The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04
FLASHES and
CLOSE-UPS
BY LENS

him, the fact is that Michael Gold
will soon direct a film dealing with
In New York. The
ribbon Is being made for the I'm
employed Councils and the Film and
Photo League has already assigned
a cameraman to shoot" for Mike.
g.. The scenario, written by Com
rade Gold, deals with the lot Of an
unemployed family on New York's
East Side and is entitled, Death OF
q Workers Child"
Princess ID Kropotkin reports IN
recent issue Of "wholewhest" b.
McF'adden's Liberty:
"Humpty Dumpty might have
been y big success writing film
stories for Hollywood.
This idea came to me after
hearing Anthony Abbott tell what
happened In Hollywood to Upton
Sinclair. Engaged to write q screen
drama, paid in advance, Upton
couldn't think up q good ending.
Racked his brains-no result. Then
he slipped and fell downstairs,
landing like Humpty Dumpsy, ON
his head. Upton picked himself up,
crying, AT last I've got itr The
right ending for his story. Some
how the fall had joIted 1t into his
mind"
p. S.--Sinclair edited Eisenstein's
film after the above accident. So
come home, Upton. All is forgotten.
Signed: Your uncle Lens.
The Quincess Princess further re-
ports that Mr.. Sinclair, who granted
her long interview, digs his garden
for exercise and Is a passionate" -
Guess whatD-'Mickey Mouse fani'
British Are Shocked by Film of
Lynching"-"American Reel Show
ing Death of Hart Kidnapers Brings
Rebuke From London Times."-AP.
Dispatch.
The recent newsreels of British
imperialism'S most humane handling
of the Arabian uprisings in Palestine
(tear gas, machine guns and clubsD
far from sacrifice all decency to
sensationalism in presenting news on
the screen" (the TiInes's complaint
against the Hart lynching reeD
We suggest q sort of newsreel
correspondence course exchange be-
tween Sam and Bull send us
the reels on the Indian rnassacres
and well send you our swell Am
bridge slaughter, Bull" j.. Here's
a newsreel showing how we handle
hungry msrchers in London, Sam.
let's have. a couple of Iyncfifngs
illegal or otherwise will do in ex-
change" -.
The elimination by Paramount
executives of lynching scene in q
film recently finished on the grounds
that 1t constituted q slur on the fair
name of California and that "such
a thing could never happen in civil
lized California" only to witness q
double lynching two days after the
elimination, is eloquent proof that
Hollywood spreads capitalist propa-
ganda by what it hides as well as by
what it shows! Will Marshall Neil
ans forthcoming "Chloe: The Ro-
nance of the Southland" have any
thing to say about that sliper-inferno
for the Negro? .Vidor's "Hallelujahl"
didn't. The fair name of the
State of Alabama" The fair
name of the State Of Massachusetts. "
The flair name Of the State Of
California" Hollywood works
for Governor Rolph, for Judge Gala
han, for Judge one-but-not-forgot-
ten Thayer and all the judges and
governors who Jail, electrocute and
lynch for the master class. -.
Talk about Soviet recognitionI We
found the following in recent
Hollywood Spectator:
metro, in engaging Baer, Car
nera and Dempsey, recognized the
wisdom of the Russian cinema
school. The Russians do not use
actors. They use farmers TO play
farmers, peasants to play peasants.
And when a farmer gives great
performance, he Is sent back to
his farm and does not appear in
another picture. The Russians
reason soundly that nothing in a
cinematic creation must be greater
than the creation itself. They
laugh at our star system And
they should laugh at 1t, 1t Is
ridiculous"
Little Women makes no appeal
to the intellect and 1t will be ire
mendous success" in the opinion of
a well-known Hollywood critic. &.
Irony? Idiocy? Profundity? Fig
ure it out and femme know the an
swer. -.
"A famous Hollywood producer ran
out Of preview showing of Little
Women" before it was half run and
telegraphed his company's head Of
flee in New York to find Louisa M.
Alcott and put her contract imme-
diately, no matter what salary she
demanded. And so an epidemic of
mother-and daughter pictures is pre-
dicted. Maybe the more famous
movie-palaces will hand. out free
handkerchiefs in their 1obbies (Bet
variety's Exploitation editor: steals
that oneD. -.
Winfield Sheehan, Fox executive,
will fire anyone caught reading Sin
clair Presents Fox" on the lot. :.
In that book Sheehan is exposed as
CRATER implicated in famous
New York political murder and saved
,nly by the intervention of William