Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1936-06-06
YOUTH NEWS SERVICE :. :.
GOSSIP THE FAN MACS
FORGET ABOUT
By Movie Seer

LABOR Newsstand now the
newsreel cameraman comes into his
own. The sweeping movement for
unionization Of every craft and trade
in producing studios has finally en-
braced the newsreel men. Many of
them who were previously free-lanc-
ers, are now union men, with a 1919
raise in salary and 800 week mini
mum for a 40-hour week. So
NAzI NEWS (NOOSE)-They tell
me that movie reviewers in Berlin
went wild with joy when Herr Goeb-
bells, Minister Of Propaganda, declared
that reviewers must not appear the
morning after the premiers. This,
whilst our own harried reviewers must
work like lightning to meet the morn
ing dead-line. All, yes-but there's
catch. Berlin reviewers must
think about what they're going to
say. Otherwise, well-there's always
the internment camp.
LA BELLE HITLER-The old
meanie, is just too, too incensed with
Mrs. Dionne for her marvellous bio
logical feat. So-the quintuplets
first starring film "The Country
Doctor" will not be shown in Ger
many. The real reason, AYERS the
Hollywood News Week, is that GER
tain sequences in the film give a
none-too-flattering portrait of the
lumber company president.
CENSORSHIP NEWS AROUND
THE GLOBE-Australia banned Klon-
dixie Annie. Superannuated censors in
that part of the British Empire also
demanded that the burial scene in
Trail Of the Lonesome Pine" be
eliminated. II Duce ordered that the
scene in Rendezvous" showing the
flag-draped coffin of an English Of
ficer, be clipped. Stiff-necked Balti-
more censors CRASHED their teeth
false and otherwise) in silence,
when the city court overruled them
and permitted censored version Of
Ecstasy" to be shown.
SUCCESS STORY-Take the case
Of Frances Grant, who, only year
ago was playing the ingenue lead
in Will Rogers Doubling Thomas"
Now she's working in a Hollywood
drug store for $1S week. So philan-
thropic Republic Pictures offered her
$25 . week for leading parts. Miss
Grant is smart girl-she's still at
the drug-counter.
THE PRODUCERS SHAKEDOWN
RACKET-There is no one so solicit
tous about his employees welfare as the
movie producer. Ask any of the Uni
versal studio workers and they'll tell
you. The executives of Universal,
now owned by an eastern banking
outfit, were so awed with the super
magnificance of their own "Show
Boat" that their most immediate con-
Germ was to have every employee see
it. And here's how they worked it.
All employees were sent a letter tell
ing them to buy two tickets for
the opening. Otherwise, if they
didn't and the house wasn't full, the
price Of two tickets would be deducted
from their pay check anyway. That's
gratitude.
ADVERSE PUBLICITY-The pub
licity agent who sent me the release
about the gymnastic instructor at
RKo will get exactly the opposite
Of favorable publicity. Fausto Acke,
tbs gymnastic gentleman in question,
10 not only IN ardent militarist, hav-
ing taught gymnastics to the Italian
army, but he has helped vain II
Duce himself keep the waistline down. |
And il that's an honor-well, he can
have IL. A. tor me. I'd rather SEQ |
Bsaite with pot-belly.
HOLLYWOOD - WHERE THE
PRODUCERS. AND NOT THEl
GODS, FAVOR YoU--Mrs- Stanley
Lupine, mother ct Ida Luyizo, had 81
special part written for her in |
sYours for the Asking" merely be-
cause her daughter has leading part
in the film. And extras, receiving
$3.50 . day for strenuous work in
Count Of Arisons"n suffered severe