Evening star., 1932-11-27
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
" OLLYWOOD, Calf, November
26.--Now that the rage Tor
strong men and pantheresSes
4 4 has begun, producers are trying
to find a lad named Nick Lutte,
a professional wrestler and former Notre
Dame foot ball star, in order TO give
him a camera test
1t all happened this way: Paramount
has been searching for a second Johnny
Weissmuller Oh, yes, every studio Will
have its own Little Tarzan, come
Spring. They sent scouts out to COMB
the universities, gymnaslums ana pro-
fessional athletic ranks for the nnest
specimen of handsome young MANHOOD
available.
Candidates were sent in galore-and
given camera tests. Local aSplrants
have swarmed the studio grounds.
Each one wants to be the King OF the
Jungle" Norman Ross, the swimmer,
has taken tests.
Then some friend Of Nick Lutze's
sent in his photograph and list Of quail
ifications. And the idea clicked.
So If lucky Lutte or any OF his friends
happens to see this paragraph, get In
touch with the studio in Hollywood
pronto and you may be htgh-hatting
LIle UdIlQSODlE ally NAdJ AAOWs
But If you just happen to know an
athlete who don't send the infor-
formation to me g. . my mail Is heavy
enough these days and the studio
has a big staff to answer theirs.
HARRY LACHMAN, an artist of re-
L pute with several canvases in the
Luxembourg TO his credit, will direct
picture on the Fox lot in the near future.
Down Our Street" a sample Of what
he can do, is one of the mCst perfect
bits of gelatine Genre ever released.
Made in London for the phenomenally
low cost of $4,000, it reveals in acting
standards, in camera craft and In con-
tinuity a standard we seldom hit in
HOLLYWOOD, for all our vast equipment
and great expenditures.
Nancy Price, an English actress, who
plays the part of the mother, is one
of the high lights of the picture, al
| though perfect casting throughout
makes it a matter of an ideal whole
rather than a good vehicle for any one
artist. In a day where middle-aged
artists-who really have art-are carry
I ing away academy prizes and box office
records, something very interesting
might be done with this player.
T IONEL ATWILL, established on the
IL Gold Coast, with hilltop home
| commanding the broad sweep OF all
| cinemaland, an estate on the crown OF
Magnetic Hill, is offered the lead role IN
| Arthur Goodrich's forthcoming Broad
| way production. and may be on his way
| to the East Coast again the moment
THE Wax Museum" is finished. It's
| that way in an actors life these days
Since her arrival on this coast Mrs
| AtWill has learned of the severe illness
! of her brother in Paris and the fact
! that her mother, Mrs. Edward Stotes-
bury of Philadelphia, was taken Ill while
Fastening to reach his bedside.
Meanwhile THE Wax Museum" is
being made, much of it at night. under
the direction of Michael Curtiz, who
shoots on one of the snappiest sched-
ules of any man in Hollywood.
MARY PICKFORD, Frances Marion
IL and Elsie Janis, trio lunching al
the Beverly Derby recently, held grave
discussion Mary Pickford Is about ready
to shoot 'Shanty Town." her first picture
| in some time She is looking particu-
larly At. Her hair, done in the thou
sand-and-one ringletS of the present
mode, is singularly becoming, and the
little low-crowned sailor hat of the
moment was part of an all-black CO.'S
| tune which included black broadcloth
| topcoat with cape top banded in silver
! fox.
Elsie Janis wore brown pajamas, a
camels hair topcoat, brown beret. And
Frances Marion wore a tailored dress
of hunters green weave, a green felt
sailor and a brace of sables about her
/ throat proving that girl may dress
cyir1 uyichoS fn in HOllVur00d and
nobody cares.
THE satirical farce, springing into sud
l. den popularity in Hollywood, has
! given us some of the best cinema enter
tainment Of years; well up among the
successes is "Rackety Rax," hilarious
travesty on collegiate activities in the
! hands of gangland racketeers.
When Knucks McGloin, played by
| Victor McLaglen, discovers that 10000
souls attend foot ball game and that
| the gate receipts mount up to appalling
| figures, he thinks the beer racket Is
pretty tame alongside the university
| racket. So he sets himself out to gel
| a university. He succeeds and cleans ur
| the money field until he runs into 9
team Of rival gangsters also posing as q
small university.
| That is a very nutshell idea Of the
scheme of things. The author of the
story, Joel Sayre, had one of the fresh
est ideas of the century. And the di-
rector of the picture, Al Werker. GER
tainly handled it in manner to pre-
serve that freshness. There is the
added attraction of shots that have
| definite newsreel quality-the type
| things which made Young Man oi
| Manhattan" a success. And the finish
of the tale is done in perfect comedy
technique.
Author Joel Sayre finds himself ir
the unique position of having prac-
tically every studio in Hollywood bid
ding for his next-"Money Makes the
Mayor Co." which is as yet in the dftt
chapter stage.