these Its project, started practically simultaneously with towns? Mrs. A. J. Saleeby, State that of Chi- Chairman of Motion Pictures for cago, so that it is difficult to know the Vermont Federation of to whom to attribute the initial Women's Clubs, thinks not. move, will be under the sponsor- ship of the Cleveland Cinema To Make Rural Club, of which Mrs. W. V. Fiske Communities Film Conscious is president. The week of May 6 to 13 inclusive has been chosen One of the projects she has for the observance. The project undertaken is that of making the will be officially launched with rural communities of the Green a proclamation by Mountain State better film con- Mayor Harold Burton. scious. As her guide in the enterprise Program Planned for High she is using the experiences of Schools the Women's Club in her home The initial phase of the week's town, Johnson, where would-be program as tentatively outlined movie-goers must drive eight will be morning and afternoon miles to the only theatre town in assemblies in high schools on May the county if they want to keep Featured scene from poster which commemorates interesting twin events. 6 conducted by Dr. Alice Keliher, up with the motion picture pro- Director of the Commission of cession. Human Relations of the Prog- kA AY 14th will mark the advent appearance in hundreds of book If they want to see a road- v ressive Education Association, ' * of the latest feature film of store windows during the Chil- showed film attraction or some dealing with youth appreciation the epic order. It is Warner dren's Book Festival May 1 to 7. other particularly noteworthy of motion pictures. Dr Keliher Bros.' The Adventures of Robin The photograph above, which de- picture they must make a round will follow the method used dur- Hood, which a coinci- trip of eighty miles to the near- by happy picts Robin Hood defying Prince dence is to be released to the pub- John at a banquet where the lat- (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 3) lic almost simultaneously with the ter plots to take over Richard's nationwide Children's Book Fes- throne, is one of the most striking Parent Teachers Do Theatre Help tival under the auspices of the scenes depicted on the poster. Men "New York Herald Tribune." In addition to the special book Practical Promotion Celebrate Easter For that reason, an interesting poster which will prompt hun- poster has been prepared especial- dreds, perhaps thousands of chil- Recommended as a highly effec- At least three theatre mana- ly for the use of librarians and tive means of stimulating juve- gers are not unmindful of their booksellers which will make its (Continued on page 3)* nile interest in the better films is juvenile patrons at Eastertime. the device adopted by the Parent- Manager Edward McBride of Teacher's Association of the Loew's State Theatre, Syracuse, New Trend Noticed In Hollywood Fan Mail Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn, is staging an egg-rolling contest Says THE OBSERVER New York, which is- in a city park with prizes going sues folders on particularly out- to standing films to the students the children who roll eggs far- VOU are not, we imagine, among While the number of fan let- and gives a schedule of their thest without breaking them. those who write copious letters ters a player receives is no longer local showings. to your favorite motion picture considered the unofficial barom- (Continued on page 3) Typical of the kind of players; but in spite of your fail- eter it once was, it continues to promo- tion the Association ure to contribute to the onflow, be an indication of interest (and gives these Films Reviewed films is the text of a Hollywood, through its fan mail, therefore theatre attendance) recent flier which read: "The In Current- Issue is conceded to constitute the lar- Parent- Teacher's Association gest correspondence bureau in the Studios Assign Secretaries of the Samuel J. Tilden High School Reviewed in this issue are: Ar- world. According to a very con- Most studios assign secretaries urges you to see 'the finest his- son Gang Busters, page 6; The servative estimate, more than a to help the stars answer their Battle of Broadway, page 6; quarter of a million fan letters letters, supply mailing clerks and ( Continued on page 3) Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, pages find their way into the hands of keep a fairly accurate check on 4 and 5; College Swing, page 6; the players and their secretaries the business. And many are the Drive 40 Miles To Fools for Scandal, page 5; Gaiety every month. Although the num- tales these letters have to tell, See "Snow White' Girls, page 6; Jezebel, page 4; ber is less than it was in the some amusing, some pathetic, The Joy of Living, pages 4 and 5; days of the silent film, there is a some heartening, some filled with Youthful enthusiasm for films Judge Hardy'8 Children, page 4; decided increase in quality the of anxious advice in the familiar has come to be taken for granted Law of the Underworld,, page 6; these letters. The release of a tone of address used for friends but a group of 66 school children The Lone Wolf in Paris, page 6; notable picture today is certain to and relatives. Some, of course, in Virginia topped the record. Mr. Moto's Gamble, page 6; Raw- bring a flood of letters voicing are critical. Perhaps the be- They drove 40 miles from Brent hide, page 6; Rebecca of Sunny- approval or offering constructive loved has not quite lived up to Mountain to Roanoke to see brook Farm, page 4; The Return criticism, letters written by well- expectations in his or her last Snow White and the Seven of the Scarlet Pimpernel, -page 6; informed people who express Dwarfs. Of the 66 only three Stolen Heaven, page 6. themselves with intelligence. (Continued on page U) had ever before seen a picture. —

1938 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY April 15, Joins National Fox-West Coast Film Exhibit Pictured Has a Dual Interest Movie Week Starts New Film Observance Study Project (Continued from page 1) Rela- round tables HATS off to the Public ing the experimental tions Department of the Fox- in New York City a year ago West Coast Theatres, Inc., for last summer, showing first a devising an interesting new proj- one or two reel picture with a then ect to aid film study classes m human relations theme and high schools and colleges. employing sixteen high school se- niors to discuss the social and Five Thousand Guides Circulated This problems involved. _ Monthly other program is under the chairman- guides Five thousand film ship of Mrs. D. Debernarde of based upon one of the outstand- the Cleveland Cinema Club. ing films of each two-month pe- Western Reserve riod are mailed bi-monthly to m- Program at of terested Superintendents event of key The second important Schools and to educators m Picture Week United Cleveland's Motion cities throughout the sponsored by a will be a program States. The author is no less University Tur- the Western Reserve personage than Harold E. under the Department Cinema Laboratory, ney, Chairman of the Dr. James Bliss, Los Angeles chairmanship of of Drama of the show promotional class and valued con- who will Junior College, room and teaching films, news to The Motion Picture tributor and historical films, the showing and the Family. by the Camera Club of New to be augmented by lecture and profound knowledge Library display was photographed The same This New Rochelle open discussion. Students and dramatics and screen Rochelle High of both from the colleges and uni- which enables Mr. faculty technique versities of northern Ohio will be his columns m bulletin board suggesting Turney to make exhibit pictured above the participate. and the THE film along the indicated invited to The Motion Picture interest for readers reading set has a dual of appro- Wednesday, May 11. is Family so helpful to teachers Picture and the themes, setting books of The Motion case to the aside as Cinema Club Day. with students is applied to the show priate character in a and Family. Not only does it they a special program at 10:30 A.M. production of these film guides, Pub- right of the bulletin where the fine manner in which the with guest speaker, and luncheon, first was based on will be easy of access. of which the of New Rochelle co- in a body to a screenplay, lic Library especially fine tilm followed by a trip the 20th Century-Fox creating interest m When an operates in White and the Sev- local theatre for a motion picture In Old Chicago. but also reveals such as Snow worthwhile films, Dwarfs comes along smaller preview. Possible l ater photographic proficiency of en 12th. Printed Version the than the one placed in Thursday evening. May Rochelle High School displays at the number one was issued the New library are sent to the a banquet will be held Copy Club. The photograph the main sneak- form, but as the Camera it is a film Statler Hotel with guest in mimeographed Tenney, Jr., branches and when momentum it was taken by Ashton often al- ers, appropriate music and the enterprise gathers both club appropriate for children elaborate and Natalie Chayes, showing of films. is possible that a more so to the Children's Room. members, who frequently lend will be de- will be adopted. Friday, May 13, form to perpetuating of In Old Chi- their services Attract Attention Individual voted to a historical review of In his analysis dis- New Rochelle Public Library in the film cago, Mr. Turney does a very Readers what has happened plays. title of "Some job. In his fore- , ... the library staff, field under the thorough-going the mam li- In addition, only the These displays at pic- Memorable American Films" word he points out not meth- keenly aware of the value of which fur- brary are but one of many youthful 1896-1935. succession of events Li- tures in stimulating both ods used by the New Rochelle of the observance nish the plot structure but also adult interest in reading, is The purpose to keep interest in films and implicit in the fact brary the attention of is not particularly to promote the symbolism Systematically the Library quick to attract and corruption alive. films which immediate motion picture attend that the vice of current individual readers to foundation marks the reviews literary but to make the present which constituted the Picture and mav suggest interesting ance. built films in The Motion regular patrons of the films ap upon which Chicago was on paths to explore. the Family and posts a note privilege of attend lighted the spark for its destruc- predate the great and to make flirt tion as surely as did the ing the movies larger and more crit Chicago fire itself. conscious a which is not regu In the foreword, also, are in- CRIST FOR THE ical audience historical facts about larlv numbered among filmgoer? teresting departmen setting of the film, as well as To the project the MILL sup much material about those who LIBRARIAN'S stores have promised their and spe may be credited with the excel- port through displays By RICHARD JAMES HURLEY exhibits. The var lence of the production. cial window sequence Roslyn, N. Y., High School commercial or The play is dealt with Librarian, ous industries, a shrewd an- ganizations. newspapers and th after sequence, with Northwest Pas- with the titles. plainly printed sequence, point- T HE filming of radio will fall in line. The the? alysis of each of a book- thereon, can be pasted on the map visual • sage suggests the use display original co< ing out such factors as the which and red or colored tape or string tres will leading movie map. Book maps on recent production establishment of the are used to connect the books on dis- tumes from of various outstanding books to Clevelan characters, the authenticity play with their location on the which are to be sent geographically located is a rather Tl costumes, the dramatic use map. Book covers stretched on directlv from Hollywood. the library practice. But w^ effects, the subtle use common be used in place of Cleveland Public Library of sound a book-movie map i cardboard can build up the ele- have you tried prepare a film guide for librai of montage to States map— actual copies. This provides a and similar On a large United use and will post advance infc ment of suspense, easily lo- graphic tieup. development. for instance—you could about films made fro phases of the film's (Louisiana), If the map is conveniently lo- mation guide Mr. cate The Buccaneer so that librarians mav pr Throughout his film Ka- cated, it would be wise to place books, to in- Sutter's Gold (California), appropriate book exhibr Turney calls attention Boat in one corner or near it. brief pare effective mona (California), Show also be given u stances of unusually (Mis- resumes of the books included A program will of direc- (Mississippi), Tom Sawyer auspices of the Feder lighting, clever pieces (Mon- a dozen lines in well-turned blank der the shots, as souri), The Virginian Churches, in which fib tion and unusual camera verse will catch the eye and in- tion of Captains Courageous will as high spots in story struc- tana), of appropriate character well England), and so on ad terest. ture and in acting. (New Maps may be sectional. I pre- shown. rounded out The film guide is infinitum. , pared one for books of New Eng- chosen is to be found by an exceptionally well A good checklist land and New York, using a So- readings. of the June issue of To Film Wiggin Opus list of suggested on page 692 conv road map. Coast "Movie The new-born Fox-West the Wilson Bulletin— The ingenuity of the librarian greeted with School." Geo- Mother Carey's Chickens is enterprise has been Books for the High is the only limitation on the ex- of given. be made by RKO-Radio. Prod enthusiasm and publication graphical designation is tent to which book-movie maps based on him, ers plan to adhere closely to 1 the next film guide, the Northwest Passage may be used. We shall be glad to For England atmosphere of t ft Brothers' The Adventures be the focus of New Warner this book would Douglas Wiggin film. Hood, is awaited with labels, (Continued on page 5) Kate of Robin the map. Large Dennison keen anticipation. ) — —,

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April 15, 1938 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY Film Chairman Elizabeth, N. J. Starts a Live SNAPSHOTS OF FILM PERSONALITIES Council Turns Rural Program To Adult Focus

(Continued 1—1 from page 1 ER appearance does not really It was her work in the latter 1 concentrated est city. And a smack it HAVING for the surprising num- of Hollywood does capacity that ultimately led her to ber of them do! this keen-faced, rather motherly past few seasons upon writ- _ the Mecca of so many seekers for ing motion picture appreciation The reason lies in an active looking woman? One might very success, Hollywood. Mrs. McGaf- indelibly into the curriculum of program of film appreciation un- easily take her for a college pro- fey came out to the Coast in the Elizabeth schools, the Elizabeth, der club sponsorship which makes fessor or an early days, when movies were Johnson one New Jersey, Council for Better of the best advised editor, o r just beginning. Her first film posi- small Films has' turned its primary at- towns in the United States perhaps a tion was at the Jesse Lasky Stu- so far tention once again to adult ac- as film questions are con- personnel dio, where she was a play reader, cerned. tivities. worker. As but she had a real flair for re- Oral reviews of search current films, a matter and saw the need of its Now Issues Monthly Bulletin presentation of of items of interest consistent pursuit if films were fact she is To make its public better film from motion picture publications, to escape critical derision. Mr. one of the conscious it has initiated this newspapers and other sources are women Lasky let her have her way and a who year a bulletin which carries regular feature at each meeting she installed the first motion pic- has made monthly news of films to all its of the club. Special programs on ture research department at the good in the members. Content is threefold. various phases of motion picture Lasky Studio. Pioneer in this par- Land of Events of the month are duly re- production are prepared and ticular field, appropriately Celluloid in she ported and a biographical sketch presented by club members at soon went to join the staff of an- what press of the speaker given; a list of re- frequent intervals. Noteworthy other pioneer in motion picture agents cent library accessions dealing films to be shown at county thea- techniques, Cecil B. DeMille, and might term "a big way." with films is published, and last tres are given special attention. from the DeMille Studio ultimate- Head of the Research Depart- but not least a list of the out- Research exhibits on important ly moved to the RKO Radio. ment at RKO Radio Studios, she standing pictures soon to come feature pictures are exhibited at Writing is responsible for the authentica- Is Her Relaxation to Elizabeth is given. the State Normal School, the tion of the thousand and one de- Heading the research Other lists issued by the Coun- town library and high school. depart- tails that go to the making of a ment of a big motion picture cil to the newspapers, library, Selected lists of films and other com- — modern feature film. Her name is pany is a pretty onerous recreation centres and churches informative material are posted job, but Bessie McGaffey. She is a native of in spite on bulletin boards. of her manifold duties —carry names of all films soon the Windy City, but pursued her Mrs. McGaffey occasionally to play Elizabeth. The list in the In addition some slight work finds education in the South at St. time for a little bulletin includes only films on motion picture appreciation relaxation. In which Mary's School, Knoxville, Tenn. such instances she generally have been rated "very or has been started in the high gives good" Her first job that really counted her literary talent "excellent" by the preview school and in the teacher training exercise and chair- was in the Sunday department of she has written a number man, since the intent is to pro- school connected with the State of suc- the "Chicago Interocean" as a cessful short stories and an orig- vide every reader with informa- Normal School, being used to feature writer and her brief pe- inal film Honorable tion about the "better pictures," supplement work in English, Art, Friend in riod as a journalist unquestion- which the former popular that he or she may subsequently Dramatics and Social Science. Japa- ably sharpened her wits and nese actor, Sessue become a booster For example, the Romeo and Hayakawa was for increased at- made her on the alert to catch starred. tendance. Jidiet research exhibit was used some of the anachronisms that Next time you go to see a pre- Another "adult education" in- to illustrate Italian art and also but for the trained research tentious RKO period offering novation this year is a discussion formed a basis for discussion of worker might so frequently find such for example as The Soldier group, which differs from the av- the play. The teacher of Social their way into films. and the Lady {Michael erage in that it welcomes not Science took members of her Strogoff) Newspaper work was alluring, The Toast of New York or A only discussors, but listeners. , class to see Dead End and the but the lure of the stage was even Woman Rebels, watch The underlying social conditions portrayed were the screen reason for the stronger and presently Mrs. Mc- carefully. If costumes, furnish- formation of this group is to later made a discussion topic. Gaffey deserted the Fourth Es- ings, and properties are in keep- train speakers to go out and Members of the Drama class at- tate to study dramatics at the ing with the spirit of the film carry news of better films. tended Victoria the Great and and The Sargent School in New York true to the life of, the day, if group makes a thorough-going after seeing it one of the stu- City. Appearances in plays under even the eagle-eyed critic cannot study of all phases of motion dents remarked, "I would like to the management of Charles Froh- find inconsistencies or inaccura- picture production and distribu- see Mary of Scotland again. I man and Henry B. Harris fol- cies in story or setting, you may tion, including the methods in- could appreciate it so much more lowed. Later she retired from the know that much of the credit goes voked in the actual taking of the now, for I understand better what stage and became a play reader to Mrs. McGaffey, Filmland's re- picture, cutting, editing, preview- to look for in a picture." for Harris and Grismer. search pioneer. ing, the of review "You cannot keep the cinema work boards and motion picture councils, out of rural homes," Mrs. Saleeby and last, but least, remarks. "Even those who never New Film Epic Coincidental With Festival not the pros and go to the cinema have an aware- cons of censorship. Mrs. Harold W. Hill is leading ness of it. They hear it over the (Continued from page 1) radio they the discussion group, while Miss ; read about it in news- dren to read the new, popular- lives of people lived who 745 years Constance Cole is editor of the papers and magazines ; film music priced version of The Adventures ago. There are many things that bulletin. is on the racks of pianos in their of Robin Hood which has been is- will mark Robin Hood as unusual. homes, and names of film stars sued by Grosset and Dunlap, a In the first place a company of have Theatre Men Help become household words. striking research exhibit of eight 400 was employed in making the Through many channels the in- panels has been prepared which film, irrespective of thousands of fluence of the cinema makes it- will be more generally circulated. extras. More than 20,000 proper- (Continued from page 1) self felt. It is important that This presents the stirring events ties were manufactured for it. An egg hunt will be staged by people in small communities of the film in chronological order These included bows and arrows, Matthew Saunders of Loew's should not only be conscious of and will be of tremendous inter- crossbows, lances, quarterstaves. Poli Theatre in Bridgeport, Con- films but should be intelligently est to students of English history, broadswords, battle axes and necticut, with the children search- interested in them." dealing as it does with one of. the other weapons of an earlier day. ing for eggs which contain either most popular of the English leg- More Than 100,000 In Cast bright new pennies or guest tick- Parent Teachers Do ends and at the same time with From start to finish of the ets for the current attraction at Practical Promotion many stirring incidents which ac- filming, more than 100,000 per- the theatre. Bridgeport's Times- tually occurred at the time of the sons appeared before the cameras, Star cooperates in these annual Crusades. and more stuntmen were used on egg hunt plans. (Continued from page 1) In fact, The Adventures of Rob- this picture than on any other On Easter Saturday a live rab- torical film ever made and the in Hood, in addition to being an ever made, their fees totalling bit matinee is being held in the greatest screen biography'—Mr. attractive feature film, will be a more than $100,000 of the total Yale Theatre, Cleburne, Texas, Paul Muni, thi3 year's Academy mine of wealth for the student, $2,000,000 cost. with 30 live bunnies given away Award Winner, in one of the few with its revelations of early Sax- There are only eleven Techni- to children holding lucky num- great pictures of all times—The on and Norman life and customs. color cameras in the world, four bers. Life of Emile Zola—with a cast Indeed it presented one of the of which were constantly em- These are three of hundreds of thousands." most perplexing problems of re- ployed in the making of this pic- of celebrations by which theatre The folder contained a synopsis search of any film of recent years, ture. Seven hundred and fifty managers attempt to make Eas- of the film and the back page since the research workers had to thousand feet of Technicolor film ter a memorable day for their gave the dates of showings. delve into minute details of the were taken, and 11,500 used. juvenile patrons. —

THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY April 15, 1938 New Trend Is Springfield LESSONS from the MOVIES oticed In Club Scores Values in Presented for the Committee on Social Dean Film Fan Mail Motion Pictures by Howard M. Le Sourd, Ph.D., In Discussion School, Chairman. of Boston University Graduate (Continued from page 1) bits ONE of the most effective role; perhaps it is the new hair- of motion picture apprecia- dress that does not please, or a anywhere in the type. tion work done culties, there was no blaming of role that seems not true to that of the Mo- JEZEBEL United States is others—each assumed his or her This past week we have been Appreciation Club (Warner Bros.) tion Picture share of responsibility. gathering a few notes on the sub- of Technical High School, to inculcate is the story of a "spoiled" The Judge's efforts ject in our ramblings through the Springfield, Massachusetts. This THIS family are in- child—a girl who always high ideals in his studios. Here and there we interesting group whose best in is the wanted to have her own way. spiring. Fidelity to the caught fascinating glimpses into picture discussions be- recognition motion she couldn't get it, she our social heritage, the lives of this great motion pic- popular that they have When came so spite the offender. Julie of the sacredness of responsibil- ture public that stretches all the before clubs and tried to presented them fighting for her ity, loyalty to one's family are Maine to the Pacific through thought this was way from school assemblies all discovered portrayed. of worship- rights, but she soon effectively . . . of lonely hearts, western Massachusetts. the picture that spite was a spear sharpened Even the comedy in pers at the shrine of beauty, of of the club suggestiveness. Recent activities at both ends and that she hurt has a constructive friendly, neighborly souls who to a the son, the have taken the members herself when she wielded it, even The "breeziness" of seek to pass on a word of advice carry number of large gatherings to more than the one attacked. "airs" of the daughter, to those they know and love so fascinat- picture. show grownups what a Spite grows out of supreme their own rebuke in the well although they see them only picture appre- is as ready ing subject motion selfishness. It disregards the wel- The Judge, however, in dancing shadows; of romantic as they ciation can be. fare of others, not directly impli- to learn from his children dreamers, of those of high ideals accept his guid- cated. "Buck" was killed m are ultimately to and those of low designs. Fortu- of Emile Zola" Discuss "The Life duel—a blood sacrifice on the al- ance. nately, the last-mentioned are One of the first of these events tar of unrelenting, selfish desire. said to be decreasing in number; Jeze- WIFE "beg- was the presentation of an ani- But Julie was not really a BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH all studios report fewer of mated discussion on The Life of bel, since there was enough (Paramount) ging" letters, though many still Emile Zola at the fall meeting human decency in her soul to come asking amazing personal for- The highly specific character of the New England Association want to earn redemption and favors—all the way from an in- of intelligence is forcefully pre- of English Teachers, in which giveness. vitation to visit the studio to a sented in this comedy picture. A students revealed that they wonders anew after see- bit of silk from a player's gown. the One be very efficient as a tell a if life and history man can could do much more than ing this picture and exceed- Loretta Young, Kay Francis, poor one. that ultimately business executive good picture from a do not prove love. Constance Bennett, Joan Craw- inherit the ingly adolescent in his The most significant phase of the "the meek shall are constantly Why is there so much "illiter- ford and others discussion was the tangible evi- earth." acy" about marriage? Princi- besieged with requests for dis- dence that the boys and girls had there is no specific carded dresses and fur coats or made motion pictures a source of THE JOY OF LIVING pally because education anywhere on this very perhaps just a bit of advice about creative reading. The Dreyfus (RKO-Radio) important matter. Society is not be beautiful and glamor- Case, The Life of Cezanne, the how to to its necessity. fan of joy in life, ac- yet sensitive ous. Many thousands of the political background, geography, The source in- comes Love is a personal matter and for photographs, of art, music and costumes of the cording to this picture, writers ask dividuals resent instruction when autographs or period, and the works of Anatole through selfishness—doing what course; others for this issue is to the fore. There- that has been France were only a few of the you please, when you please. It some little memento re- fore education in marriage must adored one. Some of avenues they had explored. ridicules the acceptance of worn by the precede and anticipate the actual most amusing sponsibilities, the carrying these take the With surprising maturity a of falling in love. This ambitions, the experience turns—one asks for a wish-bone , member of the club closed through of high shared by new of an effec- responsibility should be from the plate of the player's program, using Socrates and rendering to society and homes the suggests that re- the schools, churches Christmas dinner; many for Jesus as examples, by exhorting tive service. It be found in alcohol, of the country. Shirley Temple's curls; others for the men of today "to enforce lief can always been the enemy a shoe-lace from the famous skat- weapons of ideas; to use their which has SUNNYBROOK a sense of duty. REBECCA OF ing shoes of the gay, little Sonja thinking power to an extreme to of ideals and of case plausible by FARM Henie; for Fred Astaire's dis- figure out problems such as the It makes its Miss Barrett's fam- (20th Century-Fox) carded dancing pumps, for but- one that confronted Zola, and to portraying leeches and parasites. tons from Clark Gable's tuxedo. believe that the greatest force in ily as There are a few people who if society were made up get- One woman is planning to make life is self-sacrifice." What think of children in terms of of irresponsible play- quilt from neckties worn by the Ludlow that of a bunch ting the most out of them. Ex- a A country home in Brewster? His another a pillow. coach stop- boys such as Dan ploitation of child life is an old famous ones; had once been a stage permitted him to of inherited wealth very modern practice. One is making dolls in replica over was the quaint and appro- and but also a own a ship, buy an island, children have al- favorite stars for a charity priate setting for the club's dis- made Laws to protect her live in ease, but he never opposition, largely Several hundred have cussion of Wells Fargo before the ways faced benefit. any return to society. The life on the one hand Foran asking that Women's Club on January 26th. would because of greed written Dick philosophy of Brewster ignorance on the other. horse as a spe- The highlight of the meeting was barbarism and of he send them his lead society back to had abilities which her are the fans, the United States map that a out Rebecca cial gift. And many and paganism. He stands m sought to exploit be- have foreign boy had made showing great of step-father both men and women, who stark contrast to all the greed. With no love the correct routes involved in the and cause of his written Errol Flynn asking if the world who have toiled wanted to use her picture. A girl's summary of the for the girl, he might go with him on his sacrificed that the mass of people While Rebec- they ideals involved—resolution, for a meal ticket. matter where he social a more abundant life. loved her, next trip, no faithfulness, self-sacri- may find ca's aunt and cousin which courage, them plans to go. With a letter evoked much interest. their pride in her led fice aiso apparent came to Carole Lombard was a discussion of JUDGE HARDY'S CHILDREN through ignorance into A provocative have an carefully marked catalogue indi- at the (MGM) exploitation. Children _ The Buccaneer was given the articles of household Feb- inalienable right to grow up with- cating Springfield College Club on life in the Hardy home writer would like Family undue strain on their nervous furniture the 16th. Here the boys and its loyalties and out All ruary was genuine in the oncoming to have to furnish her home. exception to some of under systems. How can girls took cooperation. Adjustments of the fu- liberties normal generation—the hope the apparent historical changed conditions took a safe- the pro- ture—be adequately which had been taken by course. When lack of experience (Continued on page 7) that guarded? ducer. They pointed out individual members into diffi- to led there were museum records "Jean Lafitte was not of show that their program a serious study of the battle- story were made and tribute within fifty miles thoroughgoing study the pupils and motion picture appreciation. of the turmoil, a to the producers for the field on the day the subject m hand. paid successful have been the was used by had made of of the film. The old So that brother Pierre 9th and 21st Of authenticity experiments of the Springfield instructions to On March days were dis- Jackson to carry Hearts constituted the circuit riding Club that Miss L. and that Human with much imagination Photoplay an American commander presented be- cussed Bell, the instructor, has Beluche source of programs laughter. Elizabeth Dominique You and Hadley Falls and more supervise photoplay credit fore the South the meeting was been asked to should have received more Colored The result of the entire Women's Club and the the two appreciation work for Lafitte." Without lessening that the members of than Women's Club of Springfield. state of Massachusetts. pleasure in the film clubs voted to incorporate into the auditors' Careful comparison of picture the comments demonstrated what ) )

April 15, 1938 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY Crist For The DEMAND TWO HOUR Librarian's Mill FILMS FOR SHOWS ON SATURDAY An innovation in patron de- ( Continued from page 2 PUPIL AND TEACHER mands is that made by the note in this column adaptations Bronxville, New York, Motion By HAROLD TURNEY that our readers may make if de- Picture Council which has Chairman of tails are sent to the writer. Let the Department of Drama, Los Angeles Junior College asked that the community us publicize your good ideas. theatre restrict its shows on y^PRIL'S film offerings climax Select, Non-Geographical Grist therefore, any single, Saturday to a two-hour bill a series of feature comedy amusing situation from Fools with intermissions between Three pictures appeal to us as pictures which have engaged per- the for Scandal. Trace the dramatic formances. The request offering lots of grist for the li- attentions was of our foremost dra- construction from its brary for non-geographical introduc- based upon returns from a re- rea- matic stars for the past year. tion to the sons. final laugh. Note the cent poll of 902 families with MGM is producing Yel- Completing the cycle, but three logic in the action of each in- 1003 child members. The gen- low Jack, a play by Sidney How- outstanding films remain: one, volved character, in the incident eral demand ard on the conquest of yellow typical was for a shorter and typed, now in the edi- itself, in the dialogue, in the fever. Beginning in Cuba with show on Saturdays and a clear- torial rooms, Harold Lloyd's characterization, in the possible the Spanish-American War the ing of the theatre between Professor Beware; Frank Cap- inclusion of the background and story carries the history of the shows so that children will not ra's rousing comedy You Can't necessary articles on or about the remain struggle Walter Eeid made to lo- over for a second show- Take It With You and Room Ser- scene, in the music. cate the cause and cure of the ing and delay the Saturday vice, an exaggerated slap-stick Situation and dialogue are the dreaded scourge. It links well evening dinner hour. farce in preparation for the leaders in arousing an audience with the mcvie of Louis Pasteur three Marx Brothers. These to laughter and in this romantic and might include Men in White films, however, are in reality farce the sparkling dialogue (hospital life), Green Light is Mayor Sets Aside appendices to the present series. of two types, prose and a comical (medical ethics) and White An- The vogue began with the rhyme, spoken to a musical "Snow White" Week gel (Florence Nightingale). Most ac- Carole Lombard-John Barrymore companiment. Particularly inter- of the film material available on hit Mayor John Boyd film Twentieth Century and esting is the manner in which the Thacher of health or medicine is of short Albany, New York, Columbia's It Happened One dialogue eases into and away is apparent- "educational" nature and longer ly a confirmed Walt Night, both successful comedies from these musical interludes. Disney fan. "entertainment" features often as attested by the public reaction In any event he set aside the provide excellent BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH WIFE week motivation. at the box office, but the latter when the Disney cartoon A second picture, Millions was shown in for more truly remarkable in Holly- CParamount New York's capital Defense, is based on Stephen De- city as "Snow White Week." wood, where it received an award A comedy must instantly estab- catur's famous victory over the Pleased with this fine by the Academy of Motion Pic- lish for its spectators and audi- _ coopera- Barbary pirates in 1815. This is in tion, the manager of ture Arts and Sciences as the tors the dominant mood of com- the Fabian preparation by Paramount. Pi- Palace Theatre had the best film of the year. These edy. It must be determined im- Mayor's rates are of perennial interest and events message reproduced in poster size made Hollywood comedy- mediately that the film is to be a the "boat" interest of boys espe- and placed in libraries conscious. If Claudette Colbert comedy picture, one to laugh at and de- cially can be utilized. Recently The partment store and Clark Gable could do it and and with, one to enjoy. windows. Buccaneer has brought the War School teachers increase their box office value, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife from likewise coop- of 1812 into public notice and this erated in making the producers reasoned, so could its first pictorial frame estab- "Snow White interest might also be used. Many Week" observance a other dramatic stars, Fredric lishes its mood of sophisticated success not of the books mentioned previous- only by teaching March, Irene Dunne, Gary comedy perfectly. The audience the fairy tale ly in this column in connection m their class rooms but Cooper, William Powell, Myrna knows instantly what to expect by urging with The Buccaneer can be ap- all children to attend Loy and Katharine Hepburn. So and settles back for an enjoyable the show- plied here. Unfortunately there ing. the cycle was on, led by My Man 65 minutes of fun. is no good popular life of Stephen Godfrey, quickly followed by Mr. The situations never fall into Decatur available, Deeds Goes To Town, Frank exaggerated presentation, but j A third movie, Stanley and Capra's contribution, Nothing rather depend upon subtle direc- \Jjivingstone, is under preparation comes mainly from the Sacred, the David 0. Selznick- tion to achieve their result and music and at 20th Century-Fox. Otto only secondarily from the situa- Ben Hecht-William Wellman in this completely satisfy; in Brewer and Mrs. Martin John- tion. Are you able farce; The Awful Truth, spar- fact, by so doing reach a new to recall other son made preliminary films in the similar examples of kling domestic comedy directed high in comedy presentation by music as a African jungles, tracing the comedy device? by Leo McCarey, another Acad- retaining a flavor of veracity route taken by Stanley in his Comedies depend in emy award winner; Merrily We which never becomes distracting no small search for Dr. Livingstone. degree upon Here Live and finally Bringing Up by burlesque. the casting of recog- is opened up that rich field of nized comedians in the Baby, in which one of the screen's The current vogue of comedies support- travel and exploration, life on ing roles. The Lubitsch foremost dramatic actresses, demands more elaborate back- film fol- the Dark Continent, and the lows this rule and includes Katharine Hepburn, seized an op- grounds than those of more Ed- many excellent books by Martin ward Everett Horton, portunity to extend her public ancient laugh-makers. Old-fash- with his and Osa Johnson. As soon as the double reaction type of comedy, and demonstrate her talents as ioned comedies could be acted in picture is completed we shall give Herman Bing, Warren a comedienne. front of any kind of scenery, but Hymer, fuller treatment to it. Franklin Pangborn and Tyler FOOLS FOR SCANDAL today the characters in sophisti- Brooke, all of whom lend Recently we made a survey of cated comedy must be wealthy comedy (Warner Brothers) atmosphere and assist in the theatres used by our students and their experiences must be achiev- ing the desired result. and found that six were habitu- Every comedy film, to be suc- chronicled in settings befitting ally frequented. We wrote to the cessful in its medium of enter- their wealth. Bluebeard's Eighth THE JOY OF LIVING managers of these six theatres tainment, must have a substan- Wife follows its predecessors in for programs to be sent us regu- tial plot as a foundation. In this respect. The settings are (RKO-Radio) larly. These are examined as Fools for Scandal the basic story beautifully designed and executed The trend during the past six 'they come in for book-movies and recounts the misadventures of a from the standpoint of modern months has been towards a repe- a notice placed on the bulletin Hollywood movie actress on a va- architecture. Ernst Lubitsch tition, in modern dress, of the old- board giving the name of the cation in Paris, where she en- achieves remarkable comedy re- fashioned, broad, slapstick vari- ;heatre, the date and title of the counters an impoverished mar- sults from the hallway of the ety of comedy made famous by inovie. These are printed on quis. Presently the latter estab- Cooper home, the heavy doors, Mack Sennett. The Joy of Liv- leavy mounting board and in- lishes himself in her apartment the bedrooms and the main sit- ing climaxes the series, with serted into slits in a heavy card- as a cook, to the scandalized the ting-room. skating-rink episode chalking up board poster marked "We Rec- amazement of the movie star's Music can utilized be to advan- a new high in audience response. ommend." This is one way we friends and fiance. This amusing tage in comedies, as is evidenced For an appreciation of comedy •.an influence movie attendance situation, with its laugh-provok- by an amusing scene in this film. values, this newest Irene Dunne ind promote the reading and ap- ing possibilities, furnishes the After reading The Taming of feature serves as an excellent ex- preciation of good books. framework upon which many the Shrew, Mr. Cooper marches ample. Consider the comedy de- added proponents of comedy are down the hall towards Miss Col- vices of dialogue, situation, sus- built. bert's room to the A Trifle Tardy accompaniment pense, characterization, panto- Through previously established of martial music, returning later mime and music. After witness- steps of introduction and prepa- with the *r drums sounding a re- ing the film for its entertainment ji ; After four years India has ration each spring-board for treat. Note in this episode the value and dramatic construction , oined the rest of the world in laughter must be properly mo- perfect I rhythm and composition in relation to comedy, study proclaiming its the jj Shirley Temple tivated and climaxed at the defi- of the music in harmony with the audience, noting its reaction in Ijjavorite film star. Natives could nite point which is to arouse a sound effects, the pantomime and definite waves of response which jje^ot convince themselves children laugh response from the audi- the action. Note, too, that the build up to and subside ihould be seen as well as heard. ence. away audience response of laughter from a strong laugh. — —

THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY April 15, 1938 Extend Movie Thumbnail FILM READING Of SELECTED Activities To Reviews OF THE CURRENT MONTH Late Films Lower Grades

are evaluations and au- CLOSE tie-up between schools THESE this month Snow White in interior decoration; Life and A and motion picture theatres dience classifications of films AGAIN and the Seven Dwarfs contin- Letters Today (London) : Auld is Wolfskehl, reviewed by the East Coast Pre- noted by Mrs. Paul to utilize a good bit of the Lang Syne, by Robert Herring chairman of the 2nd District of view Committee since April 1. ues magazine and newspaper space. in which a kindly word is spoken Federation More extensive reviews will ap- the New York State of phenomenal length in for Adolphe Menjou and various of Clubs, as the out- pear in the May issue of Selected Runs Women's cities still keep it to the other actors and directors who development in Motion Pictures. many standing recent forefront of the day's news. have made good. her district, in a report made to Busters (Republic) Arson Gang Miscellaneous her superior officer, Mrs. Edward Cast headed by Personalities Dir: Joe Kane. Theatre Arts Monthly, April: T. Herbert, Chairman of the Mo- Livingston, Rosalind Keith Bob A brief article which will in- Televised Drama So Far—an un- tion Picture Department of the fire of sus- and Jackie Moran. A terest some adult and all juvenile usual viewpoint on television by Federation. picious origin takes the life of of readers is a character sketch Ashley Dukes; Leisure, March: This is being gradually ex- and his friend Fire Chief Riley Billy Gilbert, who "huffs and Collections of Hollywood's Fa- tended from the high school down taking a position Bill O'Connell, puffs" for Sneezy in Snow White mous, by Philip H. Bailey—an in- into the grammar school groups. Squad, runs to earth on the Arson and the Seven Dwarfs. This ap- teresting inventory of the hobbies Local club chairmen in the dis- brains of the arson ring. Em- of the peared in the March 28th issue of the stars; Liberty, April 9: trict have been invited to many importance of the phasis upon the the Christian Science Monitor. The Story behind Snow White's junior and sub-junior groups to work. Family. fireman's Other articles which will interest $10,000,000 Surprise Party—a talk about current pictures, out- Battle of Broadway (20 th Cen- all those who faithfully follow sketch of the work of Walt Dis- standing producers and directors. tury-Fox) Dir: George Marshall. the glamorous personalities of the ney; Christian Science Monitor, Particular enthusiasm has been MeLaglen, Atlantic, Cast headed by Victor screen include: The March 16 : Crisis in British Films shown for such pictures as The Peter Brian Donlevy, Louise Hovick. April: From Rembrandt to —in which Harold Hobson demon- Life of Emile Zoia, Conquest and The New York convention of the Pan—the final installment of Elsa strates why the nation's cinema Stage Door. American Legion means more to Lanchester's Charles Laughton feature product so frequently Bus Load Sees "Victoria" three of its members than just a and I; Stage, April: Part II of does not attain the level of its reunion of war-time "buddies." From Organ Loft to Kliegs— documentary films; Movie Makers, When Victoria the Great They have instructions from their Marcia Davenport's sketch of. the April: Stars from Human Rush- played the neighborhood theatre employer to undertake the break- career of Leopold Stokowski; Pa- lights, by Earl Theisen—an ex- a bus was engaged by teachers of 5: ing up of a romance between his cific Coast Musician, March pose of some of the tricks by the gramma L- school and nearly son and a night club singer. Much Korngold Returns, by Vernon which Hollywood can make al- one hundreJ children were taken uproarious, if rowdy, comedy en- Steele—dealing with the future most anyone beautiful; American to the the.'itre under the super- sues. Adults and young people. plans of this interesting Austrian Boy, April: Some Movie Actors vision ci their instructors. Co- leave College Swing (Paramount) Dir: composer who took a brief Live in Cages, by Vereen Bell—an operation was given by the the- Hollywood to Raoul Walsh. Cast: George Burns, of absence from illustrated account of how animal atre manager in a substantial Col- Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, Ed- produce opera in Vienna; movie stars are trained; Ameri- reduction of the admission price. the ward Everett Horton. A very orig- lier's, March 26: Femand, can Girl, April: Aladdin's City, Local theatres are offering dealing inal prologue introduces "Gracie Great, by Kyle Crichton— by Ethel Severson—a vivid de- foreign language films for the about Alden", who has been trying for with that much talked scription of a day spent on a mo- benefit of pupils who are study- of the films, years to graduate from Alden young gentleman tion picture lot; same issue, Dis- ing those languages in high nine Commentator, College. Two hundred years later Fernand Gravet; asters by Request, by Latrobe school. Including the Scandina- author de- it still seems impossible for any April: Carroll—in which the B. Kennedy an- tricks Alden to pass an examination and vian, by John — scribes some of the studio Clever Plan about Nor- Oneida Has as property will be lost to the other diverting story employed in making earthquakes, Sonja Henie; For Keeping Film Exhibits family unless this happens, the way's skating queen, floods, fires and hurricanes; Pa- Christian Science Monitor, April Musician, March 19: slight plot revolves around ef- cific Coast When motion picture research 4: From Frank Daugherty's Concertize Picture Music, *' forts to avoid this outcome. Lei's exhibits on current films have Scene in Hollywood—a story of Steele an interest- Mediocre entertainment for adults. by R. Vernon — once been used in the classes in the half year of intensive train- of the idea of Gaiety Girls Films- ing presentation High School, (London preceded Danielle Dar- Oneida Community ing that turning music-film backgrounds : United Artists) Dir: Thornton Oneida, Illinois, they do not go rieux's first appearance before into concert stage performances; Freeland. Cast headed by Jack into the discard. Through the in- Hollywood cameras; World Di- Christian Science Monitor, April ; Patricia Ellis. A case of the boys in the man- F * Hulbert and genuity r personality sketch in ' gest, April—a 4: Frank Daugherty's Scene : of mistaken identity is employed ual training department they find a little apart from the usual Holh/ivood an analysis of the by an attractive chorus girl as an — their way into a mammoth "Pic- movie personality story, but cer- Awards of the past ten entering wedge to stardom. The Academy ture Magazine" from which they tainly enormously interesting to years; Collier's, April 9: Home- production offers some good com- may be withdrawn for future those who have seen A Slight made Hollywood, by John R. edy, catchy tunes and a pleasant use. This consists of a binding Case of Murder, namely He Gets Tunis helpful hints for the ama- cast. Adults and young people. — and strips of board which hold a Dollar a Word—Gene Gold- teur moviemakers; Soon I Am in Underworld (RKO- the various exhibits together, and h^;; Law of the smith's sketch of Damon Runyon's Bellevue, by Kyle Crichton—in of huge covers for their protec- Radio) Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: career; Woman's Home Compan- which Harlan Thompson, produc- tion. Walter Abel, _ |?T( Chester Morris, ion, April: another out-of-the-or- er of the Big Broadcast of 1938, Shirley, Eduardo Ciannelli. Not only do the pages of this Anne dinary personality, Katherine tells some of the trials of the "Picture Magazine" make an al- EtjU A leader of a band of crooks who Higgins, who has charge of the showman; New York Times, most continuous circuit of the 1-^. is fundamentally decent comes to commissary of the Warner Bros. March 20: What's in a Foreign various classrooms. They also fur- ll the rescue of two young people Studios, and whose activities are a brief but diverting ac- :fT Name— nish impetus for discussion at involved in crime. A hackneyed described in an article titled Food count of some of the pseudonyms adult forums held at the school plot and stereotyped direction. for Stars, by Laura Benham; under which well-known films to study contemporary literature. Adults and young people. Parents' Magazine, April: of masquerade abroad: The Life of Hr "A good idea for other schools I The Lone Wolf in Paris (Colum- particular interest to juveniles Emile Zola, for example, as Sav- to follow if they want to keep the bia) Dir: Albert S. Rogell. Cast A Boy and His Room, by Eleanor (The Conscience iestCovjecanstva says Donald headed by Francis Lederer, Fran- Preston Clarkson—an interview exhibits intact," Sharp, the principal. ces Drake, Walter Kingsford, Le- with Jackie Cooper about his taste (Continued on page 8) ona Maricle. Efforts of "The Lone Wolf" to recover for the (Paramount) Dir: rightful owners crown jewels held what involved, and in addition two The Return of the Scarlet Pim- Stolen Heaven Stone. Cast headed by by an unscrupulous pretender officers of the law are made ob- pernel (Alexander Korda-London Andrew Raymond and Olympe provide many complications. A jects of ridicule, a fault which will Films-United Artists) Dir: Hans Gene Bradna. A master jewel thief Graustarkian romance that owes certainly not help law enforce- Schwartz. Cast headed by Barry and his girl accomplice take ref- most of its appeal to Mr. Leder- ment. Adults and young people. Sophie Stewart. A Barnes and uge with a world-famous pianist er's personal charm. Adults and Rawhide (20th Century-Fox) of thrilling adventure-romance driven into retirement by over- young people. Taylor. Cast: Smith during Dir: Ray eighteenth century Paris work and failing memory- A de- Mr. Moto's Gamble (20th Cen- Gehrig, Evalyn Ballew, Lou the French Revolution. "The cidedly "different" romantic tury-Fox) Dir: James Tinling. musical Western in Knapp. A Scarlet Pimpernel" is an English drama, greatly enriched by vocal Cast headed by Peter Lorre. Mr. Gehrig figures as the which Lou aristocrat instrumental in saving and instrumental music of high Moto with his customary skill only man who has the courage to many from the guillotine. Adults artistic merit. Adults and young solves mystery of a murdered defy a crooked association ex- the and young people. people. prize fighter. The plot is some- ploiting the ranchers. Family. —

April 15, 1938 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY

New Trend Is STILLS NOW AVAILABLE Noticed In THE ARTISTIC SIDE ON THESE PICTURES Adventures of Robin Hood Film Fan MOTION Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mail PICTURES Adventures of Marco Polo By ALICE AMES WINTER Alice Adams Anthony Adverse (Continued from page 4) As You Like It The first of a series of articles the small told, the items of furniture space framed by the Bad Man to dealing with films as the hand- proscenium of Brimstone completely furnish the house arch, while the film Buccaneer maiden of art. Subsequent sub- story can range at "quite satisfactorily," totaled will over tre- Captain Blood two jects dealt with will be The Cam- hundred dollars. mendous space and time. Again, Come and era Angle, Time Lapses, Montage, Get It the spectator at a stage play sits Conquest Katharine Hepburn's Symbolism and other in letters techniques a fixed spot and sees every- David are from peculiar to the Copperfield a more mature group, present day fiilm. thing from a fixed point of view. Dead End more analytical The film of her roles. gives the onlooker a Ebb Tide Irene Dunne's are frequently C ROM a trivial toy to an art in dozen points of view, here, there, a Girl of the Golden West from older women, single generation—this is the near, far this side, that women who — side. Gold Is Where You history of the motion picture. Because Find It admire her way of life, her poise of its limitations and Good Earth Its days as an art are of very the distance and the inspiration she gives. between actors and Great Garrick recent date. This means that its audience, the play Anne Shirley's role in Anne of must follow Heidi best' exponents have reached certain Green Gables started the conventions. It is "theat- a flow of point where they High Wide and Handsome letters from use it to give rical," whereas the excellence of youngsters which is the rest Hurricane of us not only a thrill, a picture requires it to be nat- still coming in in a tide, despite In Old Chicago but a wider understanding of men ural, intimate, free. The screen all the roles she has played since. Last Days of Pompeii and nature and the things that actor becomes bombastic the Don Ameche's mail is Life of Emile Zola extremely count. Every art has its mechani- moment he uses stage heavy technique. Little Minister just now, with comments cal tools, its musical instruments, on his The Motion Picture Little Women versatility, pleasing speak- its marble, its paint, but the test and the Novel Lloyds of London ing voice, constant appreciation comes in its ability to use these Again there are points in com- Lost Horizon of his vigorous personality and mechanical tools as servants of its mon, as well as wide differences. his finer Maid of Salem ideal home life, including purposes. Pictures like The Like the cinema, the novel is un- Good Midsummer Night's Dream much advice on the care and Earth, Zola, Romeo and limited in time and space. It may Juliet, Mutiny on the Bounty rearing of his two Captains Courageous, Dead leap where it will, when it will. young chil- Of Human Hearts End, Lost Horizon, and a Both claim the dren. Tyrone Power's admirers con- right to step in- Parnell stantly growing list of notable side the very minds include many who knew his of their char- Plainsman father's productions are the evidence of acters and tell you how they think work on the stage and Prince and the the artistry of the motion picture. and feel, the novel Pauper are therefore eager to make com- by giving in Ramona The thing to observe is how words the author's confidential parisons. in- Rebecca of pictures share certain methods of formation, the film by revealing Sunnybrook Farm Romeo and Juliet Shirley Temple's mail is a expression with other arts: it in symbolic flashes. host How It is evident Rosalie in itself. Her letters come from they have developed tools of their that many successful films have a own, Scarlet Pimpernel all the world, some from little unlike any of the others. looseness of literary structure Snow White and the towns and The realization that the cinema that is like the novel and countries that must be gets Seven Dwarfs laboriously located on is a thing to itself, unlike any away from what we think of as a map, be- Story of Louis Pasteur cause other art, began a generation ago dramatic structure. The picture, no one has ever heard the Submarine D-l name before. when Griffith, in making The like the novel, may select what- Alice Mae Broder- Tale of Two Cities Birth of a Nation, brought home ever viewpoint it chooses. ick II, has reason to believe that Test Pilot to the motion picture world the But of course the novelist she is Shirley's champion fan, as Treasure Island fact that it paints her was using new tools in words and leaves it to , Jias home town in "Washing- Victoria the Great in a new way. his readers to envision the ton, where she recentlv exhibited looks Wells Fargo Much very stupid criticism of his characters, the background, her "Shirlev Templeiana"—con- comes from people who think of and even the action, according Price sisting of three thousand photo- to —$1.00 per set. the picture as merely an illus- their individual culture and imag- graphs of the little star, twenty- Order through trated book or plav. As a matter ination. The cinema paints for the Motion Picture five Shirley Temple story books, Producers of fact, whenever the picture eye. In the best pictures, words and Distributors of twentv-two cut-ou+s and a sam- America, Inc., maker uses a piece of literature play only a secondary part, dia- 28 West 44th ple of every article on the mar- Street, he must translate it into cinema logue is reduced to New York, N. Y. ket that bears Shirley's name. a minimum, form, different from literature, as description disappears altogether, Every human for examnle, because the quality—joys, Shellev's Skylark audience "sees for it- position such as appears in paint- sorrows, triumphs would if self." and defeats be you put it into music This is why the literary ing all play their subservient all part are expressed and reflected in or expressed it. in naintine-. Says writer is often a failure _ as a in the film. As color promises to the tide. Most curious to an out- Rotha, English critic, me- scenario writer. "No be more and more used, both sider, perhans, is the intimacy of dium of expression calls for such artistic composition and a study feeling' which imoels these people wide range of technical accom- Music and the Cinema of the psychology of color (as to write as though to plishment as does the film. dear friends. This Music and the cinema have en- To Bob dvnamic mental shown in Disney's "Snow White" Bums recently came a pictorialism is, I tered into very close relations. letter from a claim, the most powerful will play more important parts. mother in the east, form of Quite apart from those pictures -aying that she expression So the film gathers something had read that he available today to the which are almost operatic, rhythm, was to be in a town, creative artist." from drama, from literature, far from melody, musical emotion are be- per, where her young son is from music, from the pictorial at- ing used more and more in the tending military The Cinema and the Stage and plastic arts. college. "Would very structure of filmic plays. The Yet it is none von be willing to go to of these. Its tools and its meth- the school Both develop a story of char- two senses that are closest to our ind see son?" ods are its own. my she wrote. "I acter, destiny, struggle or whim- emotional life, sight and hearing, ^•-ould just like to sure be that he sy by means of dramatic action. unite, each to intensify the effect a happy."_ Another letter prized Both present living beings mov- of the other. So some of the best Bulletins Now Framed ~>y Burns is one from an old man ing through circumstances and musical talent of the world is find- 'f eighty who wrote him when he fate. The stage has the inestima- ing its way to picture studios, For earned of the new baby daugh- two years the East St. ble advantage of the presence of adapting fine music to the film. Louis, ?r, commenting on the actor's Illinois, Better Films living actors with their personal Notable, for example, is the way Council has apid rise to fame, but reminding furnished a monthly appeal to the audience. Moreover, Walt Disney uses good music as list of good jm that nothing life could films to be locally offer the temperament of the actor re- an intrinsic part of his Silly Sym- shown im would bring- him greater hap- to all the junior and senior sponds to audience appeal. He is phonies, or the way in which the high iness than that of looking down schools of the city. Now as delicately strung as a violin. elf-like piper in "The Firefly" these ito the crib of his wee daughter, lists are to be displayed in So, as it were, the audience shares stirs up the tired mules by his just attractive frames. knowing that she is warm, in the performance, calling out piping, and everything ind in the A poster contest conducted by safe and well." from the actor the qualities that scene, from the wagging of the the Council in conjunction with correspond with its own per- mules' ears to the swaying of the Only lack of space prevents the the art departments of the vari- sonality. The cinema actor has no stage coach, sways to the tilling of countless such stories, same ous schools brought the project real life inspiring audience. He must "reg- rhythm, until the audience itself Stories from which are to fruition. Prizes of $3.00, $2.00 ister" emotions, from love to hate, feels the swing. Reflected back from the screen and $1.00 were offered to art stu- out of his own inner impulsion. It is evident that architecture, Audience into this land of make- dents who devised the most at- Jelieve. The stage is strictly limited by dancing, sculpture, artistic com- tractive posters, —

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Mo. City Starts Greenwich High Advances to Cal. Juniors Film Council Near-Professional Movie Status Expand Their For Colored Film Program

AMONG the most interesting WHEN the General Federation news of the month is the of Women's Clubs opens its item which tells of the existence triennial convention in Kansas in St. Louis of what is believed City in May, among those in at- to be the first motion picture tendance will be Miss Eleanor council for colored people in the Wilson of San Diego, youthful United States. Moving spirit be- chairman of the Film Apprecia- hind the venture is the St. Louis tion Program of California's woman who has been promi- Junior Clubs. Such a vigorous nently identified with so many and helpful program of film forward-looking motion picture study has she inaugurated in her enterprises in the Middle West, home state that the California Mrs. Arretus Franklyn Burt, Federation is paying her way to founder and first president of the Kansas City to tell the club world St. Louis Better Films Council. about it. Have Family Night Program To Attend Kansas Convention Although news of the forma- Miss Wilson will go armed tion of the Council will come as with all sorts of fascinating film a surprise to many Motion Pic- exhibits, which will previously ture and the Family readers, have made their appearance at the organization has functioned the Junior Convention of the quietly for a two-year experimen- California Federation at the Ho- tal period and has definitely tel Biltmore in Los Angeles May proven its worth. 5, 6 and 7. Out of it have come such proj- Since the Motion Picture and ects as the presentation of a Fri- the Family reported on the film Night at the activities of California's day Family program Cameraman Harry Tiebout, )r., films scene in school comedy. "Trouble or Nothing." Juniors fine, new, colored theatre which a few months ago, California's Junior Chairman has been erected since the Coun- D APIDLY advancing from ama- A few of the most mirth-pro- has farther ex- cil formed; the appointment 1 panded and amplified the was teur to professional makers of voking incidents—and among pro- gram. other of a Photoplay Appreciation motion pictures are the members them one which called into play Among devices she Committee which is preparing a of the Greenwich High Photo- genuine stunt photography is suggesting is that every film meeting plan for teaching motion pictui-e play Club. were those which depicted the open with a roll call at appreciation to colored children, which the members of the club Make Red Cross Film boys throwing books into a third establishment of close give the names of their and the floor window and ultimately favorite First it was a news reel cooperation between the theatre whistling and making the books film stars, masculine and femi- of school activities that en- nine, managers and representatives of jump back into their hands; that their favorite directors, gaged their interest. Then it was the Council. which showed the clown of the their favorite films, etc. a 100-foot film for the local Red the results A new project, which might piece winding un the hospital bed From of these roll Cross chapter, and because that calls a comprehensive well be adopted by many mo- on which his friend was lying estimate picture councils, is that of turned out so well ultimately a of the film tastes of tion until the latter assumed a jack the group teaching children to 400-foot film of Red Cross proj- can be made, how conduct knife position, and the numerous and may be used to ects which was given widespread themselves while attending a mo- near-encounters between students provoke discussion at future release and is regarded as a most meetings. tion picture theatre. and members of the faculty when ^ Officers of the council known informative community picture. Other specific topics listed — the former were on mischief bent. for as the Mounds City Better Films Last chapter in the movie-mak- discussion on California's newest ing Put in Musical Accompaniment Council—are : president, Mrs. experiments of the Greenwich junior program are the history F. H. Pruitt; vice president, Mrs. Photoplay Club was a comedy film of motion pictures, including When the film was exhibited to the A. N. Reason; secretary, Mrs. called Trouble or Nothing, au- latest scientific developments in the school, a musical accompani- Frank Boles. Affiliated organi- thored, acted, directed, filmed and filming and recording and the use ment of records was faded in and zations are Past Commander's recorded by the members. of music in pictures; methods of out through skilful use of the Daughters of Isis, Sigma Gamma A slight plot, telling the story choosing movies; the reaction of public address system. com- Rho Fraternity, Iota Phi Lambda of the coming of a new girl to A club members to studio visits; the Lehr, Sorority, Banneker School Fac- school, the rivalry of two boys mentator imitating Lew influence of pictures on modern projection ulty, Jefferson School Faculty, for her affections, the landing of who spoke from the living; the double-billing question Sigma Delta Theta Sorority, one of the boys in the hospital booth, lent added humor and per- and the best sources for motion Yaumita Girls, Acme Art and because of jealousy and her ac- tinency to the film. picture reviews. Culture Club, Kappa Alpha Tsi ceptance of the temporary in- So successful was the experi- Fraternity, Pollyanna Club, Ju- valid, was enlivened by trick ment that the club is now em- Selected Film Reading nior Wardrobe Club, Cole Parent- shots and humorous incidents un- barking on the making of a Teacher Association, Alpha til it gained quite a professional safety film at the request of the (Continued from, page 6) Kappa Alpha Sorority, Wheatley aspect. Board of Education. of Mankind) in Yugoslav; The Branch of the Y. W. C. A., Book Kid Comes Back, in Spanish, as Lovers Club, Prudence Crandall Adversaries Inseparables (Insep- College arable Adversaries) Big Club, Informal Dames, Governor Proclaims "Snow White" Day ; City, al- Woman's Club and Sumner Par- so in Spanish, as El Marido de la ent-Teacher Association. Extranjera {The Husband of the I T is a real event in motion pic- White and the Dwarfs immedi- Foreign Woman) ; and perhaps Plainview a ture history when the Gover- ately behind him, and behind as incomprehensible as any, The Has Nashville's nor of a State marches at the them hundreds of Perfect Specimen in Yugoslav as were to con- Stage Coach Plethora head of a procession organized to leading citizens who Dogodilo Se Jednoa Dana (It celebrate the premiere of a note- stitute the first night audience. Happened One Day). If Plainview, Texas, finds it- worthy film. Nor was this Nashville's only self overrun these days with min- Undoubtedly you have guessed recognition of the importance of Books on Films iature models of old stage it. The film was Snoiv White and the film. Leading clergymen of Danger Is My Business, by it coaches, it is the recent showing the Seven Dwarfs. The city was the city drew attention to John D. Craig, published by Si'- of Wells Fargo in that city which Nashville, Tennessee. from their pulpits, and more than mon and Schuster—one of "Hol- is responsible. Determined to commemorate one of them used the wicked step- lywood's daredevils describes Local exhibition of the picture appropriately the issuance of a mother's selfishness and Snow some of his exploits in film mak- friendly provided the inspiration for a film which ushered in a new mo- White's helpful and ing underseas and in out-of-the- unique contest for the woodwork- spirit as ammunition for pointing tion picture technique and so way sections of the world; Tele- ing classes in Plainview schools a moral to their congregations. vision: A Struggle Power, marked an epoch in film-making, for by in which prizes were offered for Exercises based on "Snow White" Frank C. Waldrop and Joseph Nashville staged a civic parade as *< the best stage coach models. The also occupied the attention of art Borkin, published by the Morrow J •WW winners and a few of those which a prelude to the first performance. classes in senior and junior high Publishing Company a descrip- — ma had "honorable mention" were Governor Gordon Browning schools during the local run of tion of current experiments with shown in the theatre lobby. marched at the head, with Snow the film. television. ) )

e >7 The Motion A Bulletin for All who Picture Comment on Current are Interested in Better and Films by Librarians. Motion Pictures Teachers, Community The Family Leaders

Educator Takes TO OUR READERS Get Credits A Novel Jaunt For Film Going Through Europe In Topeka Schools I HUNTING through Europe in J a Ford service car this sum- NE of the questions mer is one of the Q most fre- outstanding quently raised . , by educators authorities in the field of motion is how to make the current picture education. It is Dr. fea- Mark ture film the power for A. May, Director of the education Institute that it ought to of Human Eelations be. Adolescent of Yale Uni- interest m motion versity, whose unique pictures is excursion generally recognized. will carry him throughout How to Italy, turn that interest Germany, France, 1 and the fre- Switzerland ess quency of film Denmark, Finland, s^dsSS? =~ attendance into Sweden and something that the British is of constructive Isles to schools where value to motion The Editor the school and the pupil pictures are employed as is the problem. an educational medium. Topeka, Kansas, seems to have Announce E. St. Louis Riverside made a long step 14-year-old Daughter Council towards its so- Serves as Poster lution Practically every Interpreter Award Winners Overcomes school Obstacles J-:. Clty allows definite The credits in noted educator is accom- Last month we made the English Depart- panied announce- .When the Riverside, ment for by his wife and 14-year- ment of a poster Califor- supplementary readme old contest carried nia, Motion accompanied daughter, the only member on Picture Council first by a report of of m East St. Louis schools to got the the family who speaks under way, it encountered read Realizing that French secure an attractive frame for m°tion fluently and certain obstacles. Its K.P^tures oftenW who is to serve as the monthly lists of outstanding initial de- constitute as valu- interpreter for sire was to publish evaluations able a literary the threesome. He Pictures issued by the of background as do has East St films m the local novels, gone without advance notice Louis Better Films press, but this biographies and the Council, was opposed drama, the ^of his program and purpose so which are by the newspapers Topeka High School mounted on the vari- on the is that his visits to the ground that they could not allowing a half credit schools may ous school bulletin boards. This to pu- be informal and accept paid advertising for pils for seeing and he may see the month we are happy not only a pic- reviewing a average work to ture and publish possible photoplay recommended in the classrooms. announce the names of adverse by the Dr. May the win- criticisms. h D ar meat has had for ners, but ' In Edition many to advise that the post- to P years a keen interest One of its second objectives ljtthe creditM given in the in motion ers entered in the competition English pictures as an was to establish motion courses, certain photoplays educational me- were of such merit that in picture which dium addi- appreciation classes and a proven faith in their tion to the three which won in local cash schools. Here it (Continued prizes six were met with decided on page 4 given honorable objection on (Continued on page 2) mention. the part of two members of the First prize board. But op- Practical went to two girls position Pointers ar proved a challenge and Films Entertain 7_13 vears old respectively' when For And the recalcitrants were fin- Film Councils (Continued on page 2) Also Help Discipline (Continued on page 6 A helpful plan initiated this year by the Elizabeth, Roosevelt High School in New Jer- Seat- sey, Motion Picture tle, Washington, is the proud pos- American Library Council was Methods Reach the listing of all sessor of a talking motion picture So. Africa material on includmg books machine of the very latest and pam- type. phlets,S& periodicals and Ten-minute reels shown by the DENETRATION motion of American graphical pic*"re stills, available Movie or historical , in the Club in the school audi- methods of film-library film, or public coop- one based on library. This list, torium during lunch periods at a eration into a well-known novel circu- South Africa is evi- Anticipating th he monthly one-cent admission fee made the denced by a clipping such a rush !£& } bulletin, from the after the reachedT not only every purchase possible. Rand Daily release of The Life of member Mail published Feb- ot the council but Not only are the films regarded ruary the Colosseum interested 21st in Johannesburg, ineatre, 5\ as a success from the fw thet Johannesburg financial in a deP artment entitled Pub- (Continued angle but also Library on page 7) from a discipli- !f, H*?"? compiled a nary viewpoint. It has been Kead e r b2°ks dealing with dis- headlines in heavy, black Zola71 and? i covered that when the outdoor type the Dreyfus case and B'kiyn Gives Another "Rush for Books on Zola placed weather is forbidding them m readiness and the and Dreyfus." That South Afri- for the Fine lunch time general demand. Jr. Program movies are an- can libraries are experiencing nounced pupils rush to the audi- the same augmented interest in Films Stimulate least one special torium and the halls Reading , children's are speedily film books as are the libraries of show^ with cleared of "This throws a sidelight a carefully se- congregating groups. the United States is on the lected indicated question of whether program ought to by the context of films stimu- be a the clipping late or feature of every school which weaken interest in litera- child's Films Reviewed reads: ture vacation, or so and the desire to read the Bedford Dis- "The Johannesburg public are on In Current Issue the part of the public. mittee the MotiSi asking for books on Zola and the S£,rp° Counci1r °l "After the showing of for Brooklyn, Dreyfus case. a film New£2 VYork,, Reviewed in this such as A Tale is convinced. The issue are : Ad- "Experience of %Wo Cite? rea- ventures has taught those large son is the great success of Robin Hood, pages 4 in numbers of people borrow of a spe- charge of libraries and book- the cial vacation *nd 7 ;Conrlemned Women, book from the libraries, week program page shops in this city to expect sav- sented pre- r Four a sud- ing I must on April 19th ; Men and a Prayer, paee read the book under Coun- den rush for books dealing with again.' cil auspices 7; Test Pilot, page 4. at the the subject of any popular Riviera bio- (Continued on page U) (Continued on page 5) )

THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY May 15, 1938 LA.Schools Have A Fortnightly WHAT'S NEXT Educator Takes Film Bulletin IN HOLLYWOOD A Novel Jaunt By ALICE AMES WINTER Through Europe greater A NEWCOMER among prac- M tribute could have covered with tical services for been paid to the hand-embroidered photoplay triumph- fleurs de is of (Continued appreciation yes even the silver, edged with from page 1 groups is "The Pre- box-office triumph— seed pearls. view," of the Rare laces, Artificial possibilities. Recently a fortnightly guide to best of pictures than the flowers he came resolve of the type really used more conspicuously good pictures issued to secondary recently announced bv under to the fore- several Louis XVI, ancient car front when as schools in the Los Angeles City leading studios to make nages, chairman of the only horses that in these Advisory School District under the A grade pictures during mod- Committee on the Use aegis the ern days had to of Motion of the superintendent. coming year. By be trained to Pictures in Education "A grade" we draw the carriages, he Each issue mean pictures of miles of fine arranged with the industry of "The Preview" fine technique wire to shape features dramatic form, the fantastic cos- to enable panels of leading three or four of the social significance! tumes a edu- If you have thousand white whrs cators to review 1500 short more outstanding pictures which watched the week-by- candelabra sub- week and furniture to re- jects primarily designed will be released during the fort- returns published in trade for com- produce exactly that mercial use, night, suggests what the magazines you must have most gor- and to determine pupil noticed geous of all royal their should read or that audiences palaces, Ver- application to the classroom look up before see- have crowded sailles these ing ^eatres for — were some of the for a new type of teaching. the picture and points out the the finer pictures, properties This that the that kept research men will use films not as adjuncts various photographic, dramatic failures in box-office re- busy. to turns And all these and a hun- the text book but as a and other high lights. have largely been in the dred more teaching second-rate are now being used to medium in themselves, unrolling Typical suggestions from productions. But do lend verisimilitude re- not confuse to the back- in colorful fashion the full his- cent outlines on Gold Is Where A grade with mere gjpund of expense, although what is after all not tory of civilization and giving You Find It and The studios are chiefly a Adventures recognizing gorgeous exhibit, mag- pupils a grasp of the social of Tom that the public pays prob- Sawyer indicate the an- nificent though the lems of all gladly for excellence. The individual the ages, as revealed gle of approach. In Gold Is world scenes may be, but a on the motion has moved since Disraeli drama of a picture screen, Where You Find It, it was rec- proved crucial period in with bypaths and studio human historv into such fields as ommended that as a preliminary men said, when the world biology, "What's the use?" turned its back art. music and architec- students locate the principal on glittering gold monarchy and began ture, treated in their relation- counties on to a map of California move even though by dirk ship to human problems. By the way, I hope you are no- Not and that they study and explain and cruel ways, only is Dr. ticing one of those towards democ- May the originator of the process of hydraulic mining. changes that racy. this take place progressive plan for the util- A trip to quietly under our eyes the Los Angeles County ization of films in namely the great lessening building a cul- Museum to see the California ex- in While we still tural glamorous drinking," linger among the and character background hibit was also recommended, as cocktail more spectacular for students, but hours—the drinking that pictures in the he is also a well as an informal panel discus- is a making, perhaps the member of the stop-ffap and has nothing next in line Program Commit- sion on the question—"Through to do is Kidnapped, the tee of the with plot or characterization. famous Steven- American Council on the Ages Has the Quest for Gold It son story, with Freddie Education, a is another example of Barthol- member of the Mo- Worked More Harm Than the work- omew and tion ins: towards Warner Baxter in the Picture Commission of the Good?" ethical standards in- leads, side at 20th Centurv-Fox Progressive Education Associa- studio walls. never I In connection with The Ad- watch a bit of the actual tion and Chairman, of the Motion ventures of Tom Sawyer, nlmmg of a picture Picture Sub-Committee among Two characteristics a without a of the the questions raised notable kind of amazement Committee on were: "How picture must have, two at the myriad Education of the many states widely details which New York were in the Union different qualities, a director carrier World's Fair. namely a sense in his at the time of Mark Twain's mind. In the great Dr. May's unusual and inter- of reality at one end, and that square book?"; "Was Missouri a state?" of ancient architecture, esting jaunt through imaginative outlook on with its' Europe will Tom Sawyer, its story hangman's platform accomplish Huckleberry Finn in the more than merely i that we call dramatic at the other midst and Life on the Mississippi with crowds of officers adding to his own were —and the two must flow in scarlet store of knowf- 4 recommended together and gold, and edge about as correlated read- Whether in th° other crowds of potentialities for the ing. portraval of country folk utilization "The Preview," which goes everyday folk in carts, and again of films in the class- like the "Jones the out to the schools fortnightly, Pami y" rag-tag and bobtail shoulder- room. It will also produce a i an d "Judge Hardy's is attached to the superintend- ing curious housewives striking visual record of family, or in a great mingling: —every the ent's bulletin. It conveys to other of expression of every face, every most successful experiments spectacle and history, like school systems a significant sug- Mane movement of a horse, every angle along this line, since his constant Antoinette, reality, im- of gestion as to practical utilization agination, light, every verisimilitude of companion on his travels will be drama play their voice of educational values of films. parts. quality—whether from a a motion picture camera through coarse voice in the crowd or a pol- which he will record on 16 mm. ished, crisp word film actual instances of As to Marie Antoinette, now of an official- the uses Survey must be correlated with of films in motion picture educa- Shows Dignified well under way, it was to the total be ex- effect. A director tion. Taste pected that love and admiration is like the Brooklyn Pupils manufacturer of a new, tor Norma Shearer's dead hus- tiny planet. He must know it band, Irving Thalberg, who has all and Announce St. Louis do it all, with a kindly hitherto been her guide in her temper The serious and that brings out the best Poster Award Winners dignified film pictures, and whose unique genius in hi* taste of Brooklyn actor material. High School s|t him on a Hollywood pedestal students is revealed in (Continued from page 1) a survey should combine with the love and completed not long Deep into our Betty ago by Joseph admiration they have for Miss social problems Barone and Ruth Cooper, Mersand, goesi You director of the Insti- bhearer to stir Metro-Goldwyn- and Me, in the making who made their poster jointly. tute of Adult Education at Paramount They are of Bovs' Mayer to put their best into the ,. by Fritz Lang pupils of the George High School. which opens up Rogers Clark filming of the story of the tragic the parole prob- high school. Second Out of queen. lem about which we and third prizes went to 14- 162 films seen in a two- On the dramatic side is are doing two much thinking these year-old pupils of month period by pupils in Brook- the gay, dangerous love affair crime-laden the Rock Ju- lyn that days. So important nior High School, high schools, Dead End, drew Marie Antoinette into is this film Mary Louise its that under the Severns and with its effective and vital pres- meshes, the crisis that cen- sponsorship of the John H. Herr. Five entation tered Rockefeller Foundation, of the six honorable of a social problem, and around her attempt to es- using mentions script and excerpts, went to Rock Junior Captains Courageous with its un- cape revolutionary tragedv, the it will be High and made a subject of one to the Charles forgettable depiction of the in- desperate, savage struggle to study in our Cannadv school. fluence of a right-thinking adult save her son, the Dauphin. On schools. Irving Lerner of the The children upon the character of a small the side of reality is the tremen- Foundation Commission says of attended the boy were dous_ monthly meeting of the "tops." In the "near- research work that has led Fritz Lang's production, "Mob Better favorites" were studio men into Films Council and received their a number of Prance and Italy violence was his subject in Fury. films of searching awards in person. lighter order, included for fabrics, furniture! In You Only Live Once among them 100 he dealt The contest, which had the en- Men and a Girl knick-knacks of the late mon- with the Broadway Melody paroled convict who thusiastic cooperation of D. Wal- of 1938 and A archy. If a bit of authentic fabric went Day at the Races. back to crime because the ter Potts, Superintendent of was found, it was sometimes nec- world refused to give him Schools, Miss Carmen Trimmer, Prom the survey Mr. essary to a Mersand reopen factories to du- chance. And art supervisor, Miss derived much encouragement now, in You and Me, Virginia as plicate its delicacy and beauty; O'Leary, art teacher to the essential he takes as his subject an ex- at George right-thinking of The queen's wedding Rogers Clark Junior the younger dress has convict who is given every High, and generation. five oppor- Miss hundred yards of sheer satin tunity." Margaret Lipper of Rock Junior High, will become annual. - K

. May 15, 1938 ' THE MOTION PICTURE AND 7 THE FAMILY The Younger Toledo Juniors See A Single Stage Centre Generation Feature Picture Seven Times Taken By In Filmdom Films In Youth Week tjRL ls a Ime I cl m Port of ^ THERE is no Seven Seas, spoken by Wallace form of entertain- re ment dearer to the hearts Sarding the effect of of childrenu?7' boys and girls than upon the lives of grown- motion pic- tures. Wisely, the Motion Pic- ture you They take everything Council of Brooklyn capi- from talized you—these little fellows » upon this fact, seizing To upon its eighth annual world-famous parents, as Boys' and lowly to Girls' Week as an ones, these little ones have occasion for a way cooperation with of being all-important. For National Mo- them tion Picture Week no sacrifice is too great- and for at- with tracting the merits charming unconcern thev of the more push outstanding films aside and relegate to second to public at- Place tention. those things once held their by Do Thorough-Going adoring parents to be Job prime of And a thorough-going importance. It is well- job it known in did. Letters were sent filmdom's capital that a to se- lected clergymen and to y party t0 which are in- heads of vitedI Huthe local schools. Guides very young members of and resu- the colony mes based upon films is likely to take prece- currently dence oyer showing m Brooklyn, all other social events. some 8,000 Here ot which are the famous and glamorous distributed each ones of month through the screen, who are also Parent-Teacher the William McKinley, associations and proud president . church mothers of gay, sturdy and Fmm, i u groups boys carried a special or winsome little daughters appeal to par- are to ents to guide children's be seen, happy to be just film taste aiong special background—to see that "Junior" lines. A special does members of children's program not eat too much ice W™ a Junior players was a feature cream M and directors, and cake, that n Picture Council figure in of the week and one of "Sister's" little tlL t° at- the discussion. Brook- Paper cap 3 f e film lyn s large department is perched becomingly times ° -°^ seve" The Junior stores and that if?/ls an Council also as- carried a motion the required tv,™ j mdication that sumes picture display amount of they find the responsibility its discipline something in it of plac- m window for the entire accompanies the festi- worth well ing book week vities. studying. That marks and exhibits Letters were sent is what Pictures of to all the happened in Toledo, taken from larger theatre Favorite Youth Pursuits Ohio, when books in circuits and to ' lib arieS and many ilIe S - circulating independent luca Lake The TI exhibitors ask- J' ust north hW*ibraries > neer w ?^ It is of the Hollywoodn° was playing. at present form" ing their cooperation in Hills, the swim- atl Jans present- ming Armed with the P for a radi0 ing the better films pool of the Richard special Stu- } "f Program. during this Arlens dents' Its officers are: week with is frequently the gathering Identification card which president, Wil particular emphasis place is issued ham McKinley of upon of some of this very by the Paramount Thea- De Vilibiss family films over the week- young set, as tre 1 S h first young and which allows the « , vice-president end. In one instance R,ckey Arlen, aged five 6 000 George The Ad- members of ' Cole of Scott ventures Plays host to the the Council to at High sec- of Tom Sawyer was young Bine tend any ond vice-president, pushed bys ary film presented there C l a y ton forward a week and in and twins* a 10c at 3ea f "PhifPhil andi Denny.n admission price, the Cen traI Cath°Hc another a circuit which has (The baby, of dents went stu- HShWigh, RecordingR.,° ,- c twenty ,S 3 back over and Secretary theatres in Brooklyn Httle younS to join again over Emma Jean ?Kf\the party as to absorb some new Mastin of Scott alone cancelled a film already yet.) Here, too, are of detail ttigh staging, , Program purchased, likely to be seen the dramatic structure Chairman but strictly adult in adorable costuming or George Webb of Libby its implications, 18 Sandra historical purport H?gh in order to pre- ' Jean Treasurer Ramsay sent fnTV^FHand Ronald meaSUre as Rollo of Vo- a film better adapted to fam- . Jon, with their ^ t£ rllXnt^resultant discussion cational High; ily tastes. Small adopted mother, Grade —for it is Membership exhibitors made Allen one of the ma be Rook even more more proud and serious principles of the

THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY May 15 , 1938 Call "Dead End" Get Credits LESSONS from the Problem One MOVIES For Film-Going r *h /° Committee on Social J Values i. U S bV H °Wa d M Le For - SourJ PhD- Community of n ; . Dean (Continued from BostonZl Un.vers.ty Craduate page 1 School, Chairman are not recommended for the es- say, novel or poetry courses, are COMMEMORATING 12 years given o± endeavor additional credits in the in building- an- C OR four years I have la been re- faith, courage, drama course. n b tter films in viewing motion patience and in- ?f° ? the pictures from spiration Oityntv of Wilmington,wM the can make all the Photoplays recommended are the City point of view of their social dif- Federation of ference between failure those which afford an opportu- Women's Clubs values. There has been a steady and suc- climaxed a long stream cess. Her understanding nity for discussion of character, series of bril- of photoplays that chal- can liant programs lenge keep his spirit up settings, action, historical back- at its annual the thought of people when he is luncheon as downhearted. She ground, social situations with a discussion of well as entertain them. Some can protect and some of him from the threats moral ideals, and of course very the problems of self- stir the noblest aspirations, to his own regulation some sense of sufficiency. frequently photoplays which of the industry The raise problems which seem are event was too It was so with excellent adaptations for attended by the Gov- complex for solution, some Ann. Thoue-h the ernor of pro- she went through screen of great novels the State, the mayor of duce wholesome agony during and great the irritations be- Jim's plays. city, theatre managers, cause they present test-flights, she neve? life in such sought to broadcasters, members superficial kill his spirit by insist- Onlv Way of Selling of the patterns and some ing Drama board of the present that he take work on Y.M.C.A. and a philosophy of life the In Topeka, where there are wholly ground. Death or perpetual ' representatives at variance tor- comparatively few u , of with its high- ture dramatic pro- church groups, and est meanings. were the only possibilities ductions, practically Life is portrayed tor her teachers are recogniz- the entire membership however, as long as he was testing ing of the realistically, and vivid- new the photoplay as the only federation, 63 ly, and planes She would bewail organizations those who have mental her medium through which their pu- strong. vitality fate to Gunner—"Haven't and physical zest will I pils will ever gain a fundamental The the right to live principal feature of hnd motion pictures not my life without knowledge of the the a retreat being tortured principles and program was an address Irom but a stimulus every second? technique of the bv for living Haven't I?" drama and hence Francis S. Harmon, The growing But the only life are fostering member of appreciation 'of she craved attendance at all the staff of the Motion the quality of was life with Jim and the more noteworthy Picture pictures and the she accepted films. Their Producers and increasing the misery that went efforts Distributors of interest in the possi- with along this line even pro- menc bilities that joy. nc -> on of using ceed as far i ?' "The Treat- pictures as a as cooperation with ment of J Life is like that in less Script for Use on the powerful, socially - constructive hazard- the theatre managers to have Screen." force pus occupations. A Mr. Harmon explained are a source of gratifica- woman who brought to Topeka, with assur- m minute tion is the true wife will see her detail the changes that to all those who have been task ance of mass attendance on the take not in making a secure place m scripts to make them working on the theory that mo- position part of students, certain pictures conform for herself but in in every detail to the tion pictures are a positive helping her which would otherwise not asset husband realize be regulations of the to the community. his noblest ambi- shown in local Production That there are tions. In theatres. Vic- Oode. Ensuing dangers through her participation in toria the discussion proved unwholesome those Great was a case in most illuminating. reactions purposes she will fulfill is recognized, but the her point. Special matinees have Another effort highest destiny. eminently successful of the industry to reduce been arranged for students for program the was that held at the occasions for these unwhole- THE ADVENTURES such photoplays as A Tale of New Century some OF Club under the di- reactions deserves praise ROBIN HOOD Two Cities, Romeo and Juliet, A rection of Mrs. If this column Midsummer Edmund M. Bar- this year has in- (Warner Night's Dream, Con- sham, duced Bros.) quest Chairman of Motion Pic- individuals and groups to and The Adventures of tures for think A sense of duty frequently the Delaware Federa- about and discuss the per- ex- Tom Sawyer. ' acts a high fee. Women s CIu sonal and social Robin Hood had n "^ °J , bs, when problems pre- a valuable To foster the intelligent ap- Dead End was sented on the estate and a coveted reviewed from the screen, it will have proach to, attendance at and angle of served social position which he an- its treatment of social its purpose. This deeper forfeited alysis of the film for in loyalty to his king which cred- problems. Whether appreciation of motion and in serv- its conditions pictures ice of an are given, stills, group dis- such as those depicted will in turn be oppressed people. Such j constituted an incentive to devotion play posters and bookmarks are a community producers to was contagious, as his responsibility or select those themes liberally used. In addition to should be which have followers and Lady giv- left to correctional high social value. Marian ing actual school credits, schools special for solution was the top- Prizes of photoplay The modern era editions of ic of a lively debate. Rev. is not differ- books, Ralph TEST PILOT ent from the or of theatre tickets, are U Minker, superintendent Middle Ages in its of the opportunities given for outstanding reports on Ferris Industrial (MGM) for service to per- School for secuted pictures. The Topeka experiment coys, presented A woman exercises people or for loyalty to a the viewpoint of . tremendous constitutes a pattern which has the correctional influence over school, while her husband. Her been tested for a sufficiently long club members (Continued on page 7) upheld the commu- period to prove its merit and one nity angle. At the conclusion it which would seem was applicable to agreed that fine as correc- the solution of similar problems tional schools usually are, the CRIST FOR THE in many other communities. community should have a part in the solution of such problems. LIBRARIAN'S MILL American Methods Parent-Teachers Back By RICHARD JAMES HURLEY. Reach So. Africa "Snow White" In Librarian, Kentucky Roslyn, N. Y., High Schoo RECENTLY the proverbial (Continued Louisville Parent - bei of movies from page 1) Teachers rainy day came along seen was eight and e t0 th e occasion and one-half -. when Snow we did one the plays read "Victoria the Great M/i , , of those things that three created a White and the Seven Dwarfs and one-half and demand for was has been on our mind for a the combination books dealing with shown in the lon°- one and the Kentucky city. time. We scored the one-half. The girls were life of the Queen and the An endorsement book-picture slightly of the film st of 1 3 unior ahead of the boys in Victorian era generally, and to - }' j s in the Roslyn J over the signature £ , r, scoring. of the presi- School and found cater to the demand for books dent of the f^gh that of local Parent-Teacher the 60 book-movies What this rainy about Zola the following books Association mentioned on day exercise went to every county the list have been made each junior had seen on demonstrated to me is that there available at the school superintendent and is Johannesburg to the the average 14 of them on the a tremendous field for our Public Lending Li- director of the Catholic sil- ac- brary, schools, ver screen. He had also ties and 1 am and can be reserved on btudy read !T , wondering if material tying up with the nine of the other school payment of 3d.: film books, so his combin- libraries find similar was sent to all English atl°n rating was six and conditions. In order to "A. Charpentier, teachers. Two announcements one- test the The Dreyfus of half. As we have on the reactions we shall be Case; A. him performances were shelves glad to Dreyfus, Five Years of made of our library all the books send enough copies of our daily over the radio. listed scoring- My Life; P. Dreyfus, Dreyfus, so that they are easily list to interested schools, As a result accessible, pro- His Life and Letters; L. Louisville may be we have concluded vided they will M. said to be that the po- let us know the Friedman, among the most thor- tential reading outcome. Zola and the Dreyfus oughly mark in this field Case; "Snow White" conscious is approximately B. Schwertfeger (ed.), The 40%—a real Elsewhere in The °1 the man in the challenge. Motion Pic- Truth about Dreyfus; St ji y Next we tried ture R. H. united States 28 and the Family is which deserve that freshmen on the men- Sharard, Emile Zola; classification. list of 20 play- W. Stein- book-movies. The average thal, Dreyfus; E. A. num- (Crmtinued on page Vizatelly, 6) With Zola in England."

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May 15, 1938 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY For Readers Brooklyn About Films THE ARTISTIC SIDE OF Gives MOTION Another Fine THE lowly PICTURES stand-in emerges in- Junior to — By ALICE AMES Program the spotlight in this month's WINTER quota of selected motion (Continued picture The second and final from page 1) reading. Dan Mainwaring, article in soul. in the eS ahn with Then you see him close up. April issue of fi lms as the Theatre. As at Good Housekeep- handmaidenha^ -f F Ihere is nothing else to a previous highly ng, has of art. This time the look at fuI a particularly author except his self children's matinee ing interest- concentrates on -revealing expres- in account ' "Picture Sf Wl of the Hollywood ca- I echmque. sion. Gossip spreads; you y 1Ch marked a Pioneer reers of see one effort rt,he l stand-ins, with especial face after another, house came close emphasis catch a few "£„Vstanding to upon Sally Sage, the Picture Technique words, get a passing room only." Again a stand-in for impression committee of Bette Davis. Grover of excitement, telephone mothers served as Jones, one of KA OTION and background mes- e SeS and the most authorita- be- sages. A character suddenly a*ain Boy and tive writers on long to motion pictures on re- r°?.f ! + Hollywood affairs wide a members a long-past event. Your th "^obtrusive also pays tribute scale, with constant Sder 13 f to these little- changes eyes travel with his the finest kind of known but such as can be used memory back disciplin^' highly necessary film by no other as you see that art They constitute event re-enacted m a" articIe calIed Star the first sub- m a flashback. c°*, j There is n jects that must be studied infinite Col ier 's of April in an variety m this characteristic 30thfnT°^V l attempted mastery film Other worth while reading of film tech- treatment. ot the nique. Hitherto the month includes: great and 5. Time Lapses. constantly changing The novelist canvas has tells you that years been confined to have gone , literature, to by, and what happened. Th Personalities words. Now it serves The the eye theater program a^SSgS, ^ormy l film iou may see the mountain announces that Christian Science pass there is an interval of Monitor, or the wide plain with so long Star April 25: Frank a slow between scenes 1 ;.^reatly entranced Daugherty's train of wagons and 2, and the youngvm,vS the story of how Luise moving across curtain rises on audience. Cartoons Rainer, Six it, or the storm a conversation shorts and Pictures Old, at sea, or the that explains m color rounded Wants to Play sliding of the interval. The out a Joan a canoe through rapids, picture much enjoyed program of Arc; Boys' Life, May: does it not in words, but wh Ver reat As at its first under Movies g movement "-.The . children's of the Month—an your„r authort andJ ™ apple blossoms mat- Interview director will turn M ion P> with Errol Plynn, buch to fruit; the fruit falls; the cture CoSSl who a picture as Dodsworth had' t^ ntl# is playing the virile is tree is bare. It is Uslastic cooperation hero of The like a vision winter instead of thetil t ? Adventures of beautiful cities. of spring. schools, to which of Robin Hood, by A recent Or the leaves drop tickets Irving critic said that the Bat- from were sold at ten cents Crump, managing tle a calendar. Or the clock each and edi- of New Orleans in The delivered without r; Llb rty Magazine, Buc- turns swiftly. A hundred charge Z- ^n ™ ^ April caneer was probably delicate vided the 30, May 7 and 14 better than devices that carry order was for a (last install- the real one. the idea of dred or hun-n ment to appear The whole of time have been more. May 21) : Chinese developed. Per- Joan character and life Crawford's Secrets, by flashes s monS the most striking Kather- ng realitv in J? A is - The me Albert—in which £n ,r°^ - Good 6. Montage, in which the star re- Earth. Fairies step both time We have veals a side of down moon- and action are noted that both her nature little combined in a novel the known "* Mldsu™™*r Night's S S and the film claim to the average movie fan D?ee£n of swiftly overlapping the right w ™ Gr in stage, shots er life May: Susie to a "T"— For example, a girl rise! of 3K Douglas 2. Naturalness. The rapidly actors,actor" differentdS: ? as Churchill's description stage ac- in her career and be- are their tor must train his methods of telling of how well fitted Marie voice to carry comes a great operatic star. the story The Wilson over distance Fall- writer does is to her part in Boy and he must ex- ing on top of each other it in words. In old Meets Girl. press emotion are the times the even more by his shots that show program dramatist used to bodily after it in an do \ movements, which can be program, trains, new "aside," should i™Vi seen from cities, ap- enough for * Ho* It's Done In Hollywood afar, than through plauding hands, the balcony to his glimpses of he hear W }Ch S n0t much beautifully costumed film> the flash back than' Q 5 J, more roles one show a may Parade (London), April: Send than a dim blur to after a memory or the balcony. the other, and behold, in connect * Me Fifty Blondes— The picture a present crisis Basler Nach- actor uses his few seconds, years have with a happening nchten describes natural passed the methods by voice (even to a whis- and our heroine has which a studio per), his travelled secures its extras- natural movement, from an attic to aS lnff throu his the Metropolitan actor's ^h th« me ls ue: Want t0 Be a natural expression. Opera nmilndnd? Jtf l^ , ^ Film He must House. Or a war ? ' may show the Tay avoid the is on. Sithing he Garnett lists eight "theatric". He We do not need to hopes will come to things must see it in detail, it pass to be avoided if you would give the sense of reality ihe overlapping may tie him to some make shots, incredi- fa?-d£- the grade; American Mag- he bly swift, it Ca™ra Angle is give us rolling cannon reveal his azine, May: one SS' i rg** f W Your Chance in the ofn/\Lthe most important, h men unique g ' smoke bombs Movies, by Jerome T ^ * ' Beatty—diffi- elements in the tools Sswift death. A of the film minute has piled culties encountered by it up R vthm extras; means that photography picture on picture. — vibration — is Ihe Country is not And we kindkinA ofh a Gentleman, raI but saw the battles, connecting link May ' that the camera saw their result. betwp^n They re Coming Through only^f sees n the material and the what its master photogra- w that time had Passed. the "mmateria? Floor by J. P. phers « cr the body and the McEvoy—still choose it to 7. Symbolism, the soul. iT i dwelling on how see. We eet presentation s cer hard it is to get away from the fixed of a physical fact or the 8 eat a job m Hollywood; point of object to ers^ofers ot °emo?-emotion J Cosmopoli- We 866 3 baIIet carry a spiritual or and so for tho tan, May: That's from ^e psychological How Movies tront,fW as any audience meaning, is used Wh0se Are Born— would. greatly in pic- grfp^L™^^grip the ^sireVto Clements Ripley dis- Next we are above, tures. You do not need emotion of his audience closes behind watching its to tell the it becomes the scenes secrets- dancers, who look story of a boy's a servant of Popular as thoulh a tramp from Lon- importance. 'Se Mechanics, June: The er Were Besides „t?^ Latest °PeninS and shut- of Movie Thrills—tellin^ SZting. M feet music the filSttudfe Now we come close to plodding through mud, rhfi how the studios evolve the see a f 10 some of most delicate shifts of milestone, the grasping haS yS their most facial hand of l o nid exciting effects; Popu- a pawnbroker taking to ^ma s!ir ^ lar Photography, a little coat was a May : He Makes off and that face 6 tale mastfrTf-it.'Slo^S becomes only is told Petais the Stars Shine— a ftSE?-? - and you Leonard Paige small, constituent element falling from a vase of must.swing back or interviews in a roses on will overstrain you Ray Jones, head of vast scene. a window sill; audience We fly along a coun- the cross in the tions ^VC Universalis still department, on try road with a background of and so destroy how horse or an auto a trial scene, each swinging values T& modern publicity pictures instead of watching tells a spiritual Pendulum of are it go by Ap- story. Closelv necessary. action is8 made. proach, allied Therere ;= „ withdrawal. Sometimes to this is the way many rhythm 1S amera angle has Pictures set the key /of light and shade St £ significant to a whole a terna the Having psychology, as when, an nin tlon of sound and A Scientific Slant in a mys- !M °P? S scene. When i u , sfl'encp tery the story, the curious divergence little dog in The Barretts Motion from normal Wimpole of short shots, motion Picture Daily, May 2: suggests something Street listens for a picture de Television sinister moment Veil Drawn—Gilbert or the blurring of an to Mr. Barrett's hypo- seldes describes image does something tlca1 c uei voice, television's pres- to our own ', r tucks his lit- ent and outlines mental image. tlefS tailt 1 between its future; Pop- his legs and scut- motion alar Mechanics, tles upstairs the pictures with May: Latest 4. Methods of Concentrating whole plot is other arts Incks of the Attention. Animated Film Closely allied ThB countryside of Makers, to the the , by William E. Garity— above is the way 18tb Century in Berkeley a the picture! Square,«SL description of how the Walt the dancing in the Place Bastille what he chooses. m Tovarich give a (Continued on page 6) There is a to keyV crisis going the drama that is on in the actor's to come. 8. txcturizmg the Inner Life )

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WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT IT? Crist From The» Popular though they know SNAPSHOTS OF :n motion pictures are, the or- Library Mill dinary run of citizens have FILM PERSONALITIES little idea how much time is actually consumed in Amer- (Continued from page U) ican motion picture theatres. tioned a group of books that go film-goer would say. And Basing his calculations upon THESE are the days when the age well with Test Pilot—bound to be this attention to de- the fact that more than 80,- once lowly short is assuming a yet, it is just a "best" with boys. We would tail which Pete Smith a 000,000 people attend the film place of paramount importance makes like to slip in a few other ideas king in the short subject world. theatres in the United States on motion picture programs. And here. By all means turn over to every week, Professor Arthur no man has done more to give it Nor is his fame based solely your airplane club the promotion upon Romance of Radium. Re- J. Todd of Northwestern Uni- this new dignity than Pete of this film. They may choose an cent months have brought many versity has arrived at the con- Smith, the "voice behind", the exhibit of model airplanes, or an and fascinating Pete Smith clusion that Americans spend MGM shorts. Although almost new assembly program dramatizing specialties to the screen. In 2,300 years in the picture no one in the average motion aviation, or a field meet on the picture audience knows what February came Friend Indeed, houses of the country every _ school grounds, or a set of post- which immortalized in celluloid twenty-four hours. Pete Smith looks like, he is eas- ers depicting the development of the Seeing Eye dogs. March ily one of the leading personali- aviation. If you have no club, chalked up another triumph, with ties of the screen and nothing this activity may be the "take- Jungle Juveniles No. an in- 2, off" for the formation of one. spired study of a small boy, two Readers Knights of the Round Table, a chimpanzees an elephant in and coming Paramount production, a series of jungle experiences. looks like a good bet to us. With About Films Last year Pete Smith tackled the The Prince and the Pauper still problem of making cooking inter- fresh in mind and Robin Hood esting on the screen and won a (Continued from page 5) coming up, the story of beloved prize for his fascinating short King Arthur and his knights entitled Penny Wisdom, featur- Disney Studios operate. should rate as "tops." This will ing the New York Journal- appeal more to the elementary American's home economics ex- Miscellaneous and junior high than to senior pert. This year in April came high, but Snow White has dem- Wall Street Magazine, April Penny's Party, another culinary onstrated decisively that we don't 23 : Hollywood Watches the Dol- specialty in Technicolor, which outgrow our love of the fanciful lars— C. F. Morgan describes has brought the popularity of and legendary. Moreover there economy production measures cooking to a new high. is a great thrill in any film or adopted by the leading producers. MGM's interesting expert on book about those brave old days. short subjects is a typical Man- Howard Pyle's four-volume edi- A New Reviewing Service hattan product. He was brought tion (the Brandywine) is the up in the center of the big city, Farm Journal, May: May- most complete, but there are nu- with the railway yards as his time Talkies, by Charles F. merous one-volume editions, such has done more to establish this playground and the Hudson Stevens—an interesting review- as Malory's "Book of King Ar- reputation for him than the film- River as his swimming pool. Ed- ing service in which pictures are thur," the "Boys' King Arthur" ing of the Romance of Radium. ucated in the public appropriately classified as schools, he edited by Sidney Lanier with "Cream," More adventure, hazard and graduated from business college "Grade A," "Grade Wyeth illustrations, Allen's edi- drama than accompany the mak- in the midst of the panic of 1907. B" and "Skim." tion in the Windermere series ing of most feature films played After this disastrous start his and that by Frith, illustrated by a part in the filming of this two- varied business experiences Music in the Films in- Frank E. Schoonover. We should reel short which was the first pic- cluded a brief period as a short- include Tennyson's "Idylls of the Pacific Coast Musician, April ture ever made of the most dan- hand expert, 24 hours as adver- King" and Malory's "Morte 16 : Picture Music of Tomorrow gerous substance known to man. tising solicitor and review writer interview d'Arthur. —an with Alfred Sen- Romance of Radium takes ten for the weekly publication of the drey, by R. Steele, Then there are the innumer- Vernon in minutes to run, but it took ten White Rats Union of Vaudeville which able books of English history, the interviewee visualizes months in the making, besides a Actors, which promptly folded music as becoming something stories of kings and knighthood, far long period of preliminary re- up, an interlude as motion pic- greater and volumes of legends of the than a background, a search. Before a camera had ture critic for "The Billboard" very Middle Ages. The Abbey pic- vital and important part of even clicked Pete Smith and his and then a thorough grooming tures the film itself; Christian Science for of the Grail and Passing of aides had wrestled with many spectacular exploits in the Arthur Monitor, April 27 : Music the can be bought in many for complicated problems of pro- publicity field as assistant to the Millions, by Frank Daugherty, sizes from any good art supply- duction, not the least of which dean of press agents, the late who tells house. The possibilities for dra- how some of the fore- was how to devise adequate Harry Reichenbach. most matization, art work, creative contemporary composers protection to safeguard the Ingenuity Marks His Career writing and individual help make motion picture back- workers from the deadly radium projects grounds are only limited by our of sound to accentu- rays. Eventually they evolved a Ingenuity marked Pete Smith's imagina- ate the tion. emotional values of weird costume fabricated of lead career long before he became the the photoplay; Modern Music, and wool which was worn by all voice behind MGM shorts. One March-April: the On Hollywood workers on the set. A feature of of the best stories told about him Riverside Front, Council by George Antheil—which this costume was a hood of simi- is a scheme he invented to ex- is just what its title implies, a lar material, lined with pure ploit Douglas Fairbanks's Robin Overcomes Obstacles story of new developments in film lead, and with specially prepared Hood. He conceived the idea that music. it would be glass i eyes which enabled the good advertising if ( Continued from page 1 wearer to look at radium without Mr. Fairbanks shot arrows from ally won over, the superintendent Of Especial Interest to Educators the roof of danger. his hotel and the coop- of instruction, who had all along erative star Educational Screen, April: E. When the filming of radium complied. Unfortu- been much interested in films, be- nately a particularly Winifred Crawford gives an in- was first contemplated Mr. well aimed came a member of the Council. shot teresting evaluation of Amateur Smith thought of operating the punctured the anatomy of a A few of many worthwhile fea- furrier Motion. Pictures in the Schools; camera by remote control but working in a nearby tures of the Council's present building. It Charles F. Hoban, Jr., discusses this did not prove practical and brought discomfort program include weekly publica- to the furrier, whether there is anything wrong so a special apparatus had to be but Pete Smith got tion of the Council's reviews and his headlines with films in general education. made for the cameraman and for Douglas Fair- audience ratings in local news- banks just the camera which consisted of a same. papers; presentation of film re- Pete New Books on Films shield of lead with a glass panel. Smith stepped into his ports in a monthly bulletin and present position as the unseen at regular meetings of the Coun- The History of Motion Pic- Then came another problem. voice of the films following the cil, and as an information serv- tures, by Maurice Bardeche and Ordinary film was not adequate death of a friend, Joe Farnham, ice at the Riverside Library. The Robert Brasillach. Translated to take pictures of radium. Sub- who had been selected to write a Council cooperates with a local and edited by Iris Barry. (An jected to the emanations from series of short features. His fol- theatre by furnishing hostesses international survey with many the mineral it became cloudy. So lowers say he grows better and each Saturday afternoon for a photographs). Published by Nor- a special film had to be perfected better on the job. Smith is five Junior Matinee. ton. which would withstand the rays A circulating li- feet, nine inches tall and long enough to get a clear pic- rather brary is maintained of books, We Make the Movies, by nondescript in coloring, and looks booklets and files of special Nancy Naumburg an exposi- ture. a good deal — more like a college papers dealing with the cinema tion of how films are made, also "All this trouble to make a professor than his hidden screen and the contents are in published by Norton. single short subject!" the great de- aver- personality would indicate. mand. )

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Lessons From STTLLS NOW AVAILABLE FILMS FOR THE ON THESE PICTURES The Movies Adventure* of Robin Hood Adventures of Tom Sawyer PUPIL AND TEACHER Adventure* (Continued from page U) of Marco Polo Alice Adams By HAROLD TURNEY cause tnat is at least temporarily Anthony Adverse Chairman of the unpopular. There seems to be Department of Drama, Los Angeles Junior College As You Like It abroad in the world a general Bad Man of Brimstone ITH delightful policy of submission to leadership \Kf spring days tral theme of social oppression is Buccaneer that carries a big stick. Immedi- lengthening into anticipated interwoven visually and audibly Captain Blood ate security lies in summer vacation joys for pupil a quick "Yes," with an entertaining story and Come and Get It even though ultimate welfare and teacher alike, there remains never becomes obtrusive or subse- Conquest might require but a brief time for the directed an obstinate "No." quently distracting to a complete David Copperfield Modern Robin Hoods, different consideration of motion pictures. enjoyment. The many historic Dead End in dress, defense and attack, but As we teachers approach these characters and events, the Eng- Ebb Tide having spirit closing periods, twr o the that dares to questions lish scenes of renown and the Girl of the Golden West promote a world in which people seem to cry for adequate an- presented cross-section of Eng- Gold Is Where You Find It may live happily and peaceably swers: What film is completely lish life of 750 years ago also Good Earth together worthy of use are needed in the world as a general re- form topics of interest. Great Garrick today. Oppression must give way view, as a check-up on the school Heidi For Motion to tolerance! Persecution must year's activities? What films may Picture Appreciation High, Wide and Handsome be replaced with cooperation. we recommend as summer fare Groups Hurricane for our pupils? Motion FOUR MEN AND A PRAYER picture appreciation In Old Chicago The first question has been an- groups will find that the film of- Kidnapped (20th Century-Fox) swered by Warner Brothers in fers brilliant examples for a Last Days of Pompeii their noteworthy presentation of check-up "A good name," said a wise in screen-play construc- Life of Emile Zola Robin Hood, and the second in tion; man of old, "is more to be desired photography and lighting, Little Minister the array of significant stories which than great riches." The four are particularly command- Little Women now in Hollywood production, ing; sons of a Colonel, dishonorably scene, costume and action Lloyds of London aimed towards release during the discharged from the English design; casting and acting; di- Lost Horizon next three months. rection and editing. service, felt it to be their highest Maid of Salem duty to prove their Midsummer father inno- THE ADVENTURES For Physical Education Classes Night's Dream cent of false charges and clear Mutiny on the Bounty OF ROBIN HOOD Quite unusual, too, are the pre- the family name. Pride in a fam- Of Human Hearts sented opportunities for physical ily name, the desire to keep it un- (Warner Brothers) Parnell education classes, in that the tarnished, the ambition to make film, Plainsman Whatever cinematic phase has primarily an action one, presents it stand for honor and distin- been the Prince and the Pauper aim of various units, exceedingly fine displays of guished service should be the con- Robin Ramona Hood offers an outstanding sword play, archery, ancient stant concern of self-respecting Rebecca of Sunnybrook basis for a summary of ideas quarter-staff fighting, gymnas- Farm men and women. If families can Romeo and Juliet correlated with a visual illustra- tics and horseback riding. build ideals around this common Rosalie tion. Certainly Robin Hood includes interest, they will discover an ef- Scarlet Pimpernel For Art Classes every element an instructor fective source of strength, deter- Snow White and the If the emphasis has been wishes to utilize as a review mination, and inspiration. of Seven Dwarfs placed upon art and its apprecia- topics analyzed during the school As the picture proceeds one Story Louis Pasteur tion, the color in each of the in- year. of wonders how some men, like Submarine dividual frames, as photographed D-l Lynn's father, can justify parti- Future Summer Films Tale by the Technicolor process, pro- of Two Cities cipation in a business that is Test Pilot vides almost endless subjects. The coming months, rich with anti-social on the basis that if Treasure Island Paramount of these are color se- treasures of motion picture en- they did not profit by catering to Victoria lections; the use of closely re- tertainment, will be high-lighted the Great the evil practices of others, some- Wells lated colors and contrasting by MGM's presentation of Marie Fargo body else would. Does one who col- White ors, their assistance to an artistic Antoinette, based upon the ro- Banners cooperates in the furtherance of composition, and their contribu- mantic biography by Stefan Price $1.00 wrong in any way, become guilty — per set. tion to dramatic values. Worthy Zweig, and the Twentieth Cen- of all its horrors? Principles of Order through Motion Picture of discussion are the selected tury-Fox feature, Kidnapped, as law make guilt rest upon any ex- Producers and Distributors of terior backgrounds, designed and adapted to the screen from the who is an accessory even in a America, Inc., 28 West 44tli executed interior Robert Louis Stevenson adven- small way. Thus do the "mer- settings, the Street, New York, N. Y., but castle furnishings ture novel of the same chants of death" become murder- and particu- name. please do not send stamps. larly the costumes of the Members of history and art ers and the electors of unscrupu- court attaches. groups especially will be lous politicians become grafters Remarkable in flat inter- ested in these films Practical Pointers and thieves. photography is an approxima- and apprecia- tion of third dimension, achieved tion students may be urged to CONDEMNED WOMEN in many of the spacious castle contrast the novel and cinematic (Continued from page 1 (RKO Radio) scenes. versions. teachers, members of the staff For Music Classes Production of two forthcoming of social welfare agencies and The very title of this picture films as translated from dramas others interested in film study. tells the fate of those women For music classes an original, of different types will allow a The newest activity of the who through one cause or an- orchestral-choral score of excep- comparison between forms of Council is to sponsor, in coopera- other have been convicted under tional dramatic style has been stage and screen requirements: tion with Manager Clement the law. The hopelessness of res- recorded. It is written under and Sidney Howard's play, Yellow Murphy of the Ritz Theatre, a toration is the awful over the dialogue, accompanying, tragedy. Jack, and the George Kaufman series of special showings Punishment by imprisonment projecting and often strengthen- de- is and Moss Hart comedy, You signed for pupils and teachers. enough, but living perpetually ing the action, assisting the Can't Take It with You. Yellow The first, As You Like It with under condemnation is too much. quieter moments and building the Jack is to be made by MGM and Elizabeth Bergner, followed a Society has not learned to think response up to or subsiding away You Can't Take It with You by three weeks' intensive period of of its laws and prisons from the higher emotional cli- as re- Columbia. Copies of these books study in English departments. demptive. Usually they are maxes. Simultaneously the music not, are available in many libraries. The second will be Victoria but a more understanding com- forwards the theme and assists Paramount Pictures plan to re- the Great and it is hoped later munity could reclaim in creating the proper mood and to to social lease three important films from secure some foreign language usefulness many of those who atmosphere in relation to the va- original screen material: Profes- films. Admission for these per- are not anti-social at heart. ried situations. The woodsy mu- sor Beware, which might be as- formances, which open at 9.30 Should the young, sic, the pompous processional ambitious signed as a study of comedy; a.m., is 10 cents. doctor marry marches and the rough warfare an ex-convict? Spawn of the North, an exposi- Would it have ruined his career, passages are all singable melo- tion of the Alaskan salmon fish- sic students regardless of the character and dies patterned after the style of could be directed to- ing industry, as a consideration wards Alexander's personality of the girl herself? "The Beggar's Opera." Ragtime of factual data united with en- Band, now in Was the girl justified in prefer- production at 20th tertainment values; and The Century-Fox, ring prison to freedom in For Social Problems and History which will trace an un- Texans, a story of the establish- friendly the history of popular music world? To what extent Study Groups ment of the famous Chisholm from ragtime to modern swing-. is society to blame for its crimi- Social problems and history cattle trail, as a class report on Reading reference might include nals and what is its obligation to study groups will find Robin dramatic them? conflict. Tin Pan Alley by Isaac Gold- Hood a vital subject. The cen- If the teacher so desires, mu- May 15, 1938 8 THE MOTION PICTURE AND THE FAMILY

Elmira Stages Crown-Ups and Youngsters Atlanta Sets A Successful Thrill Alike To Air Film Speed Record Movie Week In Reviewing

and school coopera- any resident of Elmira, New LIBRARY IF with films have been York, had the slightest doubt tion brought to an unusual degree of as to how much Hollywood fash- efficiency in Atlanta this past ions influence America, his the intensive co- doubts would have been set at winter through Bell of during the recent local ob- operation of Mr. W. S. rest Education Depart- servance of Motion Picture Week. the Visual City Schools with Practically every merchant in ment of the Better Films Committee, Elmira yielded to the persuasions the T. Clifton Perkins, presi- of the Elmira Better Films Coun- Mrs. dent. cil and arranged special display hours after any new pic- windows in which the Hollywood Three motivation of present-day styles ture is shown in Atlanta infor- was emphasized. Department mation concerning it, together audience suitability rat- stores and men's clothing stores with its Better were among the leaders. Music ing as determined by the is available by stores featured musical hits from Films Committee, the public li- the films. Camera stores dis- telephone from played projectors, film and mo- brary. This is believed to set a record. The library tion picture equipment. All the new speed extensive film libraries exhibited film posters also cooperates by and one of them presented an displays. Junior elaborate exhibit of In Old Chi- Many of the Senior and motion cago, which was currently play- high schools have formed appreciation clubs which ing. Books which had been made picture discuss current into films and reference books meet regularly to outside speak- about the industry were liberally Clark Gable instructs the "rookies" in M-C-M's aviation epic, "Test Pilot" films. Frequently Discus- displayed. Cooperating with the ers address the group. merchants and the Council, the sion in one of these clubs proved Association of Commerce pre- so stimulating that it enabled CEW are the pictures that have tive instrument so that his words sented a half page article in its Miss Louise McCauley to win the 'as great a pull for both adult might be audible above the hum magazine dealing with National Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer monthly and youthful audiences as Metro- of the motors. Motion Picture Week ob- Romeo and Juliet prize which en- local Goldwyn-Mayer's Test Pilot. Few films lend themselves to servance. titled her to a trip to Europe. Rated "Best of the Month" by library and school cooperation Announcement of Motion Pic- On May 9 the Council inaugu- both East and West Coast Pre- better than Test Pilot, for as ture Week was made in all rated a new enterprise, a radio view Committees, called by one soon as he has seen the film the schools the week previously and program which will bring to At- "brilliant entertainment crack- average American boy is sure to of the theatres used trailers lantans every week up-to-date- some ling with suspense" and com- demand books on aviation. on the screen and announcements information on films. mended by the other for its "dis- their advertisements. Inter- in tinguished acting, vital human Air-Minded Boys Want pastors also helped by re- Film Study Given Extra ested appeal and amazing photog- Information ferring to the observance from Council raphy" the film, starring Clark Sugar Coating By their pulpits. If he is genuinely air-minded Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer he will want detailed information For those who like to take Tracy, emerges definitely into the on test piloting, commercial and Film Study Guides Now even such fascinating topics as ranks of great pictures. It will military aviation, air-racing, In Printed Form motion pictm-e study with an ad- Appear appeal to adult audiences for its stunt flying, parachute jumping to youthful au- ditional chocolate coating, a plan sheer drama, and and other careers in the field. recently put into operation by Already so successful are the diences, particularly boys, for Our Library correspondent, Mr. the South Buffalo Film Council study guides issued by the Pub- the sidelights it gives on the sci- Richard James Hurley, suggests of Fox- is cordially recommended. Among lic Relations Department ence of aviation. that he will find very satisfactory that the most popular of recent social West Coast Theatres, Inc., for this purpose Test Pilot the form has Exciting Stories Are — events have been "dessert lunch- the mimeographed life of Jimmie Collins who died elaborate printed Told of Making eons" under Council auspices given way to an pursuing this hazardous profes- of the new type with a motion picture preview as pamphlet. First All sorts of exciting stories are sion. He also recommends Fly- The Adventures the noontime entertainment fea- is the guide on told about its making, not the ing for 1937 published by the Hood. Harold E. Tur- ture and cards following in the of Robin least of them the tale of how Aeronautical Chamber of Com- Depart- These previews have ney, Chairman of the Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, merce and Arnold's This Flying afternoon. of of Los Angeles served greatly to augment at- ment Drama who is his running mate in the Game. He recommends Chat- College, who wrote the tendance at the films. In Old Junior film, raced with each other to field's Airplane and Its Engine In Old Chicago, is again Chicago, which was initiated in guide on obtain the pilot's license which or Page's Aviation Engine Ex- of these shown for the the author. Samples was imperative before they could aminer; Murphy's Parachute; that way, being be obtained by those succeeding weeks to capac- guides may become chief actors in its avia- Allen's Wonder Book the Air three addressing Harold of interested by tion scenes. and Hodgins and Magoun's Sky ity houses. Editor, Film Study the immediate fu- E. Turney, No aviation film has ever con- High. White's Gliding and Soar- Planned for Guides, 1116 South Hope Street. ture is a special get-together veyed more truly the atmosphere ing is commended as a recent Los Angeles, California. luncheon followed by a preview of airports, for all the flying treatment of motorless flying. of Of Human Hearts. President? scenes were made at the great Harney's Skycraft Book is a con- Manager of local women's clubs and pas- A Generous flying bases. Among the most ex- cise handbook on the junior level. tors of local churches will occupy Aids Poor and Shut- Ins. citing are authentic scenes of Collins' Boys' Book of Model table. the Cleveland air races, which Aeroplanes and Hamilton's Com- seats at the speakers' Hats off to Manager Goring of Gable, in his role of "test pilot," plete Model Aircraft Manual the Fulton Theatre in Pitts- is supposed to win for his em- cover the hobby angle. Attracts Overflow House burgh. He advertised that those ployer. Eighteen cameras and a The romance of aviation, good The 13th Anniversary of its who could not pay to see Deanna total of 50 planes were employed reading for both youth and Mother's Day Matinee, a typical Durbin in Mad About Music in aviation scenes made at March s:rown-up, lies in such books as Macon institution, was observed would be admitted free. He also Field in California. Thomas's Red Knight of Ger- this year in Macon, Georgia. Co- offered to convey shut-ins free of Test Pilot marked the inven- many, the inspiring life of Baron operation between the Better charge to the theatre and return tion of a new device which for Von Richtofen. World War Ace. Films Committee and local thea- them to their homes. Interest- the first time makes it possible to Lindbergh's We is, of course, tre managers put it effectively ing was the fact that al- record flying sounds and the part of our American heritage "over the top". Baskets of flow- though a number of people did sound of the human voice simul- and his wife's North to the Ori- ers were presented to the young- apply to see the film free of taneously. This is a lapel micro- ent can well be included here. est and oldest mother present and charge each was a person of un- phone which was buried in Mr. The late Amelia Earhart has to the mother of the largest questioned integrity who could Gable's sheepskin coat. This en- written two fine books for us. family. The matinee attracted an demonstrate beyond doubt his in- abled him, by dropping his head Books on aviation are legion and overflow house to one of the ability to meet the expense. slightly, to speak into the sensi- only a few are suggested here. largest theatres.