The Omaha guide., 1939-06-24

W1IO tx WI
vacation takes its way. Which
mean that now that the schools
and colleges are closed for the
Summer, all roads lead to the Fris-
co Worlds fair and Hollywood,
which is an all-year round fair IN
itself.
On every train, cross country
bus, by private motor and occa-
sionally by air sepia vacatlonlsts
have already commenced to arrive.
Teacher can relax from her official
severity, come here and really let
down her hair Dad, the patient
bread winner, if he has managed
to ave enough, can get a couple
of weeks off" with Tor with
out.nJ Daughter can take that long
ma along as chaperone. She car
stead wen if she has TO bring ma
promised East, and head West IN
easily lose mama between Holly
wood boulevard and Vine and Yer
non and Central avenue. Nine
chances out of ten Mama will lose
herself. There's something in this
mixture of mountain, sea, and Gel
Iuloid atmosphere, that makes you
want TO kick up your heels and
plav around the moment you hit
here, you know. Guess that's why
The divorce calendar is always
crowded, and a five year mar
rage in Hollywood is a miracle.
Well if "Yours Truly, can be OF
any service to you such as getting
Mayor Fletcher Bowron to give
o the key to the city, or dark
glasses to blink at the dizzy white
lights, just give me a jingle TO
737 E. oath Street, Los Angeles.
A little news first, then let's Cos
sip a bit.
Production is still booming at
most of the major studios and also
at the independents, so there seems
to be no fear of the market being
hurt by Germany, Italy, and ia
nan. barring our films that preach
-
democracy, instead of dictatorship
and hate. What a splendid chance
for producers of colored cast pic
lures to get in some good raps at
race hatred, oppression of minor
tiles, and germs of nazism There
is no censorship that forbids find
ing fault with glazing existent e.
wills and with the screen as one OF
the greatest means of education,
films on these subjects will make
the race more CONSCIOUS of its pow
er with the ballot, and more ppre-
ciative of those conscientious lead
ers who are constantly battling
for their betterment.
Million Dollar Productions will
probably be the first to break the
ice and not only entertain with an
all-colored cast picture but fur
nish powerful, meaty food for
thought that will make white as
well as colored patrons sit up and
take notice. For n of their 10
features scheduled to be made by
the end of the 1939-40 season is
<'Hooded menace" a tale of rope
and firebrand on the order of that
valuable thriller, "Black Legion"
that helped crush the latest at
tempt to r~esurrect the XII KLUX
KHAN.
If Warner Bros First National
could make "Cabin in the Cotton"
as it did a few years ago, visualiz-
ing the trials and tribulations OF
the white farm tenants in the south
there is nothing to prevent Mil
ion Dollar from making its pro-
posed "Sharecropper" tell of the
doubly greater hardships, mis-
treatment, and even terror under
gone by black farm tenants in
many disturbances. Concentration
Camp" the actual tale of
a colored man who settled in Ger
many, married a German girl,
faised a large family of children,
only to be thrown into a horrible
concentration camp when Hitler's
ENon Aryan" hysteria took viol-
ent form last year, is another one.
This man who barely escaped with
his life came to New York three
months ago, and is still there so
there will need be no fiction in the
gripping screen drama if produc-
ed.
What Other Studios are Doing
Selznick's "Gone With the Wind"
is winding up as l scribble this,
having moved to a troupe to Big
Bear lake upon the mountains
Monday last week to start on