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J- ygf THE yfl? J' Copyright, by the Times-Mirror Company ill! -m lit 1 A-v A msmimmmm, mmmsmm aii si, 4: mi- I jIIII if SUNDAY MORNING, Thou the Stars Are Fire; OCTOBER 16. 1932. Doubt That the Sun Doth UALIANT STARS OVERCOME TIE-MEN OF HOLLYWOOD II "CLUBFOOT" HANDICAP tJ 11 "GO GARBO" ON PUBLIC Colman, Karloff Tracy and Brook Avoid Parties and Night Clubs and Hate to Give Interviews BY MURIEL BABCOCK Did you know there are actually some actors in Hollywood who don't care about having their private lives broadcast to the world? Who hate to have their pictures taken, don't like interviews, and manage, despite the publicity necessary to the life of any actor, to live fairly quietly in Hollywood? Physical Disabilities Act as Spur to Film Careers of Lloyds, Menjous and Chevaliers BY ALMA WBTTAKBS "No" matter how grand and glamorous, every motion picture star has the equivalent of a "club foot" Remember Somerset Maugham's "Of Human Bondage," In which the hero's life was made wretched by his clubfoot. It rose as a bogey to be overcome and defeated in every phase of his career. None of us, it would seem, escapes a dire handicap In some form or another, The only difference is that the weak: ones let it ruin their lives, the strong square their shoulders, face It and endure It Doubt Move; Doubt Truth to Be a Liar; ft fo prtty dubious.

Over at the (eft thereat Fredric March' at Loeva't. And over at the right Jean Harlow has certainly got the But Never Doubt LLoce" looking- itcxitilg distrustful 'of Norma Shearer! Smilin Through," taps set for Clark Cable. "Red Dust," reopening United Artists real friction electrifying the atmosphere, between Staurt Erwm, Leila And Mara Duncan, center, it iust too shocked far tDords. "The Phantom at CrtsliltoaJS' Hltti Some people would call them recluses. Hollywood calls them its "Male Garbos." Not that they go tn far as the lady from Sweden to sKunning the limelight, but they do show a natural aversion to having their passion in tooth paste, In talcum powder and In wives and sweet" hearts told to the always curious world.

Put Ronald Colman as first on the list. Add Boris Karloff, the rays-terious terror man; Spencer Tracy, the he-man of the Fox lot; stir In Clive Brook, John Boles, Richard Dix, John Barrymore, Charles Chaplin and maybo Mickey Mouse. (Although Mickey did give a birthday party the other day. COLMAN THE MYSTERY MAN Colman Is really a mystery man. He lives alone on the top of a high hill in Hollywood.

High walls surround his gardens and his tennis courts. He seldom goes to night clubs or public gatherings and gives interviews rarely, interviews in which his conversation is usually confined to monosyllables such as "yes and "no." Although when he first came to Hollywood, he was hailed as an eligible and handsome bachelor, Colman has a wife from whom he has been separated, but never divorced. She lives in England, They never see each And in this unhappy fact of his life la said to have bred that desire for as little attention from the public as he can manage. In Boris Karloff of "Frankenstein" reputation, the mystery has been built up by the public. Karloff is an Englishman, a cricket player, a man of few but close friendships.

Born In London, his real name Is Charles Edward Pratt and he comes from extremely respectable British parents who wanted him to go into government service. He has been In Hollywood nine or ten years, never attaining any partlcu- (Continued on Page 20, Column I) BIG SHOTS OF HISTORY ALL READY TO BECOME BIG NAMES OF SCREEN Harold Lloyd la a case in point A few years ago, as a result of the explosion of a bomb in a scene in a film, his hand was terribly Injured. For a while it seemed this must surely blast his picture career. But Harold squared his shoulders. Never a whimper out of him.

Instead he concentrated on. devising means by which the tragedy could be minimized. Precious few of Harold's adoring fans are aware of that hand and the Ingenuity involved In shield ing it from the camera. When Raoul Walsh, the director, met with that staggering accident, In which ft wild Jackrabblt, scared by the lights on his car, sprang through the windshield and caused Raoul to lose the sight of one eye from flying glass, it might reasonably have spoiled his life. A director with only one eyei But Raoul gallantly wears ft patch and contrives to achieve with one eye what many ft director with two frankly envies.

GRIFFITH'S LOST VOICE Raymond Griffith, now a writer, but formerly a stage actor who became famous on the silent screen, cannot speak above a whisper. The story is that, during ft stage play called "The Witching Hour," Ray had to let out i a blood-curdling screech, which effectually stilled his voice forever. Many a stage actor would have cursed his plight and considered himself through But not Ray Griffith. Silent pictures were obviously his haven and with a stout heart he won his way in. AH went merrily until talking pictures arrived.

Oh. wen, he would be a writer then! So Ray whispers his way through life more gallantly and successfully than many a one with hefty larynx. It is no secret that Maurice Chevalier still trundles a piece of shrapnel around in his lung. Doc- (Oontinued on Page 20, Column 1) RADIO WARY OF SCREEN TALENT 1 But Actors With Real Voices ell Paid Over Air Al Jolson Latest to Sign at $7500 Per Program Studios Not Eager for Stars to Double in Ether BY JOHN SCOTT Radio's welcoming hand, filled with money, is extended to a few screen stars and only a few. A microphone personality is difficult to acquire and those film celebrities who always believed that all they had to do was walk into a broadcasting studio and hang up their hats on the nearest peg, have decided to stick with the movies, where the pay check comes in every week.

Mow and then an exception pops up. Last week Al Jolson, who flutters between stage and screen, signed at $7500 per broadcast. He will do twenty-six. reaping a golden harvest of $195,000 for his efforts, a figure not to be sneezed at by any Sim name, Jolson's contract is declared to Involve the largest monetary consideration ever paid to an individual radio artist, for the time expended. He will get $7500 for each hour's work.

Several years ago Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and Norma Talmadge performed on a national hook-up which introduced an automobile to the radio audience, and each received about $5000. Will Rogers also is in this class, getting (Continued on Page 20, Column 4) FILM COSTS HIT BOTH EXTRES1ES Poverty Row Spends Less, BigStucMMA- Million-Dollar eatur "Shoot the Work? Inexpensive Arty Hit Due to Make Appearance BY EDWIN SCHALLERT "State Fair," "Grand Hotel," "Farewell to Arms," 000; "Cavalcade," $1,000,000 "Mustangs and Men," "Passion in Tatters," "The Buckaroo King," "She Loved and Lost," $15,000 How much for the picture? How much for the picture? Hollywood is nothing if not a place of contrasts. Up goes the ante for big films again this sea son, and down goes the jolt for the little ones. Three-quarters to ft million dollars is the reigning investment on the huger specials of the screen, while Poverty Row viewing the chance of crashing the gate because of the shortage of productions for the general trade, is tak ing a chance around $25,000 to 000 whenever possible these days, and getting by on ft shoe-string when it isn This is decidedly ft big picture year in the big picture studios. A million in a movie is dstincUy not (Continued on Page 2L Column 2) native artists.

lectures, the society has arranged for the placing of exhibits of costumes, handcrafts and fine arts from the various countries under dlKcdon, and thesa JaciUd where the public will have ready access to them. Following Dr. Dickey, Lucille Douglass, celebrated for her remarkable paintings done at the behest of the French govertuafiEt wUl present a lecture and pictures en mysterious Angkqr and Cambodia. Carveth Wells, author of "Adventure." -Six Years In the Kay Jun gle." and other works on travel arjl exploration, will be next on the w- (Coiiad raft 14, Coram a V. Hyamt and Bing Crosby.

The 'street. RETAKES ON PICTURES are no longer news; but Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer goes them one better. "Prosperity," the new Marie Dressier-Polly Moran jam boree, has, according to report, been remade in its entirety. A trade paper ascribes the same procedure to Radio, in its production of "Rockabye," with Constance Bennett This is denied by the studio, despite a shift In directors from George Fltzmaurlce to George Cukor. Well, you cant say they arent trying.

But a lot of talkies still look as though they might Just be getting fairly started with, to put it conservatively, the fifth remake. While a lot of others, of course, look like remakes of nearly everything else even before they are makes, (V STATEMENTS ATTRIBUTED to Ernst Lubitsch, and published in this column last Sunday, were nothing of the kind. Herr Lubitsch says he has been misrepresented. The statements, given as direct quotes by his studio, were, it appears, publicity-department elaborations of a general idea: What he has tried to do in his latest cinema, "Trouble In Paradise." I reprinted them because I am always challenged by insufficiently defined promises of something revolutionary in drama. When Lubtisch is said to have said, "It is a type of screen comedy not related to slapstick, farce, burlesque, broad or sophisticated humor," I submit that I am overstepping no bounds by appending a slightly Incredulous "Huh?" Advance viewers, less agitated about the legitimacy or illegitimacy of its origin, advise me that "Trouble in Paradise" is a WOW.

RE-SHOWING OP AL JOL-son's "The New Yorker," with musio and lyrics by Rodgers and Hart recalls an anecdote illustrative, I think, of the peculiar logic which sometimes animates our best movie minds. Irving Caesar was originally hired to compose the score, which, in due time, he did. This was last summer; and being, they tell me, an obliging sort of fellow, he cheerfully complied whenever he was invited to sing bis. (Continued Fags 24, Column 1) ana raniages. uovon below, there titg Utoadcasl, Josef von Sternberg alighted from his Rolls-Royce- roadster on the wrong side of the street, stepped to the curb in front of Paramount's main entrance, allowed one white driving glove to drop Into the gutter.

"Hey, mister, you dropped your glove," yelled a street-urchin, Joe the Great stood and looked at it. i Three or four minutes went by. Newspapermen lounging by the entrance waited. Out from the studio wandered the editor of a well-known trade journal, greeted Sternberg. "You're Just in time.

Will you hand me my glove?" said the incomparable Josef. And the editor did. Anti-Hoarding Not On a recent notable Thursday Joan Crawford decided that her house looked Just terrible needed renovating throughout Over rushed the Ulterior decorator. "Can you have the job finished by Saturday?" Joan wanted to know. So fifty men were put to work day and night, collected plenty of overtime, and Mr.

and Mrs. Doug Fairbanks, Jr, threw a party Saturday night. Wonder if the paint still smclled. Gate-Crashing de Luxe Helen Hayes and hubby Charles MacArthur started it. Coming home from a ritzy affair one evening, they decided to find out what it would be like to bust into a Hollywood party uninvited.

Outside a Beverly mansion stood any number of cars, evidence of revelry Nonchalantly, the daring duo rang the doorbell, handed their superfluous belongings to the butler, walked in on the assemblage. Ultimately they presented themselves to their hostess, who turned out to be Mae Sunday, and was in such a flurry at having two such distinguished guests drop in that she nearly got the Jitters. No Bones About It Alice White, back at work at First National, shows off her remodeled nose to one and all What makes it so exceptional is that it's strictly a local product, very finely chiseled by the same doc (advt.) who made over Johnny Weiesmuller's. "Medium" Weigbt Needed Ramon Novarro, head shaved oriental-wise for The Son Daughter." has ftcne occult At Jeanette MacDonald's party for (Continued en Page 22, Column 1) mmii LiiiiiiiuiiuiiiiiiiiiiintiiiiJi ARMCHAIR ADVENTURERS TO BY MARY SCENE: Tho "Haunt Hollywood HUrtoricAl Hcwtelry." PLACE: 6omwhr beyond th pale. As tho curtain rises, Georg Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Grand Duke Ferdinand, Napoleon, Robert E.

Lee and U. 6. Grant are gathered in heated discussion around a spirit table. George is calUng for a little quiet. WASHINGTON: Gentlemen, gentlemen, we aren't to Hollywood yet.

LINCOLN; But you, George as the Father of your Country it includes Hollywood now you should lead us in this great and noble enterprise. WASHINGTON (sadly shaking his wig: They haven't much use for me down there. It was only recently that I had a chance to express myself at Paramount through a chap named Alan Mowbray in "The Phantom President" and then all I had a chance to say was: "The Country Needs a No, we Dorothu Jordan and Ty-y 1 I iV it' if MAYER need some one with more experience before the "mike," NAPOLEON: Well, George, you know I always have hated to brag, but there's a guy down there named William Humphries who has played me more than fifty times. I guess that shows I'm pretty hot shot around the studios. Then, too, remember that speech I made once about "Beyond the Alps lies Well, I could change it to read: "Beyond the hills lies Hollywood," and that ought to go over big with some of those theme-song writers.

There is a commotion outside. Theodore Roosevelt bursts through the clouds. He shows evidence of great hurry.) ROOSEVELT: Sorry, gentlemen, sorry. But was just called down to Hollywood for a personal appearance tour in one of those "Screen Memories." It's an awful jolt to (Continued en Page 22, Column 1) Richard Barthelmess HEAR FAR COUNTRIES' LURE Pacific Geographic Society "Globe Trotter Series' Will Present World's Noted Explorers BY HELEN W. KING The lure of far countries, the fascination of strange peoples, will be 's I i.

1 BEETHOVEN MUSIC OFFERS INSPIRATION TO SCULPTOR Pershing Square Statue of Composer by Viennese, Hailed by Hatty, Stock, Molinari, Hertz BY ARTHUR MILLIER If the world's foremost orchestral conductors are right in their Judgment of Arnold Focrster's statue Beethoven which was unveiled last Friday in Pershing Square, two centuries and WOO miles had to unwind before an adequate sculptural presentation of the great musician could bt created Yet it needed a native of Vienna to create it. Whn Arnold TYMrxtr was a bovand the United States. Fifteen brought to Los Angeles audiences this season In ten entertainments styled "Globe-Trotter Series," and sponsored by the Pacific Geographic Society. While their immediate purpose is educational they will be presented to a way that will give them vital vivid, popular appeal through the combina tion of the spoken word by world-famous scientists, explorers and authors, full-size motion pictures, and the accompaniment of music and dancea characteristic of each country, by its The first of these events will takeast Coincidental with the various years ago ne came to uve uten-dale, opened a sculptor's studio. Most of his products were semi-commercial, indicated no world-stirring telent Then one day ha heard that the men of the Philharmonic Orchestra planned Beethoven statue.

A great desire leapt in him. He saw Beethoven, aging and deaf, walking the wooded paths hearing the volcei of his last great symphony, the Ninth. Foerster is a physical giant with sensitive but rugged face. Hueber, another big, sensitive man, plays bull fiddle in the orchestra. They met.

Foerster uncovered his dream to Hueber end Arthur Pabst of the orchestra. In the sculptor's studio they saw nothing to promise a great (Continued en pare St, Column 2) he used to see, on his father's desk, a drawing of Beethoven. As a youth he studied in the Academy of Art. Across the street la the Academy of Music and the art students frequently crossed to listen to the musicians. Over the imagination of a sensitive Viennese artist the heroic fig-tire of Beethoven Inevitably towers a creator so great that he is no longer national but universal In significance.

Young Foerster often trod the wooded paths where Beethoven walked, straightening the tangled themes In his mind. That was thirty years ago. Sometimes as sculptor, sometimes as structural Foerster roamed the world. He sketched In Europe and Asia, built railroads in Brazil place Saturday night the 29th inst. at the Philharmonic Auditorium, when Dr.

Herbert S. Dickey presents his pictures of exploration in South America. Dr. Dickey's explorations cover a period of twenty years, it was ne who discovered the source of the Orinoco River. His books.

"Misadventures of a Tropical Medico," and My Jungle Book, have delighted countless readers. The Duroose of the Pacific oeo- STaDhle Society, which Is a scientific and educational nonprofit associ ation, with membership represent ative of the entire Pacific area, is to rather and disseminate information of sound but popular human inter- Coiloning on to one another in a cabin one of the few privileges per-milted the while trash of "Cabin in the Cotton." At Warners' Hollywood,.