The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-10-04
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Il dramatic things that has ever
happened in connection with the
making of motion pictures was
the confession in New York of
those six young gangsters re-
Gently.
Accused of numbering collector for
the subway, they had been grilled all
executive was In the office of District
Attorney Geoghan the next day on
business. Geoghan happened to men,
ton the case, and added "Want to
meet one of them?"
The one they called Duke was
brought in-sleek, composed, deter
minedly innocent. The movie man
questioned him about himself and
finally asked How'd you like to pose
for a news reel?"
Duke was delighted; he promptly
took out a comb and fixed his hair. A
news reel crew from the movie mans
own organization was on hand, un-
known to him; it had been sent down
just on bunch.
So-the six young bandits were
called in, and the first thing anybody
knew they were confessing the crime.
The excitement of breaking into the
movies was too much for them!
Pity Adrienne Ames, who thought
she was seriously i'll and found that
her trouble was just hunger, caused
by the need of dieting in order to go
on making pictures! Seems funny that
girls with plenty of money can't eat,
when so many people can't do it be-
cause they can't buy food.
That need for dieting has a lot to
do with the retirement of screen stars.
When Phyllis Have2 left the movies,
just as her career was at its height,
(she'd been asked to do "Anna Chris
ie"-remember?- and didn't and Car
DO got the part,) she said to me "Just
think! Now 1 can eat all the baked
beans / want tot"
And she can-she married man
who's head of a big canned goods
business.
One stars meat is another stars poi
son. Paramount bought the popular book,
"National Velvet" so that Claudette Col
bert could play the heroine, part not
rery tUeH suited to her, and she kneW
it. Katherine Hepburn is crazy to play
it. So maybe Paramount will borrotU her
for it, or perhaps RKO will buy the story
from then, for her.
You can be sure OF one thing-Hep.
burn will play it. She gets what she wants.
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Put the name of Jimmie Savo down
in your notebooks; 1t looks as If he'd
be one of our biggest stars before long.
Known as one of our greatest mas
ters of pantomime, quite as great as
Chaplin, he long ago made a name for
himself on the stage. But the movies
didn't seem to take to him. He made a
picture for Hecht and Macarthur,
"Once in Blue Moon," which was so
bad that he tried to buy it from them
so that it wouldn't be released. He was
fine but the picture was awful. Final
ly it was shown in few places, adj
vertised as "The Worst Picture in the
World"
You can imagine how Savo liked
that. But now Hal Roach has signed
him up and promised that he can Sc
lect his own stories. Maybe he'll get
break, and then he'll land on top.
Maybe he won't, and you'll never see
him on the screen after one picture.
He deserves the best of luck.
He's a delightful person, very good
looking, rather naive, which is odd in
a man who has been on Broadway for
years.
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Ruth chatterton's career may take
another twist. She left the stage ten
years ago, went into pictures two years
later, and now may return to the stage
again.
She owes her start in pictures to
Lubitsch, who gave her a part when
nobody else wanted her. She went
straight to the top, as you know.
Now pictures don't seem to be quite
the right field for her, and the thea
tricaI managers are urging her to come
back. Nice to have two strings to
your bow, isn't it?
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Think way, way back, you old
timers and remember Carol Dempster,
who used to make pictures for D. w.
Griffith. l saw her on the street in
Westport, Conn.,, one day not long ago,
and never did anyone look less like a
movie star, or more beautiful. She's
happily married and the movies now
adays just mean something to go to
evenings.
James Melton, that sweet singer of
the air waves, is in Hollywood to do a
picture. And the first thing that hap
pened to him after he arrived was an
encounter with hold-up man. He ar
rived at his Destinations party at
Pat OBrien's-thrilled to death over it.
ODDS AND ENDS Jimmie Cagney