The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
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DOCS Mr.. Roger Baldwin still
" think that No Greater Glory"
is an anti-war film? And by
direct inference that the Wall
Street-owned R-K-O circuit is re-
leasing an anti-war ribbon on the
Fourth Of July2 Come, come
And now since we cOmplainedl
little Shirley Temples salary has
been raised from $3.50 to $1,000 a
week!
While an army of extras is be-
ing reduced TO prostitution and
starvation in the streets of our
glamorOus Hollywood! (shir-
ley's father is a Los Angeles
banker!)
The constant stream of American
working boys and girls who trek to
Hollywood in search Of fame and
fortune has ended. Less than
100 a month now reach Hollywood
for that purpose. The peak was
reached in 1928 when LOO arrived
in one month. And so ends an
other great American illusion, shat
tered on the rocks of unemploy-
ment and hunger.
COME of the films that Frank
y Roosevelt has taken along on his
four week cruise: Personality Kid"
Return of the Terror" Murder on
the Blackboard" Crime Doctor. 4"
Mystery Of Mr.. X" Affairs of Gel
lini," Bulldog Drummond Strikes
Back"
And here's an unusual item
Charles Boyer tore up a contract
with Fox which had several months
to go rather than be cast in a part
which he thought too infantile to
play. 8.
I like the one about Hollywood
producer who urged one of his as
sociates on during a debate over
story material with, Little mind
what now?"
HOLLYWOOD takes everything
ii out of you. Creative ambition
has little or no opportunity in Hol-
lywood. Robert Montgomery.
Frsnchot Tone has subscribed
to the Daily Worker.
CWEDEN will have a postage
y stamp to "immortalize Greta
CARLOS likeness" The good
mugs like Jimmy Durante, Mickey
Mouse and Groucho Marx are COM
pletely neglected, of course
w. G. Fields says he will con-
tribute his treatise on the subject
of beds to literature some day.
IF can get out of bed long
enough" he adds. II consider
myself an even greater authority
than Groucho Marx, that author
Of note, who, in my opinion
bounced only slightly on the SUBJ
iect. Groucho wanted my advice at
the time he wrote Beds but was
asleep" go.
THE Russian" film Ben Hecht IN
L tends to produce soon, is now
officially characterized by the Para
mount releases as a modern Mid
summer Nights Dream with a Rus
sian revolution background"
BURNING news flashes from Hol-
II lywood please reprint, copy
broadcast and post conspicuouslyD
Edward Everett Horton collects old
trees. Helen Mack says New
York and Hollywood are two diff
ferent worlds. Leon Enrol says
his 24-year-old Congress CATERS
have kept him in luck and made
him a success. Ida Lupino has
lost II pounds in two weeks.
She promises to lose seven more in
a few days. Baby Leroy il
wearing his first real pair Of pants
Gary Cooper is very democratic
and treats the members of his cast
to beer every afternoon at two
bl1blC O1lulCy ACIliPlC lCSClAbt9
held a public funeral for her pei
turtle Adolph Menjou says
American men are learning how tt
dress. 100000 worth of dia.
monds were used in Mae Vests III
Amt No Sin"
And if all this dope" INSIDE
and outside) doesn't convince you
that Hollywood is great center
Of art and culture, what ever will?
! MARICA MONTGOMERY, of 207
lH Kelvin Pl., Ithaca, N. Y, writes
the following letter in the August
issue Of Screen Book Magazine:
"a group of us have organized
a Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Audiences Whenever
one of us is stung with poor fea-
ture film, he notifies all the rest
and we make it point to stay
away. Try it in your city and
make the box office receipts speak
for u.s."