STAGE PRICE lO CENTS RADIO SCREEN MUSIC Only Theatrical Newspaper on the Pacific Coast ftS.'.-SeGond. -Glass M®tt©r, Ajpril 29 1927 vat Post- X TJ , , 17 P* a1m*11 SI 1*17 t A 1 QQT Published Every Saturday at 6253 Hollywood Boulevard, YUI. S^LLX office,. Eo* Angles, Calif., under Act of March 3 OaXUrCiay, T eDTUary I<§, 6 , 1879 Hollywood, Calif. No, PARENT-TEACHERS PLAN DRIVE ON SEX PICTURES f. Musicians Appeal To Are Doing Hoover Is Comeback inProspect The situation for musicians in The Parent-Teachers Association Los Angeles and other -coast cities is planning a vigorous drive on the is currently the best it has been present type of talking pictures, ac- since the talking -pictures threw a cording to undercover, but authentic crimp into the whole musical field, information reaching Inside Facts. a survey this week showed. ‘With stage shows and bands go- The advices stated that the organ- ing back into practically all of the ization plans, other moves failing, an appeal directly major houses* a drive is now on foot to President Hoover, asking his intervention in to. restore flesh-and-blood music to a situation outlying theatres. And initial movers which they claim is working great in this direction have met with great detriment to the younger genera- success. tion. The Los Angeles- and San Fran- Louis B. Mayer is understood to cisco situations are particularly grat- be back in the East with one. pur- ifying. Locally more houses are us- pose ,of his trip being a call for ing musicians than is the case in dinner and an overnight stay at the New York and Chicago put to- White House, but whether this had gether. Sixty men have been placed anything to do with the threatened in the last two weeks, and this ratio drive by the P-T-A could not be . of placements is rapidly restoring learned from Hollywood sources. the music profession to its pre- Used To Cater talkie status. The ire the P-T-A is said to Equally Optimistic of have been aroused particularly by In San Francisco the situation is the increasing sexiness in the talk- equally musicians optimistic. The . ies, though a collateral indignation there negotiated an agreement with has been aroused ,iby the fact that picture house operators placing a even where sexiness is missing, quota of 133 to be placed in vaude there is little in the current crop of and presentation places. But the films for children. quota has already- ibeeh exceeded, 160 being now so employed. Their arguments advance along The drive for flesh-andsblood mu- the lines that pictures in their early sic in outlying theatres around L. A. stage, when they needed a helping hand, catered to children in a large , resulted in the first negotiation in placing of three bauds in such measure. They -point to the old houses. While this is no great num- Tom Mix films, the custard-pie ber, it indicates the trend back to throwers on the Mack Sennett lot, real music in such spots, union offi- the Bill Hart crop, etc., as indica- cials believe,. and they expect a big tions of the extent to which the response to this drive they are pictures went in for currying favor launching. with youngsters. The electric transcription field has Slighted Kiddies also proved a profitable one from But then, the argument continues, the musicians standpoint. A big when the films reached the stage . slice of unemployment has been where they were building million taken care of by it. dollar palaces and boosting prices Traveling No Band to 65 cents tops, they found they local condition, The , healthy one could do without the dimes and pointed out this week, is union man nickels of the jmungsters. And now, -indicated by the fact that there is BERT HOLLOWELL with the coming of the talkies, it is not one traveling in town at band stated, they have thrown off the last time. the present pretense of giving a hand for what “And why should there ‘be. when Conductor and M. C* at Loews State the kiddies like, and are openly, we have such topnotch orchestras flagrantly and deliberately making right here as those conducted by an output of product which is en- Gus Arnheim, Earl Burtnett and McGAFFEY OUT NITA AT POM POM AT FIGUEROA tirely t o o sophisticated to be Abe Lyman. Ken McGaffey, who was pub- Nita Mitchell, radio singer, is go- Vidadee Productions are opening grasped by any under the pubescent the is no While the drive so far has ‘been licity agent at Mayan, addition ing to produce the shows at the a new play, “Terrific Street” at the age. In to which, and more- highly successful, there is still a longer there. Sid Gratmian, pro- important, is the fact that the so- Pom Pom night club, which is go- Figueroa Playhouse, Feb. 22. Will- I ducer of “Once in a Lifetime” at vast musicians unemployment situ- phisticated pictures are not the kind ation cared for, estimates run- Alverez the -house, brought in Ham Beall, to be ing under new management. Ken- iam Desmond and Miami parents would want their youngsers ping that there are between 1500 head the cast, which includes Verna well known screen and stage pub- neth Harlan, who has been backing to see if they could understand still looking for Harry licity director, to succeed McGaf- and 2000 of them Mensereau, Byron Aldenn, .them. work. the Pom Pom is transferring his in- Hollingsworth, Ray Largay, Harry fey. No future connection for the terests, but Ralph Arnold, old timer Shutan, Phillips, W. latter has been announced. Jimmy J. AT HOTEL OAKLAND HOLDEN SIGNED at the spot, will remain as manager. Dwyer, Cecille Leigh, Ralph Bell Richard Harry Holden has been signed Miss Mitchell plans to have about and Ray Lawrence. The play is co- Y. play, “The Blue Ghost.” Charles OAKLAND, Feb. 12— is directing, with Fields Acton and orchestra are in at the for a part in “Shipmates” at M- ten people in the floor show, includ- authored by J. P. Riewerts and Vi King Lee Oakland. G-M. ing a small line of girls. Jenkens R ie warts, who did the N. as manager of production. Hotel Page Two INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN Saturday, February 14, 1931 Franklin Organization Leases Vine Street Hollywood Is Different PROPHETS ARE SICK AS By JACK OSTERMAN I (Reprinted from “The Reminder.’’ . FLOPS . of seven .years what CHAPLIN . after absence SILENT Hollywood itself an hotels . streets . a change' . what a revelation. New new city! places . new shopping emporiums ... a new new eating mmm Like the snows? of yesteryear, Chaplin, despite a stage show and everyone meets everyone. the great The Brown Derby where those preternaturally wise ones who big advertising, “City Lights” is nicknamed “Toots” by this editor much Wilson Mizner who was wrote the doom of talking pictures very definitely flopping at the Los The new Pantages Hollywood to the pleasure of Herb Sanborn. N HOLLYWOOD AREA with the opening of Charlie Chap- Angeles Theatre. Which might be Hotel . the Holly- . Beverly Wilshire . the Warner’s the lin’s “City Lights” may now fade due to many causes, including the . Cellar . never wood Knickerbocker . Henry’s B. B. B’s into that obscurity which is most economic depression, were not proof racket the side Word comes from the Harold B, a dull moment . B. B. B. in the dog on The befitting false prophets. that this is only a few blocks with the world’s largest Franklin offices that they have wrong great R. K. O. studios on Gower street has leased the Vine Street Theatre in This silent picture has come, a war-. At the Orpheum the RKO cinema stage . the new Columbia movie factory . Miracle been seen and has failed to conquer. Hollywood. $50,00-0 is being -spent smash picture oif the year, “Cimar- Mile on Wilshire boulevard with Bullock’s . the latest and finest It was to this premiere, to the silent ron” is packing them in like sar- store I’ve seen. Familiar faces I find in unfamiliar places ... I to re-vamp the house. A new and genius of the pantomimic Chaplin dines. Approximately $34,000 for can’t realize the transformation. The worn out battle cry, “I could elaborate, unique and original style that certain people looked for a res- the past week was what this picture have bought that corner five years ago for practically nothing” . of marquee has been designed by toration of the old silent film. Al- rated and that is considerable rat- now. it’s worth a million. Thousands of people retiring in Southern J. J. Franklin. It is composed of a ways,- course, presuming that they l of ing. So this alibi for the silent ex- California adding j-ears to their lives . pardon me Mr. Brisbane! mirror and neon light combination really meant what they said and To use the old gag, I have gone Hollywood even if they still have in an arrangement giving the effect ponents is out. were not merely trying to be differ- the same UNUSUAL oranges . the same UNUSUAL sunshine of a huge and sparkling jewel. Stage Show Out Holly- ent, to, so to speak, attract attention . weather but a the same UNLTSUAL new UNUSUAL Under the new management the But the- silent Chaplin fails to by some mental legerdemain as . right sue me! ... a paradise on earth . wood 3JI Vine Street will show everybody’s draw. Charlie gets the first $75,000 P.