The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
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HXUORLD IN REVOLT" ALPS for
" the worst in the worst OF
possible worlds, with the exception
Of America, where there are base
ball games, movie theatres, radios,
some smoking factory chimneys and
a bright future for all concerned.
It's an incompetent piece Of
patchwork which succeeds in ex-
posing itself very nicely before it's
half over. &c.. And if you must see 1t,
don't fail to take along one Of our
patented Bronx cheerers with q
years guaranteed.
PARAMOUNT Astoria has reduced
the rental on its main sound
stage TO $1,000 a day. The Film
and Photo League is still hesitating
though. +. DeMille is doing q So
Wet story for Paramount. It'll
take a lot to discourage that guy!
For over two years now he's
been hanging on to a script and
now Paramount is ready to dive.
The bishops are trying to change
the spots of the Hollywood tiger to
a more consistently black hue.
And trying to create the impression
that they are cutting claws and
tanning the beast. They demand
less sex and more preachings.
Which is precisely what Hollywood
is conforming to more and more
every day How much sex is
there in films like mo Greater
Glory" World In Revolt" Con
querors,' "washington-Merry-G Co
Round" Gabriel Over the White
House" and hundred others, gen
tlemen of the pulpit? .. Isn't your
real aim TO set up capitalist gov
ernmentsl control over the film in
dustry to make sure that the flow
of fascist film continues uninter-
rupted? -.
no you know that Mussolini has
~ asked two Americans to produce
q film on Italian Fascism7 . The
Italian industry is so thoroughly
bankrupt that there's no one left
there with enough talent" to turn
out even cheap piece of fascist
ballyhoo. The Butchers Boy
recourse to two American film
makers for this purpose is especially
significant, don't you think? +.
Figures the pudgy thug: If Holly
wood can't crank out fascist rib
bons, who can? -.
A FRENCH director is making
n almost a detective story" out
of the betrayal of Jesus by Judah
and the arrest of Jesus by the Ro-
mans, with Calvary as climax"
Will someone please revive an
old miracle play and put Groucho
Marx, Buck Jones and Mickey
Mouse in the cast? -.
EMIL JANNINGs is a Man. 3.
IL Boo!
7 LEARN from Paris that Rene
! Clair is swinging leftward and
I'm anxious to see his next ribbon,
The Last Billionaire," The
Broadway Paramount and Capitol
are pooling. Business is lousy,
Mae West collected $4,000 a
week during the making of her
forthcoming TT Amt No Sin" .
Who said artists are underpaid2
Do you know that many su-
thors in Hollywood are being paid
huge salaries simply for the use OF
their names and with no scripts
even expected from them? !. The
heirs of Emile zola have succeeded
in having the Hollywood version of
Mana" withdrawn from French
screens. Hollywood's "Cavsl-
cade" is still great favorite with
Berlin's Nazi chiefs. Being re-
vived there by Fox Co. Com
menting on one aspect of the film
under Hitler. a Variety correspond
ent writes, With the advent of the
New Deal there are new faces ap-
pearing in films. most Of whom
would be knockouts in a harem
scene-with wells
TO An1kino. New York City Please
1 release -Er1nler's "Counter-Plan"
very soon. Advance reports on
this film make us increasingly inn
patient to see IT,