Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-02
MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE
By MoLLlE MERRIcK.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HOLLYWOOD. Calf, January 2
M.A.N.A.) Half way between the
whoopee Of New Year eve and the ouch
Of New Year day came the news that
Hollywood is going in for fun training
seriously during $780,
An academy for the training of toast
masters, masters of ceremony and pro-
fesSional wise crackers Is being estab-
lished in rnovieland. Bob Mnrnhv
professional funster these many years
Is back of the idea. ''Footlight poise'
Is another asset which will be developed
In the local prep schools for laughs.
One Of the peculiarities Of the village
Is the notion that each moment spent
without Wise-crack being sprung is q
moment wasted. Any one with intelli-
gence knows there are not that many
funny remarks in the world. So the
mean average Of worthy laughs may be
reduced to minimum. OF course
laughs galore follow these sallies. AS
sistants, friends, would-be assistants
and hopeful ones seeking to pierce the
abstraction of mere acquaintance, GUT
faw at every sally.
With the fun-makers and song-as.
semblers turning into schoolmasters
the village will resemble during the
given over whole-heartedly to the man
4ufacture, on large scale Of its wares.
Gus Edwards, for many years splen-
did diScoverer Of worth in theatrical
personalities, abandons his amateur
standing in the matter of creating q
school where such things will be done
by q group OF trained specialists under
his personal supervision and for a
money consideration. At the present
time Edwards holds contracts on sew.
eral successes. But when he goes into
the discovery business in this fashion
1t loses fiaVor--in much the same way
that Suzanne Lenglen lost with us when
she went into pro ranks.
The rest Of US make resolutions to
pay our bills. be on time, be gracious
to our in-laws, etc. Hollywood starts
the new year with q new nose, or a reef
in the chin, or minus the crows feet
Not a bad idea. A present to the face
is not only a gift to ones self but also
to those who are forced to look at us. :
Lawrence Grants new nose was timed
by plastic surgeons so the bandages
came of yesterday morning. He has q
new outlook for 1880. Think of the
fun of waking up with a face-lift, OF
a Greek nose. or without the old double
chinl
Joseph Schildkraut will be starred in
q picture called THE Gar of Broad
way" it seems. This news may placate
the actor, who has been tuning quietly
because he was placed in q leading man
capacity opposite Wilma Banky in the
German version OF Sun Kissed"
Young Schildkraut enjoys Stardom on
the lot which holds his contract. So
he objected strenuously to being farme6
m llk xxyHa~ 1. A.
serve in a subsidiary capacity, The
powers that be discovered they had 9
right to lay him OF for q few weeks
each year, so chose to exercise that
privilege at this particular time. Moth
ing for the Schildkraut to do but &C.
cept the secondary honor.
His pictures of late have not beer
showing him in the light Of one of the
villages most capable actors. The role
OF wise-cracking American reporter
one Of his recent unreleased attempts
is entirely out of his medium. Result,
are dispiriting, to say the least.
Showers of contracts made and
broken will characterize the next few
weeks. Mary Nolan will get a new
contract, understand-and a good one
This girl came to the village to begin a
new career when her stage career wa,
talkies and is on her way to one Of the
permanent starring roles in celluloid.
Thank you all for your interest in
1929, especially those who took the
trouble to write in their changed opinion
about talkies when experience had wor
them over completely to the new me-
dunn. The best Of luck for IL great
months to come!
Lydia Yeamans Titus closed a bril-
liant career with the dying year and
rang up the curtain on the great to.
morrow. Her passing reduces the ranks
of the old guard to a handful. Yet in
years there have not been so many Of
her contemporaries here In Hollywood
An old-tiIners number in q local revue
has brought De Wolf Hopper, Josephine