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Evening star., 1940-09-01
BY the Associate Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Movie music now comes packed
with headache powder in every
beat. That's to warn vulnerable
studios to steer clear of lurking copy
right law hazards and provide them
with mot too instant) relief when
they don't.
Because Of the necessity of avoid
ing every legal ENHANCEMENT pos
sible-some times as many as three
years are spent collecting music and
tracing its copyright-for the max
ing of a single picture. AS a conse-
quence, studios report only small
percentage of musical numbers used
ever become involved in copyright
litigation.
Probably one of the best informed
men in .cinemaland on such subjects
is George Schneider. He is a busy
one-man musical research depart
ment over at M-G-M Studios-and
an absolute dictator in his field.
Every director on the lot takes
orders from him at to what musical
numbers can or cannot go into a
picture-and woe be it to them who
go against his instructions-they get
their ears pinned back aplenty.
Schneider says that in foreign
countries copyright laws remain In
effect for from 80 to 80 years after
a composers death-and during that
time. even descendants of the COM
poser have to be traced and paid
royalties-in this country It's "a
years.
Evening star., 1940-09-01
HOLLYWOOD,

There was a time in the dim and
glorious past when the life of an
entertainment producer was a bed
of roses.
There were a few thorns, but
fundamentally he was living in a
Utopia-and he didn't know it.
It's different in Hollywood.
Whereas the oldtime producer
showed his play in few dozen the
aters of the world, Hollywood's prod
uct is shown in theaters all over
the world.
This condition is an excellent pre-
ventative for hardening of the
arteries. Every time Hollywood
makes a picture with a foreign To-
Gale, the producer is sitting on a
keg of dynamite which might ex-
plode at any point from Bombay
to Cathay.
In part, this particular keg of
dynamite has been made harmless
by a specialist known as technical
expert, but the risk still is there.
Conventions are matter of geog-
raphy and woe be unto him whose
pen slips.
The latest case in point is the sun
suit Dorothy Lamour wears in
Moon Over Burma" 1t is all right
for Dorothy Lamour to wear a
sarong on a tropic isle. Burma will
accept that. But Burmese women
just do not wear sun suits. So the
sequence had to be rewritten care
fully to show that Miss Lamour
Evening star., 1940-09-01

1t is used on the screen. and also
how the names of all of Moham-
med's prophets are used. None of
those names must be used as the
names of animals, or in any sense
that would make for ridicule or
comedy.
Monkeys are sacred in some sec
tionS. and COWS are sacred in others.
No native can be shown abusing
the animal sacred to his particular
section. If white man does the
abusing, it's botherSome to what
ever particular power happens to
govern that section inasmuch as it
demonstrates a lack of regard on
the part of the white man for the
native beliefs.
Another thing is the question of
the use of the title of sultan. A
sultan has to be an honorable
gentleman-in the light of the ma
tive sense of honor-and he cannot
be held up to ridicule. The sultan
generally is the head not only of a
temporal state but also of a spirit
ual state and the question of reh-
gious belief becomes involved.
Sometimes even the so-called
reforms" of convention can bring
trouble. A few years ago, Kemal
Pasha abolished the veil for Mo-
hammedan women. Wearing of the
veil was taboo in Turkey. So Holly
wood took the wells off native
women.
But, there was trouble in other
Mohammedan countries where the
veil was still cherished as an article
of modest clothing.
Evening star., 1940-09-01
No Glamour
For CarOle,
The Athlete
Rough-and-T Tumble
Parts Are Lot of
Miss Lands
HOLLYWOOD.

HULL I WOOD.
Few of the screens so-called CLAM
our girls lead such an active,
slam-bang, rough-and-tumble film
life as Carole Lands, blond film
star.
Glamour on the screen usually is
considered a fragile quality. Thus,
the lovely leading ladies are con-
Quoted carefully through seven or
eight reels, not wrinkle in their
costumes, not hair out of place.
1t isn't that way with Carole.
"If glamour is something you
have to put in a glass case, don't
want any of it." says Carole.
Still a Tomboy.
Miss Lands is one of the best
athletes among Hollywood's motion
picture beauties. She was, she re-
calls, terrific tomboy as a child,
PARTICIPATING on equal terms with the
boys in such games as baseball and
basket ball.
She hasn't changed in her attitude
toward sports.
Sin her first starring picture on the
Hal Roach lot Carole played the
role of Loana, a prehistoric girl in
the fantasy, "One Million B. c."
As cave woman, she clambered
over rocks, climbed trees and put on
e foot race with hungry dinosaur.
No double was used, either.
Now Shes an Aerialist.
Her next picture was Hal Roach's
hilarious comedy, "Turnabout,"
based on Thorne Smiths novel of
the same name. In this, Carole had
to emulate a man during much of
the picture.
Her most spectacular feat was
climbing a rope on pole which
swayed on an apartmnet ledge high
over the street.
Her current picture, Road Show"
| directed by Hal Roach and CO.
starring Miss Lands, John Hubbard
and Adolphe Menjou, makes even
more strenuous demands on her ath-
letic ability.
She takes the role of a carnaval
| aerialist, and as usual, does it with
out benefit of double, performing
high rope tricks many feet above
the stage.
Evening star., 1940-09-01

-. sarongs palm -fringed lagoons
=. idyllic beaches coconut groves
and what-not.
Movie studio libraries contain
miles and miles of such film that
have never been used. . &. . Instead of
going to the expense of sending a
whole film company of costly actors,
actresses and equipment to far-off
Tongareva, a Paramount camera
scout, for instance, goes there and
comes back with reel after reel of
such native scenes as the directors
want.
Then, by means of trick photog-
graphy. the whole picture, with all
the players, can be made right here
on a Hollywood movie lot and no.
body will ever know the difference.
For instance, didn't you think that
"Typhoon," "The Road to Singa-
pore" and Victory" looked real?
Hardboiled, Huh?
Tough softies: Even the hardest
of movie directors sometimes show
signs of having a heart. During the
filming of Brigham Young" Actor
Dean Jaeger (Brigham) had to
kneel under a tree and pray during
a rainstorm, but every time the
cameramen started to Shoot" a
little bird in the branches above
chirped merrily, spelling the sound
track. So, upon orders from the
hardboiled director, the boys hurled
stones, but the happy little bird re-
fused to bulge. Finally, one of the
lads climbed up and found nest
containing two newly-born infants
and informed the director, who half
Evening star., 1940-09-01
Korda Plans
Six Major
Features
English Producer
To Make Pictures
In Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD.


Adding several million dollars to
the pay rolls of the motion picture
industry, Alexander Korda Films,
Inc, has announced its first Ameri-
can production schedule of six top
budget feature pictures
The company, headed by Alex
ander Korda, English producer, is
new to Hollywood, Korda recently
having expanded his activities to in
clude the production here as well as
in London.
Pictures on the initial program
will be:
A story based on the lives of Lord
Nelson and Lady Hamilton, CO.
starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence
Olivier; New Wine the life of the
composer, Franz Schubert, with
Iona Massey in the leading feminine
role; Il Have Beer Here Before" "
starring Merle Oberon in a story
written especially for her by Korda,
her husband; jungle Boy" with
Sabu starring in the Rudyard Kip
long story; "Cyrano," starring Lau-
renee Olivier.
Evening star., 1940-09-01
Conventions Are ThOrns in Cinema's Side
Remembering Various Native Customs, Likes and Dsikes
In Foreign Locale Films Is HOLLYWOOD Headache

shocked the natives with her sun
suit.
Trouble in India.
Now, if Lamour had been working
in picture with japanese locale,
she would have had to shock the
japanese because she showed the
back of her neck and the elbow. A
display of those two particular parts
Of feminine anatomy is quite vulgar
in Japan.
In India, smoking and drinking
are all right among the natives of
some villages, but among the natives
Of other villages it is degrading
and irreligious act for man either
to smoke or take drink. So, if the
picture shows some natives smoking
and drinking in one of those latter
Villages, there's going to be trouble
in the theaters.
Another thing is the turban. There
are more than 100 different ways to
wrap turbans and each twist of the
cloth denotes a specific caste. Bhog-
wan Singh has made a good living
in Hollywood for 81 years because
he knows all the twists and what
they denote. If he should happen
to make a mistake and put a Hindu
turban on a Mohammedan, there
would be riots throughout the Near
East, India, Malaysia and few
other assorted spots.
Animals Are Sacred.
The name of Mohammed is a
common one in the Orient, but
Hollywood has to be careful how
Evening star., 1940-09-01

The play was The Makropoulos
Secret" Her first good notice was for
her acting in the E. E. Cummings
play. Him" Her first big hit was
her portrayal of Rose in street
Scene" which ran a year on Broad
way, played six months on the road
and went to London.
Shed acted in London before that
in a revival of THE Music Master u
and she'd played here in "Skidding, "
which later became the basis for the
Andy Hardy movies Her role in
that was Andy Hardy's sister.
A year or SO after Street Scene
she went to Hollywood, where she
made IS pictures. playing in THE
Life of Emile Zola," BLACK Legion, -
The Plough and The Stars" and
"The Green Light" among others
She played Shakespeare with
John Barrymore on the radio and
several times has been guest star
in dramatic roles on the Rudy VAL
lee program.
THE first time I was to appear
opposite Barrymore" she said, II
was bit tremulous because of what
I had read and heard about his
playful tricks in giving perform
ance.
But, once we started with our
opening cue, he gave performance
which lifted my own and taught me
more about acting Shakespeare
than 1 had learned in years of
study.
"And the chief things I have al
ways been grateful for are those
people who, through their own ex-
perience, have been willing instruc-
tors to speed me ahead"
Evening star., 1940-09-01

"One thing we don't have to do
about you," chuckled the producer
as Meek prepared to sign the con-
tract, 1--WE don't have to get you a
new name. To me you look like
the very incarnation of meekness-
and so far as We are concerned, Mr..
Meek, you shall remain"
And that was just the trouble,
according to Mr. Meek.
They proceeded to give me moth
ing but meek roles" he said. "I
was labeled the brow-beaten, hen
pecked, futile type. For five straight
years they gave me only scaredy-cat
husbands. cowardly comics and any
thing that would show up the most
absurd and uncomplimentary side of
a mans character"
AS matter of fact, Mr.. Meek. who
Is 5-foot-3 bundle of nervous
energy. is at his best when he's
playing nasty villains. He finally
got a chance to display his crafty,
cackling tactics in a screen story
and he did such a thorough job that
casting directors by now have for
gotten all about the meekness of
Meek.
Meek has had no Milquetoast
background. AS boy of 9, he was
a member of a circus aerial act. At
II he fought in Cuba. During the
World War he tried to enlist in the
United States Army, but was turned
down as too old. So, he joined up in
Canada with the Princess Pats. He
was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
There he made his debut in the
Theater Royal as a 9-year-old aero
bat on a piano wire.
But his uncle, British producer,
Evening star., 1940-09-01
By Mary E. Plnmmer,
Associated Press Stah Writer.
NEW YORK

NEW YORK
Erin OBrien- Moore is a red
headed Irish girl who loves the
theater and who clung to her life
and that love through a test of fire.
At least she's half Irish. Her
late father, newspaper publisher,
came to this country as boy from
Tipperary; and inherited Irish grit
helped see her through five months
of pain from soaring burns which
forced her to lie in one position.
The Broadway footlights never
f1ickereC out in the mind of Erin;
and now she's back, with her green
eyes as gay as ever-with a role
in The Romantic Mr.. Dickens" :"
which has been in summer try-out
for presentation here this fall and
acting at the same time in a day
time radio network serial and sewing
like mad in between times for Bri-
tish refugee children.
So now Erin and Molly Aroon
and Houlihan are happy.
Houlihan and Molly Aroon are
black and white Japanese spaniels
with long and honorable ancestry
as the court dogs of Toxic.
They frisk around the book lined
living room of her apartment over
looking the East River as merrily as
they did before that January night
when a lighted match, carelessly
tossed in a restaurant, landed in
Erins lap and her light pink
starched net evening gown burst
into flames.
Friends muff1ed her face in table
linen and beat the fire from the bill
lowy yards of lace. but by that time
there were deep burns on her back
and along her left arm and leg.
The time after that seemed in
credibly long. Like years.
January to the end of April in the
hospital and another month at home
in bed
At first her temperature was 1O6.
Bandages that touched the burns
felt like barbed wire and the slight
est vibration in the room was tor
ture.
Like Starting Life Anew.
The play in which she'd been
offered a role went on without her;
the theater season waned, weeks
and months dragged by.
ut was like trying to live from
the beginning" she said today as
she sat curled up on her blue divan,
with Molly Aroon, a giddy, 6 months
old mite that weighs pounds, skit-
tering around her.
ut was like being an amoeba in
mud" said Erin.
But you know what found out?
You simply can't die suddenly.
You have to arrange things, plan
things. You want so terribly to have
your life work done"
Sometimes she thought as she lay
in the hospital Now why should
this have happend?
"I was being good, minding my
own business, sitting at restaur-
ant table. I wasn't driving a car
fast, or crossing a street against the
lights.
But here I am. Such is life
completely unpredictable"
She pondered again pretty much
in that vein, when, after she got
out and learned to walk again, she
got part in a radio drama, and in
her first script had to tell a woman,
"You're burning"
Evening star., 1940-09-01

whose makeup creations not only
set hair and facial styles for the
glamour gals of the screen but also
the working gals who go to the
movies to see them.
The days of the blonds are num-
bered, they say, not only on the
screen but also on the street. It's
the red heads who now are setting
the fashions.
1--WE are getting away from vari-
Gus blond types for the screen and
swinging over to red hair" said Wal
ter Pearse, who has just assumed
direction of the goth Century Fox
makeup department after five years
of beauty study abroad.
There is so much more life in
red hair than in any other color-so
many more high lights and shadows
for beautiful photography that are
not present in blonds or brunettes." !"
Evening star., 1940-09-01
Miss Gwynne
Gets Better
Film Roles
BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Curvaceous Anne Gwynne, %
year-old Texas red-head, may yet
prove to be one Of movieland's latest
choices for some mythical Cinderella
girl contest.
Cast in minor film parts for the
past year, this ll7-pound former
swim-suit model, through the tute-
lage of Director Henry Roster, has
been elevated to loftier role in her
latest and most important picture.
It's Spring Parade" now in pro-
duction at Universal Studios, featur-
ing Deanna Durbin.
Anne, who was named Marguerite
Gwynne Trice when she was born
in Waco. Tex, December 10, 1918, is
cast in her new picture as Jenny, the
bakery shop girl. She is Deanna's S
closest friend and confidant and
f1irts with every man who comes
within range of her big hazel eyes.
It's good role and one which may
hoist her another big rung up the
Hollywood ladder of success.
Following her appearance in sew
eral Little Theater offerings, Anne
signed long-term contract after
one of the shortest interviews of its
kind in movie records-just Al Sec
onds.
The interview consisted Of but
three questions. No, she never had
acted on the stage professionally.
No, she had never been in pictures.
Yes, she would like to be in pictures.
That was all there was to it. The
studio executive handed her a con-
tract and she signed it. Not even
a screen test was necessary.
The shapely red-head first won
recognition with her dancing and
oratory at San Antonio high
school. Then she attended Stephens
College at Columbia. Mo. where her
childhood ambition for law career
switched to the stage.
Coming to California, Anne OBJ
tained employment as a swim-suit
model and spent her evenings In
Little Theater and dramatic school
productions in Hollywood and Pasa-
dena.
She plays the piano and the
violin and her musical tastes tend
definitely toward the classical. For
diversion, she likes horseback riding,
tennis, bowling and swimming.
A pair of Italian mosaic ear-bobs,
an heirloom in her family for sew
eral generations, and 125-year-old
Bible are her most treasured possess
Evening star., 1940-09-01

needed youngster to play Little
Lord Fauntleroy" with a company
touring Australia.
And so for two years wore lace
collars and velvet pants" said Meek.
Meanwhile ducked out every
spare moment to do gym work. just
to keep in shape I met up with a
team that had just lost its top
mounter' through death. The top
mounter is the fellow who mounts
the top of the pyramid and gets
most of the tossing around. turned
in my Fauntleroy uniform and tour
ed with that outfit. Later we joined
the Forepaugh circus in Canada and,
although I didn't know it, Wally
Beery was with us, tending ele-
plants"
An accident, the same sort that
cost his predecessors life, put Meek
in a plaster cast for IL weeks. His
acrobatic career was over. He Joined
a repertory company, from which
he went on to stock, Broadway and
success in musical shows. He play
ed Bette Davis father in After To-
morrow" the actress first expert
ence in New York.
So, that's the little man with the
bald head and the slightly insane
gleam in his eye, who alternates
between such zany roles as Bar
tholomew, the Bee-man in the Nick
Carter series and detestable villains
such as the district attorney in
Young Mr.. Lincoln and both
Jesse James" and The Return of
Frank James"
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1940-09-01
Through an Ordeal Her Love Lasted
Erin OBrienN1oore After Painful Hospital Iner1ude,
Finds Play and Returns o the Theater

-
Erin wasn't afraid she couldn't do
it, but was afraid they might think
she couldn't do it.
Went to The Theater.
She did it without a tremor
Sometimes in the hospital, she had
her nurse read the theatrical news
to her.
Out, but still barely able to walk,
she went straight to the theater-
to see her friend Judith Anderson
in Family Portrait"
Erin's maternal grandfather, D.
G. jenkins, was a spirited, widely
known editor. His career included
editorship of the Civil War paper
''The New Orleans Delta" and the
editorial staff of The Picayune"
of Louisiana and of the Galveston,
(Tex) News and the Dallas News.
Her mother is a former New Or
leans girl. Her father. the late
jeremiah B. L. OBrien-Moore, was
editor of the Tucson (ArizD Citizen,
and the Charleston CW. Va Ga
zette and for several years was
Washington correspondent for the
st: Louis Republic.
She was born in Los Angeles and
as far back as she can remember
wanted to be an actress. AS child
she saw Nazimova, and said, How
wonderful"
Andy Hardy's Sister.
Her mother used to tell her about
the dramatic Irish patriot, Maude
Come, about whom Yates wrote a
poem and she yearned to be like
that.
At IS, she was playing in stock in
Altoona and next ran true to young
actress tradition by making her
Broadway debut as a housemaid.
Evening star., 1940-09-01

hung his head in shame and said:
Lets go ahead. boys Well shoot
the scene with the bird in it,
Did You, or Not.
Did you know: Spencer Tracy Is
one of the few film actors whose
natural complexion seldom needs
any makeup for the camera. Dick
Paxton, Mickey Rooney's best friend,
can write forward or backward with
either hand. . Norma Shearer was
in New York when sile got her first
screen offer and signed a contract
only after the studio guaranteed
her return trip ticket from Holly
wood to New York Reginald
Gardiner won considerable recogni-
tion by initiating, of all things, wall
paper.
Evening star., 1940-09-01

For screen work, Pearce has recon-
mended use of red wigs when they
are more practical or when an ac-
tress without naturally auburn
tresses prefers not to resort to dye.
Trends in lip beauty definitely
have swung to the creation of
fuller and more generous mouth ef-
feet, said Pearce in revealing that
there virtually are no actresses to-
day whose natural mouth curvature
is not completely painted over to
give it an entirely different and
more photogenic effect.
Mouths of all actresses, as seen
on the screen. are decidedly much
bigger than they were 10 years ago
and have much more character"
said Pearce, than when the trend
ran toward awful cupid-bows."
Evening star., 1940-09-01
Their Days Are Numbered
By the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

Cabling all bonds-goden, peroxide platinum!
Better hurry and dye those golden red sse-or
And don't forget when painting lips
more generous lines 10 create the effect OF larger mouth
These the latest of hints beauty experts
Evening star., 1940-09-01
Donald Meek Not So Meek.
Hollywood Discovers
And He Is Lot Happier, Now That
He Has Been Allowed to Play
Some Nasty Villains
HOLLYWOOD.
. .l


Donald Meek checked
In Hollywood
Insignificant Vice President Trotlebottom
Meek remembers the
poyer whose office he had just him
Evening star., 1940-09-01

shocked the natives with her sun
Evening star., 1940-09-01

Erin wasn't afraid she couldn't do
it, but was afraid they might think
che couldn't dn II
Evening star., 1940-02-15
Sheriffs Of Arizona
To Compete in Rodeo
BY the Associated Press.

by ire Associated PreSS.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 15.-No
candidate for sheriff in Arizona
would think Of having a campaign
picture taken without hat-a big
one.
Somehow q man who wears the
wide headgear of the range i'm
presses voters as the kind of he-man
peace officer they want.
Arizona sheriffs are just as tough
as they were back in the '8Os, and
10 of them came to town today to
prove it at the annual Phoenix
rodeo.
Some of them are going to take
a hand In cowboy sports. A special
team-roping event has been ar
ranged, not only for the entertain
ment of the crowd but to settle a
few personal differences as to rid
ing and roping ability.
Later this month the hell-for-
leather officers will come together
again in Tucson in a competition to
decide the sheriff steer-roping cham
pionship of the world.
The Tucson promoters have in
vited every sheriff in the II Eastern
States to compete and are trying to
get at least one dude" sheriff from
back East.