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‘Thin Man’ Is Example Of Practice

M-G-M Paid Author $40,000 for Rights to Nick and Nora.

By PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD, July 18, (NEA)—The major studios | no longer shoot chapter | serials such as “The Perils of | Pauline,” but they're all] scrambling to establish char- | acters for frequent use in se- | quel features, because the | screen-series business booming. It's a natural boom, at that. A | flesh-and-blood star is an expen- | sive and highly perishable commodity. But once you develop a | fictional character such as, for in- | stance, Sherlock Holmes, you've | got something. | A fictional character tel, a slave. He doesn't peramental, or die, or volved in scandal. He doesn't! Squawk about his roles, his billing | or his salary. Indeed, he doesn't re any salary Dashiell Hammett received $40,000 from M-G-M for the future use of his “Thin Man” characters, Nick and Nora. Metro expects to use William Powell and Myrna Loy in | these roles as long as they're avail- | able, for it is certain that there'll | be more “Thin Man” pictures. But the Powells and Loys can come and go, Nick and Nora will keep on working for the studio and may live 10 years or 50 years, being portrayed by any players whom the | company wishes to assign. Warner Oland wasn't the first choice for Charlie Chan, and it! oe likely that the imaginary Mr. | grwin giving a nasal rendition of | wer wil He on, long time, and | “She'll Be Coming ‘Round the | Look og gig rs tree BR me ervey climber and monkey-pal. He al-|CD the “Til Sh uiante Sel | youth,” Miss Moore commented. ready has survived several of his im | Bt Hie Cotutita x LIS, | Youve got to be under 5 "to wet “Was the Metropolitan ever like | anywhere these days.”

ersonators. The first - p e first was Emo Lin she was asked. | The song finished, the child went

Soin, in 1918. hen Gene Boler, = | hoi lv. th eople there are | into a tap dance New York fi t 1 onestly, e p ) . K fire department lieuten “Miss Moore, we're ready,” called

ant, was selected as the jungle hero | the most Segre you ever met, Mr. Griffith. in “The Return of Tarzan” in 1920. | She replie " Next came “The Son of ar! “Have they got you doing any Well, Sood — —_ St with a leading man named P.| jazz numbers in this film?" asked | (and as she left she glanced at the : 4 ” | child, shook her head a little sadly Dempsey Tabler. In 1925 James | the writer. and remarked: Pierce, son-in-law of Author Edgar| ‘No, thank heaven! 1 was SUP-| “ir oi “heaven, T began my caRice Burroughs, took over the part. | posed to do ‘The St. Louis Blues,’ veer after the age of innocence.” He was succeeded by Frank Merrill | but that's out now-—at least for | and Merrill by Johnny Weissmuller, | the moment. When I did Whales | Hopes For Opera Film Buster Crabbe played Tarzan in| the Moocher’ in my last picture | Si S 1933. Herman Brix, still another | that was a novelty. But I don't | Moshe Sh ERR athlete, was engaged for the role in | think you can repeat it again— | oro of them will be an opera or 1935. not right away, at least. The Public | symething more approximating the Weissmuller re-entered the pic- | might get tired of it. Besides, they | operatic form than that which the ture in 1936, and now Glenn ur | don’t seem to realize out here that | films are now using. Olympic decathlon champion, | it's not easy to sing jazz after you've | She believes that the only real fraternizing with various zoo Ss used your voice singing arias for way to make an operatic film is to in preparation for his debut as the | years.” have two directors—one versed in jungle hero. music, the other in motion picture

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. won't sing “St. Louis Blues” > pi | childish voice singing a hot blues | [ number, Miss Moore stopped adjusting the bracelet and peered. So did every- | one else. Not far away, hidden by {a group of listeners, an infant | prodigy-—-one of the hundreds in Hollywood —was doing her stuff. “This is certainly the age of

Grace Moore .

By WILLIAM BOEHNEL Times Special Writen HOLLYWOOD, July 13.—Grace | Moore was leaning against a piano listening rapturously to Stuart

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Maj. Bowes Graduates

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“Singing Marine,’ with Dick Powell and Doris Weston, at 11:20, 1:25, 3:30, 5:35. 7:40 and 9:45.

CIRCLE

‘“‘Basy Living,” with Jean Arthur and Edward Arnold, at 12:42, 3:58, 7:04 and 10: 15. Also “Last Train From Madrid,” with Dorothy Lamour and dey Ayres, at 11:24, 2:35 5:46

and 8 LOEW'S

“A Day at the Races,” with the Marx Brothers, at 12:10, 3:25, 6:40 and 10. Als e Devil 1s Driving.” eh Richard Dix and Joan Perry, . 2:15, 5:30 and 8:45.

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“Riding on Air.’ an. at 11:25 2° 14 0. Vaudeville 12: '59, 3:48. 6:46 and 9:35

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‘Fifty Roads to Town,’ Ameche and Anh “Gentlemen Are chot Tone.

AMBASSADOR

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Movie Star

‘Doris Weston Sings With Dick Powell in ||"

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Apollo Film.

The only Maj. Bowes ama- | teur to graduate to the] movies—that's Doris Weston, | who plays opposite Dick | Powell in “Singing Marine” Muir ang Freston, oles.

te WAR this week at oe Ste ~ ALAMO Miss Weston—she was TS 85 | “Glory Trail,” with Tom Xeene. ter then—wasn't exactly an amateur A oa in Morocco,” with when she apeared on the Major's | radio program. But she hadn't been | given opportunity to sing, and that's | what the Major did for her. Before | that she had attended the Profes- |

‘Marlene Takes sional Children's School, where she | Trip to > to Europe studied dramatics; and she had ap- |

lwill visit Germany. Name Is Changed visit Germany

KAHN STUDIES MUSIC [that was the first thing that hap- |

have her movie debut opposite Dick | — ie al Powell, and “Singing Marine” went | Air-Conditioned--Cool into production. What led Miss Weston—or Wester | —to Maj. Bowes’ amateur program? | #4 It all started back when Doris was | @ 9 vears old and her mother took |: her to the theater. It was her first visit to a real theater, and Doris was fascinated, particularly by Irene Bordoni. The little girl was possessed with a great yearning, which presently . evolved from childish | | fancy to real ambition. | Doris Wester was going to be an actress and a singer. Through the inevitable ups and downs, Miss Wester followed her |’ ambition, her parents co-operating by giving her what dramatic training they could. Then came a minor part in “The Great Waltz.” But it was her resolution to be heard on radio—and on the Major's program —that ‘was Doris’ springboard to fame--and to a Jeading role in “Singing Marine.

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whether she | Miss Dietrich | United States |

Gus Kahn, song lyric writer for |

Mrs. Frank Hoke, Miss Mary Orvis, Mr. Schwitzer, Ernst Heberlein, Leonard Strauss, Pierre Goodrich, Ralph Clayton, Clarence Elbert, Herman Kothe, Fermor Cannon, John White, Dwight Peterson, H. E. Rennard and Clarence C. Hogue.

PILOTING IS ©. K. BUT NOT POKER

Times Special HOLLYWOD, July 13-~To hold his airline transport license, John Trent must put in 10 hours at the

controls every six months. He does better than that, taking a passenger ship out to Albuquerque every

four weeks or so—=an eight-hour flight, round trip. “Do you find yourself getting at all rusty at piloting?” asked Akim Tamiroff, featured with him in “The Great Gambini.” “Not a bit,” Trent bragged, “but I have slipped at one thing==poker, Found it out the other night at Al buquerque. Got took to the cleans

Are to Meet

Directors Are to Elect Officers for Local Association.

Directors of the Indianapolis | Symphonic Choir are to hold their | first meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight

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tein Su Have Rival At this moment, E. H. Griffith, The aforementioned Charlie Chan | the director, interrupted: is such a big moneymaker that his | “I think we've got that scene the

i renti | way it should be now,” he said. own studio, Twentieth Century-Fox, | “George"—he referred to George

is bringing forth a rival—another | | Oppenheimer— ‘has written a few Oriental detective, too—the toothy | | extra speeches for it.” Mr. Moto. Peter Lorre is Moto and | “That's good,” replied Miss Moore.

technique. She believes that opera can be successful on the screen, and as proof of her contention, points to the tremendous interest in popu-lar-priced opera all over the country. In the meantime, however, she must content herself with arias alone from numerous operas, of which there will be four in the picture she is now making, one of them

part of their short subject schedules A new building is being erected on the studio grounds and 250 persons will soon start working on “The Captain and the Kids,” the first of

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the first of a series is being released | “1 was wondering whether I should about this time. The second is in |&¢t my cow and do my annual| preparation walkout.’ Detective stories are best for se- Mr. Griffith smiled ahd returned | ) ui : to work on the script with Mr. Op-~ | guel films. Grand National has | senheimer. The cow business Was | bought the rights to the fantastic P

PAIR JOINS CAST Dr. Pu Manchu st .. Philo V. ~ a private crack, but it had some- | FOR WANGER FILM and Eric Stanley Stir nid | thing to do with an interview with | ———————————

Mason ‘are two ‘other ‘Well-known | | the cow in one of Miss Moore's pic- | Times Special a | tures, that she didn't like. HOLLYWOOD, July 13.—Dorothy crime solvers. | “Every time I object to something | Stickney and Florence Lake were Incidentally, William Powell, Ri- | they think I'm being temperamen- signed by Walter Wanger today for cardo Cortez and Warren William | tal,” she said. “All I want to do is [roles in the new Joan Bennetthave in succession played each of | to get them to do things normally.” | Henry Fonda picture, “I Met My iy A BO So ve had Rod | “In Hollywood?” she was asked. | Love Again.” oque as e Shadow.” Bull-| > joi 8s n st that dog Drummond is a continuity | Back Cham Arrives MA ae Tim Before Miss Moore could reply, e

character born in the earliest days | Holt, Alan Marshall, Louise Platt of the talkies. [ a studio messenger boy arrived with | | and Genee Hall.

The Hopalong Cassidy pictures a small insured package. probably are the best known sequel | “It's for you, Miss Moore. westerns, but they have a mystery | you sign for it?” theme, The Jones family series is “Mm, I wonder who's sending wie | about the only one outside the thril- | an emerald bracelet,” she said, 100kler category. | ing at the name of the sender. She | The screen colony contains a lot | mumbled a name and shook her | of alien immigrants. These are not | head. quite the type of immigrants who| “No, he wouldn't send me em-| come to this country with all their | eralds. Open it and see what it Is, | possessions tied up in 8 handker- | she told the boy. chief. Their possessions are tied up, | The boy opened the package and | instead, in stocks and bonds and | | took out & silver luck charm brace- | annuities and 20-room cottages in | let. Beverly Hills. “Oh, isn't it pretty! Greta Garbo is an alien immi- the package,” grant. So are Ronald Colman, Her- | the bracelet. bert Marshall, Marlene Dietrich,| “Why don’t you put Sonja Henie and hundreds of other luck?” someone suggested. play ers. Of British citizens alone, 1 would, only they watch you like | there are about 300 here. The ® hawk on the set. I'm always get- | Misses Dietrich and Henie are soon | ing into trouble with this flower to become naturalized Americans. | in my hair. It's on one side one | If screen players came here as | day and on the other the next. visitors they'd be able to remain | 1hey've always got to change Ao only on temporary permits, and | | Just when we're ready to shoot. could work only under contracts Th A anyway, and see | reviously signed. As “immigrants,” | Though, they have the status of per- | Snedenly coming from She oor- | manent residents, but are unable to (R€F ©f the set could be heard = exercise the previleges of citizenship | either here or in their homelands. | When they leave the United | States for a visit abroad they first | must secure permits of re-entry. Otherwise they'd be obliged to await their turns in the quota list.

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