The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
FLAS ES'
and
CLOSEUP
|. BY LENS

The few Hollywood studios still in
production despite the technicians
strike have sent out confidential aps
peals to the press not to publicize the
films they are now making TheY1
fear audience reprisals when the scansl
films are finally released Incl
dentally, the strike Of 5000 techni-
clans in what was once known as.
Americas depression proof industry
is something to~wriGe home about 4
An APP dispatch reports "the walkout
in full force and effect" despite re-
ports that strikers are returning to-.
their jobs It is further reported
that the determination of high-sal-
AIRED stars (Mae West, Wally Berry,
etc. with the strikers is being i'm
peded by tyrannical contract clauses.
The Sol Lesser outfit is still trying
to find q buyer for its vandalized ver-
sion of Eisenstein's Que Viva Mex
.cc" . Watch lor a review in these
columns Of Fox's THE Power and The
Glory" a film pallyhoced as embody-
ing "a new revolutionary technique"
called "NarraTAGE" :. We smell
a rat
Symptom of Hollywood's growing
popularity with the masses: A thea
tire in a Tennessee town carries
large sign with the inscription:
"Vaudeville-NO PICTURES" i
The Los Angeles Times states that a
movie producer has issued an edict to
his writer's arbitrarily limiting them
in writing dialogue to the use of
words on list that he had compiled
The list contained $50 wordsl ..
And some of us thought once in a
Lifetime" a gross eXaggeration. E. .
Wexford Beaton remarks that It'll
would not surprise him greatly to
learn that Wallace Berry has been
picked by Paramount to play the role
of Alice in its forthcoming film, Alice
in Wonderland" =. Prize piece of
idiocy for the month ending August
81 appears in the latest issue of
Hollywood Spectator: Intelligent
people know that the general bust
llCoD NC u SoSlOli lldQ hCAY ilktlC W w
with the motion picture depression"
While millions starve-the Chase
National Bank has been paying Lillian
Harry SO 500 weekly for eleven months
for appearing in single picturel r..
Hollywood's high powered blowing
about employing Jews forced out of
German studios is just lot of cheap
publicity-for Hollywood
The American film industry spends
S135, 900 900 year on production.
! Out Of that S35 900 900 is spent in
buying and preparing story mate
rial. Motion pictures may be
| included in the Pulitzer Prize and
Hollywood is in turmoil whether the
director, original author, adapter,
dialogue writer, cameramen or cutters
will be entitled to the award.
Why not give $500 to viii Hays and
divide up the other $500 among
Roosevelt and his Cabinet? If the
prize is being awarded to one of the
New Deal" films, that is. ..
One of our highly social minded
/ SAAOiSSs OO4iliAlCAiIlL!S vi I1SilIy TUT
mans "Our Movie-Made Children"
wherein it is statistically shown that
workers children are moronizsd and
degraded by Hollywood films, casually
remarks: Il have no solution to offer.
and very little interest in the matter
Vanity Fair says Norma Shearer is
the worlds worst actress. e. Send
in your nominations, giving reasons,
. Attractive rewards for informa-
ton regarding an organization calling
itself the Film Collective, whose
whereabouts, activities and intentions
have been floating around town in
secretive whispers.
The Workers Film and Photo
| Leagues class in motion picture tech
| nique, direction and criticism opens
October l. Registration now open.
The following gem from an edi-
torial in the July % issue of Film
Spectator: 1.-THE manner in which
the House Of Morgan conducts its
| business might seem to us unreason-
able, if such were our view of it
(sicD, but by no possibility could it
make any appeal to our emotions;
and picture that lacks emotional
appeal lacks an element without
which it cannot be a success"
The Spectator is naive enough to
fear that Sucker List" a film in
bpired by the recent Morgan revela-
tons and now being made in Holly
wood, might reveal more unpleasant