The Washington times., 1929-01-10
IROONEYS GET
HOLLYWOOD
JOBS
BY REGINA CREWE
copyright. 1929. by King Feature
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 9.--Another
Famous Broadway name mas for.
saken the much publicized main
stem" for the hills Of Hollywood.
This time 1t is the good old Irish
name of Rooney. For Pat Rooney
and Marion Bent. and young Pat
rick, the third, arrived today to
embark upon film careers. The
ROoneys. all three of them, are
to make series of 100.per cent
'movie-tone" two.reelers for Uni
versal.
The pictures will he supervised
by Nat Goldstone. There will be
six in all. and the first four are
ready for production. The titles
OF these are "Sweethearts." The
Royal Pair" Rosie O'Grady" and
Love Birds" 1t is understood
that the plots of the pictures will
be similar to the ideas utilized in
the famous series made by MIR.
and Mrs. Sidney Drew which de-
picted the woes and joys of do
mestic life. Edgar Allan Woolf
wrote them.
Greta Garbo is coming home
from Europe about March ]. And
about May l Jack Gilbert is leav-
ing Hollywood for a continental
vacation. There has been some
doubling as to whether or no
Greta would return. But this def
mite news from Metro sets all
fears at rest. 1T Is something of
a surprise, too, to learn thatS Ill.
bert is deserting our shores. but
there's no question of Jacks re-
naming away too long. Greta's
first film upon her return will he
a perturbation of the Efinor Glyn
story, Tiger Skin" Maybe she
and Jack will appear together in
this one before the urge to travel
again separates them.
Claire Windsor is the final Tiff
fany-Stahl selection as Conway
Tearle's heroine in the air pic
ture, Zeppelin which will go
into immediate production. This IS
planned as one of Tiffany's most
ambitious phOtOdramas. Reginald
Barker has been entrusted with
its direction.
The burden OF producing the
laughs in Warmers Nitaphone
picture, The Time, the Place
and the Girl" will rest upon the
shoulders of Bert Roach. Bert
has been cast in the role of a big
stock and blonde man, and his
part offers plenty of opportunity
for him to give UP giggles. 1t is
Bert's first talkie, and he has
been borrowed from Metro to play
1t.
Here are the dimensions con-
sidered ideal out at the Para
mount studios, and eight girls
who can fulfill them will he cast
in Clara Bows wild Party" pic.
ture. How near do you come to
them? Height. feet 3& inches;
weight, 119 pounds; neck 1919
inches: chest, 33 inches; waist, 26
inches; hips, 35 inches: thigh,
21l2 inches; calf, 13 inches: ankle,
~ inches. In case you want to
know where Paramount got these
ideas. they are the measurements
Of Annette kellerman, when the
Diving Venus" was in her pull
chritudinous prime. They say she's
never had an equal.
Hollywood is chuckling over
the recent jest perpetrated by a
director on producer who has
several foreign stars under con.
tract. The film mixer was wor-
ried regarding the future of his
players now that talkies have
made voice and language so much
a part of pictures. Therefore he
fell hard for the directors gag,
which was the invention of an
accent remover" Just little
dingus attached to the micro
phone which removed all traces
of accent from the voice of the
star. The director continued thai
he was working on a device which
would translate the microphoned
words into any foreign language.
Then the producer got wise, and
stalking away in dignity. said,
Il don't thint you're funny"