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Inside Facts of Stage and Screen (June 21, 1930) C f. L '<5 {. % STAGE PRICE RADIO SCREEN 10 CENTS MUSIC Only Theatrical Newspaper on the Pacific Coast ESTABLISHED 1924 EDITED BY JACK JOSEPHS Entered as Second Class Matter, April Vol. XI 29, 1927, at Post- Saturday, June 1930 Published Every Saturday at 800-801 Warner Bros. Down- office, Los Angeles, Calif., under Act of March 3, 1879. 21, town Building, 401 West Seventh St., Los Angeles, Calif. No. 25 HOLLYWOOD COMEBACK FAILING TO FOR COAST RENEW ON IN AUGUST CONTRACTS ANNOUNCED With song- and prance SAN films flopping, talkified FRANCISCO, June 19. Burlesque, musical shows and operet- — long neglected as tas proving a box-office western en- tertainment, disappointment and many is reported set for a smash of the run of revamped return on August 1 when Irons stage plays failing to hit and Clammage open the the ticket choppers for ex- first of pected returns, a general -shakeup a chain of coast com- panies at in Hollywood studios is under the Capitol here. way. While complete plans are held in abeyance Scores pf actors, writers, dia- pending the arrival of Warren B. Irons from Chicago logues, playwrights, songsmiths, . this week, it is known that the singers and dancers, under con- burlesque firm has leased the Cap- tract arrangements of itor six months, from Abe Ruef and is as- sembling one year, and holding one and two a large cast of principals and girls. pictures agreements, are being let Harry Cooper is alrealy here, out as their contracts expire. from the East to take the comic With the huge profits and divi- s role and Ruby Lang will get the dends of the past few years slow- prima donna part. It is ing up considerably and the next reported that Don Sniith may get dividend period expected to mark the lead. Smith, a big fav here the lowest returns to investors when he was with Ackerman and Harris for since the inception of talkers, all long runs at their El Capitan the studios are adopting a stop- and the downtown Casino, look-and-listen policy before rush- is now. in Portland doing radio ing into contractual obligations work, it is understood. A large lineup with big names, whose pulling of girls will be used. power is admitted on the stage, Irons and Clammage are bor- but whose draw for film patrons rowing Fred Clark from the Mu- tual is far from established. Wheel, to produce the opening Many of the contracts now held shows, which will be a musical will not be renewed when they type of presentation, probably with expire during the next few months. a stage band and several acts of Story trends and audience de- vaudeville. Plans mands are proving extremely un- for other coast cities still are certain at the present. Exhibitors on the fire but it is under- stood are demanding more human in- that Portland, Seattle, Ta- coma, terest and better stories and char- Spokane, Oakland and pos- sibly Los Angeles acterizations. There is an increas- FRED LIGHTNER or Hollywood, ingly-felt demand for the glamour Sacramento and San Diego will be included of the “film star personality,” a APPEARING AT R-K-0 THEATRE, LOS in the chain. matter which many of the stage ANGELES About the only burlesque com- petition folk feel too dignified to bother WEEK OF JUNE 26 IN A COMEDY OFFERING ENTITLED on the coast is in Los about. “HOW AM I DOING?” Angeles where the Daltons have Hence, studio executives are tak- headed the field for a number of ing things easy and years. Seattle has the A1 Franks swinging over SACKETT AT UPTOWN Conchita Montenegro, Spanish to a policy of retrenchment SHERIFFS SEE VAUDE company, San Diego has the Lib- in an stage star, dancer and model, has attempt to develop more strongly George erty Theatre, and there are one Sackett has been made arrived at the Metro - Goldwyn- Twenty acts of vaudeville the motion picture features and are or two others spotted about the manager of the Uptown Theatre. Mayer studios to make a talkie booked for angles the big convention of coast. It is considered possible which can be calculated to He was formerly manager of the debut. Her appearance in a Span- sheriffs to be staged at Luna Park, that, should appeal to the great percentage of Lyons and Irons and Clammage Lyons office in Holly- ish silent picture won her present Sunday, June 22. filmgoers. Noodles Fagan enter Southern California at all, wood. Metro- Gold wyn-Mayer contract. will act as master of ceremonies. (Continued on Page 5) A FACE TWO INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1930 n Rip-roaring Tale WARNERS STAGE g E E as POLICY RETURN § Of Films Is Told Wg g a E 1 as g E a * 1 1 ¥ In “Queer People STARTING SOON E g g § § E I I By ED GIBBONS Following on the heels of E w1 I exclusive predictions by Inside -V. I No more will Carroll and Garrett Graham dally in the pub- E £ 1 Facts and despite denials in I licity offices of Hollywood studios. No more will they, it 1 I other publications, War- M.E may be gathered, frequent the haunts of the “boulevardiers.” Jack 1 E E ner this week definitely an- E E They have written a book instead. It’s going to be one of # E a nounced plans for the return $ E the most cussed and discussed volumes yet written about a Hollywood. of stage presentations in War- I ner Brothers’ de luxe houses Its title is “Queer People.” Its thinly disguised characters g here, joining with other circuits in are as familiar as Henry’s, the wail of the police sirens, Sid the return to the “in-the-flesh” Grauman and Peter the Hermit. 4- policy. The Graham brothers have dug Larry Ceballos established his Broth- deeply into the little village that headquarters at the Warner Mary Francis Taylor HOLLYWOOD TO ers Hollywood Theatre building clusters round the triangle of Hol- this week to commence casting for premiere danseuse with “Student Prince,” “Oh, Susanna,” lywood, Wilcox and Cahuenga forthcoming productions, which Hollywood” and “Broadway Melody,” who is now boulevards. For those, who know lead off at the Hollywood house “Gone SET STYLES IN teaching (Belcher Method) modernized bal- the Hollywood of which they on July 4th. He will handle the Ballet Directress, presentations under the general di- let dancing at the Bud Murray School for Stage and Screen. write, it will bring a laugh to a rection of M. A. Silver, coast the- page, and here and there, perhaps, NEW F-M TIEUP atre operating head. a furtive tear. Leo Forbstein, who conducted in Hollywood’s sole entity, when major picture houses here for Hollywood will be more definite- ANG&S TAKE WING SO LEGIT you come to look into it, is that of years, and more recently has been ly set as the world style creator associated with Warner Brothers a police division in the great mod- through and First National Studios, will be ern metropolis Angeles. a new national tieup with of Los musical director for the new 366 stores, announced this week PRODUCTION PUNS ARE FEW Actually it is a suburban town, policy. by Fanchon and Marco, with its country newspapers, its Although Nineteen - piece orchestras are tie-ups with merchandisers and slated to go into both houses, with chamber of commerce, its church This is one of the quietest weeks in many moons in the manufacturers for exploitation the orchestra pit of the Warners’ and activities, pur- realm of contemplated legitimate production. The angels social its Rotary, Downtown (formerly the Pan- Optimist and other clubs. poses have been frequent, in fact wing. tages) now being remodeled for seem to have taken Superimposed upon this beauti- an established custom, the new the larger orchestra. From all available information, the Ferris Hartman project ful, almost quaint suburban Utopia, idea, climaxing eight months of Details of the booking arrange- for a summer season of light opera has been dissipated. Orig- exactly in the same fashion that planning and developing, presents ments for the Warner produc- Shrine Auditorium, and adver- the picture of one happening is inally planned for the widely tions, which are to be produced superimposed upon another in a some new and distinct angles. to the evening of opening date, inquiry as to why with all the resources of the War- tised up movie lap-dissolve, is another Hol- In co-operation with .several dress opening was met with the story that demands ( Continued on Page 5) there was no lywood. The two never meet, ex- manufacturers, frnm the auditorium people for a and with Fanchon = I cept occasionally in the police sta- personally designing the gowns, tion and on the pages of news- papers. there will be placed each week make a deal with the Philharmonic For this other Hollywood is. a ifour new styles of frocks, dresses NEW COLUMBIA PROCRAM IS Auditorium, but without success. mad Rabelaisan nightmare, a mix- or gowns in 417 speciality shops The report now is that Earl Askam, ture of reincarnated Francois Vil- bearing the F. & M. brand name. one of the singing principals, is lons, Will Shakespeares and tongue- The slogan will be “Fanchon De- MEET; SILENTS OUT trying to stir up some financial tied Caesars. Here consort maids crees the Fashion.” SET AT backing for the venture under his as merry as any ever found in Each new mode will have a own aegis. Fircone Tavern (if there was such definite release date over the en- Columbia will spend over $10,000,000 on twenty special “Hi There,” the musical show a place) and haughty maids mag- tire country, so that the frock on their next season program, in recently premiered in San Francis- ically transplanted from the Ver- presented for the approval of Hol- type feature productions co, and projected for a showing at sailles of Louis XIV.
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