The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
and.
CLOSE-UPS
BY LENS

= on foolng all OF the workers all
Of the time. Samela Kay Park
hurst, Of 1920 9th st. N. w, Seattle,
Wash. addresses the following
broadside to the readers page of
Screen Book Magazine:
why Amt screen stenograph-
ers made to look like the actual
thing? I'm a stenOgrapher and
ought to knOw!) Even a few stem
Ogs and secretaries of my acquain-
lance who do dress with more
style than the general run, don't
look as If they had stepped out Of
the pages Of Vogue. Take Loretta
Young, for example, who was
stenOgrapher in "Skyscraper,"
"She Had to Say Yes" and Mid
night Mary" Her clothes all
savOred of Fifth Avenue and
Paris-cIOthes that would take
weeks to pay for, and all so rich
looking one wouldn't call them
dresses; rather, frocks and gowns.
And the "lingerie"-only one who
has priced and yearned for those
delicate wisps of chiffon can know
the cost Of lingerie like eelIuIOid
working girls wear"
Movie stars are being flooded with
letters from distressed and destitute
mothers offering their babies for
adoption. Fan Mail" stories you
never here about, of counsel. -.
A popular fan" rag reports that
anti-Soviet propaganda had become
such habit with Hollywood scenar-
lists, that they had to be cautioned
recently to keep it out of the scripts
for five current productions with
Russian backgrounds. =.
Sammy Goldwyn's tagging Of
Anna Sten as the Passion Flower
of Red Russia" should leave no
doubt in even the most skeptical
mind of Sans unreserved and final
recognition of the Soviet Union. &.
Altho what Goldwyn did to that
perfectly normal girl in Mana" is
thought by many to be grounds for
an incident" to say the least. -.
1t has been statistically COM
puted that the actual financial cost
of child-bearing to ranking screen
star Is over $3.50, 900. Work
ing-class mothers have no such
problem, of course.
We know many who had their six
or eight gratis and are raising them
on almost as little per week. .. {.
Watch for Film Front official
organ OF the movie section of the
Film and Photo League to appear
at an early date.
pudovkin's Mother" has passed
the New York Board OF Censors at
last. A shot of a baby suck
ling at it's mothers breast has been
ordered deleted, however You
can now watch the film without be-
ing melted to riot.
AL Smith says he is against CEN
sorship. But then again, Ham
Fish is against Fascism, Ell? :.
Cecil B. DeMille, the famous Hol-
lywood director, who is to the
movies something like what Aimee
Mcpherson is to the church, claims
that "the most complete relaxation
on this earth can be found at the
bottom Of the sea. - If direc-
tors like DeMille adhered a little
more to this swell sea bottom" no.
ton and followed up theory with
practice, there might be some ade-
quate relief for sick tired and
disguised army of movie fans. {.
And what has come of the daily
threats of the Nazi Bavarian Films
that they would exhibit the film IS.
A.-Mann Brand" in New York de-
spite the growing mass protests
against it?
Edgar Zane, the little engineering
wizard of the Film and Photo
League, will conduct class in ali
phases of sound recording and re-
production. The fee is NOM
inal and no previous training is re-
quired. Drop in to see him
sometime.