The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-18
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Louella Parsons thinks that Holly
wood, where girls like Greta Carlo,
once BARRIERS assistant, amass great
wealth and gain worldwide popu-
larity," can laugh at any threat to
its supremacy :. The fact that some
10000 extras starve, resort to proSti-
tuition and suicide is also a unique
Hollywood feature that challenges
duplication in any city in the world,
eh, Louella? {. Regina Crewe, movie
editor of the N. Y. American, says
of the forthcoming wild Boys OF
The Road" that at constitutes chal-
lenge to America and every Amer
lean" She wants the American
"bezprizorni' homeless children) con-
fined in. reforestation camps before
ii is too late" -. Reading the as
sorted opinions of some of these bour-
geois movie scribblers is beginning
to make me think some kind of a
camp ought to be rugged out where
these so-called film critics would be
put to solving crossword puzzles, or
"reforesting," or ditch-digging or any
thing :.
The imminent advent of television
has so frightened some of the movie
critics in New York that many of
them are already flirting with the
radio industry by attending radio
press luncheons . &. H. H. Rogers,
of the Rockefeller family, is invest
ing cold million in the production of
films designed for uplift purposes,
with regenerative finales' Being
beginner, Mr.. Rogers ought to start
with something simple, like the Lud-
low massacre, for instance The
fan magazines are reviewing films
either still in the process of produc-
ton, or on which production has not
even begun "Chrysalis," which
will not go into production until
November, is commented on favor
ably by New Moviet Magazine"
Likewise a dozen others Nobody
wants Cry OF Asia" Japanese talkie
in search of booking here Anna
Stem thinks Zola's Mana" should be
followed at least little, so after a
little stubborn kicking she let director
Fitzmaurice walk off the lot Now
/ changes in the story are being made
to suit la Stem F. George Cukor is
the new director =.
I'm informed that Soviet films have
to sweat blood to find exhibitors in
New York :. . Patriots" found homes
in Philly and Chi long before it did
here There are now fifteen tele-
vision broadcasting stations in the
U. S. -.
Jackie Coogan is reviewing films
for college paper and thinks, as do
our own DAILY" critics, that Holly
wood products are lousy, just like
that.
The French Minister of Public
Education has banned the film YER
sion of Stefan zweig's "Amok'' for
political reasons The same tyrant
banned Eisenstein's "Old and New" a
couple of years ago because he
thought prize-winning state-raised
bulls danger to organized society =.
I like the 30" abbreviation in
professional moviet parlance to de-
note "box-office" or commercially
successful ribbons -.
Al Jolson leading the moviet con-
tingent up Fifth Ave. in the MIRA
parade was the hammiest piece of
acting that guys put over since Hal
lelujah, I'm A Buml" -. For twenty
dollars you can learn something about
the movies at the College of The City
of New York beginning October
Director Mervyn Leroy urges the pro-
duction of movies your mother can
understand" to revive attendance =.
Paramount has thus far rejected $500
applicants for the titular role in alice
in Wonderland" Lloyd Bacon
thinks kids make the best movie
audiences, after all You know
your films, don't you, Lloyd? IT
do not sock women in my private
life. flames Cagney ;.
Your Lens hereby reports itself
completely out Of focus in its crack
about Edward Weston coupla weeks
ago Permit me to eat dirt in
full view Of all my readers and take
1t all back Tom Brandon, Ma
tional Secretary of the Workers Film
and Foto League, Is good and sore
and wants me to inform you that
Weston reads the daily" and is a
friend